I would simply not have placed the US military under the control of a bunch of dudes who think logistics and planning are gay.

We need to keep lists of places that are ChatGPTing all help agents because I never want to buy anything from them again

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BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill that would allow you to file taxes for free directly with the IRS. The bill has support on both sides of the aisle, and would bring back and expand the free taxing filing program that the Trump administration killed off.

"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time

*That’s* where I left them.

We need this energy. Nothing less than completing Reconstruction.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

The library straddles the USA and Canada. They had to construct a door on the Canadian side of the historic library after the Trump administration was making the Canadian library patrons go through a border point of entry first in order to use the entrance. youtu.be/x7w7MwoH4HA?...

mood

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

"we need more information about the long-term effects of trans healthcare for teenagers, that's why we're banning it" yeah man that's definitely sincere, a great way to find out whether something good or bad is to never ever attempt it again

Ryan Coogler animorphs this is not a drill. Applegate is the realest and it's a real story about kids at war where things do not go well, with gender identity stories that are barely subtextual.

I think a lot of Bluesky users are in the demographic of “people who simply will stop using social media entirely if all the text-based social platforms that aren’t run by unrepentant Nazis (like this one) go away,” myself very much included

I will never think of Elon Musk as anything other than a mass murderer for the USAID cuts. I’ve long felt he’s one of the most villainous people alive today, the real-life equivalent of a comically annoying and cruel supervillain

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

advertising is mind pollution.

this is a good thread on what this whole NYT vs. AMA thing is about as well as a summary of what's actually happening with trans youth care, which is that transphobes are trying to claim something is happening when it's simply not

In a healthy democracy the government would have collapsed by now and instead we've got at best just over 7 months to know if there will be electoral consequences and until january for them to start to take effect

graphic novels do count as books and being mad at your kids for liking them more than prose books is how your kids learn to hate reading

Also, with UBI, the leisure TO read increases. If you've got 80 or 90% of your basic living expenses covered if alone and fully covered if you buddy up with 1-3 others, so you only need part-time or gig work for extras? That's time & attention the rentier doesn't extract & is restored to the worker.

one of the funniest things about being the first person in your family with an ADHD diagnosis is that it's hereditary

Oh, is the uptick in SFF sales mostly Romantasy and that doesn't count because anything predominantly enjoyed by young women has no merit for reasons you don't want to think too hard about? Oh no!

the cyclops cat has awakened from its slumber

Been seeing a lot of tweets about whether pleats are back. Are they "in" or "out?" Are they modern or old? Personally don't like this line of thinking, as it's driven by ready-to-wear trends, which forces you to update your wardrobe every decade. Let me give you another way to think about pleats. 🧵

I blame @skyladawn.ca for this. (The actual cover is still processing on Amazon as I had to do a quick repair when I saw the final thumbnail) But hey, you can preorder it here: mybook.to/SK1SpiritBlade

begging fanfic authors to rediscover the word "sitting"

beautiful women named Scam Likely are calling me

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

"A new study out of Cornell Universit found workers most excited and impressed by corporate speak may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions, and it can leave companies with dysfunctional leaders."

A Bed of Red Azaleas, by Alma Thomas, 1968 (rotated, detail), 📸 by David Stluka

Big screen for big choices

once again I am compelled to mention that Bush v. Gore likely went down the way it did because Sandra Day O'Connor cooked her brain on talk radio scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcont...

The warmest kitten in the WORLB

*pokes ao3* ... *pokes @status.archiveofourown.org *

"Anyway, there are two main things Kennedy says he wants: 1) to make America healthy again and 2) to let disease ravage through our populations, killing off the sick and weak." www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...

It's fucked that the Russos got Hollywood's credit for the success of CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (2014). The important story elements were invented by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting for comics a decade earlier. And Brubaker actually endorsed Stucky fic in this outtake from a 2016 intvw I did:

I kind of enjoy how the Oscars has become "bring your whole crew and cheer loudly whenever your movie is nominated"

Whenever there's a tie, the winners should deliver the speeches simultaneously and then make out

I know Amy Madigan from the show Carnivale, my beloved

The evil that men do lives after them

new chapter of whip crack this is not a drill

That's it. A foaming-at-the-mouth Dem like me wanted Bush officials prosecuted. What has changed is how "everyone should go to jail" is now typical among wine moms and phlegmatic corporate guys who wear bowties. The question is when DC consultant types accept it.

To add onto this, I need people to stop pretending like white working class people are particularly prone to having their Nazi phase. ie it’s not a signifier of his working class roots that he has Nazi tattoos. This does not appeal to and recruit the working class.

We could really do with way more adult education in this country. Instead, we torture teenagers to force them through at least as many exams at school as they can manage, in a rigid timeframe, as if there was no other way, and no other time, to get educated.

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce passed the Kids Act, a mix of KOSA, Screen Act, and several other ID/facescan verification bills. There is still time before a final vote in the House, as well as a Senate version. Please use this link to call your Senators and Representatives to vote no.