omg yes "In much the same way that turning in a doodle of an archaeopteryx on a skateboard with a machete in its mouth would receive a big fat zero for a grade, so, too, should whatever this is." THANK YOU JP

I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ

I'm sick to death of the status quo because the Dem Party's only power seems to be occasionally softening the effects of the right's crusade to turn this country into a toxic waste dump ruled by billionaire psychopaths.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Happy Thanksgiving from Mr Worldwide

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

juuuuuust realized that your man demanding flags be flown at half mast in honor of the other clown getting shot means that one could assume every flag at half mast today is because of that and not, idk, fucking 9/11

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

winston should never have been a cop. i could see a successful arc for him as a nurse!! or a postman!

LOGAN LERMAN IS SO FINE!!!

Nobody wants to talk about the fact that technocracy, Progressivism, scientism, or whatever it is you want to call it seems really deeply, profoundly unable to shake off the conviction that it gives special access to knowing who should and should not be allowed to live.

why are people mad when podcast hosts laugh on their own podcasts

forgive me emily henry i was not familiar with your game

i don’t say this to stump for any corporate overlords but the things they say about the sound quality difference between spotify and apple music is true you don’t notice it until you do

the right wing WILL NOT win tiddies in the culture war!! i will die on this hill!

i was hoping i’d be a “kisses girls” type of lesbian but i guess i’ll settle for the “active podcast listener” type

remembering when blackbear put out the song anxiety and then ppl were calling him out for trivializing mental illness and he was like i literally have panic attacks ppl on the internet will say anything and try to gatekeep incredibly common human experiences. much to remembe

loving things through ur friends is awesome. my best friend’s favorite show is star trek and even tho i have minimal interest in watching the show myself i love hearing her talk about it and thru her i have a loyalty to it and will talk it up ❤️❤️yay friends

a male manic pixie dream girl is called a ferris bueller

i call myself a 9/10 lesbian because the people who are so hot i’d throw my entire life away for them are almost overwhelmingly women but then sometimes there is a man and i’m incredibly grateful one of those men is toshiro mifune

i need a song to do for jury nullification what gold digger did for prenups

rly niche subskeet but it’s so deeply embarrassing to have met a celebrity once through a famous family member, smoked a j with them, and then talk about that celebrity like you know them personally. it’s a lack of self awareness at the end of the day i fear

The extraordinary thing about climate change for me is that the human race has never faced a threat this grave, has never understood the nature of a threat so well, and has never already developed the solutions to ameliorate the threat. Now we just* have to implement them. *yes I know

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

"I’ve heard that the planet makes a sound, a vibrating chord in C♯ minor. Could it be the hum of life being made and unmade, composed and decomposed?" This essay made me gasp and sigh and cry. Extra lovely to hear it read aloud by the author, Robin Wall Kimmerer. tinyurl.com/25umcbn4

your grandmother's TV set may have cost $5-600 but practically lasted forever. today, you need to buy a new $300 set every few years because it's made out of balsa wood and chewing gum, and serves you ads in the menu on top of it. apply all of that to art and media, and you have the genAI ethos.

So this is the thing about "GenAI is just going to be a part of life". Unlike, say, social media, GenAI doesn't have a path to profitability. Even if you ignore energy costs and the dependance on pilfered IP, it becomes much less valuable when companies start charging for it. Because it's shit.

Kill the fascist within you.

My response to those who say it’s “too late” to address climate change and global environmental damage. It is NOT too late. As long as one tree is still standing, one whale is still swimming, and one child is still breathing it is not too late to protect something precious.

I want to hear more things like this. Who are the lawyers who can offer tangible ways that people can fight back?

You guys are doing it again. Yes, NOAA is important because of the National Weather Service, but that is not all they do and you should stop saying it is. I wrote this for the Union of Concerned Scientists. Read it and adjust your messaging accordingly. 🧪🦑🌎🐟 blog.ucs.org/science-blog...

Any way, one of the things that keeps me going in these hellish times is remembering that there are more of us — the powers that be just don’t want us to count. But we fucking do.

well the important thing to remember is the supreme court’s decisions are based on rational logic—specifically the logic of “if i vote this way, i will get millions of dollars in cash and favors from america’s most hideous dark money superspenders and there will be no consequences”

‘Extinction crisis’ could see 500 bird species vanish within a century – report

They’re forming a CDC workgroup to decide which line on this graph looks better and their answer may surprise you

A meme of US Vice President JD Vance depicted as a baby was held up in the Dáil today by Labour leader Ivana Bacik. jrnl.ie/6743403t

“being afraid all the time and just constantly making transactional moves…What is even the point of being alive if you’re just gonna continue managing rot?” ‼️

Only history's greatest monsters have [squints at Fox News graphic] addressed the cost of living in practical ways.

If you have a moment today, in the heat, and you can do it without risk to your health - take a moment to stand in the shade of a tree as opposed to the shade of a building. It’ll be perceptibly cooler under the tree because of the ‘swamp cooler’ effect from water being drawn up to the leaves. 1/?

The idea that pro-trans movements led to anti-trans sentiment is egregiously out of touch with reality. Increased LGBTQ representation led to historic shifts in public opinion toward the community. The aggressively bigoted and violent campaigns that lied about trans people are clearly responsible

Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

Contrary to a lot of opinion on this, I think generative AI actually does have some useful applications! Sometimes you do just need a crane! But these people are deluding themselves into thinking they've exercised and the mismatch between what they know and what they think they know is dangerous

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger