i'm unhappy about the cave but i've decided i'm going to be happy i get to see my grandparents this christmas (and also maybe start going to food not bombs or my local democratic party or my local DSA to build a larger base of people who won't cave next time)

SJP, Indivisible, Gay Nerd Association, your local YIMBY sex club, environmentalist cult, the NIMBY sex club, your labor union's reform caucus, your un-unionized workplace's group chat; EWOC, Ewok gang, whatever. Fuck you. Get up.

starting to wonder if universal basic self-defense training might be an important leftist cause area given what young conservatives are like these days

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

genuinely going to be so mad if the shutdown is still going by christmas, i like my grandparents and want to visit them so we can chat about nerdy stuff and play catan

y'know at a certain point of the government diverging from the morality, the will of the people, or common sense, i think a major Constitutional resettlement becomes inevitable

today's ruling makes it official: i only vote for democratic nominees who promise to pack the supreme court

The SCOTUS is not protecting people’s rights in any consistent way and we cannot rely on them to. This has been clear for a while, and them making a ruling that’s adverse for trans people today sucks. They have been making many adverse rulings and they are not the final word for justice for anyone.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm

just had a very productive day and talked to friends and ate enough food and watched some tv and scrolled some memes and. i'm genuinely happy??? like just unambiguously??? this hasn't happened in a while

I think the United States fundamentally is not one country but two, and that what those two countries are changes over time. It was once the Confederacy and the Union, but now it's not *precisely* the Confederacy and Union, but the coasts and interior I think there's continuity across time.

"the main practical result of rationalism is... for rationalizing doing the work of evil" ...and the RAISE Act, and SB 53, and donations to the AMF and GiveDirectly, and Prop 12, and mechinterp as a field, and the closest attempt anyone's made to kicking Sam Altman out of power at OpenAI

how do you make this many people mad on Bluesky, you might ask? just talk about AI with nuance and a modicum of actual understanding of the topic's complexity!

The solution to this problem absolutely doesn’t look like tacking to the center.

so far during trump's second term, when democrats have "increased the salience of immigration," this has had the effect of significantly decreasing trump's approval rating. effect is moderated through rising negative press coverage of trump's immigration policy www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

one of the weirdest things about the platner discourse is that, while i'm hearing some liberals and some leftists are pro-platner from a distance, pretty much everyone i directly read (whether liberal or leftist) is anti-platner

we really gotta reclaim the word “tech” and “technology” from the silicon valley sickos

it’s not the “tech industry”, it’s the “united states venture capital backed software industry” and we should say as much

From my book: www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...

Most Americans are deeply ignorant of how national borders and travel and migration worked, historically – but they assume that it was always like now. It wasn’t even like now when I was younger.

my boiling take is that the 2028 dem nominee can and should be a random teacher. maybe a primary school teacher, maybe a college prof, but either way someone who actually represents the base and has the fury to fight the republicans

lol looks like i finally got shadowbanned on twitter. going to download my data tonight in case they decide to totally pull the plug

whomst amongst us

I hope everyone has learned a valuable lesson today about the perils of vibes-based vetting of populist candidates via cliquish social media ingroup signaling

Low key I want a campaign promise from the next Dem nominee to immediately gut whatever gets built here. What goes inside it I don't really care but everything within gets trashed by the end of February 2029.

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For posting AI generated videos of Himself flying a Plane full of Shite

prefigurative anarchism is necessary to keep complex supply networks going while the states keep fucking themselves up

y'know one of the nicest things about the No Kings stuff is that some part of me has now realized that i can in fact just live my life in weird ways that bring me joy and much of the world actively wants to support and protect that joy. thank you all for showing up <3

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

Unironically: Neo-wokism is going to be stronger than the original formula

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

i almost put on cat ears for this one and probably will next time

if you hate old people and liberals because they’re not following your opsec rules and not calling for armed resistance at this point in time, it would be strategic to keep it to yourself bc an insurgency cannot survive without a support base; who do you think that would be, in the US?

THE PEOPLE, UNITED, WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED

oh yeah btw one of my mutuals on twitter found that 1) the huel result used the california threshold and is safe under *literally every other threshold* and 2) other independent reports have come to vastly different conclusions than CR. huel is perfectly fine

as an anarchist, i consider social capital to be a form of power that can be used unjustly for domination. please, for the love of all that is good, hold me back if i start power tripping on it.

FINALLY. THANK YOU

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

i am the Friend Who Is Too Woke. i will notice when your posts implicitly demonize autistic people, support abuse, or mockingly dismiss the struggles of those with chronic illness. do not bully or oppress anyone in my presence.

You know what? I have time today. Let's have a look.

Like I feel this on an almost primal level.

i think i like too many posts lol

well, good to have a test run for how local people will react to obvious abuse caught on camera. a significant number of you failed.

yeah i really don't like the apparent "we have to defend everyone with a leftist card" requirement of being a leftist. if this is a requirement for joining your coalition, i'm just going to pursue justice on my own

fascinated to see what happens when rupert murdoch's kids finally get control of fox and execute the plan to remove all the propaganda

as an ameliatarian who supports full veganism where feasible, let me just say that anyone using the existence of factory farming to defend hasan is deeply unserious and no ally to anyone who truly seeks justice for animals.

okay i think it's important to ask. what do they actually mean here? who did they arrest?