I know it’s a big ask, but everyone needs to watch more interviews and panels with CEOs. They are so disturbing and repellent but to really face the reality of not only the fact we’re in a class war but the nature of who it is we’re battling, and the future they are authoring, is essential.

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I believe that someday I will be vindicated in my belief that the future of Star Trek will be as a shameless nostalgia show. It keeps rebooting and prequelling and it needs to just accept that we yearn for the 2370s again, but from a new perspective. Slice of life in Starfleet would *clean up* rn

missed opportunity for an Andor episode where he meets a group of rebels who love the dark side of the force but are from a different Sith tradition than the emperor

I think that after Trump dies, nobody will pretend he was anything but worthless, and his cult is gonna start claiming that THEY were the real victims all along.

znetwork.org/znetarticle/... When millions are struggling week to week, and Big Tech's 9 Trillion bubble bursts, the last thing we need another era of "Too Big to Fail". Break up Big Tech and pull an Iceland - prison for the worst offenders who knew but said nothing.

There's a thing on YouTube that's blowing up about the world's most unsympathetic rich kid deciding to take down a crooked Lego store and running afoul of police malfeasance. They end up arresting him and threatening him with five years, so he just goes on vacation to Mexico. It's darkly compelling.

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like, "Donald Trump is a failure as a president and a human being" is just a lot more appealing to me as a message than, "let's adopt republican talking points on tax cuts."

Why did you transition, right answers only. I was homeless and had a firm conviction that I wouldn't be able to escape and survive if I didn't fix the problem.

"You’re going to get left behind if you don’t use AI.” Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without needing AI summaries.

Asked what he'd say to people forced into credit card debt to buy necessities, he "reassures" viewers that "there's not any threat to" the f'ing credit card companies! And of course he does it with that monstrous little perma-smile of his.

marketing a morning after pill with a sexy furry dingo mascot, where the slogan is "let THIS dingo get your baby"

"a goofy movie": a humble title. why it's not even necessarily "the" goofy movie. we simply, respectfully offer you this story for your consideration "doug's 1st movie": the hubris of icarus. the unbridled audacity to imply that this is only the 1st chapter of the Doug Cinematic Universe. pathetic

Dang, I'm glad the Boston Dyke March doesn't and has never accepted corporate money. This is a difficult period, but I humbly suggest other Pride organizations could make themselves more independent and more secure if they followed our example and rejected corporate sponsorship.

I can't really focus to make a new MA. My rent is due again on monday and im struggling hard right now ❤️

Oh boy more Platner news. You gotta love it when the candidate's own wife is doing the oppo research. Brilliant work, everyone. How's that "he's the most electable one in the race" thing working out for you?

Platner went to work for Blackwater in 2018 and somehow that’s not the thing everyone leads with but it’s the main reason this campaign will never get a dime from me.

Every time I hear something new about this guy, I compare him to the trans people I know, who are all universally less problematic, but who would never be considered for high office. The double- and triple-standards are impossible to ignore, and yet the cis ignore them effortlessly to make excuses.

Someone check my memory: is this our *second* Nazi Olympics or did I hallucinate the first one?

We really need Democrats who won't promise an immediate "return to normality" but instead will pledge to root out the rot and corruption for as long as it takes. My #1 fear right now is that we'll get another Joe Biden, with good legislation, but a blind eye to genocide, Nazis in the government, etc

I'm watching Euphoria and it's a very well-shot prestige drama about exactly how high school isn't.

they never should have stopped calling the GOP ‘weird’ on 2024.

Minion is doing better but I still haven't paid off his surgery. Anything anyone can offer helps a lot. Thank you everyone who has chipped in! paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels

I mean, sure they're nice to YOU, Russell. You're not trans.

I once saw a GC get up on a panel with me at a convention and claim to be a de-transitioned trans-man who had to stop because the T shots gave her "a lot of cancers" in her uterus. She didn't stick around to answer questions after the event. There was a young trans boy in the audience, terrified.

I think I'd really love to perform in an Actual Play show, except the problem is that I fundamentally cannot play ttrpgs online. I simply cannot. It feels like having my soul siphoned out of me. My player character concepts are always A+, and I throw my heart into performing, and also, haha, nope.

So as of today @briewoodfiction.bsky.social and I are couch surfing for the foreseeable future. Funny how everything can fall apart in like 24 hours. I have no idea what the future holds for us. Any help means the world. PayPal: [email protected]

Hey yall just an update. We're safely housed for the foreseeable but money is getting tight again and we unfortunately need to drop $1600 NZD on renewing Omi's work visa in a second so she can get back to work and get us some stability back, currently our only income is my student allowance. (1/2)

I am a working writer and I would sooner die than use AI in my work.

We moved spaceflight into the private sector and suddenly all the rockets are like 30% more explosive. Kinda seems like punting to the private sector isn't a fiscal cure-all.

If this is true, then it means Russia has bombed a NATO country, which is commonly considered to be Bad.

Minion's first post surgery sploot.

This is, on balance, a good and important essay. Walia's discussion of the border as not some line but an enforcement regime that suffuses the interior as well as exterior is invaluable, as is her warning of merely cosmetic reforms that leave deportation machinery in place.

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

I truly wonder how much of this opinion is a reaction to the past 30 years of poorly teaching kids to read. We‘ve gotten incredibly bad at teaching long-form reading, while also making short form economically unsustainable for writers, so reading is unpleasant for young ones, making them resistant.

Dutch Bros. coffee is basically pond water.

This is less insane than it sounds. Leaders usually spend most of their time signalling for domestic audiences. However, there is usually some effort to make sure that what's said abroad does not directly contradict what's said at home, so while this is *less* insane... ...it's still pretty bugfuck

Hey remember last year when the Secretary of the Army said in public he'd spoken to a Lieutenant who was at a moon base? And then that was just never mentioned again?

This is definitely going to end with privately owned nuclear weapons.

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Anything that used to be simple is now an app that I have to download, sign up for, and then hope it doesn't leak my data.

The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.

They will lay me off, they will end my health insurance, they will raise my rent until I can't afford it anymore, they will destroy the tools I use by making them shittier or subscription-based or both; everything I depend on or enjoy will be Disrupted for some boy-king dipshit's funding round

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

It can be easy to slip into despair and picture the whole world against us, when in fact it’s a group of people who wouldn’t fill a football stadium.

I think Star Trek is dead. I think it's just gonna be a merchandise thing now. I want to be wrong, but I'm afraid that I'm not.

Someone said this last night, but if you look in the threads about "vibescession" the main thing people are talking about is the constant precarity. So what would happen if one wage-earner in your house got cancer and couldn't work?