i'm so goddamn tired of cis people not understanding this very basic point and it stems from them not seeing non-binary identities as valid. They think *any* shift from a strict binary means transition was somehow wrong when that's just straight up bullshit.

One thing that remains fascinating to me is how much radical Trumpism wants to move down the value chain, instead of upwards to more value-add + complex production and research. Instead, RFK kills the NIH and NSF.

beale *is* an unhinged maniac. depressed, alienated and antisocial. and his rant, critically, is inchoate, apolitical, reactionary rage, packaged in a bow for advertisers. what the movie gets absolutely right is the way that alienation is just another product.

i see a lot of you are citing the howard beale monologue as the prescient part, and i think that is a profound misreading of the film.

Why Silicon Valley and trad science fundamentally Do Not Get each other, in one post

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

every single thread that's like "hey maybe going on about how doomed we are is just making things worse" there's always some smug-ass middle aged white guy in oakleys with a boat in his pfp coming out of the woodwork to go "um akshually you're just too dumb and naive to understand how doomed we are"

Yeah, like, a yes vote here means "look I'm just trying not to get murdered by these maniacs" and that's very sensible if you're Sarah McBride

cheers to the person at Boston Museum of Science who absolutely knows what they got away with

Ok jokes aside this is a fucking nightmare - I didn’t realize when I posted earlier that it applies to *existing H1B-holders as well* ~300,000 US visa-holders are now unable to leave the country without paying this extortionate fee on the way back to the US, where many own homes, have families etc

Represented visually bsky.app/profile/carn...

Fox makes an active policy of promoting incitements to violence against their political enemies. This was (in my opinion) well outside of protected speech for many years, but polite society looked the other way. The norm that encouraged us to look the other way is gone now. They killed it.

Never listen to anyone who talks like if you haven’t lit the world on fire by 30, or even 40, it’s just too late for you. If you’re breathing it’s never too late, and figuring yourself out is an ongoing journey.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Hey, mostly my #rubyfriends have not followed me here and that's okay -- I'm not a Rubyist any more, I'm a trainee bioinorganic chemist. But for those of y'all that can see this, sending my love and support. I'm sad about all the Stuff that seems to be going down. LMK if you need a neutral ear.

When we try to out-careful each other in terms of opsec, discursively it's cast as somewhere between savvy and harmless. I object because it's neither. Performative caution, combined with a lack of actual opsec -- this is an atproto joint ffs -- easily transmutes into obeying in advance.

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

I can't tell you how furious this makes me. The good guys don't stand up for one another and so the bad guys can take out whoever they want. She deserved better than this.

This is the thing that’s most offensive about this. It’s not just that they hired her after learning she was a gross person; they hired her after she demonstrated a flagrant breach of one of the cardinal rules of the profession.

"Don't RSVP, that puts your name on a subpoenable list." IDK. So does donating? So does putting your name down on a ballot-initiative petition? Frankly, so does walking out of your house with your phone in your pocket. Get rid of the fascist in your head and live like a citizen of a free country.

again, you are *posting on a public forum.* spreading panic and paranoia is antithetical to the solidarity and organization needed at this stage of resistance. And, bluntly, the opinion of *any* American is less useful than talking to South Koreans or Ukrainians and others at this point.

keep hoping until it's true, because it will be. because it is every time for somebody. because enough somebodies is an us.

even in sparkledog luxury gay space communism you'll have to tikkun olam or gtfo but, i promise you, it is possible to have much less pain and much more fun doing it. you may never see it, but you have to believe in that.

how do the End Times Left Behind crowd not clock this level of obvious Antichrist behavior (i wonder, having grown up as an End Times Left Behind crowd kid and young adult)

they just said "pronatalism," ok, they don't care if the kids make it to adulthood as long as they're born

you have to admit it's a little funny to be doing dire warnings about signing up for protests on a website where you post leftist stuff under your own name

Not one person who has ever posted a version of this has ever been able to name something Democrats can do that they are not doing. Unless you can do that, you’re posting this for bluesky clout and that’s loser wrecker shit.

In short, force them to try to rule by naked force because they *do not* have enough force and the very nakedness of it will mean they have less and less. The Civil Rights movement overcame far more with far less, if we had a fraction of their courage, we'll win.

oh hey after hours revisions to 102 that makes it even more of a poison pill complete redesign in <30 days. not just for NR zones, but LR, midrise, commercial and mixed zones this is insane. this is a bill to kill housing @theurbanist.org @staterepjuliareed.bsky.social @jessdbateman.bsky.social

Carlson, much like Vance, is a completely empty vessel who contorts to fit wherever he senses power is, so this should mostly be taken as a savvy assessment of how toxic this shit is

I think we should tax the rich more, specifically *not* to fill revenue gaps or whatever, but to tax the rich so they have less stuff and have to sell some of their media companies

yeah I guess I understand the people saying “we’ll just have to move to zines,” but I also think you guys are sort of part of the problem. we need to fight for control of institutions because you’re not going to rebuild them in our lifetimes

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

it is, unironically, the absolute vindication of Fukuyama. we ended history and we were completely unprepared for the idea that "the end of history" was a state we'd have to work to maintain

it's Trump-supporting elites who think that they can get the political security of oligarchs under authoritarianism and the dynamism of liberalism it's liberal elites who soft-step against Trump because they cannot conceive of a model of politics that is not thermostasis forever

it's Trump not understanding that usage fees on the panama canal are the price we pay for *global naval hegemony* it's Trump voters who think that "borger exponsive" is the worst output the economy can possibly produce

this is the thing, from top to bottom. we had maybe the best deal any country has had in history. our decline is a series of people voting to throw that away because they cannot understand that it is a good deal

Left-NIMBYs and right-NIMBYs in the most suburban district of SF teamed up to recall a city supervisor because he supported housing and pedestrian friendly streets. Just extremely cursed stuff. NIMBYs must be crushed.

Beloved by whom? A city-wide referendum to close the highway won by 10 points!

They had kids too and the GOP laughed.

This is so crucial. When people think about these land comparisons, they don't think about the entire sprawling infrastructure behind FF.

Anyone who thinks Charlie Kirk's killing was "arguably the most-high profile killing of a political figure since the '60s" should be kept far, far away from a network newsroom. What about Harvey Milk and George Moscone? Or Allard Lowenstein? Hell, Leo Ryan was gunned down at Jonestown!

This is out-Sovieting the Soviet Union. "You are free to express any opinion at all as long as it's the right one, and the consequences for all the others will be severe, and ratting out is an important part of our free society."