His company must be broken by the state for treason if we ever come back.

X should already be shut down under *US* law. You aren't allowed to generate child porn for your userbase on demand. Legit AI companies might not be able to perfectly stop every instance of this using their rented out services but they damn well try and do a pretty good job. X just lets it rip.

🇩🇰 51 dead, 231 injured 🇩🇰 in Afghanistan and Iraq, answering an ally’s call.

Incredible photo.

"Americans are being racist by comparing their political enemies to an east Asian country!" "That's awful! Which one? Taiwan? Vietnam? South Korea? China? Japan?" "Oh... You know the one..."

Now I know and you do too. What a tragedy.

One weird thing is how up until yesterday people on here were like “midwestern democrats are fighters and the model for how to govern with slim majorities” and today it’s like “midwestern democrats are simply cowards with no ability or inclination to fight.”

shout-out to this nyc tour bus that i just saw in soho using the chicago skyline but with the empire state building crudely photoshopped in. amazing bit

"I eat Man Cereal! Do you?" "I eat Chex at the breakfast table with my wife."

otoh, here is a list of things i know people have had to do because they are among populations targeted by ICE. bsky.app/profile/radi...

at some point vociferously arguing about whether it is or is not fascism instead of saying, 'this is bad, what must be done to end it' becomes a form of complicity.

It's kinda funny, people say the founders were "products of their time" (almost exclusively to defend the fact that they owned slaves) but they also had ideas that are fairly avant garde to the median voter these days, like, y'know, due process for non-citizens.

"Present day! Uh... Heh heh heh... Present time! Huh huh huh huh... Uh... heh heh heh"

Thanks to global warming, we're now having our summers of turmoil in January

posters 4 tomorrow's vigil

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring You're overthrown

The original Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is available now on BBC IPLAYER. Thank me later.

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

an entire culture soaked through with the premise that arbitrary violence can be visited upon disfavored groups by rabid men, now recruited and paid by the state to be let off the leash to terrorize people

And Renee Good’s last words appear to be “We’re not mad at you.”

Never escaping the adage "men are afraid that women are laughing at them; women are afraid that men will kill them"

This month's Patreon wallpaper is chickens. www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon

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"Present day! Uh... Heh heh heh... Present time! Huh huh huh huh... Uh... heh heh heh"

"jg ballard is the author that the most clearly saw the shape of the future" is a pretty fucking grim conclusion

WRT a post that has quote-tweeting disabled (I shall be honorable & not screenshot it), I think people are rather credulous about opinion-polling from summer & fall of 2020: Most of the electoral polls whiffed appallingly, & I don't think the election results comport with the opinion-polling either

And… CUT Terrible take everyone. Let’s reset back to January 1st and go again.

White supremacists viewing white people on the left as race-traitors is not exactly a surprising development...

It’s kind of like whiplash when you watch Indian opposition politics vs American opposition politics. Cuz in India the opposition would be taking photo ops of the couple and threatening action. Cuz they’re doing that over the murder of a girl in Uttarakhand despite facing defamation charges.

I have mastered the technique of pressing the lever so I almost always get a pellet and rarely shocked

To adapt an adage: nothing ever happens, until everything happens very suddenly.

I keep going back to this. This is a taunt. They're taunting us. There is no other possible interpretation of what they're doing. But media simply ignores this deranged behavior, because if they talk about it, one must conclude that DHS is a rogue agency, of villainous paramilitary thugs.

Trump on Taiwan. If any other president of any party had said this, congressional Republicans would be flipping out.

This one goes out to all the people lurking on Bluesky so they can post disparaging screenshots on Twitter: Arise, cease your verminish habitation in the land of the pedophile robot, and contend with us with such valor as befits a human being

everyone knows that what trump is saying about renee good is a lie, including ICE and CBP. the messaging needs to be a lie in order to be effective. what they are communicating is this: opponents of the regime have no rights which you are bound to respect, and the conspiracy goes to the top.

Online Democratic centrists: "Leftists hate the party establishment more than they do conservatives!" Online Democratic socialists: "Centrists hate the left more than they do conservatives!" Actual Democratic pols from both wings of the party: "I can't wait to collaborate with the GOP today!"

Republican congresspeople: liberal coded civilians should be murdered and immigrants should be rounded up and also pedophilia isn't that bad. numerous Democratic congresspeople: I enjoy voting for republican judicial candidates and the like

it is *crazy* that there are seven democratic senators who will vote for someone who is an election denier. Why do they even show up? why don't they just pull a Franke-five-angels and call it a day?

Sunday Jan 4, when we were freaking out over the Venezuela military operstion, the Guardian published an exposé on the 32 people who died in ICE custody in 2025—the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades This article has short write-ups on every single one of the 32 people. No pay wall.

The mouse is a versatile little beast

If it weren't for Mamdani, online hype cycles for politicians would be totally discredited right now

It’s in radio 4 right now! And bbc sounds!

I think it's cool how Paul Robeson, who first sang "Old Man River", transformed it into a Civil Rights anthem "There's an old man called the Mississippi, that's the old man I *don't* like to be... What does he care if the land's got troubles? What does he care if the land ain't free?"

Like I said, the isolationism of Vance was oversold

Her Truth is marching on.

every day i am haunted by this from First Reformed

#birdbot