boy oh boy working today is a mistake

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

Reminder that Duolingo laid off most of their staff, including their localization teams, so that they could invest heavily into AI. Don't support Duolingo. Disable drops for a few days.

that’s a hell of a way to start an episode

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

Demanding to know the sexual activity of all actors and actresses be released as part of casting announcements going forward! (Also, how is she your favourite actress when she is both not real and not actually in anything?)

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

yay! work has been completed on the boy i will be able to be cat again!

so many people locked in this month, good on you for getting that productivity going

work is so thoroughly devouring my social life that i’m really getting annoyed

WTF that’s not how copyright works

Article. I can read faster than any YouTuber can speak, even with the playback speed cranked up to comical levels. THAT SAID, article writers these days need fucking EDITORS they spend whole paragraphs FAFFING ABOUT before they get to the point IT'S CALLED THE INVERTED FUCKING PYRAMID MY DUDES

AI fans always seem puzzled why some people have a revulsion to AI and one issue is the people in charge of AI are repulsive

Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

I think one of the ways that we can all help to make journalism better is to stop dunking on obvious opinion column rage bait. Stop giving people the oxygen of publicity that you don’t even really want to have the oxygen of oxygen

I know y'all love TikTok, but that shit's about to become incredibly fucked. Seems like a good time to dump the app.

We need to be careful of the phrasing and framing here. The far-right Sinclair corp won't stand up to Trump; they *want* this.

less stressed, still can’t sleep

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!" m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.

i have either completely fucked up my shortbread recipe or these are going to be the crumbliest fucking shortbreads ever

thinking a lot about pirate broadcasting, the technical knowledge, all that good stuff

i should be asleep but i’m pretty wired, it’s good energy but i keep waking up with one more thing to add to my to do list

Seeing so many people saying "the media venues have become fascist so please read my Substack" is sending me To wit: badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/nazi-updat...

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

having a hell of a time sleeping, so much if my brain is just on fire

i can’t eat raw tomatoes anymore it seems

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

hey I know the spelling bee is fun but it’s keeping this kinda shit afloat so maybe time to divest

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

A non-furry friend just texted me and here's some comment about the Tyler Robinson motivation. Thanks @boxomcfoxo.bsky.social for insight on the first point.

this week i paid my credit card bill three times on accident, that was not fun

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

it’s 8 PM, have you teased a pup today?

I want you all to just watch how quickly mainstream media moves on from this story now.

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

A SERIES OF ARROWS. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL PUBLISHED A HEADLINE ATTRIBUTING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE MURDER OF ONE OF THE PRESIDENT’S ADVISORS TO ONE OF THE MOST-TARGETED MINORITY GROUPS ALREADY HATED BY REPUBLICANS BASED ON “A SERIES OF ARROWS”

craving yakisoba pan

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

the phrase extremely competent is very funny to me

You can write this only if, by virtue of your income, identity, or both, you are utterly removed from the consequences of politics. To pretend that the racist, misogynistic, anti-gay vileness that Kirk spent his life spreading is secondary to the fact that he spread it "the right way" is appalling.

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

as always i encourage u all not to post things that may attract the attention of an authoritarian secret police with unlimited power to surveil american citizens at this time

I encourage everyone to look out for their safety and practice good internet hygiene, of course. But some of the scolding posts I've read suggest we can change the awful aftermath of a fateful event by just holding our tongues and being quiet little mice, and that isn't my experience.

AI is a cancer.