New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 📢 Margaret talks about the current political landscape and how to prepare ourselves. @margaret.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

If you help people make decisions—design, technology, policy, etc.—and you want to make it more likely those decisions are based on clear goals and evidence (and maybe even ethics!), I have a public workshop coming up this week on 9/24. www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-do-de...

I heard an historian explain that the Bronze Age civilization collapse was actually a collapse of the ruling class. Everyone else went back to farming and living their lives without having to give tribute to overlords. Sharing this random fact for no particular reason.

I was feeling a bit bad about how late I let my teen sleep in today. Just then she came out of her room, started her laundry and made herself lunch. Guess I’ll keep working on that mom guilt issue I’ve got.

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

Remember: this is $20, supports a library in a city under attack by the federal government right now, and it makes Matt Yglesias mad 😹

A reminder that federal employees must refuse gifts worth $20 or more, and avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

Dear Ezra Klein, we’re not mad. We’re profoundly disappointed in you.

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Calling on @auntiebev.bsky.social to explain the word of the day “vituperation”

Remember: Those with money and power will still have access to vaccines.

The wide, uncritical acceptance of the forced adoption of AI has metastasized into a shared delusion. @ethanmarcotte.com skillfully names he who shall not be named. Unrelated: TIL about Folie à deux, or shared delusion disorder.

I've seen a lot of people repost Jon Stewart's Daily Show segment from last night. But Colbert brought back "the other guy", from the old show and did The Word. It's great but it got posted on YT after midnight, so not as many people saw it. youtu.be/ATxL1dLkPnY?...

Thank you @ethanmarcotte.com! As a tech worker who is, in fact, "Resistant to AI tools and skeptical of their value", this was a vindicating read. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...

We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time. Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.

I wanna hang out with Gary

They will label the left as Antifa. Because there is no Antifa, it is easy to make it apply to anyone.

This is the real reason Jimmy Kimmel is being taken off the air. Brian Stelter: "Nexstar already owns lots of TV stations. It wants to merge with Tegna, which owns lots of other stations. In order to do that, it needs Brandon Carr, the FCC Chair's, permission."

Fiona Apple passed the torch to Sofia Isella. hot damn youtu.be/iUFEhqn810M?si

Just checking facts.

This is why they’re deleting studies

Imagine the chaos if Delaware removed the right of corporations to make political donations 😂

Class is in session. What you already believe affects how you process new information. We saw this after the Oklahoma City bombing.

Highest 2 Lowest Damn fine film. I forgot about all the everything for 2 hours. Well done. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Highly recommend

Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social I’ve been hanging on to this one for a while but I think tonight’s the night. It may not be true WeirdTok but it is genuinely joyous.

the thing to understand is that for many people the violence of order maintenance is simply not seen as violence in the first place

The way the mainstream media is treating Charlie Kirk’s bigotry is the way a highly dysfunctional family treats racist crazy pedo grandpa. “Oh come on, that’s just how he is, he doesn’t mean It, that doesn’t count.”

The hardest part of updating my Web 2.0 front end dev skills seems to be getting a project to point to the updated version of skippity-bo-jangles instead of the default installed on the Mac.

Linguistics lesson for the day: Accountability is crucial to interpreting language. We make sense of something based on who we believe said it. Synthetic text extruded by LLMs was not said by anyone -- so a crucial step in the chain is broken. >>

We are in an era of greed flourishing at the expense of our lives. Speed valued over do the hard work of diligence to solve problems rather than solving part of the problem and ignoring the inconvenient flaws of your solution. This is not innovating. This is not progress. This is hack bullshit

Your political views should align with your moral views. You can’t say you’re not a racist but turn around & vote to mass deport a whole race of people.

“Appealing a coverage denial demands a high degree of health insurance literacy and fortitude that most of us lack, especially in a health crisis….Thus, health care becomes rationed not through a final denial of coverage, but rather through accumulations of inconveniences as patients.”

I am simultaneously hoping that Trump’s threatened invasion of Chicago ends up a nothing burger AND taking a fascist government’s threat to my home city very seriously.

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

Generations of workers in America bled and died to win dignity on the job. They stood together against those who refused to recognize their humanity. On Labor Day, as fascism rises again, we honor those who came before us and carry forward their spirit of solidarity & defiance. Fight like hell. ✊

“The proof, as they say, is in the pudding. And this particular pudding is shit.” As someone whose efforts to make government services more accessible have been undone in a few months, I concur.

Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.

A big part of the story of "How did we get here?" is that, for years, quite a lot of men, both powerful and not, pounded the table demanding "meritocracy" because they imagined they'd be at the top of it, and then discovered that, to their horror, that actual meritocracy doesn't privilege them.

It’s the same coercive control tactic used frequently to silence abuse victims for so that the family or group isn’t disrupted. If you shine the focus on the reaction to harm, you get to avoid discussing the injustice itself.

Thank you, @ethanmarcotte.com, for this astute and thoughtful examination of America by Design.

This WaPo piece about the Airbnb/DOGE guy who is now the head of design in government ignores that: *DOGE fired the actual talented design people in government, including Social Security! *IRS had a beautifully designed tax filing system that DOGE killed *USDS already did online passport renewals

This brightened my day. americabydesign.fail I feel every word of this.

“It has been so demoralizing to realize how closely aligned we have become again to what Fema looked like pre-Katrina, & how quickly we’ve backslid on the progress of the last 20 years,” #FEMA #katrinadeclaration www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to [email protected] by Tuesday, September 2nd!

Nothing is a distraction. It’s all totalitarian overreach, narcissistic self-dealing, and sub-moronic villainy.

Americandesign.gov is enough of a slap in the face for one morning. Then I looked at ndstudio.gov on a desktop. We are in the dumbest timeline. They threw away teams of the most talented and dedicated designers and replaced us with this shit.

We have a new issue page up today, looking at the multi-pronged assault on both immigrants to the United States and the immigration system itself: unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

History that makes you comfortable is propaganda.