A swear jar, but for saying "I'll be fine. I always am. :)"

It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.

all of the shit about how if you allow people to transition kids are going to be peeing in litter boxes was just the mirror image of the reality: as soon as you enshrine immutable gender difference in law you're going to have legally required Lady Meals For Her

I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced

As anarchists, we reject the idea that judges or politicians should be trusted to determine who belongs in our communities. This is not a question of how to interpret the Constitution or appoint better judges, but of how to defend each other from the violence of the state. crimethinc.com/Kavanaugh

“Forgive my grief for one removed, / Thy creature, whom I found so fair. / I trust he lives in thee, and there / I find him worthier to be loved.” Tennyson, “In Memoriam,” 0.37-40.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel. I’ve probably *bought* Practical Magic more than six times. I can’t count how many times I’ve actually watched it.

The democratic party indoctrinates with glitz & high minded talk. The ones who stan politicians don't even look at their available records. It's how Kamala could evolve from top cop & prosecutor to the only one who can save democracy & why it's purity testing to point out what Gavin's really done.

I think it's really telling that there's never been a hot person who's into AI

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

They were "ready to prove they had a bonafide marriage when they walked into 26 Federal Plaza." "Next thing I hear, Matthew is hyperventilating, running down the hallway, [..] crying 'Amanda, Amanda they took him!'" #NewYork #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Incarceration #Asylum #Marriage

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

The thing about the panic over disability accommodations in education is that they're often intentional hit pieces on disabled students deliberately crafted to be conclusory.

Evergreen. Just you know, tonight it is TN. 💃

America is a country that will test UBI hundreds of times, get the same radically positive results each time, and still look at it askance, but will also put untested robotaxis on the road because a billionaire threw a shit fit.

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There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion. The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”. Which is why the rage. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

I gave my mom what I thought was a soup-themed bath bomb some years back, but it was actually soup. She had to call my dad in to get her out of the greasy tub.

Wow she was a walking piece of Black history. May she rest in enteral peace & be reunited with her passed loved ones ❤️

Anyone invoking Death of the Author as an excuse should be aware that Rowling and her TERF friends sharply disagree with you. Rowling has even explicitly claimed that the popularity of her properties is itself a ratification of her transphobic beliefs

"How can possession of literature incriminate anyone, let alone someone who isn’t even accused of anything but being present when someone else allegedly fired a gun?"

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

before folks on here get too "leopards faces lol" about this please note that the cities they are talking about are 60% & 70% Black. And believe me, those cities did not vote for the leopards.

Three blocks from my house. Hell yes Durham North Carolina

*people they define as Americans See: most of American history/Native folks, Black folks, Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, &etc

Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.

For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.

CIMA, 2:40 pm: "We have visual confirmation of immigration agents in the downtown Asheville area. If you see suspicious activity or a family member has been arrested, contact the community line at 1-888-839-2839. Our allies are ready to provide support with food, transportation and more." #avlnews

The New York Times declined to receive photographic evidence of Trump with the women Epstein trafficked in 2015 and as a result of choosing not to run that story millions of people have died because he was elected president twice.

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

There are people you never have the honor of knowing but you feel the ripple effects of their person and their work from the folks who have met them. Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.

anyways never forget the x-files in major key

It's the weekend, baby

from the man who brought you HOT FRANKENSTEIN comes WHITE HEATHCLIFF

Just fucking insane to see the absolute (intentional) collapse of full remote jobs available for AAA studios in so short a time. Why would I EVER move for a job again when I could be laid off weeks after moving my entire life across the globe??

[hot ones] me: *finishes off gallon of milk* sean evans: ok are you ready for your first wing

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

FIVE HUNDRED MEN SACKED FOR REFUSING TO EVER CROSS A PICKET LINE THE VOICES DOWN THE AGES WARNING NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE YOU MUST NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE

Anyway, sexual violence is both a model for how power operates in the larger world and a privilege assumed to belong to those in power. Enjoy your dinner!