BORN TO sleep, perchance to dream FORCED TO suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like. Impeach, remove, disqualify.

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline: AB 82/SB 497 AB 1084/SB 59 SB 418 AB 554 AB 728 AB 678 SB 590 SB 450

- Sun Tzu

i don't think they should reopen the government. it's funny that they're already talking about figuring out how to pay the soldiery. your majesty the mercenaries are beginning to grumble about their wages but im sure it will be fine

My entire ideology is: • I love fat women • "Live and Learn" from Sonic Adventure 2 is the apex of human culture • Whatever cringe shit going on over there is none of my business • Everyone needs a Shin Getter Robo figure My opinions on everything in life can be explained by those four things.

I'm a human being with a soul, I shouldn't have to know or care about the "job market"

earthly sentiments 🌱

"Where's my clicker! I'm missing Jeopardy with that Ken Jennings fella."

I'm working on a dope video, but the most annoying thing I'm dealing with right now is the audio. The storyboard I drew is synchronized perfectly with the audio in Storyboarder (for the most part). However, the storyboard as a gif is NOT lined up with the audio, so the 3D animation is off.

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

There is beef and there are discourses that go around on here that I will never understand and I think I'm very much better off for it.

If Trump is going to insist on the military occupation of democratic-governed cities and states, then yes the government cannot be allowed to reopen.

Okay. Well, if Trump is going to attempt legal end-arounds like federalizing the NG of GOP states to send them to Dem states over the objections of governors and courts, I think the Democrats should just keep the federal government shut down indefinitely.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

If you still think you can fix things using the system we have, then *at minimum* you have to run on "Give us enough votes to impeach and remove the criminal president" and there seems to be no appetite for doing even that. If that's out, what's left?

i hope the democrats see that there is no working with these people. it really does need to be pens down. file court cases, lie down in the street, but theres no getting back to the business of washington or whatever. it's all on fire, act accordingly

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

If you hide your gender identity to fit in, never feel like you've betrayed yourself🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 It's proof that you have a beautiful and kind heart. Chiitan will continue to send out messages until the world becomes a place where you can live with confidence and be yourself.

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵

So “states’ rights” only apply when the right wants to keep women from reproductive health care. If the right wants the national guard to invade a city, states’ rights don’t matter.

make boof not war

Be safe, and don't you dare go hollow.

The recipe for a good social media app isn't hard if you understand that people simply yearn to read and write sentences without angry guys yelling slurs at them

this is a great piece and a very important thing to keep in mind it is possible to be clear-eyed about what we’re facing without throwing up your hands and going, well, I guess we’ve lost forever, nothing we can do about it we have not and we shouldn’t make it easier for them

yeah I don’t think this is a design problem so much as a “the world actually is on fire, for real” problem everyone is stressed out and losing their minds all the time and while I’m not saying you can’t make some improvements I don’t think you can engineer your way around that

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Don't worry about not fitting in, because fitting in isn't an important part of your life. Be proud of being different♡ Your life is shining🌈

Andrew Cuomo just had an ad on TV which showed him in different job positions via AI-generated footage, which only further confirms how much of a scumbag he is

I wish I could find the post, but someone on here recently pointed out that the elite pundit addiction to Twitter is distorting their worldview even further. They really think America is far more right-wing than it is, which requires ignoring actual data. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-right-...

she even wrote a preface to the Far Side collection, and proceeds from a shirt with the cartoon on it go to the Goodall Institute RIP, Dr. Goodall - you were truly one of a kind and the world is poorer without you

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Republicans "Take away our cancer research. As long as you can dance, My King"

It's becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

The more you learn about how things work in the world the more you feel like you must be missing something because it can't possibly be that stupid. Oh so all we need to avoid an economic crash is for the stock market to go up forever? And a third of the market is magic beans? I see,

Trump did promise to run the government like one of his businesses, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it shut down again

before you say “well losing EA is no big loss” 1. shut the fuck up 2. people have families to feed 3. games such as hades only exist because the studio cofounders met while they were at EA. studios that make games you don’t like are still enormous institutions of gamedev experience and knowledge

Ughhh I hate how right this is. Yeah ok, fair. I was ready to put on my grave-dancing shoes, but yeah, this whole EA thing sucks

It will get worse and I'm tired of saying that but I really do that none of this is sustainable. The bitch of it will be navigating the ragged end of All of This (TM) and then beginning the long road to building something resembling a functioning society once again in the aftermath. Stay tuned.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

Rowling and Emma Watson's argument is painful to watch😢 Good-hearted transgender people never intend to hurt anyone else. They just want to love who they want to love and live according to their soul's direction. Chiitan stands by the hearts of good-hearted transgender people. I love everyone

"we can't normalize this" isn't a call to action it's amorphous consultant speak. cut that shit out

don’t worry, we’re also about to stop paying them all