“having to mask made me go fash” is so common and it’s just baffling I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition

A reminder amid the whitewashing celebrations of Greene as some sort of redemptive figure: Greene is an unrepentant, longtime and highly committed bigot who regularly invokes inflammatory rhetoric. There’s no redemption here.

"The Russians weaponizing MeToo to try and sink the challenger to their guy in the White House" is what this was and I really don't think you should sugar coat it

“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community,” said Milissa, who came out as transgender about 10 years ago. https://capitalbnews.org/black-parents-support-trans-youth/

A small number of people whose extreme wealth exerts a political gravitational force that distorts the entire political system is bad, actually. It has been recognized as a threat to free liberal republican government since the first time it emerged in the Gilded Age.

what you want to make, deep down, is the art. trying to sand it down for the audience destroys that, and most of the time it doesn't work anyway. bsky.app/profile/deps...

This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

youngkin ending his term as virginia’s worst governor of the 21st century thus far, with a political career that has gone down the toilet

either Trump is breaking the law ordering illegal strikes or Trump has reached an undeniable level of cognitive decline both stories would be headline news above the fold, and yet

Foreign Policy Analysis is low key the darkly funniest field ever now. Are we at war? Does the president himself know? Who are we at war with? Why? Something to do with drugs and/or oil? We’re either invading Venezuela, Nigeria, neither, or both.

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

GenAI isn't synonymous with plagiarism because of how it's *used*, it's synonymous with plagiarism because of what it *is*, how it *works*. GenAI is plagiarism because it can do no other. It cannot work without a massive body of works to smoosh together, for too much to license it all with honesty.

oh you think love isn’t real? please be aware of my dad wearing the robe I custom-made for him and also socks printed with his granddaughter’s face on him, with my cousins gathered adoringly around said baby

In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.

The thing about these guys forming relationships with chatbots is that they will start treating actual women like the chatbots. And when real women don't fawn, don't glaze them the way these digital yes men do, express opinions, they will view them as *defective* chatbots.

And when they leave that safe space and encounter a real woman, they'll lash out at what they've been trained to think is a malfunctioning inanimate object. The way any of these billionaire sex pests do.

Note that all these chatbots are made by billionaire sex pests, who are desperately trying to make other people see humans the same way they do: inanimate objects to be used for one's own whims. The people making these, openly say they see other people as NPC's.

the absolute sense of peace as my older brother and my older cousin simply take charge of my baby and I get to do nothing

Let’s swap out the fragile, slowly maturing frontal cortexes of society’s teens and replace them with a soulless, sycophantic pattern recognizing machine designed by hubristic, Ayn Rand obsessed simpletons with no historical sensibility, & whose main motivation is profit maximization. This is fine.

Conservatives are like “I’m not gonna trust some public school teacher to influence my kid” but are also like “I think it’s fine if my kid spends hours interacting with Elon’s MechaHitler machine on X.”

“The point is that the entire theme and sales pitch around AI agents seems to be to replace the burden, responsibility, or ethics of being an artist, socialite, or business owner with an artificial servant.”

The dependency on an LLM to ::checks notes:: “explode ideas” just screams to me that this person has no significant bonds. Which takes me back to this essay, “AI Is A Slavery Fetish.” aeoncollective.substack.com/p/ai-is-a-sl...

I am incredibly sick of living through a time in this country that is both historically evil and historically stupid.

exactly this

Honestly? Living in Alabama. When you live between Selma and Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, it is fairly impossible to fall into the "this is the worst it has ever been and it can't get better" pit. It was way worse for people here, in living memory, and they didn't shrug & give up. So I can't either.

i think if we get an actual recession, Trump is doing the exact kind of shit to end up as a second coming of Hoover

Need something to do tonight? Read some cool poetry and short stories and help TFR out

This is why it’s so important to trace things back to the beginning whenever possible. I believe @rauchway.bsky.social calls these “historical urban legends”

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- GenderBender, 1 of 11 companies FDA is trying to force to register chest binders as "medical devices," fires back: "Chest binders aren't a medical device in the same way that scissors used to give someone a gender-affirming haircut aren't a medical device."

The black cat atop the stones at Stonehenge during the Winter Solstice 2025 celebrations, delivering its blessings for the coming year.

Can you imagine the reaction from the GOFO set if Harris fired two members of the joint chiefs for being white

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

Now more than ever.

This thread perfectly explains why AI has little value for qualitative research. Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.

Just remember: There is no performative poverty tourism you can do in one afternoon to feel better about yourself and to teach your kids how lucky they are. You either do the work or you don’t, and if you can’t do the work, help subsidize those who can, and if you can’t afford that? Be kind.

it's genuinely striking how these people will not only be completely, utterly morally bankrupt racists in public, but also expect everyone else to agree with them when they say this shit. uh yeah I would absolutely let an innocent man with a "mom" tattoo crash on my couch

This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.

Meet an American hero.

He is promising, on camera, to break his oath to the Constitution by illegally and unconstitutionally usurping the exclusive authority of Congress. Sprinkle in a little 'blowing up the Union' to boot

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

There's an audio recording of him, not an aide, asking for votes to swing a state in a Presidential election and that wasn't enough to get him locked up or even keep him from the White House

In the past week, I've seen stories of AI: - being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students - calling innocent people sex offenders - shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars - emitting more CO2 than New York City What the fuck are we even doing?

🚨My @ms.now SCOOP on VA abortion ban has been UPDATED w/ more detail: Screenshots of an internal memo sent Monday to the leaders of the VA’s 18 regional care systems by the VA’s under secretary of health say the VA must comply with the DOJ memo effective immediately. 👇

*ponders in Kirk/Spock*

facebook should be destroyed and about a third of this country needs to go live on a farm where they get enrichment treats like those pumpkins they put out for zoo bears on halloween

So, what are the faculty and grad student groups at OU doing to protest this assault on their autonomy? It's an attack on all of them. We all know stories (at least secondhand) about grades getting changed, but losing a position because mgmt doesn't like the grade you issued? No.

wild that this simultaneously implicates Trump and contains some of the best evidence that Epstein actually killed himself

It still blows my mind to think of how many of these freedoms happened in MY lifetime. And how far we still have to go.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.