Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

We have to impeach him.

The reason you go scorched-earth on this is the same reason we should have gone scorched-earth on impoundment; you can't stop it from happening, but you absolutely need to stop it from becoming a normal part of politics. You have to draw a line.

It is likely that the tech industry has an active and growing methamphetamine problem, which is actually totally fucking obvious if you read anything coming out of the tech industry right now

a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must make all of our management decisions

So much discourse on masks as a result of the Pod Bros and Jon Stewart making jokes at the expense of sick people. So I wanted to share what it looks like in your biomarkers when you need a mask and could benefit from other people masking. I will explain these numbers for you.

Please remember that as this happens, women are also being stripped of the right to control their own bodies, young women are being pushed into tradwife bullshit, and a new generation of conservative men increasingly argue that women shouldn’t even have the right to vote bsky.app/profile/mhar...

You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.

As I and others have written, algorithmic wage discrimination combined with the myth of “independent contracting” allows platform companies to use “desperation scores” to determine how little to pay drivers. www.reddit.com/r/confession...

I think about this one a lot

Making friends with my more aggressive kin here in sunny Queensland 🐦‍⬛

🔥 alt text: screenshot of Wikipedia entry for "reactionary centrism," the overview of which reads: Reactionary centrism is a term used by left-wing commentators to describe a form of political centrism that allegedly criticises the left while pandering to the right.

It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

U.S. House candidate Saikat Chakrabarti is pushing for four-day workweek.

@monteiro.bsky.social Nice to stumble into you here — assuming you're the Monteiro I think you are! We have mutuals, and met briefly at Chasing Wonder in that somewhat cursed session on "AI" 😂 _If_ you know me at all prior to that, likely would've been under my deadname which ain't hard to find.

It’s always amazes me how recent some scientific theories are. Plate tectonics did not become mainstream until the late 60’s. The Alvarez hypothesis (non-avian dinosaurs became extinct because of a large asteroid impact) became accepted 15 years ago.

this is blowing my mind “bears can squeeze into some pretty tiny spaces b/c they don’t have collarbones. All they need is an opening big enough for their heads to fit [...] we routinely receive reports of large, adult bears accessing crawlspaces through standard 8 by 16 inch foundation vents" WHAT

Spain is now the second and also the largest country in the West to have implemented a comprehensive trade embargo on all Israeli made goods in the Israeli occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights. It became binding law on December 30th.

Loder, who has shifted to Mastodon, said that for social networks “the product you’re selling is content moderation” Now that Musk appears to be reworking content moderation to tilt the playing field in favor of far-right extremists, Loder added, Twitter “is going to turn into Gab with crypto scams”

Call time is torture, the state of campaign finance rules are a joke, and Citizens United was a catastrophe. Reupping: radically reforming SCOTUS is necessary to the project of the next reconstruction. Our electeds and candidates in 2026 and 2028 must be committed to that.

I actually think it's time to bring back the approach of curated lists and webrings from the early web again. Huge opportunity space for hand curation of information

Im so angry that they fall for this. It didnt apologize! It generated a statistically plausible apology.

Today I'm feeling smug about my choice to never recommend Reuters, and instead recommend @apnews.com, if someone is looking for fact reporting. Idk why Reuters let fly a headline ascribing responsibility to something with no agency, but corporate/ownership structure and incentives ALWAYS matter.

The demonization of Somalis is no different than the demonization of Haitians before the election. It's a political attack and has to be actively fought—not through half-measures or expressions of tepid concern but by demanding decency from society and respect for all of humanity.

Elon Musk's accomplishments over the last year include starving thousands of people to death (and laughing about it) and creating Hitler AI that undresses children (and laughing about it). Is it time to do something about billionaires yet?

Let’s start off the new year with some photo fails for #PhotoFailFriday! The waves are beautiful but this was supposed to be a photo of a Long-tailed Duck. See, it’s right there. I promise! #WorstBirdPic

A couple Black-Crested Titmice in early January. 🪶

How to delete your data in one easy step — if, that is, you live in California. Gift link: wapo.st/44RD9y3

This is basically what the "Tech Industry" does now. Tech is using gamification for cruelty.

So something I've been talking about recently is the idea of giving credit where credit is due. This is something the ATmosphere & Bluesky do really well, but unfortunately isn't particularly common on the larger fediverse projects.

“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”

"the left failed men" arguments are pushed to hide the simple reality that Republicans are the party of male supremacy and it's attractive to a lot of men and boys.

it's a real symptom of widespread anti-progressive media bias that an explicitly progressive candidate is expected to feel a need to be apologetic about being progressive.

This Upton Sinclair quote never misses “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn

Perhaps the only good thing about my early sojourn in Christian fundamentalism was that moving on required intense study to rebuild my world... Including a deep dive into cognitive science. I would that it were plain as day for more people that LLMs aren't a building block of intelligence!

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

always read @natashalennard.bsky.social: "It’s high time that Democratic leaders treat the assault on trans youth for what it is: the attempted eradication of an entire category of persons, against which committed political opposition should be the baseline."

Spent damn nearly 30 years struggling with acne and a year on HRT just up and fixes it?! I feel like young Robin would've seriously considered transitioning a lot sooner had I known this was in the cards.

Serious thing for folks to consider is, particularly for marginalized people, Grudges Are Self-Defense. What you may be interpreting as pettiness is probably closer aligned to "You have demonstrated you're not to be trusted." And knowing who REALLY has your back is more important that ever.

"they demonize us because our mosaic challenges their ideology"

This or maybe a copy of Mary Oliver's Devotions.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Today is Haitian Independence Day.

What cracks me up is that, while I'm committed to barring the treasonous from power and using the unitary executive to reify democratic institutions... I'm also committed to abolition and universal care. Watch out! We'll make sure you never go without food, shelter, education, and healthcare 😱

Another reason why #TeslaTakedown is continuing, our work isn't complete until Musk faces justice for the crimes he's committed and facilitated.

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

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.