Michael J. Fox didn't spend three fucking months filming Family Ties in the daytime AND Back to the Future at night so you could tell me that A.I. is "inevitable."

They didn't make THIS movie in 1927 so you tell me AI is "inevitable" www.youtube.com/watch?v=fugb...

James Cameron didn't dive to the bottom of the ocean for the most accurate references he could get of the RMS Titanic just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable".

Michelangelo didn't lie on a scaffold for four years painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

james cameron did not build a 90% scale replica of the titanic and float it on a hydraulic water tank so that he could have life sized wide shots of the ship so you could tell me that ai is “inevitable”

theyre not “predictors” theyre gamblers, hes trying to get 18-34 year olds addicted to gambling

I didn't watch a very famous actor have a 20-minute SCREAMING MELTDOWN at a director while stuck along with 100 other SAG-AFTRA members floating on a tiny boat in New York Harbor for 10 HOURS on a FREEZING DAY dressed as one of my poor immigrant ancestors you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

i don’t know how to explain this to people who don’t care or who haven’t themselves been hurt by people who stomp into sensitive spaces but you absolutely do not need to be in community with people “because.” whether they’re harmful or ignorant or just kind of annoying, you don’t need them!

When they said, "wear a suit," I just assumed…  Find a public pool near you at nycgovparks.org.

I inherited the steel knitting needles and crochet hooks my grandmother took with her from the orphanage. They're heavy, but infinitely better than modern ones.

"Abusers are challenged far less when parties are prioritized over people. When the abused ask for help, they are reprimanded by abuser and enabler alike. It has been heartbreaking to see a widespread loss of compassion ... "

We just need to convince 18-30 year olds to do unlimited free labor for us including canvassing, phone banking, and study groups. How do we do that? Tell them that Israel is the only democracy in the world and that ICE should have its budget cut by a modest 15%.

People are on here calling AC "vile" and a "disease" and as someone in who lives in Alabama where AC saves countless lives in 100+ degree heat, I'd like to ask you to log off. If you had it in Europe you wouldn't be suffering. It's a human right. Fix climate change too. Both! You can have both!

It is core to the nature of reactionary politics that its adherents *always* conceive of themselves as aggrieved victims, no matter how much power they amass. It's a permission structure for their own lawlessness & violence.

The way I've gotten this across in talks to US audiences is to explain that by the time the Battle of Gettysburg was fought... ...the London Underground had already been open for six months.

Not us. Not Democrats. Not ‘the media.’ A Republican congressman just said it: ‘We won all the damn elections — why are we screaming fraud?’ The answer? Because the lie was never about 2020. It was about making sure you stop believing your vote counts.

yo I need everyone to notice this this guy just did a Zohran-style video that’s low-budget but super authentic, credible, and watchable. Proof it doesn’t take Zohran-level charisma! Sincere belief in what you talk about helps though.

‘The Reflecting Pool is not a place for reflection. Thank you for your attention to this matter.’

This is the side of the story you don't hear because it's not often in police press releases or glossy local news stories about police "innovation." The truth is, a lot of the tech they roll out with fanfare ends up getting scrapped because it's not that useful to anyone.

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social The UN works harder to protect the US people than you do. Abolish ICE/DHS or Resign.

What The Free Press claimed: Under Biden, an NGO called Southwest Key made billions while turning a blind eye to abuse of migrant kids in its facilities. What really happened: Biden's DOJ sued Southwest Key. Trump *dropped* the lawsuit -- because it might have interfered with his mass deportations.

All finished setting up at ALA Annual! Librarians and library–adjacent people, hit the Iron Circus Comics kiosk in aisle 3400 to check out some new titles, some golden oldies, and grab a few freebies!

There are dozens of actual far-right extremists in the House GOP caucus, people who have said and done racist, corrupt, crazy things. And you’ve never heard of them. Because the Times and other establishment media outlets have never negatively profiled them like this. The GOP gets a pass.

The Department of Education is essential to our public schools, kids, and their futures.

Ignoring Congress and dismantling it is illegal and egregious, and our kids deserve better. That’s why I stand with @repbonamici.bsky.social in impeaching Education Sec McMahon.

Imperial boomerang: for centuries, Europeans have framed tech to protect against cold (fire, furnaces) as noble and good, while they’ve framed the warm climates they colonized as full of lazy people (Asians, Africans) and, thus, the need to use AC or fans as frivaloues, wasteful & unnecessary

I know it's a losing rhetorical battle that's been fought before, but we really have to stop calling these people "conservative." They are not "slowly slowly, cautious principle" people, they are aggressively and intentionally trying to drag this country over to the far right and into centuries past

As a Mount Holyoke alum, I am absolutely compelled to repost every single Emily Dickinson post I come across.

PS: yes, I also wish we could've communicated all this months ago. I am just so happy this is finally out!!!

So many of us have worked so hard for months (since the beginning of the transition) with @mayor.nyc.gov to make this happen! Starting with a $15 million investment in life saving gender-affirming care for trans youth 🏳️‍⚧️ www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

A federal judge, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, blocked a central pillar of Trump’s scheme to purge suspected noncitizens from voter rolls. Now, Republicans are endorsing calls to require judges to be born in the U.S. — a xenophobic push to sideline non-white Americans. https://bit.ly/4g1d5a1

This is what they want. Am excuse to remove trans ppl from public life. And from their freedom.

It’s awesome that fascism has taken such a foothold that holding beliefs like “poor people should eat” and “people who aren’t like me can exist” are now considered so extremitist

Whats all the fuss about

When politicians tell you they can't help people because their hands are tied, they're lying. They just care more about their own pockets. Mamdani is an exception, but he should be the norm.

Source also notes that at board meetings (chaired by Iris Weinshall, Chuck Schumer’s wife), NYPL is hostile to the needs of workers & has been cutting wages, OT, & compensatory hours. “I think you have to go in with ‘NYPL hates poor people’ as a lead,” the librarian quipped.

BTW, racist Americans have hated Haiti since 1791, because Haiti was the first successful revolution against enslavement. And I want to note how Justice Jackson included a detailed discussion of the Black Codes in her defense of Hawaiian historical sovereignty in another case today.

IT IS THREE PEOPLE FROM POSSIBLY THE MOST LIBERAL STATE IN THE UNION ?!? are they okay??!? Or are they pissed that it means voters who are as @courtneymilan.com points out of all colors shapes and sizes OVER THEIR SHIT

If there was any doubt about who Will Cain is, Stephen Miller just removed it

Ask how many more shifts they’d let a surgeon work after a week in which they severely harmed 12-15% of their patients

this is ...totally intentional, friends. and next he's going to start casually mentioning in passing that literacy tests for voting weren't the worst idea and he also has been thinking about separate water fountains a lot lately

also this is basically republican orthodoxy, they just don’t say it out loud. the main intellectual project of the conservative judicial movement for example is to make watergate legal bsky.app/profile/theb...

And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.

Samuel Alito's dad was born in Calabria, Italy in 1914, which was a completely failed state shithole at the time. You either spent your life farming dirt or got killed at 16 working for an Ndrangheta underboss. Now his son spends all day panicking about uncivilized Haitians.

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

Canada often gets a free pass because it compares favorably to the USA, but Canada rejected *more than half* of all World Cup visitor applications. Under 11% were approved from Ghana. Meanwhile, *none* were rejected from Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, or Israel. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

The quiet part out loud he said