If the real-world treatment of trans women by the healthcare system was invented for a work of fiction, it would instantly read as an absurdist satire of all the issues with cis women's healthcare. yeah you can get a vagina but only if the doctor thinks he'd want to fuck it afterwards.

always remember to show your pinball machines some love. they have needs too you know

I get texts every day from President Trump saying "please put me in jail," he can't wait to be tried for treason, wants to be rescued from himself, and our prisons are the best prisons in the world

I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money. Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas. EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers. That's it. That's all you really need to know.

"this popular left-wing figure is rude and has problematic views on some issues" yeah man OK the Secretary of Defense believes the fighter pilot we just rescued is basically Jesus and the FBI is building lists of anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh. But yeah that streamer sounds scary.

Just going to leave this here.

It just doesn’t make sense to me how a decorated soldier could also be a psychopathic murderer

Forcing the Artemis crew to speak with Donald Trump was part of a NASA training exercise to prepare future astronauts for encounters with less intelligent life forms.

Little saddle ✨

I wonder what changed in 1930 🤔

lots of great replies but these first two absolutely sent me (via threads)

i’m so old i remember when obama called out SCOTUS for citizens united during a SOTU, predicting this would happen, and alito shook his head and said “that’s not true”

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Excited to be painting one of Faunwoods Oracle figures for their custom toy show! Here's a wip 🖌️

THREAD. Substack is evil. I can't emphasise this enough. Their line that anyone can leave easily & take their subscriber list with them is bullshit. I left & it cost me a large sum of money. It forced me briefly back onto Substack to try to clear up the mess... tomcox.substack.com/p/an-explana...

Okay but am I allowed to try to sell your book? Because one of the things across the BOARD we are seeing is how the kind of horrors that are destroying us are enabled And Burn it Down is one of the necessary books about it

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

I don't think I could make a joke better than this

The quality of big animated movies dropped considerably when studios decided they needed to be voiced primarily by A-list celebrities who primarily just play themselves, and aren’t as talented as skilled voice actors.

Kid says they're trans, NYT is skeptical and concerned. Guy says God teleported him to Waffle House, well, NYT just reports the facts

2. Yet again, POTUS has all but disappeared from view for four days and returned to duty with a bruised and badly discolored hand. He is obviously undergoing a medical treatment that is being hidden from the American people, along with his diagnosis

International Asexuality Day, so let me talk about one of my least favorite allosexual pastimes: asking why asexual people “need” to talk about our varying levels of desire. Why do YOU need hamburger ads with bikini ladies in? Why do you need Magic Mike? Why is it acceptable for you and not us?

Message to Americans: the world is waiting for you to do the right thing. Remove your President. Then revise your Constitution to protect yourselves. And us. It will take years to recover from the catastrophe of Trump.

"Lebanon’s Christians are being told by the Israeli military to get rid of any displaced Shias hiding in their homes or villages. Haven’t we seen this story before, and don’t we all know how it ends?" Read @mehdirhasan.bsky.social’s piece on Israel's latest genocide: zeteo.com/p/israel-lat...

Fascinating to hear house owners continue to claim, in a majority-renter city, that residences for renters do not belong in "residential areas" because those renters will destroy "the character of our neighborhoods." (They also don't want people without yards to live near parks.) It's 1991 for them.

As usual, the NIMBY argument is basically: People who want apartments on bus routes want "unchecked development" (translation: three-to-six-story apartments) and "clearcutting" (allowing people to remove trees from private lawns). Same anti-housing arguments as always, different decade.

Today we released a new documentary about the Minneapolis ICE crackdown that occurred earlier this year. It covers ICE's misconduct and killings, the subsequent protests, and how local resistance was able to force a federal drawdown from the city. Would love you guys to check it out!

'actually offering real federal assistance and welfare programs' is considered out of the question, which leaves you with tax cuts and tax credits, and boy they have been running out of ideas for tax credits

"Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt and other tech billionaires are funding 'tech for good' groups on the condition that they have to use AI to tackle government projects." If it were so good, maybe you wouldn't have to make people use it?

While out for a walk this morning I was about to enter a crosswalk but I could see that a driver was about to turn left into my path without bothering to check for pedestrians, which he did. I'm unhurt because I expected him to behave both carelessly and lawlessly.

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

Exactly. And part of that return on investment people somehow don't seem to understand: the money is not going to the moon, to be lost forever. It's providing livelihood for a whole lot of working people here on Earth to design, build, and execute the missions.

The problems with US government spending priorities are vast and extremely depressing/enraging much of the time. I desperately wish much more was spent on improving people's lives directly, and much less on war. Science spending just isn't really part of that particular equation.

I’m sorry, if you’re a journalist and you’re still going to the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck off.

tbh watching cis people get arrested on trans people's behalf is more heartening than I would have realized. It often feels like it's just us, when the going gets tough. If private businesses risk themselves to continue to allow trans people use of the correct restroom, it'll mean a lot too.

"The commandos fired their weapons ferociously... but did not engage in a firefight with enemy forces... it was unclear how close Iranian forces ever got to the site." So - they were just shooting at random people then?

this isn’t the “far right” but a european conference of well-known nazis. pro-putin indeed. “online grooming of deranged loners” is a line i will use in future

She left her agent because he was in the Epstein files, and just like that, there’s a bot-driven smear campaign. You fell for it with Amber Heard and Blake Lively, stop fucking falling for it.

Tel Aviv. Thousands of Israelis are protesting the war, holding "Justice for Palestine" signs. The Zionist regime is so terrified of internal dissent that they are violently arresting their own citizens. Their global narrative is completely collapsing. #cdnpoli

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

Depluralize a movie: Some Thing, Somewhere, at This Specific Time

DIVINE SKELETON BLAST

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

In the '90s, punks and leftists made absurd images like this to parody American conservatism. I'm not sure you can do that today because there's not even the veneer of Christian virtue to point out the hypocrisy.

Depluralize a movie: How to Succeed at Ferret Without Even Trying

Depluralize a movie: Rhinoceros (Crash)

Depluralize a movie: Birdfection