I wish Brock Nelson a very happy gold medal. 🤣

Hockey should probably be a controlled substance

Cute that they wanted to be just like the women’s gold medal game and go to OT 🥺

Free hockey!

Man this is GOOD hockey.

That's my boy, Makar!

Think it’s time for billionaires to learn that their wealth being taxed is in fact the most moderate solution to society’s billionaire problem.

It's Friday, why not pick up a cozy queer slice-of-life portal fantasy about a world I'd much rather live in! (They do civics on purpose there.)

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

put it in the Louvre

KELLLLLLERRRRRR!

You'd think after almost 50 years in Colorado I wouldn't get fooled by a sunny winter day... But here I am, freezing my ass off on my walk. 😅

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

White guy complaining about Bsky being "exhausting" when he has like less than twenty replies to his article and most of them aren't even negative. 😂

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

saw somebody yesterday refer to "soft republicans" that could hypothetically be turned to our side if we just reach out to them hard enough and i'm not sure how to tell you this but those do not exist

Thinking about that tweet from Foz Meadows that said the most dangerously emotional people in the world are men who are so obsessed with being rational they confuse their feelings for logic repeatedly.

This. It does not add value. It actively does harm. Instead, I'm writing poems, hugging my cat, cooking food, hanging out with friends, trying to perfect my winged eyeliner, and singing loudly in the kitchen. Actively using a plagiarism machine to further ruin the environment is a hard NO for me.

Writers, if you could cut every other creative who helps transform your work into something new and incredible just to make some cash, would you do it? In solidarity. Absolutely not. Go watch the credits of a movie for once.

I am more and more convinced that when cis people want to debate whether trans people get human rights, the only correct response is "I don't treat whether or not people get human rights as a debate topic or hang around people who do" followed by leaving.

Good morning

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Precisely. The subject of one of my favorite pieces by Lynn Hunt, which I love teaching

Things that make you feel old. 🤣 When they're playing NKOTB on the gas station speakers.

How comfortable and ignorant do you have to be to say “art shouldn’t be political” with a straight face As if that in itself is not a political statement

how many times will we have to say "humans are the real invasive species" is ecofascism and needs to be unlearned immediately before it sinks in

The beloved photographer kept both beauty and injustice in the frame. buff.ly/t9MjMep

If you want to fight fascism, you must practice disability justice. If you’re claiming to be on the left but believe disabled people are “expendable”, you’re aligning with fascists. If you are against tyranny but refer to people like me as “a drain”, you’re carrying water for the Nazis.

This is so true & so depressing (whole thread tbh) I say this as a writer, a reader, and a once and probably future bookseller. This is not a healthy creative economy.

The rebuttal to this is that Star Trek is not a show about how the future could be but how the present should be. To eradicate disability, rather than accept and accommodate it, is a eugenicist ideal.

Roses are red, These times are quite trying

Hopecore

I just ran across a bit of conversation where someone compared Newsom to Reagan and someone else argued- does the first person think Newsom would leave such a lasting legacy of harm? I almost quoted my response but that would be unkind. I think he would. I think it's begun. Here's why.

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps. I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

Whatever else either do for the rest of their lives, every time they’re written or spoken of, we must add “responsible for the deaths of 2.5 million children”

this is going off in record time check out my gfm www.gofundme.com/f/help-two-t...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

it was their own stupid "policy" that forced them on to - ugh this is a terrible headline anyway not even worth it but COME ON

Someone did this to me last year: “Why didn’t you post anything about *this* news story, huh?!” I looked at the date and realized, well, that was the day we buried my mom, so I guess I was a little preoccupied? Sorry for letting you down. I’ll try to Do Better.

Yup. Anyone with any decent amount of skill and training doesn't usually want to fight. We know better. 😅

You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop. Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough. Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.

'Who's going to win," she says after explaining that she can't even mention the pen names producing books because it will tank what pitiful sales she gets if people know she's using AI to produce them. LOL. Hear yourself.

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

I write weird-ass books. They take a long time to write: I pour layers of weird and the layers need to set before I can layer on more weird. But it's still a story. I'm not worried about a machine automating weirdness. The internet has been weird my whole life and we've still needed weird stories.

AI boosters keep getting interviewed as regular people instead of the soulless cultural barnacles they really are.

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

Honestly this is super on brand for me. 🤣