When people say Bluesky is like 50% “Cheeto bad” posts that’s how I know their dislike of the platform is a skill issue. I have perfectly curated my feed and encounter fewer of these posts than I do on most other social media platforms

“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

middle schoolers use it lol those are just adults sitting at the kids table trying to negotiate maturity with themselves

I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it

Unfortunately I derive little pleasure from Jake Paul getting beat up because that’s how he makes millions of dollars

My brother put on the Jake Paul boxing match and I’m not being overdramatic when I say this is everything wrong with America and quite possibly the world

Something interesting to me about Weiss’ CBS leaning into the “debate” format is I don’t think a lot of people are going to watch them. They could pack a small venue (Substack does this), but I don’t think it will translate into massive ratings. It’s a huge misunderstanding of the media landscape

I am so tired of seeing this ridiculous transphobe story about "transing gay kids." It's offensive on multiple levels. It erases a lot of trans people, yes, but also acts like the big threat to GNC gay people is pressure to change genders, when it's punishment and VIOLENCE for our differences.

As with Kavanaugh stops, the Supreme Court utterly discounted the profound chilling effect of having to show papers, this time on the internet. For most users, it's not a minor inconvenience or speed bump, it's a deal-breaker.

This is one of the COUNTLESS reasons why I am running for congress for a "Technology Bill of Rights" Users deserve the right to privacy.

It's correctly pointed out that none of this is to protect kids. It's: 1. A giveaway to Big Tech to deepen their data mining and make it impossible to opt out 2. A tool for religious bigots to hide any and all info about being gay, trans, feminist, atheist, or just being a civilized human being

Here's an example of how useless and frustrating internet laws to "protect kids" are in practice: When I'm in Ohio, where I am during the holidays, I can't use my Bluesky DMs—unless I hand over my ID to a company owned by Epic Games. Why? To protect kids, of course! spitfirenews.com/p/why-i-have...

I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism

It’s really embarrassing how much certain Democrats are trying to assist the right in enacting Project 2025’s plans to censor the internet and banish abortion access info, sex ed, LGBTQ people, and much more under the guise of “protecting the kids,” who will of course be further harmed by this

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

Just once, I'd like to see Dick Durbin *try* to explain the actual mechanisms by which repealing 230 will protect children from being exploited and abused. There will be hand waving about how it will "open them up to litigation" but that's not an answer.

My mom does this. She’s legally blind, and managing leading her and holding onto luggage and getting through a terminal and not losing things is too much for my dad to manage on his own. This is the only way they can get help, so that’s what they do.

This is going to trigger another round of abuse for this woman but the basic facts appear to be that she was separated at the time and so was the CEO. She recoiled on the jumbotron because her husband was attending the same concert.

I’m sick to my stomach over these efforts to eradicate trans kids. Make no mistake, the goal is to stamp a group of people out of existence. It’s horrifying and violent and a bunch of Democrats support it.

Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.

The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors. Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Good context on Instagram and sextortion: This story from @kattenbarge.bsky.social last year: www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit... This from @angelayang.bsky.social on Instagram's changes last year: www.nbcnews.com/tech/instagr...

The thing about a big company like Meta is that it's not a monolith. People inside Meta were pushing to do more for teens — but they were blocked by Meta's powerful "growth team," this lawsuit alleges, citing internal records. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!

Honestly, as someone who loves the Oscars, watches it every year, and has YouTube but not cable, this change is smart and makes sense. I’m sorry!

I think it’s interesting how if you describe gendered expectations backed by significant data you will be demeaned as a man-hater but if you regularly do stuff like casually using sexist language toward women you’re just considered normal

One of the group chats I’m in is convinced that the tell a man is normal and well adjusted in 2025 is if he owns and uses a toilet brush, and this started as a bit but at this point I’m basically convinced that it’s true

How can you address men's emotional needs at a time when the "feminization of everything" has become the consensus source of all society's problems, and emotional needs are coded as feminine?

i think the issue with 'male loneliness' is it starts with a kernel of truth (that people, and men, are not doing ok and don't have services or support to address it) but extrapolates to validate a totally different problem when it claims that only straight up incels are experiencing it,

When you think about apps as mommy replacements for tech bros, it makes more sense

Ding ding ding

Emotional labor, too; too many men don't know how to make friends, keep up relationships, and otherwise maintain social bonds in the absence of people or institutions that do that work for them. This is particularly keen not just for postcollegiate men but retirees, divorcées, etc.

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

The White House is now just explicitly stating its intent to kill and maim non-white people here and around the world and white men are *still* insisting they are at a societal disadvantage

pedophilic behavior

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

I've seen it over and over again but it's always really disturbing to me when someone's first response to a murder is to try and triangulate how it was the murder victim's fault

i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.

If people really believed that you needed to engage on conservative-dominated platforms to be effective they’d be active on Truth Social, Rumble, and Kick. They are not. They just don’t like X as much anymore and they want it to be your fault

INCREDIBLE STORY: Rural Ohio trans candidate nearly drops out of race after being targeted online, wins seat in Republican stronghold. thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/15/a...

most of the people fired actually made factual posts about Kirk.

“Trump Derangement Syndrome” has always been a way to smear people for having a logical, rational response to Trump having power. The real TDS is normalizing Trump’s power and the way he abuses it

My biggest problem as an artist has never been lack of ideas. It’s always been exploitation in regards to wages and citation and general abuse endured for making art or writing while being Black, a woman or specifically a Black woman. No billionaire dummy could ever understand any of this…

fuck right off with this too please. Chomsky has been quite clear that he doesn’t think his relationship with Epstein is anyone else’s business and we can and should draw adverse inferences from that. sorry he wrote some things you liked; bold thinkers can be monsters too.

New from me! After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials. Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again. Check out our investigation!