It's really something, yes. Like, Errol Musk is extremely horribly racist, but even HE is on the record saying, effectively, "Man, THOSE people are just straight-up Nazis who wanted to breed the antichrist"

“In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us.” — @juliaserano.bsky.social

Remember: The right wing want you malnourished, physically incompetent, sick, injured, under- or un-educated, frightened, anxious and obedient to male authority.

I am ‘watching’ (it’s on in the background) a forensics show from France and the translation voice overs are DERANGED. You can make out what they mean in context only about half the time. It was made in 2013 so it’s not AI, I think someone literally just ran an old translate program on the audio.

I think the thing that enrages me the most about Musk is that he presents himself as some sci-fi nerd hero doing everything possible to save humanity by going to new planets. If your plan for saving humanity doesn’t include the people already on earth, you’re just a racist piece of shit.

are we sure this isn't satire

I’ve only been an attorney for about 5 years but my experience so far and purely anecdotal opinion is that conservative attorneys are generally not as talented. I know some that are very good at formulaic drafting and prose, but don’t have a lick of creativity or insight

Almost felt bad about this one.

The truth is especially important for leftists now more than ever. Material conditions & reality are what shape actual politics, not idealism & wishcasting. As conservatives continue to sink into conspiracy, this contradiction will heighten as will the temptation to practice a politics of delusion.

I love that particular genre of bad driver that’s into doing pathologically aggressive stupid shit like passing on the right at high speed … … so they can accelerate up to a stop sign … and stop at it. If you’re gonna be a reckless anti social moron don’t be a pussy about it.

I am so grateful to live in a city full of diversity where I can get the delicious food of immigrant ancestors.

Heated Rivalry: Framing het female fandom as being about wanting emotional connections smacks of that old misogynist trope that ‘women don’t like sex’. It’s possible to long for both deep emotional bonding with a lover AND a hot athlete with a hard cock who wants your orgasm more than his own.

If you have a network with a decently large following, please consider adopting a Minneapolis family to pay their rent this month. This is being done in a decentralized fashion because a lot of the groups getting $ are having their Venmo frozen and it's hard to send mutual aid.

Broke an algorithm today. Added a bunch of Hildegard Von Blingin’ music (medieval harp covers of modern pop) to my playlist and now the app won’t recommend anything to me. ‘There’s death metal, musicals, classic rock and a bunch of Hazbin Hotel shit in here. Do YOU even know what you like?’

Just heard a story of a guy who left his dog to die in a car on a collapsing bridge. They would find my floating corpse wrapped around a living Chihuahua like armour, so I trust one of you will look after him.

The latest in our YouTube short story project is a reading of legendary sci-fi and fantasy author @aptshadow.bsky.social ’s The Face of the King. Al Barclay (Slow Horses, Deep Cover, The Crown) breathes new creative life into this brilliant dark fantasy story.

Just boosting this again. Please do have a listen - leave a comment / like if you can.

Hey if you’re gonna watch Wonder Man - and if you’re not I DON’T CARE and I don’t want to hear about it, I’m gonna start blocking people for ragging on superhero stuff — it’s a sweet, goofy, emotional love letter to acting and Hollywood not a big action show.

An underappreciated export of Epstein Island is rakes for these fuckers to step on.

my recent miniseries on the connections between the american far right & the apartheid regime started back in february - the first episode opens with a series of rallies in american cities organized by a white south african woman who moved to the US and joined the aryan nations

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social I know it’s a hard time for levity but you reading out the list of banned terms for this episode has me choking overcast.fm/+ABJ8Js2byZ8

It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.

Hanging a flag upside down is a sign of dire distress, a request for aid in extreme danger.

I enjoy that I have lived long enough that this absolutely antediluvian joke I just regurgitated is funny to a different generation.

It's a good day to stop using Hootsuite and tell them why.

I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?

Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.

This is a think Stancil constantly does, folks. He'll say something objectively wrong, like "Dems haven't even *tried* to remove Trump" someone will come in and correct him, and he'll "ah, well, nevertheless" and double down. That is, after he pretends he's logging off to avoid valid responses.

The thing is, Will, Dems aren't doing nothing, they're doing tons of things, you're just lying about it. The other thing is, Will, you tried and failed to get elected on the Messaging Wins All tactics you claimed would Win The Day, and have not reconsidered that position or your strategy in any way

"What have Democrats done in the minority?" A ton, actually! But for some reason, that news/information never gets to the people who are most angry at leadership! For example, did you see that Democrats kept in line (thanks leadership) to protect trans healthcare? And there's many more examples!

We Rate Dogs stan forever

If I had a nickel for every fictional universe that pegged Canada as a cover for a shadowy monster-creating extra governmental agency I’d have two nickels. Weird it keeps happening though. (Marvel and Fallout, FYI)

Every single time you equate physical attractiveness with character you are enabling an abuser who happens to be conventionally attractive.

STOP EQUATING PHYSICAL HEALTH OR ‘BEAUTY’ WITH CHARACTER.

guys we have to stop conflating Third Way - a specific pressure group with a largely dumb agenda - and "The Democrats."

The Republicans made your health insurance premium skyrocket to pay for this.

1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties. 🧵👇

Just heard the most telling slip from a bigot ‘they know who a man is and WHAT a woman is’. Men are people, you see. Women are THINGS.

I think so many of people’s lack of media literacy and unwillingness to consider moral complexities that aren’t strict black/white dichotomies comes from parents not teaching kids how to read as God intended: with books kids are far too young to read kept within in easy reach of an 8 year old.

I will take performances like Walton Goggins as the Ghoul in Fallout in that makeup or any Marvel actor in a mask/cowl or anyone in Sinners over anything tubs of expired mayonnaise like TimTam Charcuterie or Leo ‘I only date children’ manages to excrete in some ‘prestige’ bland bullshit movie.

Hey, white women, still think your silent compliance with evil, your skin colour, your submission to the patriarchy is gonna protect you?

I keep getting ads for a podcast about loser misogynist weirdo scumbags that has audio of one of them saying ‘I will have my revenge’ and all I can hear is Prince Ludwig the Indestructible shrieking: ‘I will wreck my re-wen-gee!’

Now that MDC Brooklyn is back in the spotlight because of Maduro, I’m re-upping this thread I posted from Sept. 2024 detailing a string of stories I’ve written about the place. I’ve written a number of stories since, but this is a good primer for those with interest.

Well. I seem to have finished writing a book.

for real

So, does Jay Penske hate black people or is there a monetary reason for this?