Very good piece. Perfectly describes how I feel about AI

less than two weeks ago marjorie taylor greene introduced and successfully passed a bill that will get trans kids killed. she did it right before christmas to maximise the cruelty.

In 249 years, this country has yet to outlaw slavery. We change its form, we change its name, but slavery has been constant. Powerful people and businesses just really love slave labor, and a chunk of our economy is built on that.

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

This a very good article and paints a horrible but accurate picture of what is happening in the US

Oof, okay. This one's a weird, uncomfortable ask. December was an extremely lean month, with half my shit on going on Flex loans, and I'm staring down the barrel of not being able to pay my rent this month. If you dug my work this year and are feeling generous, I could use a leg up.

Thought a bit today about how much ambient stress and worry living under this fucking regime is creating. Like yeah, I would not say that my life in the US has ever been stress free, but this is the worst so far

Santa has returned to his chrysalis, his grim work done. Soon new Santas will emerge from the husk, driven only by their lust for jolliness

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weird games, as big name titles don't need the help. so, onwards!

Today is the anniversary of the Baptist War/Christmas Rebellion of 1831 in Jamaica, which was led by Samuel Sharpe, who was an enslaved man and Baptist preacher. He led a rebellion of over 60k enslaved folks (the biggest in Jamaica) and contributed to abortion in the British Empire

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

I’m back after a 3 day suspension for sharing a link to publicly available police reports exposing Blood Tribe nazis. They also removed the post. Bluesky evidently prioritizes the protection of literal, active nazis over community safety. Unfortunately for BT, they’re already in the sunlight now :)

On a Livestream tonight, Chris Pohlhaus, leader of Blood Tribe, stated that approximately half of Blood Tribe has officially lost their jobs following their mass doxx. He estimated financial losses at over $2 million.

2000 Meters to Andriivka is incredible.

42 Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act knowing full well this was the plan. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Just to address some rumors - YES am counting videos as bird photos NO I am not counting joke photos but I AM counting art and if you don’t LIKE IT you can follow one of the hundreds if not thousands of accounts posting 500 bird photos before the clock strikes 2026

The full article is well worth reading. Here’s the gift link from the author—and the only reason to pay attention to the Atlantic—Adam Serwer 2/2 @adamserwer.bsky.social

This is infuriating. Thanks to Adam for a wonderfully comprehensive account of how the Roberts court is attacking the Civil War amendments to the constitution 1/

Very cool that every progressive primary challenger to a moderate/centrist incumbent is a potential grifter while the shitty moderate/centrist incumbent is above all reproach

Jake Paul after that right cross from Anthony Joshua

You can't reform CBP and the sooner everyone realizes that the better off we will be

Rick Vandendolder, 73: "My dad was with the Dutch resistance, and he helped hide Jews and others who were fleeing Nazi persecution," he said. "I met some of the people that he saved, and I never dreamt that I'd be seeing the same thing going on in this country."

a sequel: cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”

Feds launched fresh assaults on Chicago, Columbus this week. Coming up on two weeks of terror in Minneapolis. Ongoing activity around New Orleans, with the worst yet to come. LA area hit hard again this week, too. Federal task force / joint local police ops still devastating Memphis.

A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Durin Durin

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Nine Inch Nazgûl

A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Queens of The Third Age

Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation' abc7chicago.com/post/bulgari...

The LAPD shot two people within 24hrs of each other. One was a person allegedly in a mental health crisis, the other had “what looked to be a gun” and it reads like he was shot in the car. The dept has shot 46 people this year.

The goal of companies generating AI was never to make the world a better place, it was for engagement. And they’re willing to make you go insane to get it. Watch the full video on YouTube: OpenAI Wants You To Go Insane youtu.be/fPW3B6v60nc

this Kennedy Center situation is definitely a desecration…. but it also feels like a bit of a champagne problem next to all the mass internments, military war footing, and FBI rebooting COINTELPRO

This thread is really cool, very interesting process

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

Republicans are throwing people in concentration camps and these asshole senators voted with them 100+ times. That's 100+ instances of collaboration with fascists.

Breaking my no repost from Twitter rule because this is so fucking funny

Whipped up a Demacia Yi standard deck to fuck around in ranked and it's pretty fun although kind of inconsistent. Might play with a Targon version instead since Taric is in rotation #LegendsofRuneterra

Another disaster. This one has actual harmful consequences for trans kids and their families.

the disdain for workers losing their livelihoods just drips off of this whole fucking thing like mud off a pig. The smug confidence of a man who has convinced himself that HE is definitely uniquely irreplaceable, only LESSER work is under threat.

Fuck Vavra and Warhorse too then.

Today's Cancel Me Daddy episode is a very fun break from today's horrible news cycle. We laughed, we joked, and we laughed some more as we took a walk through history. Some of you would find the diversion about Joan of Arc's gender identity part way through particularly interesting!

6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.

The Golden Age of Bluesky focused on two things: 1. Alf hog 2. big boat got stuck We were just kids then. Those we heady times, not a care in the world...

“…Rep. Sarah McBride has been a big and often stubborn advocate for the big tent theory. And yesterday, just after she stood on the steps of the Capitol poured her heart out with a very powerful and personal speech about her own experience as a trans person, that big tent collapsed in on her.”

For my newsletter, I wrote about how the Democratic Party "Big Tent" fell in on trans kids yesterday. www.burnsnotice.com/the-big-tent...

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