every sicko knows about the October Slide, but underacknowledged i think is the April Tumble

what is so wrong about this comment? they weren't even disagreeing with you

agree this is very good

If you think it's a glitch that there always happen to be enough dems siding with republicans on their shit, I have some news And the anti-trans dems are all the dems who aren't actively calling out anti-trans dem bs

I truly wish people in this country ACTUALLY understood what the criminal punishment system is rather than what they want it to be. The criminal punishment system is FUEL for fascism. People really need to understand this to their core.

The Feds got what they wanted which was to make these people's lives hard and to make it expensive. When you have to deal with these charges, you need good representation (which costs money), you need to keep going to court which fucks with your job, you have to deal with emotional trauma, etc. etc.

every day On Cinema becomes less hyperbolic

Flyers give you a ton of context about an event - what the tone and the values are. AI flyers say, nobody really cares about this, not even the people putting it on!!

And if you try to talk about it people think you’re a whiny, mean, lying, drama queen freak, so that’s fun too 🙃

The collective abandonment feedback loop is really a thing to behold

who can i yell at in whatever atlanta democrat voter outreach program has been spamming my phone relentlessly with no way of stopping it? this is seriously pissing me off

FYI since I remember everyone getting mad about it: Achewood rolled back the upscaled images, and it's serving up the original files again.

i've actually been thinking about getting a trackball recently, since i now exclusively use the computer from a reclined position in a chair with narrowish arms. and for some reason decided to play Enigma (2002)

before you make a grand sweeping statement about something in society, i need you to remember that people who are more disabled than you exist in the same society

fancy little man says "you guys just don't understand how good it is to fire you"

Militant Mary — Elizabeth Kirkman Fitzhugh, 1914

one thing i haven't seen mentioned yet in all these "ai getting booed at graduation ceremony" videos: a big part of higher ed being structured the way it is is to gatekeep the chance at a comfortable survival under capitalism behind a hierarchical obedience ritual, with all that entails.

has someone collected all of these in one place yet or should i do it myself

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

From one of @prisonculture.bsky.social ’s lovely essays, Dr. Sawin-

as it should be

salt potato good

and then the next democrat in office will be like "i just think we need to work together, leave the past in the past"

there is a whole lot going on here, none of it good

i think about blood a lot more than i ever wanted to

"dear graduates: we do not care about you at ALL"

Inserting things that are plausible BUT NOT TRUE is like, the worst possible failure mode for medical transcription. Literally would be better off with nothing and *knowing* you have nothing

there are so many examples of this and they all terrify me as a pt with complex chronic illness and complicated specific needs that are already under-addressed

This story is so horrifying, and every single person who was in that courtroom and not trying to advocate for the person in labor participated in an atrocity. I appreciate everyone who turned out to rally today.

mods! mr. mayor!! these journalists aren't being mealymouthed terminal centrists!! mods!!!

"you got any games on your phone"

yes, llm "authors", go have your secret club, and make it so secret that none of us ever have to read your shit

i can think of one way but i don't think you guys are gonna wanna hear it

so the thing about collagen disorders is that you get the bendiness with none of the strength and also none of the capacity to observe limitations. Circus contortionists, and I’m friends with a few, spend years training muscles to and joints to bend without injury. It takes strength more than talent

he really has the poisonous smile of an administrator. the very incarnation of weaponized cordiality

most definitely. and in fact, we should assume similar any time a capitalist talks about any form of "efficiency". one man's 25% crop yield improvement is another town's poisoned river

tech world in general has worked hard to erode the concept of consent

i also think people who parrot this line don’t think enough about what makes the forces “unstoppable” or why they assume this is somehow natural or self-evident.

this era (covid and ai) really gives the lie to the mythos of absolute objective rigor projected by western science

that is very much what they'd prefer you do and one part of the reason for this heavy push

She knows what she's about

you goobers keep rephrasing the same "it's inevitable, let's get a seat at the table" line ad nauseum, which is not surprising considering you're into the anti-creativity machine.

I don't think this is true the actual answer is that Derek Thompson's job is to launder this shit from tech fascists to liberals. Once you stop thinking about people like Thompson and Ezra Klein as posters and start thinking about them as cutouts for tech oligarchs Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

if anyone wants to know how to do this, dm me your bank details and i will get it set up for you :)

this is funny but i cannot help but feel like allowing news push notifications on your phone is basically just sticking a doorstop in the portal to the psychic demon realm

anyway. i miss my friends and they shouldn’t have been exposed to a virus that killed them in places where they should’ve been safe, places everyone has to go, just to let everyone else “return to normal”

the Biden administration and those associated with their pandemic response openly said that my life and the lives of disabled and immunocompromised ppl like me don’t matter. i’ve lost multiple friends to that apathy, and voting blue didn’t do a single thing to stop it

not ben and jerry's; magnum, which bought ben and jerry's. it is definitely the type of thing "business whose entire thing is forcibly taking over better businesses and then making them worse" would love to do. (see Wiley and your previously favorite medical journals)

Home electrification was always just a placeholder for the expansion of the looms when they were smart enough. It’s all grist mills, looms, energy extraction, control