i need hell to be real so bad, man

"The issue here is not some indefinable evil present in the Israel psyche; it is the bleakly banal cruelty of humanity(. . .). Prisons are places of control and hierarchy and arbitrary power, detention and prisoner camps outside the scope of civil law even more so"

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

the new crop of dems knows which way the wind is blowing

Garden Grove Chemical Incident 05/25/2026, 8:30am The threat of a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) has been eliminated, per OC Fire Authority. The previously identified crack in the tank has allowed the tank to release its pressure. Temperature has been stabilized and is decreasing

"theory of everything" title notwithstanding, this is the point i was trying to get across yeah the causality is muddy but ultimately irrelevant because the two are entangled regardless

If you’re seeking info on the Orange County hazmat incident, this Reddit thread is useful. Reddit has become my social media go-to in a lot of ways nowadays for disasters (which isn’t ideal either!) www.reddit.com/r/orangecoun...

it makes me pretty mad that the 20th century was like “we mostly fixed the human calorie deficit problem, but it might work TOO well” and then the 21st century might’ve actually fixed the second thing and a bunch of people are against it out of sheer negative polarization

This absolutely needs to be enshrined in law. Scumbag US Government: Gets the short, simple .gov TLD. Doesn't use it.

Today I wrote about war crimes with drones, the Internet, and the elusive yet still-surviving butterfly that is shame. Read my newsletter here:

Jasmine Clark will become the first Black woman with a science Ph.D. to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. https://scim.ag/4dDZe6P

the truth that people have had a very hard time grappling with, because it is karmically unsatisfying, is that harris ran a good campaign and lost anyways

I think the odds that they really wanted this conviction specifically because she is someone prominent online are pretty high tbh. She’s a legit victim of polticial persecution.

The line isn't left vs liberal for the future of Dems, it's antifascist vs complicit, it's fight or die.

You can't tell me that Ken Martin is indispensable. It is literally his job to fall on his sword if he's mismanaged an issue so badly that donors have started demanding refunds.

to put this on main feed: 1) this specific data center actually did completely fuck the local water supply during construction 2) that this didn't immediately get them crushed in court and forced to provide everyone with infrastructure for clean water is bad 3) that it's a data center is incidental

There was an attack to try to get me fired for being a “pro assassination” professor last fall (someone wildly mischaracterizing my Bluesky posts, resulting in like 200 calls to fire me and having to get the police involved), so to get this student eval about that this term feels a bit poetic.

Is everyone ready to admit that this is an abject moral panic yet, or...

"Gender is about more than just flesh. It's about how you function in society: how you act and how you are acted upon; how you perceive others and how others perceive you." I've long felt like I don't fit the gender binary well, but its this "how you are acted upon...perceive(s) you" quality that

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Contractors figured this out a while ago. If an hour of your labor earns more than cooking your own food, it might make sense to get a taxi for your restaurant. Working class doesn’t necessarily mean poor.

The GOP is now funding these kinds of people to run as democrats. Research everyone who’s running. Do not just go off of the letter they put next to their name.

This is how you deal with trash

@katie-drummond.bsky.social since i know who runs wired now can you tell me what the idea of this story was

May his memory be for a blessing

There is a strange belief that seems to be incredibly hard to get rid of: the idea that your life will improve the more horrible you are to others; especially if the melanocytes of those others produce more melanin than your own. Hisorically it has done nobody any good.

Devastated by the horrific attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego. There is no place for anti-Muslim hate in America. We must confront this violence and protect the right to worship safely. My prayers are with the victims and their loved ones.

friends, @alexip718.com is a good dude and a fearless journalist. if you can, please help with his sudden expenses resulting from the trump regime's illegal actions: $2,965 O-1 visa fee $3,500 legal fees $1,600 flights $1,500 moving expenses shares help too!

Good morning/afternoon photo by Edward Selfe

The Seattle Times published a full obituary for Juniper Blessing. It's a moving tribute to a life well-lived. May she rest in peace, and may UW honour and carry on her legacy. Scholarships named for her might be a good start.

This is much worse than anything that’s happened with hantavirus so far. Even if the potential for more than regional spread is very limited to nil, if you are in that region it is very very bad news www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/...

rest in peace, juniper blessing, you deserved so much more from this world

2024 is more or less universally understood among elites as a referendum on morality that morality lost.

While I don't think the specific individuals that have been bothering me are transmedicalists, they engage in slandering trans people they don't like as well. Trans infighting is a real real thing, and it spills over into other avenues like politics.

Spent today with a friend trying to figure out why he had a seizure a few days ago in a yoga class. Radiologist said the CT scan was fine. He was mostly conscious by the time medics brought him to the ER. He has no history of epilepsy or seizures. I'm trying to figure out if some adults are ->

One of your followers, Will

I'm a trans woman. I've been out for almost fourteen years. There was a time when I was much more like the parts of the community I criticize. I empathize with where that comes from. I've had to learn a lot of lessons the hard way about how to survive and thrive. This isn't it.

I really, really do think Jane is harmful from some really misguided sense of solidarity.

This is the truest thing you said all day. This is a worthy virtue. Don't poison it with bullshit witch hunts of out group targets. As is on your TL. You can simply just dislike or even hate these people.

It really is almost *always* the same people.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

Dogpiles exist to give everyone a nice hit of dopamine, but it's also a way to punish outgroups AND as a way to keep the ingroup in line. After all: if you see the horrible shit the ingroup does to the outgroup, you're incentivized strongly to not end up in the outgroup.

The greater good, of course, in this case was "making me as miserable as possible". Because the most fundamental thing to understand about dogpiles is that they have leaders and they have followers, and every single follower knows that they could be the one at the bottom of the next pile.

My thoughts keep coming back to this. We need leaders who are capable of inspiring life risking interventions of genocides, but also cutting off these problems before they occur. If we're gonna be the big bad hegemon, we should be bullying UAE.

You need to read this horrifying and astonishing account of the genocidal murders in El Fasher in October 2025. These killings could have been stopped: unfortunately, the world did nothing and actively looked away.

"The vacuum left after the U.S. abandoned its humanitarian commitments has destabilized some of the most fragile locations in the world and thrown refugee camps further into unrest..." Gee, wonder if this will ever come back to bite us.