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The Saturday urge to bedrot and do Absolutely Nothing, vs. the desire to have Done Something before it’s already Sunday

If you’re against DEI, you’re a segregationist and I’m tired of folks, for the sake of politeness and naïveté, pretending the discussion is anything but that.

The thing about this insistence that rape victims have some terrifying moral power that ruins men’s lives and compels the public to do anything to avenge them is that it has never once happened. What actually happens is that victims who disclose are ruined and men who are accused gain.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

NOT A DRILL — the bestest bad boy of BG3 and his tragic backstory, as told by @tkingfisher.com. Can’t wait for this one!

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

I have never gone wrong in my life by assessing what specific policies someone has in place to support the needs of trans people in order to judge whether my fat cis body is also safe in their hands, I’m telling you it is a foolproof customer system

A couple people are asking if they need to play BG3 first, and the problem here is that if you play BG3, this book is “wow, it’s the tragic backstory!” If you don’t play it, the book is “wtf, why did Kingfisher write a book about this vampire being tormented that has such a downer ending?!?”

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

If you are unsure you can EITHER get titers checked to find out if you're immune and then get a vaccine if you're not OR you can skip the titer part and just get the vaccine. it won't hurt you to get it even if you're immune. insurance can be picky about what it'll pay for.

fandom has always been built on complete sincerity. online culture has become allergic to the very notion of earnestness, and it's making fandom spaces miserable. the sooner you free yourself from the shackles of shame around sincere fannishness, the more joy you'll find

For those who don't know what radiation therapy is & how crucial it is for a cancer patient to be consistent: it has the same function as chemotherapy. It reduces the growth rate of the cancer cells & quite literally is what's keeping Rebeka alive rn. CHIP IN $1 to keep Rebeka alive please‼️

benches, buses, and bathrooms. they should be everywhere

And just to be abundantly clear: NASA AND SCIENCE IN GENERAL HAVE MASSIVE RETURN ON INVESTMENT. Cutting this budget is a net financial LOSS in the medium- to long-term. It undermines our future -- intellectually, technologically, and economically.

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

Dammmmmn glad I’m not a Hugo voter, because you couldn’t make me decide between October Daye and Chronicles of Osreth if I were held at gunpoint. Two of my absolute favorites. Mazel tov to all the nominees, as I assume the other series(es?) probably also slap.

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

This five second Instagram reel that will loop 37 times while I attempt to read the eight-paragraph caption could have been a Web 1.0 blog post with a nice photo at the top

With #AltText

Telling people about the good, useful use cases for AI is kinda like telling people about the 30-50 feral hogs you need your AR-15 for It is entirely true and yet so completely divorced from the lived experience of your audience that you sound ridiculous

I said it before and I'll say it again: Giving a pack of Epstein associates a comprehensive list of all children in the country with home address and school listed, sortable by various traits that indicate vulnerability to exploitation, is the literal diametric opposite of keeping kids safe.

I have been using Speechify for the past couple of years to read PDFs to me, but I feel like they’ve been drifting too far AI-ward. Does anyone else have a good text-to-speech app for iPhone?

This game is old. (1) Authoritarian GOP keeps hauling the Overton Window further to the right, (2) centrist Dems punch left while trying to occupy the center, and then everyone get dragged to the right because (3) the left is getting punched and therefore the center has no anchor on that side.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

I’m out here using my fun nun/ wholesome spinster energy like an undercover agent to get trans kids some goddamn gender-affirming care. I’m the auntie at the dinner party who you don’t know has pronouns until you say something shockingly ignorant about the queers. Use your powers for good, y’all

The fact of the matter is that your racist uncle who hates Woke Studies ever since he heard about it on the drive back from the supermarket and the governing board that oversees your research institution are converging, and the results are exactly as monstrous and as stupid as you would have guessed

IP theft & ecological destruction aside, high-pressure selling “Software Will Do It All For You & The Computers Running It Will Never Fail” is such a weird take for those of us who survived the high-pressure Y2K “All The Computers Will Stop & Civilization Will END (Unless You Buy My Stuff)” campaign

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs

This hits hard: "Fascism – what Hannah Arendt called 'organized loneliness' – can only take root when people stop believing that their society will reward their lawfulness with an orderly and humane existence." Read the whole thread. This really crystalizes a problem that has been haunting me.

So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about. I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant

Yes I know I’m up too late. In my defense, I’ve been filled with rage all day. So I’m up at 2:30 using about HOW MANY people I know whose lives would be better on every possible axis if they hadn’t been violated sexually as children. I work in complex trauma therapy. I know a LOT of people.

“Jesus wept. Buckets.”

God forbid we do age verification in a way that makes sense. This is how we ought to do it. Verify ages for safety, fine, but with double-blind privacy protection. Or try training users in Internet safety on the front end in any organized way. Like a driver’s test, but for your phone/computer.

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more

I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr 1. barely works 2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate) 3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

I am team soft pants, myself, but this is a fascinating look at masc/menswear history, and additionally a really good guide for buying chinos

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics (I still miss Warrior Nun)

laysplained is very good

There’s an ocean of difference between ‘kids need adults to protect them and to help them learn the skills to behave in society’ vs. ‘kids need adults to tell them what to think and to control their behavior via Panopticon’ — and culturally we are all drowning in that ocean

Like, the emperor is NAKED. The only thing he is wearing is a pair of CLOWN SHOES.

This is @glutelord.bsky.social and he's completely fucking correct. The fundamental tension at the heart of all incel culture is that these guys HATE women and refuse to appeal to them but desperately want to get laid anyway, and this contradiction can only really be resolved through violence

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

UBI has proven it works. It gives someone the ability to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and peace of mind while searching for work.