[closing my eyes and pressing my hand to a screen full of incomprehensible sentence fragment posts] i sense that a sport has occurred

YUUUUUP. It is ANTI-AMERICAN to detest and try to eradicate diversity. These people need a remedial Kum-By-Yah session at a Unitarian summer camp. You WILL sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and it WILL stir you to your fucking soul.

The replies are mocking Oz, not trans kids. Your anger is understandable. I share it. It is misplaced here, though.

This president was never permitted to hold office again under the 14th Amendment and this presidency is void.

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or, more evocatively, this is the lesson of socrates: you are an immortal soul nailed to a frail fleshy body. there is no escaping either half of that equation. there just isn't. you can't escape the "i am, i think, i believe, i desire, i choose" nor can you escape the skeptic's response

Sounds like something someone who’s never experienced the hum would say

Praying, aka breaking the fourth wall

The news is a torrent of horrors. Glee in domination and crimes against humanity. Dystopian tech and financialization. Antihuman futurism. All championed by sociopaths and raw id. We should be calling for humanistic moral revival, whether religious or secular.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

As for who Singal is, here's a good summary (and it has only gotten worst since) He's a transphobe bigot who is operating in the same sphere as Klein and such and thus has social capital and who is using it to attack trans people.

So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol. Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.

i dont want to go back to normal, i want a democratic president to use these newfound powers to completely dismantle the conservative media apparatus responsible for this mess

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

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Somehow still every day I am repeatedly astounded that the entire United States is voluntarily destroying itself just so that a few people can pretend Donald Trump didn’t sexually assault children

The Ezra piece was dumb and deserved all the dunking. Strongly encourage you to read this excellent @anamariecox.bsky.social piece instead. newrepublic.com/article/2003...

I am firmly on the side of "it doesn't matter if it is conscious, our humanity demands we treat human-like things as human". This is like asking whether cats and dogs can recognize themselves in the mirror to decide if animal abuse is bad. Don't dwell on minutiae to miss the bigger picture.

The three long tails of the Democrats’ accountability dodge. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...

Wifi is ~6 watts. Taking a walk is ~300 watts, and food requires roughly 10x the fossil fuel energy as the calories it supplies. So sitting on your couch on the wifi is about 500x better for your carbon emissions than taking a walk.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

We don’t have a president, we have a mad king. Shaking down businesses, demanding ransom money, and presenting himself awards he never earned and doesn’t deserve, while his servile flock of toadies run around going “Yes, sir! Very good, sir!” American government has collapsed

FYI, if you're concerned about all of the mRNA vaccine misinformation spreading everywhere, it's a good idea to stop sharing Taylor Lorenz as a source on anything, because it's inadvertently helping legitimize the wildly unscientific mRNA vaccine misinformation she keeps posting.

folks, it’s friday

also universities should start *actually* discriminating against conservatives under the legal doctrine of "eat my ass, fascist"

but the people complaining about fairness are by and large the people the who want to restrict or eliminate all access to HRT and puberty blockers. and we are in the midst of years long national “debate.” because it’s not a good faith argument, it’s a moral panic designed to punish vulnerable groups

re: fairness, there are simple steps that can be taken, like “let them practice with the team but not compete until they’ve been on HRT for [x] months or got puberty blockers” and it’s something that, given the 15 or so kids we are talking about, shouldn’t be a years long national debate

Democrats across the country are working to protect trans youth from Trump's unlawful attacks. Hopefully the cool kids On Here will revise their opinions on Dems' stance towards us, but I won't hold my breath.

If DC wants to make all the money in the world just cast Sydney Sweeney as Power Girl.

if you hire a conservative judge, they will turn on other judges. if you hire a conservative professor, they will turn on the other professors. if you hire a conservative reporter, they will turn on the other journalists and your publication. over and over.

As always, conservative movement members who have infiltrated existing institutions have their first loyalty to the conservative movement, not to the institution or their colleagues. Similar pattern at news organizations and universities

1. Culture warriors focus on the wedge issue “Trans girls playing sports against cis girls” because that is likeliest to inspire reactionary sentiment in both parties 2. It is a deliberate effort to portray trans people as threats who will take advantage of liberal tolerance

One of the many contradictions of Trumpism is that the whole appeal of Trump is that he is waging TOTAL WAR on every other part of society. But then it's totally unfair if anyone else wants to fight back.

I’d go one further and say the gradual moral collapse of our society and our politics is a direct product of the growing social norm where you cannot impute bad faith or immoral motive on people and institutions who clearly exhibit both.

The amount of trans ladies who have tried to argue with me that protecting access to trans care is a minor policy achievement is… Girls, we are being played. I don’t know by who and I don’t know why, but we are getting psyoped the shit out of and we gotta snap out of it.

this being seen as a detrimental trait is how we got here in the first place. the unwillingness of nearly all major media to see a person who speaks obvious lies every time they open their mouth and simply call them a liar

Part of my answer to "how'd we get here?" is an elite, institutional culture deeply opposed to calling bullshit. To do so is uncouth, uncivil, biased. Stated rationales must be taken at face value. There's no such thing as bad faith. Questioning motives is wrong. It's just debate, have some respect.

Moist Cr1TiKaL never covered the Mueller Report

There is this weird vulgar/folk deontology one finds on social media that is just baffling.

A study shows that large language models share geometric similarities in embeddings, hinting at a universal structure. This could transform model efficiency and transfer learning by enabling the use of steering vectors across various architectures. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21073

Been on trail w Andy Beshear, thought this riff on why inclusive language can be unhelpful was interesting

this is Glonzo. Hope this helps

i criticized her when i thought she was wrong, so i'm also going to say that this is a very welcome message that more democrats need to hear.

Look, I get it. It's uncomfortable to admit that you fell hook, line and sinker for an influence op designed to divide the left and bring fascism to America. But that's what happened.

Anti-LGBTQ orgs have explicitly stated they USE sports as a "gateway drug" to undermine trans people's rights. They've also said this is how they eventually roll back all progress on LGBTQ rights. Newsom falls for it hook, line, and sinker.

In this essay, I will argue that the transfem community must abandon the politics of ressentiment which defines us through weakness and instead embrace the identity of the uberfrau who writes her own fate by imposing her will on reality…