We're just about through with legal review for Elon Take The Wheel, which means the book that explains how Elon Musk's wealth is built on a stack of corpses (probably) won't get me sued into homelessness! Please pre-order your copy today, and help build momentum! benbellabooks.com/shop/elon-ta...

Gas is $5.57 a gallon in Scottsdale AZ where I am currently visiting. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2059281059183792128/vid/avc1/1280x720/HDGflvRpcSJKuVYa.mp4

@economics_that_works The first person being interviewed which I think is in the first third of this video saying some very interesting things which everyone should understand about taxing wealth https://youtu.be/K06ys5VuGu4 #politics #economics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@noh8campaign/116629916479105185 8 Democrats voted for this bullshit. 🤬

@ceartas Have you ever read "The Marching Morons" by C. M. Kornbluth? There's a lot of wisdom in it! 😁 https://archive.org/details/bestofcmkornblut0000fred #books #bookstodon #bookrecs #bookrecommendations #quasitbookrecs

The End of TransRights in the UK is the Start of Democratic Collapse https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-trans-rights-in-the-uk-is-the-start-of-democratic-collapse/

SpaceX Announces Plans to Put Billionaire on First Rocket to Mars Why not send all of them? https://futurism.com/space/spacex-billionaire-rocket-mars

I don’t do cannabis very often anymore, but when I do, I put Silent Witness on pause, and clean up the kitchen. Evidently.

ArXiv announces a ban on AI content and the responses are hilarious. > You expect us to actually read the papers we cite?! yes, lol! https://www.404media.co/new-arxiv-rules-ai-generated-papers-ban/

#mississippi high school deadnames #trans salutatorian, edits photo “Many commenters also alleged the school edited Hole’s senior portrait before posting it online.” “They photoshopped his mustache off to make him look more ‘feminine’.” […]

The problem is we don't have two parties in reality. We have three. We have the fucko fascist party, the left wing progressive party, and we have the "Look I'm Not With The Fascists I Just Don't Want To Pay Taxes Or Be Regulated" party which is pretending to be part of left wing party.

Easily a third or more of Democrats would be Republicans if Republicans hadn't gone down the Rush Limbaugh rabbit hole years ago. They still have Republican priorities and Republican convictions, but they'll never win power if they run as Republicans. So they run as Democrats.

Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

I've mostly tried not to comment on the California gov primary, but man, I'm getting really tired of Becerra supporters arguing that Becerra is a better choice than Steyer simply because Steyer is a billionaire. Like come on, at least TRY to make a policy argument.

Like, my head is going to explode if I have to hear people argue why Rahm Emanuel, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Elissa Slotkin, Jared Polis, or Stephen A. Smith, et al. is superior to JB Pritzker based solely on "Well, they're not billionaires!"

Spotted outside a Trader Joe’s in Santa Clarita, CA: #ishedeadyet

Trans dating safety explored through raw, unflinching analysis. Why algorithms fail trans women and what survival means when love carries risk. #trans #queer #lgbtqia #fiction #nonfiction #author #writing https://twp.ai/4hqVlM

The following open source tools in the Fediverse use Generative AI tooling in their development: * Ghost * Fedify * Bonfire * Misskey * Inkwell * The wordpress ActivityPub plugin * PeerTube At some point we just need to acknowledge that the tools are already being used. You don't have to like […]

I’m certainly not gonna mourn #barneyfrank, because I cannot I forget about how he opposed the inclusion of trans people in ENDA. Like a lot of cis gay men of our generation, he was no friend to the trans community.

Black Churches get shot up, Synagogues and Mosques get shot up, Queer Bars get shot up, but if an Evangelical congregation is harmed, it's by one of their own usually The media calls it 'Both Sides' but it's the White People, it's always been the White People.... #fascists #whitenationalism […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@JugglingWithEggs/116595969130565882 He really is though, I think that's why Starmer is all for a leadership battle now, because he thinks Burnham won't win that Byelection. Will a dark horse candidate from the left of that party please stand up? #ukpol #ukpolitics […]

🆕 ⚙️ 🇬🇧 New location feature: Military Trucks In The Forest, Scotland Deep in a Scottish forest lies a collection of heavy military vehicles and industrial trucks. These vehicles stand in a clearing, where moss and pine needles have accumulated on the bodywork […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

The Senate was told who Clarence Thomas was and they confirmed him anyway. It would be great in the future when evil justices are recalled if the people rubberstamping them also were penalized. Currently the game is rigged for corruption all the way up and against penalties all the way down […]

Seen near Holborn Station, on the route of the Unite the Kingdom rally. The poster says it better than most speeches: When the scapegoats are gone, the borders are fortified, and the hatred has done its damage, the cost of living will still rise, the NHS […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

America is a gay nation. We are secular nation. We are a Black nation. We are a urban nation. We are a transgender nation. We are a Muslim nation. We are a nation of women, and of immigrants who don't speak English with ... outfits. The girl with the blue hair. The one some of ya'll don't like […]

#science #cartoon

"You can't be having all these trans women being murdered by men in the headlines when you're trying to convince the public that the safest thing would be for trans women to use the men's bathroom and locker room. "You run the risk of people seeing through the propaganda that way."

Not to sound old fashioned, but we are seeing the function of a decline in moral standards in public life. The way that political parties shrug their shoulders at open payoffs to their leaders has a cost. Corrupt politics begets corrupt governance, as we are seeing in the US.

I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.

#senate rejects bill to halt #iranwar despite lawmakers’ growing frustrations It was the first such vote since a deadline passed for the #trump admin to seek #Congress’s approval to continue the military campaign. #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #Israel #war #ForeverWars #WarCrimes #law #congress#trumpswar#us…]

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Morning Roundup: Shots were fired in the Philippine Senate. https://apnews.com/article/philippines-gunfire-senate-dela-rosa-icc-fdaeba231d80a51f191b06ce25057f40 American paid more for food, good and services in April, surprising nobody […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Made the pilgrimage to Mecca—correction, the Quaboag Book Shop—this Saturday with my son. It's an 80-minute drive for us, but totally worth it. If you live in New England and love books, this really is a place you have to visit! It's quite possibly the most […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Dude! Where’s my phone??!! https://popular.info/p/we-were-promised-a-gold-plated-trump

Rubio doesn’t come across as the biggest monster in this administration, but there’s a valid argument that he is. Demolishing USAID was a slow moving atrocity. He must never be freed of responsibility for it.

Hey UK: It's better to fight among friends than to face fascism alone. You can argue later. Now it the time to block Reform. Signed, Ghost of fascism yet-to-come

Gas prices: record seasonal high Beef prices: record high Farmers: bankruptcies up 46%, can’t get fertilizer Foreclosure rates: 6 year high Epstein pedos: still being protected MAGA: at least we owns the libs.

...not fast enough.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-PBr1yk-MRCilIlRr7kXGrw%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0 Lock ‘em up.

Ras Baraka has filed his amended complaint against Alina Habba for false arrest. It makes clear how much of this was an attempt to humiliate a Black mayor. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#trump demands gratitude in DC. So he put up banners thanking himself. Signs appearing around the capital twist appreciation & patriotism into an authoritarian knot. #narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #madking […]

Imho 25th is not the solution. Too difficult. Impeachment's easier. But the Constitution needs a serious overhaul for sure.

The #racistinchief long denied he ever called predominately Black nations "$#!+hole countries." Now he brags about it. In his 2nd term, he appears to be cleaning house. What do all these people have in common? Hmm. I can't quite put my finger on it. 😐 #racist #racism

Signs that you might be living in a third world country: https://www.rawstory.com/as-trump-pushes-privatization-mexicos-sheinbaum-embraces-healthcare-as-a-human-right/