In fall of 1997, my freshman year of undergrad, I spent HOURS in the computer lab building my own web site, armed only with gumption and a rudimentary grasp of HTML. The longer you spent on the early Web, the more potential you started to see. It is the exact opposite for AI.

“Many who live w severe & painful conditions can only manage 1 ‘big’ activity a day, especially if it involves leaving the house. If that day has a #medical visit..everything pivots on that single activity.”: buff.ly/mjfE5jL by @apainprincess.bsky.social #ChronicPain #InvisibleIllness #disability

There's something so human about some people being unable and/or unwilling to let go of a familiar social media platform. Humans will cling to the familiar even if/when the familiar is harmful. We see this and experience this daily in myriad ways. We crave familiarity, the rest is downstream.

Hi. Everyone needs to read this. Immediately.

because I know y’all can’t click and read

So a friend is on a navy deployment. For fun I let them and their crewmates suggest names for the kitten crew. Introducing the Anchors Away litter Kicking off with Skipper

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

any media made under conditions of white supremacist patriarchy is going to (I know) be shaped by said conditions, of course including porn, no I am not writing an essay (again)

If you've spent any time in the world of advertising, you can always spot an overleveraged client a mile away and know exactly how hard they're gonna press to get out of their position and make it the consumers problem. TELL THEM IT CURES CANCER. TELL THEM ALL THEIR WILDEST DREAMS WILL COME TRUE

I kid you not - none of the places in this travel checklist involve Native American-relevant events or attractions - Indigenous is mentioned once in reference to a “Patriots of Color” exhibition. Lol but the NYT is the paper of record I’m told.

To quote the great philosopher-king Thomas Petty, "Coming down is the hardest thing."

My TV gets a station in New York that I can only describe as "radical socialist PBS agitprop for 8-year-olds." Today they were showing a program about how the stock market is manipulated by the whims of investors, starring a cartoon dog. I am afraid to ever change the channel in case it goes away.

Taking steps to compensate the mob for its "service" takes this state-sponsored violence approach one step further than even the fascist architects of Jim Crow. It serves to legitimize & INSTITUTIONALIZE (rather than merely rationalize) white conservative lawlessness.

forever grateful to patrice mcdermott for teaching the women’s studies seminars “politics of desire” and “technologies, bodies, and ethics” (in which i was one of two students, but i still have the syllabus) in 1998-9, and for georgetown for just being cool and letting her do it.

This is the Karl Popper’s “paradox of tolerance” at work. Intolerant people demanded that their ideas be tolerated, one of which was not tolerating other ideas, and now here we are, exactly where many people clearly warned that we’d wind up.

Based on everything we keep seeing I just don’t know how people are so reflexively defensive of Obama, Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries etc. They’ve all fucking failed us. Their job was/is to fight the right and they don’t do it.

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

I was going to say this is crazy but it’s not. There is a book by a medical sociologist called Dying of Whiteness about the supremacist politics some voters choose over their own lives (literally) & now we have a government that is using the same logic to make national policy.

If you acknowledge that the richest man in the world is a Nazi is has all sorts of unsettling implications about the moral valence of success and the arc of society, so it's easier to just ignore it entirely.

honestly, the usps preview of mail is great in some ways, but it can also fuck up my whole day when an incoming piece of mail could be catastrophic and the dude doesn’t come until almost 5pm. that’s a lot of time to ruminate.

They say the door to Hell is locked from the inside. And the same is true of reactionary politics. The solution to the Male Loneliness Epidemic <dismissive wanking gesture> is and has always been feminism. Simple as. Men, go clean your rooms and learn feminism.

You won't want to miss this deep dive into the porno-political memeplex that has colonized the right. Cameron Cummins-Smith gives us essentially an explainer, but one that is so necessary because this stuff is so embarrassing to think about, let alone write about.

🤨 ERASING HISTORY‼️ A review by NBC News found that the vast majority of press releases pertaining to Jan. 6 defendants have been removed from the DOJ website as of Friday evening.

It’s worth noting that when Jan. 6 happened, the pro-Trump right used dozens of conspiracy theories to try and offload blame from themselves—e.g., claiming it was “antifa,” “feds.” Now, they seem keen to just admit they did it—all of it—and it was good.

someone should project a real time slide show of trump’s online posting at don jrs wedding

Ebola, Africa, and us. My column. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/22/a...

I know it’s a hard time for everyone & has been for at least 10 years, but it’s important to remember; these are miserable people continually compensating for the ugliness in their hearts, perpetually in pursuit of money & power to fill the holes in themselves & will ultimately die unloved & alone.

Counterpoint: No I will not

wonder if we will hear more about bettina’s late father’s banking ties to epstein or her brother’s federal drug smuggling charges (or maybe even a pardon?). i would like things to be nothing but mess for those assholes.

If you go back in us history, equal rights for women, black, Latino, Asian, gay people all polled badly at some point. I don’t give a fuck. Either stand up for rights or get the fuck out of the way, I don’t care which party you’re in.

this is even worse than regular forum shopping imo bc it's not just that Trump's DOJ hauled Rhode Island Hospital into court in Texas, hoping to get a judge more amenable to their BS it's that O'Connor, the judge on their shopping list, is *eager to be bought* ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

season 5 of fargo really fucking nailed a lot of shit. i wish it wasn’t just prelude.

COME ON fuck all the way off i can’t even. arrested development was a goddamned drama compared to this farce.

Which commencement is this guy speaking at. I want to show up to boo him. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/o...

"It’s as if much of big media has decided that it’s too much trouble to focus, in any sustained way, on developments that would have resulted in weeks of headlines, if not impeachment and conviction, in the pre-Trump era." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m reading The Demon of Unrest by Larsen and I learned that Ft. Sumter’s walls were weakest in the back where it faced the U.S. The military never conceived of an attack coming from that direction. It turns out that most of our governmental walls are the same, metaphorically speaking.

That’s the maddening thing. Mamdani: Hi I’m going to deflect your culture war question and talk about affordability Corporate Dems: Hi I’m going to bring up your culture war thing unprompted and say dems need to stop talking about that and talk about kitchen table issues

my moment of calm was watching a mediocre white man who cut me off (for no reason but a misplaced sense of entitlement) in a parking lot confidently walk up to dicks sporting goods during the pre-opening curbside pickup hour like those doors were going to automatically slide open, and they did not.

Imagine things being so bad that you've decided to try and trade off Jared Leto's popularity.

never forget: despite being the most successful of the billionaire wannabe rocket barons Musk is the only one that has never been into space himself afaik no fawning journalist or fan has ever asked him why? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Number one rule is to get out of the relationship

So Emil Bove really just has that job still huh

Just drop another impeachment article for the war and Rule IX it. All of them are so pathetic my god. Take a look in the mirror Pat.

Sounds like ALEC publicintegrity.org/politics/sta...

I like that my feed right now is 100% lawyers going “legal expert here, judges only talk like this when they’re feeling a white-hot rage powerful enough to swallow a medium-size metropolitan area.”

Thread. I fully and full-throatedly endorse this, I hope for obvious reasons.

If you live in VA07 I need you to write to Eugene Vindman and tell him about me. Tell him about the transgender military veteran who used to live in his district and just wanted to raise his goddamned sheep in peace and now lives 3000 miles away because of transphobic bullshit.

Just thinking about this reply guy law professor FROM FEBRUARY for …reasons