I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

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Great distinction. Observers on the ground are bearing witness so we all know what's happening. Posters obsessing over watching atrocity videos are just self-harming.

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.

This is your standard reminder that you aren't required to watch yet another traumatizing video of violence to speak out against it.

I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them

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This is lovely, but I laughed that it crossed my dash today, when I had written this sentence earlier. It's one of the NPC profiles for DIE RPG.

A fantastic thread.

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being. n.pr/4pA3kkl

One of the shitty things about the racist and anti-lgbtq extremist direction of this administration (and all those like them) is people and corporations quit celebrating, or even supporting, marginalized people to avoid 'trouble.' Fuck trouble. Fuck bigots. Raise your voice.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but: you don't have to force yourself to watch, even if the video isn't explicit you don't have to see someone die out of a sense of moral obligation we, as a society, must respond to what happened but traumatizing yourself is not praxis

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hey, I’m sure you all know better, but just in case you need to hear it from a licensed and degree-holding healthcare professional - don’t fucking do this.

NEW: At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. Our latest:

There is no world where "didn't follow directions" justifies lethal force by a, and I use the term extremely loosely, law enforcement officer. And more importantly, watch the damn video if you're unsure. It's pretty clear what happened and what we're being told by DHS happened are not the same.

Rt if ur donning ur GAY apparel today

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I have had to write technical credits for consultation into contracts as part of my compensation and there are *still* folks where this became a power struggle after the fact.

following the assault of emiru, a popular streamer, many have claimed that twitchcon had no security. that's not true. but security and safety are not the same thing, especially when the people who need protecting are women in a community steeped in clip-hungry online misogyny

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

I hope you all read this from me.

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Bluesky has banned Aftermath journalist Nathan Grayson for 24 hours for quote tweeting his own article with the words "rest in piss," which apparently is now against the rules here.

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You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence. You can do both.

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I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

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Here is Weizenbaum in 1976 clearly expressing my own view: using AI as a psychiatric tool to treat human beings is not just wrong, it is obscene. I believe we should be using the term “obscene” far more often to describe these perverted uses of AI technology.

There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”

RIP Jim Shooter. A complicated legacy, but one filled with a tall, tall stack of good stories.

I've been having some very tiresome conversations about my use of the word 'queer'. In all honesty, if you personally find it distasteful or traumatic because of something you've experienced, I'd never tell you to feel otherwise. 1/

"What Mamdani understood — and what national Democrats seem incapable of grasping — is that you don't have to choose between economic populism and protecting vulnerable people. In fact, they're the same fight."