imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

I see people on social media who have gotten their feelings hurt sometimes continue to lash out online and I wish I could reach across the screen and just say: "I see that you are hurt and you need to log off now."

If you have decided to hold every Jew in the world responsible for the atrocities of one nation that’s bad enough, but to dismiss or celebrate the massacre of Jews in their place of worship on one of their holiest days you are an actual bigot and a monster. “Jews” are not a monolith.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

Jason Wozniak: "Contrary to the austerity narrative that has economically and politically served the creditor class, states are not running deficits because of outlandish spending on public goods; rather, they face a revenue problem that is the result of years of lowering taxes on the wealthy. . .

Every major Democrat has millions in their campaign account. The threat to democracy is big enough that we need to be funding mobilization and messaging right now - not just banking money for the next election. If we don't build right now, there might not be another election.

There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

This is fun.

Absolutely 100% this. If they give up citizenship (which is what they have to do in the US to stop paying taxes) we also win.

Interview with the Vampire but the interviewer is Isaac Chotiner

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

what I'm learning from the fact that every one of these decisions has a "huge merger waiting to be approved" factor is that we should no longer allow mergers sorry, you can't buy any other companies anymore, too dangerous to civil society only antitrust breakups allowed

Good. I want to see more people who are clearly running for president say that Trump's apparatchiks are going to regret this.

Debate culture works as political indoctrination because it combines people debating in bad faith with naive, often privileged, people debating in good faith. Bad faith approaches allow for lies, bullying, and manipulation. It will always be more effective for them, and it's a mistake to enable it.

there are 2 ways to get donor money in politics - be a republican - be a republican but brand yourself as one of the reasonable democrats

The message should not be that political violence is bad because it targeted a good guy who was “practicing politics the right way” (which Kirk definitely was not). Political violence is bad because it inherently corrodes the democratic polity, because it makes democracy impossible.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

I do not care what your imaginary hallucinating robot friend has to say on any subject. If I find myself interested in the opinion of a hallucinating robot for some reason, I'm perfectly capable of asking one myself stop quoting AI in my comments. descend into madness elsewhere please

This not a new thought at this point, but one of the most effective ways to break the GOP would be allowing direct-to-consumer car sales and cutting out the dealerships

Amanda's the reporter you want to be following on this mess if you aren't already!

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

Aussie unions don’t beat around the bush.

One of the most important things that's happening in the Mayoral race is that NY DSA and other groups are ALREADY organizing for what comes after the election and if you live in NYC, you should really join in because A LOT OF PEOPLE POWER will be needed against the forces that want to crush Zohran.

“Senator Brad Lander” sounds nice.

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One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.

One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

As a DC resident I do feel that the city has been overrun by "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" and I would like them to leave the White House and stop destroying the federal government.

If you ever find yourself drifting towards the idea that public defenders, legal aid lawyers, and pro bono/sliding scale/movement lawyers are bad people for representing rapists or murderers or con artists or whatever, just keep in mind that is true only if you conclude the government never lies.

Knowing who to be mad at is part of the work. Seriously.

I still can't believe I got stuck in the timeline where Ray Kurzweil is the head of AI at Google. I could have sworn we all figured out he was a fraud in like, 2005. On the other hand, tech executives being that gullible does explain a LOT about why this timeline is so f*cked up...

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

I have seen work in tiny unairconditioned blackbox theaters that was so much better than the stuff that gets millions of dollars thrown at it, and a lot of the people who made that work have stopped making it because they needed to move somewhere cheaper and get a full time job doing something else

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA The collective scream of every sex educator of the last 30 years who worked their asses off for pennies, just to make accurate helpful sex information available to everyone online and off, and then people are like “what do you expect, there’s no progressive sex advice for men”

You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.

I'm reading Little Bosses Everywhere by @bridgetgillard.bsky.social and now I really want to see some sort of grand nerf battle between the Direct Selling Association and the @demsocialists.bsky.social to determine who gets to use the DSA initialism going forward.

I'll take Boondocks over South Park any day of the week.

Horseshit skeptics are questioning whether it can replace the entire economy. "They just don't understand the future," says man entirely covered in horseshit

anyway, how are the forest troop baboons doing after the bovine tuberculosis killed the aggressive alpha males in 1986?

If I see something that used genAI, I assume that whatever it is is garbage. AI album or book cover? I assume the album or book isn't good or at least not one I want to read. AI ad for an event? I assume the event is poorly organized. I know this may not always be the case, but it's become a 🚩

it is beginning to feel like there’s a certain crowd, a growing crowd out there, who feels like they can’t take down the people actually responsible for making their lives a christofascist hellscape so theyre making spectacles out of the people they *can* drag down to earth.

I don't want to hear shit about vote blue no matter who when it will cost the Dems nothing not to make a monster like Rahm Emanuel—who covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald, closed 50 schools and half our city's publicly funded mental health clinics, and also is a transphobe—the nominee.