I grew up on the Myth that America was "Land of the Free, Home of the Brave" the Myth that the Constitution was sacred and guaranteed freedom for all the Myth that Free Speech applied to everyone even those we disagreed with the Myth that Gun Rights were necessary to protect us from Tyrants 😶😖😔

I have difficulty comprehending a lack of empathy or sympathy. Which is weird, because it’s sort of like comprehending a very specific sort of apathy, and I get apathy. Actually, no, that adds up. It’s difficult to comprehend apathy about the things you care about. That feels weird.

If you over-regulate capitalism (don't allow 7 guys to own 99% of the wealth), you get totalitarian communism (people get to eat and go to the doctor)

Meanwhile the definition of violence from the authorities has been narrowed so much that executing random people in the streets will have 40% of the country arguing they did it in self-defense. The powerful are held to no standards while the powerless and held collectively responsible for everything

If the people you’re protesting get to tell you how to protest, it’s not much of a protest, is it?

This guy started a war that's wrecking the world because he was high from the recent kidnapping he did, and thought he could do the same thing and wanted to look smart and strong. Said war can't end because he now has to save face and that's more important than ending it. That's it

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

Doordash only became essential after women joined the workforce, leaving men no other way to obtain food. But nobody wants to talk about that

Hello I am the president of a country whose economy depends on consumer spending. My two major initiatives so far have been a sales tax on everything and then a war that sent all prices skyrocketing

If you over-regulate capitalism you get totalitarian communism. If you under-regulate capitalism you get a ruling caste of insane monopolists. Please ignore the fact that one of these things has never happened and the other keeps happening over and over

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. P E R I O D

Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and KBJ consistently honor their oaths of office to "..support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.." Is that what makes them "liberal"? I'd say it makes them "honorable".

Strict constructionists my ass. They are racist ghouls.

Sooner or later someone is going to have to demand that Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Thomas and Alito hand over a copy of whatever constitution they've been reading. Cuz it can't be the regular one.

The language of the 14th could not be any plainer, yet 4 of these people decided it didn’t matter.

Federal ICE Agents from New Jersey attempt to intimidate a tax paying citizen over posts that quote National News Media. There fixed it Also they name one of the agents at the end who visited from NY- Brody

Jonathan Ross you say? You mean the ICE agent suspected of murdering Renee Good? There should be an immediate external review of his actions. Also, ICE leadership should be impeached for infringing on people's First Amendment right to free speech. It is the FIRST Amendment for a reason.

Jonathan Ross, you say? Jonathan Ross was the man who murdered Renee Good? Why would Jonathan Ross do such a thing?? Does Jonathan Ross think he’s going to get away with it?

Jonathan Ross is the name of the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good. It's not illegal to state a fact when everyone saw it on video! Plus we have freedom of speech. If you don't have the freedom to state facts then wtf are we doing anymore?

We are here ⤵️

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Federal agents whose salary you pay coming to your workplace to intimidate you for protected first amendment activity because it made the president and his henchmen mad is the definition of "not a democracy"

Disbanding this armed gang has to be a top priority for any Democratic president

I don't really enjoy the "Look at what this asshole said" genre of posting but it's hard to avoid when the assholes in question control the government and economy

Been reading a bunch of articles on the issues with certain sides of Christianity, and given that it's #PrideMonth it seems fitting to pass them along. First, just the reminder -- for those who need it -- that Jesus called us to do good, not harm, to others. fiddlrts.blogspot.com/2020/06/prid...

I am increasingly reminded that #PersonOfInterest warned us about the issues of unfettered AI a good 14 years ago. And people still created the Torment Nexus, set it loose, and also tried to shoehorn it into literally every possible application, will-ye-nil-ye to all the protesting "users."

Generative AI has no intelligence. This is worth reiterating for a few reasons, but one is simply that it can and *will* make catastrophic errors if you give it the means to do so. If you simply must use it for some reason (CEO meddling?), severely limit its access privileges or it WILL backfire.

Sometimes I feel like writing some sort of story and publishing it in amended English like just embracing better spelling options not a full revamp, but like: "hight" "frend" "I redd it" "staek" "laff" "haff" "tuff" "enuff" etc. Little swaps that are perfectly readable with no homographs.

Time to share the #psychicdamage! How many errors can you spot in this piece of #AIGeneratedSlop? ...someone point me at some confirmed #human-crafted #coloringpages please, I need to believe that such sites still exist amid the flood of random sewage that I've been ending up in lately.

That about sums it up. Anyone remember that episode of TNG where Wesley comes back from some outing to find the crew is hooked on some mind-controlling game, and they wind up pinning him down and forcing him to play the game until it gives his brain the happy chemicals and he stops fighting it?

I'm not even trying to be on Discord right now, I'm working on projects and have Things to Do, but being cut off from Discord makes me aware that my brain has been trained to go offload various things there regularly throughout the day and I probably should take some pains to train it otherwise.

@tailsteak.bsky.social Looking up correct spelling of "Ghanny", hit an old reddit post about 1/0, which included these compliments: "The author is not afraid of playing with big ideas." "[Forward] feels like a necessary bit of thinking about a big idea." One of your more compelling attributes ^_^

welp My time as a Wikipedia editor has come to an end. Dang thing was still connected to my HOTMAIL account. Y'know, from like the turn of the century, before I got my GMail and stopped using anything else. The Hotmail that no longer exists. Reminder: Update your recovery emails. Seriously.

There's a storytelling card deck with the card "The Sycofant" that, when reversed, deals with unexpected allies. thecards.com/fullpage/syc... I love the whole concept this card rouses in me: either an expected ally being a traitor or an unexpected ally helping out in a pinch. @tailsteak.bsky.social

Aurora Giselle tangential mention in my April Fools' Day fic: Carmen to Waldo: We need to get this done before the babysitter starts charging extra! Technological marvels don’t come cheap! Nor does a proper education for a young lady, and our little one deserves the best! @tailsteak.bsky.social

Current Annoyance: I can find no data on what Bishop's hair color actually is, canonically. Which means any detail I use in my fic is 90% likely to be wrong. My brain hates that, and I'm trying to make it shut up. @danshive.bsky.social

Survived my first ever surgery. Did not expect surgery when entering the ER; infection's bad news, turns out. Pain level dropped from 4.5 to 0.5 or even 0. Then hit the "body remembers it's been thru trauma" stage, so currently dealing with aches and pains, but SO much better than just 3 days ago.

I have a soft spot for games that don't just call shit "Agility" or "Wisdom". Like hell yeah, call it "Might" call it "Gumption" call it "Verisimilitude"

@hopeandmedicine.bsky.social ...why did you take your post down -- the one that I replied to? Was I unwittingly offensive again? (Be blunt with me about that stuff; I have trouble picking up on social cues.) I hope I don't forget the context 'cuz it was something I wanted to think over later.

Rewatched K-pop Demon Hunters and I gotta say, it seems like the reoccurring theme of 2025 media is defying nihilism and embracing community And if that’s not the lesson we should all take and run with in the new year, I don’t know what is