This reminds me of the time I gave a homeless man outside the local craft brewery a fiver and another customer inside told me "You shouldn't have done that; he's just gonna spend it on alcohol" and I responded "My dude, this is the brewery. We are all here to spend our money on alcohol."

It reminds me of this tumblr post: web.archive.org/web/20150404...

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

They didn't have shit to do with our successes so they made it their mission to strip them away. This is exactly what conservatives did to Black Wall St, Rosewood, and countless successful Black communities. When they raised they couldn't dominate Black ppl, they sought to destroy us.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

Because y'all wearing the wrong kinda masks.

And that's when it clicked for me. Why Black people are so consistent even though we are also deeply disappointed by Democrats. Because we know what the other option is. We know how bad it can get. We're able to do an actual comparison of the options. While many other people are just guessing.

This open murder of an unarmed citizen is shocking even though it was always going to happen. It was an inevitability, and there have been plenty of voices saying so for the past two years. Every editorial decision to ignore those voices in favor of soft-selling this regime contributed to it

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

What about the families that don't look like yours?

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

The video from the Minnesota shooting is very disturbing. It's okay if you don't want to watch it. You can believe me that it is absolutely as fucked up as you are hearing.

Hip hop fans, how do you feel about BigXThaPlug? I understand why he's popular. I wanna like him. But for some reason it's not hitting for me.

This feels like a good take on the real impact of AI on labor. Certain jobs will go away. But mostly we'll see decent white collar jobs transform into shitty low paid jobs. Mostly outsourced to people in developing countries. www.instagram.com/reel/DS6JGXJ...

Everyone should be submitting this to Apple and Google.

Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.

Oh shit.

Remember when Dems folded and got nothing and everyone was so happy and patting themselves on the back about getting the Epstein Files released and they just blacked everything out and started deleting shit and now they're bombing Venezuela because we re-opened the government. Anyway

History is written by the winners.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery

No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

Finding your people is hard. Especially if you're not sure they even exist. But don't ignore that feeling that you're out of place in your current circles. When you feel accepted and valued for being exactly who you are, those are your people. Keep looking.

It took like one year of anti DEI after about three of a ramp down for a lot of media to collapse in And my other takes are meaner

my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.

We do it all the time. We don't have a choice.

This is wild. Even Stephen Miller is calling out white people like Jake Tapper for acting like they don't know what's happening right now. Can't make this shit up. "I'm saying the quite part loud and you keep ignoring me!"

peek = 🫣 peak = 🗻 pique = 👀

Why did you erase @sotreu.blacksky.app's existence from this work??????

The label of “activist” also get disproportionally applied to journalist of color who try to represent their communities and bring light to injustices / disparities.

We should categorically reject and contest the assertion or implication that being an "activist" in some way diminishes/qualifies a person's perspective or positions; it's part of an insidious and reactionary project to make "passive apolitical consumer" the only correct mode of citizenship

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Preach. White Supremacy Culture controls U.S. politics, especially MAGA politics.

You can find your US reps and senators here: reps.fyi If you call now, you'll get an answering machine and you can leave a message. A great thing to do if you're nervous about talking to someone. Just give your name, your zip code, and demand they impeach Trump for illegally invading Venezuela.

By retreating only to "kitchen table issues" to avoid being labeled "woke," Democratic leaders have left an open goal for the GOP. When you treat the harassment of vulnerable communities as a "distraction" rather than a crisis, you're not avoiding a fight: you're just forfeiting it.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

and that's part of why coal mines are this kind of totem of a lost virtuous working class. because those jobs were white and there whiteness has largely been treated as natural without questioning the dynamics that kep them white.

When Trump was seen as a one-off, it was different. An aberration. The second time, and the 51st state threats (as well as threats to Greenland and Panama) affected many Canadians deeply. Yo-yoing between the Democratic Party and dangerous MAGA makes trusting the US practically impossible.

We’re at the point where we have concentration camps and slave patrols and the people with the most safety think a mean joke is the pinnacle of resistance

This has been my life for 24 hours. "Ban AI!" You mean heavily regulate it? "No I mean kill it with fire! Nobody can use it." Okay what would that look like? Where have we done that before? <Proceeds to describe examples that all constitute strict regulation and not banning>

HUUUUUGE. Any retail investor can put money in a multitude of crypto-backed ETFs, and institutional investors are increasingly in the mix too. There’s billions upon billions of dollars in these ETFs. And crypto DERIVATIVES ETFs are popping up left and right, too.

This was pretty uncharitable. I regret framing the criticism this way. I honestly don't know what kind of information diet people have. I know that mine is still all messed up. Because I relied heavily on Twitter to surface and contextualize things. Bluesky had but caught up.

Okay. Since I posted this yesterday, so many people have tried to convince me that we "won" against crypto and it's dead. Because they don't hear about it anymore. I really need y'all to pay attention. Crypto is still huge. Not only is it not dead, it continues to cause massive harm.

I understood that not taking an extreme stance against AI would mean losing credibility in certain circles. I thought about my actual stance for a long time. And I made peace with the fact that I would lose some people who used to respect me.

Yeah. I mean sure. Theoretically. But listen. I'm not trying to say you're wrong. I'm just saying. If we can actually do that? Why aren't we doing that? If everybody hates it then it would already be dead because nobody was using it.

That part.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"

One day we're gonna talk about long covid. My cynical self says it'll probably be decades from now. Scientists will be studying history and be like "wow! It fucked everybody up and they just didn't talk about it." Just like we didn't acknowledge that a million plus people literally died.

I have expanded “Does Baby Have Hat” to include “How do we get everyone , therapy , a consensual sex life and WEED, with as little bureaucratic content but as much documentation delivered As cleanly and accessibly as possible”

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls