🧪 FIRST STUDY to compare direct air capture of CO2 vs renewables: “An amount of money spent deploying wind or solar delivers more combined climate and public health benefit than if it is spent on DAC.” Releasing CO2 into air and then trying to suck it up is dumb. techxplore.com/news/2026-05...

I’ve mentioned this before but I am almost covered in tattoos and this procedure hurt much worse than any of those. Like 1000 times worse

the gall of taking this approach when you yourself are some kind of wretched goblin changeling wearing a badly stretched-out human skin, man

A few years ago I was watching some plastic surgery show where a trans woman was getting implants and as they slipped the cup in, her nipple went from regular to blurred

the het gala

new york times pulitzer finalists for their podcast series about trans youth where they don't really talk to any actual trans people. good shit....great shit!

I feel like transphobic institutions are getting increasingly blatant about their "We can shit on you with no consequence" impulses.

The Trump administration is closing the office responsible for investigating misconduct and abuse in the immigration detention system, per an email obtained by HuffPost

Isabel Fall and attack helicopter will be taught as history (if not as lit, i cant speak to that). I can say that with ease in 2026. What she wrote, and when she wrote it, and what was done to her are all too important for that not to be so. Idk why but its meaningful for me to think of it that way

going back thru old "what happens next" and its soooooo funny

"guy who tells off men about rape culture and misogyny" is a kind of third gender

‘We’re like pirates’: Trump brags about ‘profitable business’ of seizing ship in Iranian blockade english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

It's almost as if US sanctions are not binding on the rest of the world, despite the US liking to pretend they are (with the connivance of the comprador European leadership) bsky.app/profile/carl...

theres a type of article that shows up frequently in the FT, always along the same lines: "china is subsidizing industry and the US is doing protectionist policies and extortion, we need to find a new way forward for europe" and the answer is always "destroy the social safety net" and nothing else

ceramicist named Tara Cotter

“While largely unknown outside Westminster, Chandra, who ran a corporate intelligence firm founded by former British spies before joining government, is a central figure in Downing Street and is a key champion of the government’s push for economic growth” cool!

that was really fun

watching "the billion dollar brain"

[weird guy voice] yeah im FtM: Fratboy-to-Metrosexual

"of the devil" has been really fun. really nailed the vibe

i know fanon is often talked about as someone in the psychoanalytic tradition, at least reading "the wretched of the earth" feels more similar to something left-hegelian or althusserian than something more "properly freudian"

Great credit is due to the Bard College community of undergraduate anti-rape activists—organizing as “Take Back Bard”—who insisted on Bostein’s resignation even in the face of widespread indifference from the faculty and sneering mockery of their efforts in the New York Times. I admire them.

We went long on Botstein’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein and the minimization—and even romanticization—of sexual violence that he cultivated at @bardcollege.bsky.social on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social: pod.link/1696774612/e...

The Fifth Circuit has ordered a halt to the mailing of abortion pills, cutting off the primary way that thousands of women have obtained safe abortions in the years since Dobbs and raising grave public health risks. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/w...

BREAKING: Danco Laboratories, maker of Mifeprex, goes to the Supreme Court, seeking an immediate stay of the Fifth Circuit's Friday mifepristone ruling. Under the Fifth Circuit ruling, FDA's rule that allowed mailing of the medication abortion drug is to be blocked. More to come: www.lawdork.com

Watching all these GOP-controlled states race each other to gerrymander their districts before the 2026 midterms, it is hard for me to look at the timing of Callais and not conclude that the conservative justices decided the case on the earlier side to do their fellow Republicans a favor

Obviously, the goal here is to end Head Start and eventually, all child care. The GOP is utterly radicalized against women working outside of the home, and everything about this issue must be seen through that lens. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...

im worried i have another hernia

depends on your definition. how many supported the iraq war? were "libertarians", spike tv viewers? loved fascist movies like the dark knight? even from a liberalized, displaced position of concern about "whats necessary" etc, these are important constituents of contemporary fascism

depends on where in maryland.... you in merlin or you in fredneck?

it feels very important to me that there be an organized effort to teach boy children that under no circumstances do they have to become men.

happy birthday to all workers

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something that is called out here that i think is crucial for understanding and dealing with these types of formations is that it is founded on extremely bad science. its not even a matter of "oh but it could be right if you fiddle", its not, its a priori useless from a scientific perspective

Jim O'Neill, a long-time Peter Thiel venture capitalist, is Trump's nominee to take over the NSF. Cleaning house for him. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

explaining to a gen alpha kid that "weeb" is a contraction of "dweeb"

Maryland www.instagram.com/p/DXwvFrfETFA/

As I believe @attackerman.bsky.social pointed out in a recent post, creating the ability to end wars through negotiated agreements would require structural changes in the US government, like restoring real Congressional control over military operations.

Among other things the resegregation of the military and federal workforces along race and gender lines is a tremendous waste of expertise.

so like are we just going to pretend that nepo baby cis comedian isn't planting someone in his audiences to act like a Problematic Trans Person so he can shit on trans people while being lauded for it?

i could be wrong but it sounds like the same person, with a different story, in this video as the more recent one. His whole thing is "crowd work" where he interacts with hecklers, and a lot of his videos are more or less ridiculing a minority stereotype in what feels like an extremely scripted way

do you really think the Trans Woman Defense Contractor is also a nonbinary history phd who lives in London and is a holocaust denier and she just happened to be at two different shows on two different continents and he just happened to call her both times?

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Programmers: Don't let your program allow arbitrary code execution Also Programmers: Finally we have created a machine that does arbitrary code execution from the famous advice "don't allow arbitrary code execution"

no future without the abolition and liquidation of the republican party w/o compromise, even if this means the dismantlement of their court through lawfare and the temporary disenfranchisement of republicans via gerrymandering. in the language of liberals, any confederate is a traitor to the union

i think unfocused AI adoption angst is driving a lot of people fairly insane, and many of them run companies