i love her make her president

Working late but taking a break to make my kids watch this clip again youtu.be/2LhtNEmNkuY?...

For Terry Pratchett day, you are supposed to post a quote or a book of his. This one is the one that always gets me right in the feels:

Ah yes, AI the great equalizer…. Making everyone who uses it look equally unqualified to sell me shit.

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

I’m going to need some help understanding the following two statements: “Community built on performance feels cohesive. Community built on congruence feels safe.” Anyone?

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

I just added this book to my collection and just reading the introduction to the Watch & Ward Society had me flipping tables. There really are no new cons; just reinvented ones.

A liberal is someone who opposes every moral panic except the current one

A fundamental (and gallingly simple to answer) question that society continues to grapple with: Are children people or property? Terry Pratchett's quote about the definition of 'sin' remains evergreen...

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

One of the best things you can do to fight fascism is to openly have fun being weird.

if they take the bait, they will get pulled increasingly into rightwing extremism. the amount of overlap between many transphobe orgs & neonazi hate groups is well documented. If you value “feeling correct” more than you value truth & empathy, you will eventually wind up as a rightwinger. 4/x

JK Rowling attacking women athletes from both Algeria and Taiwan is disgusting, but it unfortunately should not be a surprise given her history of racism. Transphobia as an ideology is frequently fueled by white supremacy & colonialist notions of European femininity.

I’m *SO* glad we don’t live in a socialist hellscape where it’s impossible to get the care you need y’all! I mean imagine if it took literally 14 phone calls in order to get one prescription filled!— OHWAIT no that’s exactly what happened to me under capitalism 🙃🙃🙃

Gosh if ONLY there was a way to name and then ultimately dismantle these systems the seem to oppress people en mass…. Oh well I guess it will just remain this mysterious force we can’t possibly fathom even with decades of study and lived experience 🙃

I have really come to believe that we'd be in a much better place right now if we had put Nixon away in a dingy cell for the rest of his natural life, instead of the slap on the wrist for being naughty that he actually received.

rich powerful white men in the US understandably DO believe that losing your job and having to see people say mean stuff about you on the Internet is the WORST POSSIBLE FATE THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN TO ANYONE because that has historically been the case for THEM. we must make them fear far worse.

🧵TL;DR the biggest AI companies and the New York Times are destroying history and accountability at the same time. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

Get you some fuckin whimsy, bruh. Bitches love whimsy.

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

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ITS FINE - dashare.zone ADMIN

The ads fucking suck. They're bleak as hell - AI and crypto shoved in our faces while Dunkin de-ages Jennifer Anniston and Liquod IV asks me about my piss.

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

Lord forgive me, but it's time to go back to the old me: Trying to get dudes on the Internet to say "patriarchy" about the Epstein files:

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

"Being anti AI is class privilege! Poor people can't afford to learn how to make art without it!" Yes. Famously, all artists are extremely wealthy.

ai will just never replace actual artists and anyone who says it will is a HUGE LOSER

it is impossible to convey how spiritually and emotionally devastating it is to know that other people do not consider you to be a real person with an interior (or exterior) life beyond them

it’s really the cherry on the shit sundae that all of these sexist gatekeepers are such tremendous dumbasses. just staggeringly stupid and lazy

How many opportunities did I lose because men I encountered or worked with did (or didn't) think of me as someone they could get in bed? What was the point of a reporter willing to cover an active warzone if they were still laid off after bad decisions made by the paper's senior managers and owner?

This is why I push back on AI hype so hard. So few people understand how the tech actually works. So when it speaks with authority - as it's been programmed to do - people believe it.

RE: “the world is terrible, let people find joy in AI art. You can educate without being a jerk.” Nah, boo. People have BEEN educated. I’ve experienced firsthand the defensiveness and shittiness people generate by being told what they’re doing is harmful. Your comfort is not the priority right now.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

3️⃣/3️⃣ “It’s very important that websites have a memory and that the web overall has a memory,” said Alexander Rose of Automattic. “We are increasingly using the web as our only source of truth. When links go dead, in effect, the truth goes dead—especially in the age of AI.”

If you are going to do on the ground organizing, do not fuck with people who tell you that opsec is just some cute in-group status symbol thing. Not now. Not when there are paramilitaries murdering activists on the street and following observers to their homes. Jesus Christ.

These are not normal times and these are not normal cops and this is not a normal threat environment to say the least. Opsec matters right now in street work. Hit pause on your grudge against whoever it was in black bloc in 2014 that hurt your feelings, and get with the program.

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

There have been many journalists arrested in the US before. I'm one of them. This is still very different. Lemon wasn't arrested as part of a mass of arrests of people surrounding a protest as it was happening and released (as I was). Lemon is being re-arrested for having covered a protest.

along other potential outcomes, like DHS keeping a “derogatory” file on you, it sounds like your privileges will get quickly suspended. there’s a mention of this happening to a woman in NYT today.

Shall I compare thee to a fucking jerk

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

100%. I honestly believe political leaders ask too little of people. The thinking is you need an extraordinarily low bar - so ask people for money or to sign something. People want to be part of something and they're eager to do real meaningful work in defense of their community and their rights.

We're not gonna win people who just want slavery back, and we shouldn't try. We should also not take our eye off the ball as long as they're still rounding up undoc'd people

The right is not, in fact, a blind blob of stupid hate acting at random. The hatred has a funny way of being channeled into very specific policy objectives. That we totally miss bc we keep buying the bullshit about how this is a "culture war" & we "just have to work on messaging."

Do you ever see someone “speak their truth” about someone you know and have no idea who they are describing? There’s seeding the truth with lies to make it more believable; then there’s those whose stories make you wonder whether they are THAT dishonest with themselves or simply pathological.

I want more fat people in sexy shows and not for inclusivity and representation or whatever, I want it because fat people are extremely sexy.

i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun