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BREAKING: The Trump administration has announced a $1.766 billion fund to siphon government money to allies who they say were unjustly persecuted. This announcement comes after Trump and his sons drop a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.

THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

a lot of us learned the hard way that BLUESKY DOES NOT REMOVE YOU FROM THEIR FOLLOWERS IF YOU BLOCK SOMEONE YOU WERE FOLLOWING, it's a two-step process and if you're used to Twitter's soft-block you may not always remember

please it's so hot in june i cannot do this anymore

it's cool that the president is trying to steal two billion dollars from my taxes to give to his pedophile friends and i'm supposed to like keep doing my job or whatever

Musk’s ability to waste everyone’s time at scale is maybe his only true talent

The Trump administration has targeted NPR, PBS, and their affiliates. The Onion shares tips for supporting public media.

me whenever any cr cast member shows up in a show i'm watching. although gotta say hearing matt and liam in sailor moon feels exceptionally distracting (i have no issues with robbie as mamoru tho)

why is purple and green the clearest color combo indicator of a 90s cartoon villain?

what do you mean talking to a friend for five minutes can significantly improve my mood?! this is dumb and i hate being extroverted

I will never forgive AI for destroying one of my favorite emoji/symbols the humble sparkle

this is very funny as well as good evidence — you know, beyond what we can see with our own eyes — that there is not some epidemic of anti-white discrimination

just BEGGING men to read fiction and learn to see themselves IN OTHER PEOPLE jfc

just finished my exit interview and my last day is friday. why am i so bummed by this?!

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

“Don’t tell me you’ve been using particle board in here,” said the 55-year-old woodworker

i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

ok so adderall is making it easier when switching from task to task, and starting things I've been putting off. but boy howdy, does it not help if i really don't want to do something, like my job 🙃

Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

The greed is wild. Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate a single store with unionized workers because they're so against workers getting what they deserve.

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

the last decade or so has been a phenomenal showcase of the limits of grifting though. arts orgs all losing money after committing themselves to crypto and AI idiots has been especially fun tbh. we went from being on the verge of an actual cultural explosion to being a fucking wasteland.

Like. Come on. Science is cool, and scientists are cool

When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

does anyone have some copy editing work they need done? im officially done (mentally decided) with my current job and need to figure out a direction to head in

Authorities say they disrupted a plot to firebomb the New York City home of a prominent Palestinian activist.

The 92NY canceled my appearance in late October 2023 after I signed a ceasefire letter and reiterated my support for BDS. But they're ok with having this gentleman, Ilya Shapiro, who seems to like genocide and is vocal about it.

No amount of think pieces will ever convince me that this movie was not fun or make me less mad that we didn't get the full musical numbers

Why I Told My Son He Should Run with Open Scissors at a Full Sprint

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

my kingdom for good sound mixing

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

since my leave of absence has been approved, now i can have my nervous breakdown in the comfort of my own home instead of absolutely losing it at work.

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

It's 2026. Any person who chooses to ally themselves with JK Rowling knows exactly who she is and what she stands for and where the money that they, specifically, are helping her make will be going. No separation of art and artist in this case: they are explicitly linked together and causing harm.

Jfc, just say that you care more about a paycheck than trans people instead of claiming that it should be obvious your an "ally". How are you being an ally by LITERALLY making this woman more money? By continuing to keep her IP relevant? THAT'S NOT ALLYSHIP.