Knowledge Fight was and remains one of the all-time great podcasts. It is the rarest kind of thing: a show that entertains while having a real-life impact. Dan and Jordan helped defang and neuter elements of a powerful propaganda network. Excited to see what both do next.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Woke up and am still fucking livid at the Alex Jones shit. Yes, we all know the rich and powerful have their own rules, but usually it’s with a veneer of our shared reality. This is just pulling legal proceedings out of thin air. All so *Alex Jones* never has to face a consequence.

on it boss

Look Byron. Your guys on the court are the ones that decided that partisan gerrymandering is nonjusticiable. Go complain to the heritage foundation about how y’all got exactly what you wanted and don’t like it anymore

Put Lina Inverse in Smash, you cowards

I held back on shit-talking Mr. Beast for a long time because all I really knew about him was he had a face like a haunted doll. I didn't want to hold that against him, but it turns out he's pretty evil anyway so let's call that a W for the ol' intuition.

Client: "They make you work during maternity leave" Lawyer: "I think you have a good claim" C: "The handbook says do everything to empower boys" L: "I--" C: "It expressly says to let them draw dicks on things" L: ... C: "It literally says 'No does not mean no'"

Study Finds Gen Z Drinking Fewer Flagons Of Mead Than Medieval Generations https://theonion.com/study-finds-gen-z-drinking-fewer-flagons-of-mead-than-medieval-generations/

Well shit. It’s @adapalmer.bsky.social and Bruce Schneier on language and LLMs. So here’s today must read for me.

it is not inevitable or even likely that social media, as we know it, will exist for the rest of our lives. future generations will look much more harshly on this stuff than we do smoking.

George Soros is literally Hungarian, so it is extra-wildly antisemitic to cast him as a “foreign influence” in Hungarian elections. He lives elsewhere because he left after surviving the Nazi occupation of Hungary. He has every right to attempt to combat authoritarianism in his native country.

Man idk how to express how demoralizing it is to see people doing joke support for the Pope as the Catholic Church implements the most draconian trans healthcare ban anywhere in the US. It's a FULL ADULT TRANS HEALTHCARE BAN!!!THEY KEEP BUYING MORE HOSPITALS!!!!!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

If you're in line to piss on Rod Dreher, STAY IN LINE

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Is it still infrastructure week?

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

it's so funny to complain about the Pope being "weak on crime". he is the ostensible mouthpiece of a God whose whole thing is forgiving sins. it's technically his job to be weak on crime.

i don't think that'll make the result any more precise, but sure

The latest value for the mass of a fundamental particle called the W boson is consistent with the standard model of particle physics, challenging a previous anomalous result go.nature.com/3O9qZvg

[sees a trans woman taking out the trash from her apartment] you may think this is a normal behavior, but after a deep dive into the depths of deviantart i've found out that at least one person has a fetish for taking out the trash. i think you can connect the dots here.

We just cant know! I think we should continue to extend unlimited trust to conservative men even though they're more or less vile and twisted abominations animated by pure misogyny. The alternative, a trans woman saying hi to me at a gay event, is unconscionable.

there is only one possible acceptable context for this sentence, and that is someone who has just smoked a little too much weed before settling in to ruin a long-running game of Sid Meier's Civilization (TM)

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

This is a far simpler answer than people would like to believe. Trump issues the order via the National Military Command Center to the commander of Strategic Command, and then STRATCOM carries it out directly. There is no second vote, no veto, no check-and-balance.

“Most large companies are spending more time strategizing against their employees than against their competitors.” 🖐️🎤

hard not to fall into even deeper despair when the solution we're all being given is to call our reps and slowly explain to them that people die when they are killed

"despite everything, it's still you" type moment

1. "Here's an extreme idea. We're platforming it, so that people can watch out." 2. "This idea is gaining traction. We're publishing an op-ed in favour, for balance." 3. "This idea is popular now. Why does the left refuse to consider it?"

As the universe expands, so does Outlook. In a few trillion years, if the universe begins to contract, Outlook may become usable again.

This is what Saturn-V was missing

Nyt humanizing a Nazi sissy while their coverage of actual trans people is anti science terrorism is so on brand tbh.

The piss tank on the ISS is now 58% full.

You know, how transgender women are perverted crossdressing men who must be destroyed by law, except for actual perverted crossdressing men who must be gently nurtured and cuddled through this trying time

Daycare $200 billion Medicaid $150 billion Medicare $800 billion Wars $3.6 trillion Ballroom $150 billion someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

For some reason death certificates in particular getting called out makes me nauseous. (It’s not for some reason, I know full well they salivate at getting to inflict this final indignity every goddamn time)

43/ pro tip: "you have a number of hurdles here" is a very funny way for a judge to say "you have the shittiest case I have ever seen"

New fursona just dropped

a lot of Very Serious Cis Allies tutting in disapproval over how bad online dogpiles are in defense of a cis man with 160k followers who, and again i cannot state this enough, could not be bothered to blank out the names of a bunch of 50 follower trans accounts to prevent a dogpile

they're predatory towards other trans people too—i myself have been harassed by sissies—but their victims are most often trans women. and conflating fetishistic cis men's "gender nonconformity" with transsexuality helps them hurt trans women.

i need allies to understand that a man having a cross-dressing fetish and being anti-LGBT is not hypocritical or contradictory, it is in fact very congruent. in particular, this fetish is not in contradiction with anti-trans bias, as these men predate upon trans women.

Hey chat, I think the fact all these cis people don’t know the difference between a transvestic fetishist and a trans woman might be a problem

Fun Fact: This was previous implemented in ‘92 and retired in ‘99 due to a 100% false positivity rate at the Atlanta games and “it became increasingly apparent to scientists and athletes alike that determination of sex is derived from far more than our genotype.”

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

Willing myself to have the strength to not waste yet another earthly day posting about how the Times is transphobic — and won't reckon with their own complicity here. In brief: abusers do this. They periodically act super concerned or whatever. This is part of the whole cycle, the chaos, the grift.