At this point, when is Israel not committing war crimes? And with absolute unchecked impunity

Olay, Olay, Olay, Olay, fuck Trump! Fuck Trump!

Friends, this is my former workplace. I won't tag or say their name here, but you all know who they are. There are still some good people on staff that know better, but those voices are ignored, and this is what happens.

— girls were abused by family members, by people close to the family, and it was always kept quiet. And if anyone found out, she said, the question was never about the man. “It was always: ‘Well, what did you do? See what you did.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

a dumb scoop turned into something more significant and malicious, as is so often the case with trump stuff. publishing asap

There's a lot to not love about AI but it sure is giving a lot of vapid people the chance to fully expose themselves for fools, and that's kinda fun

There is a silver lining to this story, which is the judge stepped in when it became clear the jury were relying on rape myths. That's a direct result of the work Jan Logie did on SV law in Ardern's first term, and I love seeing it paying off - even if we clearly still have a long way to go.

You will never rise to the occasion! You will always sink to your training! Fascism is a foreseeable threat with a foreseeable outcome. Get training and get organized, today! linktr.ee/communityantifascistlinks

lmao they're gonna try to wipe all the fake citations the way they wiped all the sci-hub citations

Elon Musk claims that Grok is “maximally truth-seeking.” He’s lying. After repeatedly misidentifying footage from Iran and, in at least one instance, fabricating an image as “proof,” Grok has now started deleting evidence of its errors. My latest piece: open.substack.com/pub/weaponiz...

A page of panels without any dialogue or text boxes takes longer to read than a page with them.

A striking feature of Trump and his team is: they somehow imagine a world in which they are the only actors, only ones with power, and whether it's Tehran or Minneapolis are surprised when it turns out others do. There are many kinds of power and many nations with power.

Because everything was so rosy during the Biden years. Everyone was just doing brunch all the time and no bad things were being done or protested by even moderately progressively minded people the whole time

Oregon passed stronger protections for trans people to have access to their hormones Also the EU passed a resolution calling Bulgaria's law banning gender marker changes on birth certificates a "violation of European free movement" and is required to recind the law

It took the White House about 8 days to get to: actually high gas prices are awesome.

this week's news is about how @tangled.org @npmx.dev and @alt.store are using open social networking protocols to build, distribute, and discover software, and how the most important part is not the code but the community building part connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

some actual good news in the world of legal shit regarding trans folks

This is actually pretty good news for Texas Democrats. You can see a lot of the establishment trying to push the myth that Democrats lost due to being too progressive, rather than due to affordability and Israel. Don't blame trans people for your failures!

Except for when a trans employee gets fired for being trans. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

"tree-hugger"? in 2026?

They will come for all of us under the pretense and cover of protecting us from the very crimes they perpetrate in real life. Fantasy is not reality. Drawings are not worth destroying lives over. Remember the tolerance paradox. We need to fight real bigots, zoos, & pedos - not fantasy ones.

doge really did select hires on the basis of "too young to understand that they will likely have personal legal liability" didn't they

The Nazis are very close to the “rounding up every LGBTQ person” for being “illegal”. So, many thanks to the centrists who kept saying “both sides are the same”. This is against our civil liberties of course but there is no DoJ.

Also: I just uncovered a small network of recently-created accounts that are LLMs replying to people talking about health topics and added them to my Reply/Contact Spammers list as well as reported them, but posting so folks know to be aware since they were mostly recently created

To summarize, Trump has offered asylum to Iran’s women’s soccer team and death to its men’s.

This is a good & infuriating piece about a putrid phenomenon — one intensified by all the punditry of the last decade that rolled its eyes at feminist analysis. There’s ALWAYS been a living available to women who vibed as “not like other girls,” in every decade, especially in the media

WICKER: Sen. Gillibrand, you did not mean to say that we targeted a school? GILLIBRAND: That missile hit a school

“wanting to be a shitty person and hanging out with other shitty people and then being surprised pikachu when they are shitty to you” really is the perfect summary of the modern right

It is already a utility that individual people were once paid to dispense. And now Atlman is stealing it from us to sell to other people. He's a parasite.

never ceases to amaze me how the modern conservative movement is full of the most pathetic, cowardly people on earth

omg

it is very much the fault of the AI bros: what you describe explains the demand. They provide this tech because as a group they seem to have a fairly constant hatred of higher education and academics, especially not in their own fields. And they fetishize cheating, shortcuts etc.

From Moscow to Washington to Jerusalem, this is a repeating story.

I’m genuinely surprised Grammarly’s lawyers approved the latest rollout, assuming they were consulted at all. Writers whose names are used in the product without their consent should absolutely contact a lawyer. If you know other writers mentioned, you might want to pursue legal remedy together

I guess it's marginally more democratic if people who inherited their offices are replaced by people who purchased them www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

this makes me want to fucking SCREAM. they USED to have an extremely nice Customer of Size seating policy with a voucher for a free middle seat that was always offered to me in a kind, non-shamey way. but the worst fatphobia I've EVER experienced while flying was Southwest last summer, and now THIS?

“Universal design” means that when we design society inclusively, it benefits everyone. The other point to remember is that everyone, if they live long enough, will become disabled. Just because you don’t need an accommodation now doesn’t mean you NEVER will. But it means caring about wellbeing.

I giggle at the Lovecraft stories where a character is growing so insane by exposure to Cthulhu or whatever that "he's even sent his servants away"

The CW on Kennedy is that he's a smart man who pretends to be stupid. Maybe that's right. But if the senator thinks he's mocking Bier in this exchange, he's lacking some pretty basic self-awareness.

This is nuts.

There is no hope for the large conglomerates, but I really hope all the people who listened to the bullshit about how the continued flow of fossil fuels into this country was way more dependable than *checks notes* the sun rising every day take note.

Wow, im actually shocked

500 ways to have coffee but 10 food companies. Crazy. www.businessinsider.com/10-companies...

i’ve had *mild* ME/CFS about 20 years and have had all these symptoms. did you know how similar long covid is to ME/CFS? #MaskUp #CovidIsntOver

I have such sights to show you

"There is something fundamentally anti-human about the transformation of every victory and every misfortune, every event, incident, outcome, opinion, intention, or accident into an occasion for a wager."

What do you say to someone who believes their chatbot has unlocked the keys to the universe? I talked to mental health experts who are following the 'AI psychosis' issue closely to find out: www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...