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Women want to compete in women's sports. That they are trans shouldn't matter. There's nothing reasonable about considering it "unfair" for trans athletes to exist. I like Pete, and he is usually incredibly good at communicating things, but this is garbage.

This season, it really seems like umpires are literally trying to get MLB to replace them with computers. I don't want that, because the human element is overall good for the game, but if the calls are going to be this bad... I mean...

When you become the CEO of a movie studio, make horrible decision after horrible decision because you don't respect art or any of the hard work that goes into creating it, and walk away from all of the damage you've done with even more money in your bank account:

My personal life may be shitty, but at least my professional life is also not good.

Don't bother.

Everybody: You should find a new job. The job market:

I’m sorry this is sending me 😂😂😂😂

I get this, I do, but I'm also so tired of the "imagine if..." framing of these things. Yeah, Republicans are hypocrites, among every other horrible thing they are. It's unnecessary to imagine Mamdani doing this because he wouldn't, but also because Republicans already act like he did, anyway.

Who was conned, though? Everybody is told this, at all times during the process of these things being passed. Nobody didn't know. The Republicans in Congress? They knew. The Trump supporters acting like it's a good thing? They knew. Everybody knew. That's not being conned; it's being stupid.

Bobby Jenks made over 25 million dollars if you’re wondering what having a longterm health crisis does to everything else in addition to how terrible the health crisis is

wake up babe, new sexual identity just dropped. i'm a

It's past time to stop worrying about a potential war. We are actively in a war that Nazis are winning.

They want to talk about literally anything other than how much New Yorkers like him because of how good of a mayor he would be.

They should put Diddy in prison with alligators.

Since finding a romantic partner is off the table, I'm just gonna try to find a platonic partner who's interested in doing all the romantic stuff I long for. Is that a thing? Like, let's have a picnic in the park, bro. Let's watch the sunset in each other's eyes, dude.

Congratulating yet another person on buying a house 🤝 Me Trying to find a nice house I can actually afford to comfortably rent

I was wondering why everything is so damn uncomfortable.

As a brown person living in Manhattan when 9/11 happened I know racism and Islamophobia never went away but boy is it not great to log on every day and see politicians being so gleefully awful toward a guy who looks like me and my family

When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.

Everybody who went to Bezos' wedding is trash garbage. The class solidarity of the rich really is fucking unmatched.

I want so badly to be in love, but it's just not in the cards. And that is such a painful thought.

One thing about working from home is there's absolutely no chance of having work friends. I've had my job 11 years and barely know anyone I work with.

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What I've realized about Bluesky is it's like 2012 Twitter, so it's close enough to what people want for it to stick around. What people really want, though, is 2018-2019 Twitter, and current X is unfortunately closer to that than Bluesky, so a lot of people stay over there and this place suffers.

There is always a past tweet…

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

One thing we know for certain is, had Kamala Harris won, her presidency would have been exactly the same as this. No difference whatsoever, right?

America is the world's largest terrorist organization, but we're supposed to cheer it on because it enjoys terrorizing countries populated by non-white people. But Iran is the threat? Iran is who we should be worried about? Sure.

Headline juxtaposition doesn't get much more Orwellian than this

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I feel completely invisible.

Me, putting off going through my mom's clothes for months: Yes, this will make it better. Me, finally doing it: Nope, still sucks.

If I could find a way to (affordably) move to New York literally tomorrow, I would do it without hesitation.

You must watch and/or listen to Akilah's new show How Is This Better?. It is fantastic, obviously, because she is so talented.

This week has been so frustrating, annoying, and exhausting. At least it's almost the weekend where I can finally relax by packing more of my dead mom's stuff and maybe splurge on dinner alone. I hate that I'm such a fucking downer right now, but I'm having what is colloquially termed a "bad time".

Where did ancient Romans take their dog when it needed glasses? The Collie See'em.

It'll be interesting to see how this is approached by SAG-AFTRA because they have contracts with many publishers that, I would think, should preclude those publishers from participating in this bullshit. If not, I hope the guild does fight this on behalf of its members who will get fucked.

Do I have a support system? Yes. Is my support system fried foods and baked goods? Also yes.

Beyond being the latest act in the continued campaign to dehumanize birthing people by violating their medical autonomy, this also doesn't even logically track. The woman is dead; they've reduced her to an incubator: a thing that already exists. They're doing this purely to be cruel and exert power.

Turns out the threat wasn't in AI gaining sentience; it was in humans losing it.

It's like he's trying to get superpowers but is just gonna end up with some mutated disease like diarrhea blood or something.

Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer