Walmart selling these plates, which I think is hilarious, as it reads as a very apt tombstone. I definitely feel that the America that was imagined by the founding fathers---especially a secular and balanced government guided by the Constitution---is indeed dead. (also, flag upside-down lol)

I used to think the constant contradictions in MAGA politics were weakness or embarrassment. I don’t anymore. The contradiction itself has become the badge of loyalty. The more obvious the hypocrisy, the more it proves you’ll defend the tribe no matter what. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

I've been asking the same question. Where is the protest music of this generation, the most f'd up era since the 1960s?

Important: Gov accounts posting white nationalist & WCN content normalizes it AND gives it authority. Often, this is how people authenticate a racist myth they have been told or “heard”. In effect it institutionalizes supremacies, providing ideological ground for supremacist policies.

EditorialCartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social with a powerful message.

🧵 "The MAGA party is the last breath of the confederacy". A young man identified only as Marshawn said this in a fiery rail against Louisiana lawmakers this week, and it's such a perfect assessment. 1/

CAN I PLEASE TYPE ONE MESSAGE WITHOUT HAVING TO MANUALLY CORRECT THREE OUT OF FIVE WORDS???? #fuckAI

One of my least favorite things ever to provide alt text for, but you need to see this. In case you were wondering if the Trump administration's policy on trans people was anything but murderous:

call me controversial and finicky, but if I buy a car, I don't think it reasonable that I have to learn how to "hack" it so it doesn't kill my family But that might just be me. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

She had a green card. She was not "undocumented." We are murdering people in concentration camps. Here. Now.

Lol. She was addressing graduates of the colleges of communication, arts and humanities.

Happy Mothra Day!

DJT should just STFU. We did not start Vietnam or WWII or fight in them because the president needed to change a conversation or deflect criminal behavior.

Americans often complain about the two-party duopoly here but in the UK it seems that a multiparty system just means an endless cycle of "here's an even *more* racist party for you"

This hit me so hard this week.

Farm Scene with Crocuses Ann Harbuz 1974

One of my hotter academic takes is that every college degree should include a class in the first month where the new students have to engage with the most boring parts of the ideal job associated with the degree *before* spending many thousands of dollars

Seems to be a lot of people focussing on the definition of art here, which I think is irrelevant. Your disability (or lack of talent) does not justify choosing to do harm by using the environmentally destructive plagiarism machine. That’s it.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

The govt is paying farmers $9M to destroy hundreds of thousands of peach trees that took 20 years to cultivate because a Del Monte factory closed.. Del Monte claims people are shifting to fresh fruit vs sugar-laden canned fruit. Why don't they just sell the f**king fruit? Free markets my @$$.

Regarding the Hantavirus, I just want to say that aside from the fact our leadership is the worst possible for another pandemic, you should be more alarmed at the comments and videos I'm seeing from healthcare workers who are like "I will seriously quit my job rather than go thru that again".

So mote it be

more evidence AI “agents” are incredibly inefficient. so much of these generative AI use cases will make no sense when people have to pay the true cost of the technology.

In almost every case, the babies’ deaths could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin K shot. But across the country, families — first in smatterings, now in droves — are declining the single, inexpensive injection given at birth to newborns to help their blood clot.

Oh NOW they tell us. So those folks have been running around for over a week, off ship, exposing others. It's like no one has ever watched a pandemic movie *sigh*

Damn, I saw a word on here eariler that i wanted to jot down and now can't remember it. It's one of those cool german words...I think starts with a G? It refers to the reorganization and controlling of various government agencies to further fascism government power (googling is getting me nothing)

Potential witnesses in the #Comey investigation hiding out at my house.

AI dependency = critical illiteracy. When we have an "Examintation Day" society, then maybe y'all will remember all the college professors who screamed about how AI was already cognitively impairing people and killing their ability to think or reason. #readmorescifi

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

Omg KLANDALORIAN I'm crying

"We must control young women by forcing them into pregnancy and poverty so they'll stay here."

"All Bastards Cops Are" Yoda mural in Sydney

Happy May 4th!

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It remains one of the great bummers of human history that the people who most desire power and occupy its positions tend to be the people who should least be allowed to do so.

I've been getting DMs on TikTok again (mostly randos attempting to hit on me or psychics reading my "aura" lol) and went to toggle it off (again) so no DMs. Told I couldn't do that until I updated app, so I did. And now i have the latest version....which includes an inane AI which we can't turn off.

Just thinking about how pissed off the Entwives probably were when they realised that's what the Ents were calling them. I think the whole "they liked pretty gardens not forests" thing was made up. They left because they were sick of being reduced to their marital status.

People don’t realise but there’s an incredibly lesbian forest somewhere in Middle Earth.

Me reading this one (you should to, btw)

I am often asked why I oppose AI so much. It's because my personal rubric is simple. I judge things by the harm versus the good they do in the world and to whom. The uses of GenAI thus far have been the spread of immense harm. Therefore, I oppose its use on the grounds of the harm it causes.

Supreme Court Rules Red States Can Redraw Confederacy Back Onto Map: https://reductress.com/post/supreme-court-rules-red-states-can-redraw-confederacy-back-onto-map/

This is what Du Bois meant when he said Black America stepped briefly into the sun and then fell under the veil.

Wakefield’s fraudulent paper is one of the worst things to happen to humanity in the past 50 years. It is responsible for countless preventable deaths and ongoing disabilities. He and his supporters are monsters.

Amazing, but also lots more entertaining factoids in the comments

Mercy Peter Hoffer 2025

Top 15 TV Shows I've rewatched too many times Battlestar Galactica Justified West Wing Buffy the Vampire Slayer TNG DS9 Voyager MASH Expanse Supernatural (s1-10) Deadwood Firefly Sense8 Downton Abbey NCIS (s1-14)

Ended my Religion & Scifi class with @gwillow.me 's "Alif the Unseen," which students LOVED! They had two Qs 1) has there ever been talk of a movie or mini series? It would be magnificent! 2) might there ever be a sequel? We want to know what happens to Layl (among others). I loved rereading it!