I dunno - I managed to date people for several decades and didn't abuse any of them. I just don't feel like a "pristine dating history" is so hard??

It’s not just that due process doesn’t apply to political candidates—it’s literally the opposite of the evidentiary standard for political candidates. The burden is entirely on *them* to prove to *us* that they possess the integrity and good sense to hold office.

Graham Platner embodies a concept that in 2016 we didn’t have words for so “Bernie Bro” made the most sense. It had nothing to do with Bernie but was an attempt to describe a man who outwardly espouses progressive values but hates women more than he cares about anything else.

Louder for the people in the cheap seats: If you did not have to naturalize because you were born on US soil, you are a birthright citizen. Yes, you. Not only people of color gain citizenship that way. Most Americans here did too.

Fucking word. Gender all the way down.

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You do not have to give people “due process” before you choose not to vote for them. You can just be like “oh word the guy who wrote rape apologia and had allegations just got another serious allegation? Guess he doesn’t need to be my senator.”

This is so deeply, profoundly sad.

Truth.

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

ActBlue donors can request refunds if they donated to Platner's campaign. Pass it on. Directions below: (And if you do this, please share that you did so on social media). help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

"Employers and schools are bracing for a surge in sick days and plummeting productivity after millions of England fans stayed up overnight to watch the decisive World Cup match against Mexico." [Times front page]

There is no need for fireworks now with drone shows. No need for pets and vets to cower and for wild life to suffer as well as the pollution and noise. I said what I said.

In other "excellent news from religious bodies", the US Presbyterian General Assembly has formally voted to start the process to (correctly) declare white Christian nationalism a theological error incompatible with the teachings of Jesus: pres-outlook.org/2026/07/pcus...

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Hey Eastern MA folks!

GENIUS.

I feel like I should repost this every day until everyone reposts it every day and demands this simple change with big impact

Hey USA - if you cheered for the US taking the lead against Bosnia-Herzegovina, remember to thank Folarin Balogun, who would not be able to play for the USMNT were it not for BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP. #WorldCup

Anita Hill tried to warn them.

“…She campaigned on a message of affordability, Medicare for All, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and supporting universal childcare.”

I am texting with my chapter head right now and APPARENTLY the delegates had to hold the floor for TWELVE HOURS without a PEE BREAK to keep the TERFs—who showed up WEARING DEPENDS—from pulling a sneak vote Y’ALL

absolutely vital to win the senate this november. need to basically blockade judicial confirmations for the next two years.

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

fuck the court and fuck every "it sucks but we gotta cave on sports, people have legitimate concerns, they'll definitely leave trans people alone after this" shithead on the way there

elderly council of wizards mandates child gential inspections.

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Well well.

Actively annoyed by seeing some AI people smugly agree with each other that the reason we hate their shitty technology is that we resent it "lowering the barriers to entry" for the arts, which apparently the world of software development has always done.

garden pics, animal pics, “I made this thing,” book/TV recs, and the wild shit little kids say are the five pillars of Good Social Media in my personal opinion

Low-key liberal accomplishments coupled with high-profile policy concessions to the right and aggressive conservative virtue signalling — this is exactly the strategy moderates have recommended for Democrats here, of course. Didn't work too well. Maybe some lessons there.

Why does it bother me when a manager or the CEO of my employer boasts about using Copilot to write their emails? This. This is why

So Erin Reed blocked me over this one but I’m going to take a few minutes to point out why this “reporting” is so bad and repost a few times to hopefully spread the word. TL;DR Erin either doesn’t understand anything about NYC law or politics or is outright lying about what’s happening here.

"The FAA is working with Palantir to see if AI can help prevent collisions and close calls on airport runways" is a sentence that makes me never want to get on an airplane again.

Do vaccines save lives? Yep! Does antivaxx BS kill? Yep. 👇 Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

this is really funny research from a microsoft ai guy who is basically like: the arguments being made to suggest LLMs are sentient can be made regarding literally anything www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...

This whole hoo-ha on the front lawn is because when he goes to public sporting events he gets booed out of the stadium. So true to form, he creates, at taxpayer expense mind you, an “alternative sports event” where everyone is cheering him so he can brag that the country loves him.

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

“Why’s it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?” yeah, undoing every single thing he’s done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it

idea for the future: sell tickets to the destruction of that fucking ballroom and retire the national debt. an extra fee to actually swing a ball peen hammer myself & knock down a section? Don't mind if I do!

Bernie fans make me tired.

Yes, yes, if the option is Platner or Collins, Platner is better than Collins. And also, I fear we have learned less than nothing here. www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...

like you are also supporting a queer author by buying their book about Hungarian folklore or astrophysics or 50 easy cakes you can make with children it doesn’t have to have two gay people kissing on the cover to count, we bring our queer lens to every story we tell about anything

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

Talarico saying he's against "gender reassignment surgery for minors" to lots of nodding and impressed gestures from the Barro/Yglesias crowd and a lot of the politics press is, I think, a great example of how much the well has been poisoned on trans healthcare

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I feel like if you’re suggesting that being a misogynist dipshit is essential to political success, that says more about you than it does about politics.

i believe in all the same policies and values as platner and his defenders *and* i also believe it’s important to actually live those values and that somehow makes me an idiot? no. fuck that. i don’t accept those terms.

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...