This is a very very very obvious point to make but shops and movie rental places and record stores are all more fun than buying things online

AND THAT IS WHY THEY BANNED ETSY WITCHES

The captain of my favourite team just shook hands and laughed along with a pedophile president who has single-handedly destroyed Canada's relationship with the U.S., on the same day that more evidence came out showing Trump raped a child. Not sure where the fanbase goes from here.

If you think the appropriate NYPD response is anything other than "huck a few snowballs back", you need to move the the country and never interact with other humans again.

A snowball fight is not a crime. White people please be serious.

My state of the union pre-buttal: “Fuck right the fuck off.”

Two fun details: 1. In many PA counties, and I believe Berks is one, the initial bail decision is made JUST by the police (who are a party here) and a magistrate judge. That can hold for up to 2 weeks. 2. I just learned that magistrate judges need no legal education and get four weeks of training.

I'm not going to censor who posted this because he should be unfollowed, and you need to know who he is before you can do that. This homophobia is unacceptable in Canada or anywhere. Homophobes need to learn that their hate is losing them community.

Good advice for ICE protests and/or observing. For No Kings rallies, you don't need these things. At least so far. Definitely don't wear jewelry you care about! They are stealing people's engagement and wedding rings as well as phones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Zi...

“in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail” loud and clear, Jacky boy

Aaahh!!! Real Housewives

400,000 internally displaced trans people due to the genocidal anti-trans legislative onslaught that the Democrats are refusing to meaningfully oppose.

some of the olympic women including maddie mastro have been reposting this if you’re curious about the vibe in response to the US men’s little display

Student walkouts against ICE show no signs of slowing down - even in the face of violent attacks from the police, suspension of students by school administrators, and even arrests of supporters. In Pennsylvania, a police chief violently attacked one student as police made multiple arrests.

zohran increased the number of snow shovelers from 500 to 1,400 for this blizzard, paying them $30/hour to shovel sidewalks with at least a four-foot berth so that wheelchairs and strollers can get through. he didn't overhaul city government to do it, he just used the power given to him and did it!

just a reminder that you already know everything you need to know about the state of the union and unless you will enjoy watching it there's a million other things you can do. you don't have to be "in the loop." the loop is a trash place to be tbh

NYPD is currently seeking to question this person of interest.

Pretty much everyone with any sense knew this wasn't going to happen. The important thing is that he's so fragile, stupid, and petty that he had to say he was going to do the dumbest thing imaginable.

You can expect Trump to propose a bunch of stuff tonight and those proposals won't be worth your time to think about, it'll be vaporware just like this.

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

have been in a generally grumpy mood for days and felt better today and realized it's because the sun is out and i have a large glass of water. i'm literally just a plant that's been cursed with the ability to complain.

Honestly at this point a return to dumb-phones looks like the right move. (via @violetblue.bsky.social's "Threat Model" newsletter) reclaimthenet.org/arizona-bill...

"Rewrite this 'anonymous' work survey answer so that it doesn't sound like me." _might_ be a decent use of an LLM, but also should be something I can do in a pinch.

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Thanks to resistance by ordinary citizens, the Trump administration has been denied 11 detention warehouses — that's roughly 35,000 beds. 6 potential sites remain: Port Allen, LA; Chester, NY; McAllen, TX; Starke, FL; Durant, OK; and Lebanon, TN. The fight isn't over, keep going!

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

this clip from Shoresy of people rattling off Dutch names is the funniest and most impressive thing I’ve seen on tv in a long time

TIL that in-wheel tire pressure sensors need to be manually set to their appropriate locations in the car's information system, otherwise the display will tell you the wrong tire is low so I guess that's another thing to make sure was done right when your car comes back from a tire rotation.

Cool cool. Now do Flock cameras. www.theverge.com/tech/879088/...

I think the New York Times has become a psychology experiment in which they see how many times they can poke their remaining subscribers in the eye before they finally walk away

me as i take a rip from the bong: “time to start the male stoneliness epidemic”

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"Car-centric design is creating a public health crisis in the US" AT LEAST ONE GUY EVERY TIME THIS COMES UP: so you wanna BAN cars?? You want your jackbooted thugs pull me over and stand on my balls til they're red? For driving? I don't even OWN a car but you wanna punish MY balls?? For driving??

“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

So much of this masturbatory philosophizing about AI is meant to distract from the multitudinous harms it has already caused and tremendous harms that it will cost to the country and humanity. And that the New Yorker is participating in it makes me very sad.

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever. One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

*guy gets arrested for a few hours and is returned to his palace* Mob justice is going too far!!

I am going to say it again … Slavery as a founding principle of empire requires not “enables” or “encourages” the ability to rationalize this level of moral torpitude. It requires dismissing most pro social bonding and the need to be not only dominant but defended for being harmful

it's always striking how everyone with a big important business job is like "due to the blizzard we will be closed Monday and also maybe Tuesday, fuck it" and everybody who owns a retail or food service establishment is like "get here through two feet of snow NOW or i will blow this place up"

This is what you do. All invitees to the State of the Union should do the same, for example.

I know a lot of big accounts are arguing over whether it makes sense to maintain a presence on X, but for those of us who are trans we don't need to worry about it - Ben Ryan helpfully screenshots all our posts and brings them over there for free. Get on our level, cis folks.

I know they don't give a shit about their hypocrisy, but if they were serious about Christians in Iran being in danger then they wouldn't be deporting ones already here.

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

essay by a guy whose entire media career has been built on hippie punching wondering why more people aren't helping the hippies topple the fascists

Betteridge's Law remains undefeated.

Observers watching federal immigration enforcement in Maine who were told by agents they were "domestic terrorists" and would be added to a "database" or "watchlist" are now part of a new federal class action lawsuit. n.pr/4s6JWgo