reading about companies who fired all their employees only to realize that the AI they intended to replace them with straight up does not work and putting asside how obvious that outcome was for a second, i'm left wondering why the choice was made to do it in that order

People seem to think my issue is with reflective vests. It is not. My issue is with civilian officers enforcing laws in a constitutional republic dressed as members of the military.

70% of all Harris voters in 2024 and 65% of all self identified Democrats believe Israel has committed genocide 60% of Democrats believe Israel kills children intentionally and whopping 77% overall have a negative view of Israel.

In memory of Scott Adams, I think more people should be talking about the series finale of the Dilbert cartoon, a two part episode in which Dilbert is force-femmed by Mpreg

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

Amazing what ancient people built even though they were all skeletons

Each of these things a warning sign to turn back and become a gardener; unheeded.

Heir Bud

"During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for."

Notice how fast 50501 erased Renee Good's wife, who is still alive, and immediately accepted the Nazi framing of their child as an orphan

welcome to bsky over here we have growing a new Mean Girls clique with new an exciting definitions for what gender and girlhood means, and new ways to try and say "kill yourself" for not following those definitions it should be ready by february

Im not gonna lie, I feel like as a society we should be talking a lot more about the rich people that paid money to kill random civilians in Sarajevo as a like, a vacation destination thing I just think we kinda glossed right by that

What. The. Fuck. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The way society treats Trans people, if someone tells me they’re Trans, I believe them. There’s nothing to be gained by claiming to be Transgender. It’s an ignorant argument.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

It'd be interesting to read a piece from someone on the left or left of center about how Mamdani has been subconsciously racialized by so much of the US media and political elite as Arab by way of his faith because of the post-10/7 environment and his identification with Palestine

the fact that Ross's first words after killing Good were "fucking bitch" is one of those things that makes me feel like every attempt to make feminist theory sophisticated was actually pointless. like no apparently there are guys who actually do just want to kill women for inconveniencing them

I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Republicans are about to find out that people don't blame Donald Trump, they blame his entire party, and Va Dems are hopefully going to start sealing off all the airlocks. We'll see if the broader GOP gets the message.

A little personal update I'm pleased to share. For this Spring term, I'll be lecturing at the University of Virginia School of Law, co-teaching a seminar course titled Transgender History, Recognition, Regulation and Rights. I'm honored to have the opportunity to present this important topic.

I am so sick of having to pay for the shortcomings of sad, pathetic men.

THE PROBLEM ISN'T TRAINING. Jonathan Ross was a 9-year veteran of ICE, and his quick-draw shooting of Renee Good was smooth and practiced. The answer to brutality isn't better-trained brutality, the answer is to abolish ICE root and branch

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

i see more talk of "america A being held back by america B" so like, for these interests, is there a plan for "america B". are you going to exorcise the undead legacy of the Confederacy once and for all or let it keep ambling on until the body is left a rotting husk

not really sure if the democrats get that the international pivot away from & gradual isolation of the united states is b/c the world sees there is no guarantee that the united states won't put another trump-like admin in power again. keep the republican party around and this will continue

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

Reupping this thread if links regarding why Newsom sucks because apparently we're STILL CONSIDERING PRESIDENT HAIRCUT.

schumer's gotta go. now

It saddens me to see Canadians still travelling to the U.S. for tourism reasons. Our sovereignty was threatened and that of our neighbours in Greenland. ICE is shooting women in the face and chasing down people of colour. Vile people are running Washington. They fund genocide. Feeling privileged?

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Murder. And not just the one who pulled the trigger.

Abolish ICE

They've done this before, it's been a standard thing for *ages*. It's one of those many things Black people have said "they do this to us all the time, they will one day do it to you too" and white people responded by massively increasing the police state

"In 1943, Knut Hamsun gave his Nobel Prize in Literature to Nazi Germany's Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels...[Hamsun] was a great supporter of Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda in Germany. Goebbels had also been a great admirer of Hamsun's books for many years."

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

Just seen this re: Hans Zimmer. If anyone's going to work for Rowling, I'm glad it's one of her fellow wretched horrors and not another formerly decent person to be disappointed with 🤷‍♂️

typical ai use case

If the Dems run Newsom, they will lose, and they will deserve it.

One thing is very clear about the standard Western liberal politician from this era: they really value the fascist perspective and believe that it's important to have as part of the political system, while they resent anything to their left and want to eradicate it.

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

sig sauer, heckler&koch - deutsche Mordinstrumentehersteller verdienen richtig gut an ICE de.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

Is administration is full of ignorant liars.

The Times cheered on Israel's genocide. And now they're using the apocalyptic consequences to sell copies. Absolutely nauseating.

elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.