Gender-affirming care saves lives

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

New Podcast: A chat with Parallels with Chris Marks, Principal Outbound Product Manager. Joined by co-host Patrick Coble. - blogs.worldofeuc.org/a-chat-with-... #weuc #euc #parallels

Every bit of this only reinforces Joyce Carol Oates’ absolute roast of Elon Musk as fundamentally lacking in the ability to enjoy anything normally human. “I built a tool that can insult people in a social setting better than anything ever invented” is a real personal tell.

Setting aside for a second the lunacy and authoritarianism surrounding the Trump/Hegseth threat to court martial Mark Kelly, it is also politically moronic. No military court or jury would uphold this, and you only do Kelly a tremendous favor by making him more popular than ever.

Can someone just suggest men go to therapy and build healthy relationships with each other instead of arguing again that women and children exist solely for the purpose of healing men?

"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"

I will never get this out of my head

Wizened Millennials sneering at Gen Alpha: I told you the old ways are best (Gen X, petting its moldering set of the 1983 World Book Encyclopedia: Soon. Soon.)

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

And just a reminder that my complete eligibility can also be found here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-...

Mega Zeraora! That's a nice looking Mega Evolution! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNHH...

This is the sort of brazen lie you tell when you’re trying to demonstrate your power by showing you can say shit that everyone knows is a lie, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

Record scratch… Narrator: …prices were not coming down…

The latest in Japanese autonomous naval drones is…Pikachu?

“I’m a Grok guy” tells you absolutely everything you need to know about a dude.

If you’re looking for something to read this weekend, I’ve published 13 short pieces this year with 2 more coming soon. I figured I’d make a thread of just a few of my faves that are free-to-read. (You can still find my complete eligibility post through my link in bio) 🧵

Sorry, I woke up thinking about this. We're losing so many trans people lately. He's going to be resuming the charity stream today at around 2pm PST. I found the stream VOD where he found out about this viewer's passing and you can tell he was genuinely affected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oBx...

Look if you're trans, you have to live. Do whatever you need to do to make it.

Put it in the Louvre (but only after changing the security password, which is Louvre. We cannot lose this)

There’s a CME hitting the Earth. And it’s cloudy where I’m at. Again.

Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.

A Docker update dropped yesterday…and broke every single Traefik container in my lab due to blocking older versions of the Docker API.

Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores You can’t make this shit up, folks

Thank you, more of this please.

If you thought that the largest cave in the US was Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, you’d be wrong. A larger cave was discovered tonight - 8 Democratic Senators.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

I particularly hate the suggestion there's some sort of grand bargain in which trans rights are given up in exchange for _______. No one is offering such a thing. No one would change their vote to Dems after that. The argument exists solely to justify throwing trans people under the bus.

HEARTBREAKING: worst person you know makes a good point

I’ve read and seen way too much Sci-fi to believe them.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

Muh…ny… Sorry…I don’t think I can say that. I definitely don’t have privileges to use that word.

Ah. Who could have guessed this might become a problem? www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

We all need to channel this Chicago man’s utter contempt

If you’re reading for awards, I’d be honored if you’d consider “Through the Machine.” Sharing the Gizmodo link today, just for fun, but it was published by Lightspeed and is eligible under the short fiction category. This is for everyone who thinks people should come before AI.

So let me get this straight…you’re not going to bring the House back into session until the government reopens…but the House will need to be in session in order to vote on a bill to reopen the government…right as food assistance programs will run out of funding. How is this not your fault?

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".

We don't cast off one segment of society to save ourselves. It's a betrayal of everything we're trying to defend. It's a cowardly kind of self-preservation. If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

Have you read “Through the Machine” yet? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...

And this guy claims to be a practicing Catholic…

This thread is a great first read this morning.

This is such an amazing story. It’s easily the best I’ve read this year.

complete batshit insanity