i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

I can't remember who said it first, but I broadly subscribe to the notion that a "leftist echo chamber" cannot exist. I don't mean "leftists are immune to creating insular spaces," what I mean is "right wingers literally cannot take no for an answer and cannot shut the fuck up."

OpenAI backtracked on their opt-out policy and now they say they’re gonna work it all out with “revenue sharing” with copyright holders. how much for a license from Disney to relinquish any control over its intellectual property

another gem from my favorite subreddit

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

@bethanyblack.bsky.social said she taught herself economics after seeing so many financial news stories that simply didn’t make sense to her so she had to understand them better and it turns out she was right to start with and the economy simply does not make any sense

lol

ohh they got retired American military generals on NPR flat out saying “we cannot have a white Aryan race military” ohh good lord

Grey / Health

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor. Who could have predicted? Oh, right.

I don't want there to be an Israel somewhere else. Theodore Herzl proposed Argentina as an alternative to Palestine. Given how Jabotinskyite revisionist Zionism has unfolded, had it been Argentina instead we'd be seeing Netanyahu and his merry band of fascists genocide Indigenous people THERE.

Libraries worldwide have been impacted by Trump's tariffs. Books that are on loan from US libraries to international libraries are getting tariffed on their way back in, getting books from international libraries has turned into an expensive nightmare, etc: www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Webrings are back, baby!

the people who run this website think link is a bigger threat to the safety of the community than jesse singal and are willing to break their own rules to maintain the state of affairs they have created from that worldview

Remember when these guys ran a completely fabricated story about trans kids sourced to a single bigot who worked at St Louis Children’s Hospital and it got so much traction that they ended a bunch of programs for trans kids because of all the bomb threats

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

Greatest regret in life is not taking this George Foreman Grill once used by George Foreman on the Today Show. An inexcusable and hideous mistake. I should've brought it home and made it my wife.

Got yelled at by my university for posting on LinkedIn that I'm open to jobs abroad because things are looking bleak in the US. Somehow this was interpreted as a bad look for the university? I'm just saying what everyone recognizes as reality.

the hardest part of living in Portland is having your house burn down every single night and then having to rebuild it during the day. the amount of money i spend just in drywall is insane.

A popular user has apparently been suspended for mildly criticizing Bluesky’s CEO, and since she loudly proclaimed that bans and TOS violations were HER domain… Huge mistake. She handed everyone an easy narrative. The Waffles thing is opaque but ”Lady Plushbottom bullies user for joke“ is crystal.

All the journalists who rushed to lionize Kirk and decry political violence are gonna get right on this, right? Right?

Bsky has a laissez faire attitude about labelers created by randos with an axe to grind, but make an organized effort to protect the community from Zionists & transphobes and suddenly they're very very concerned hmmm

It's truly embarrassing the sheer number of Americans who sincerely believe the US is devolving into a fascist dictatorship "to distract from the Epstein Files". A 5 year old child has a better understanding of how the world works.

this will only continue to escalate, they want a civil war

I will log off forever before I sign on to Mastadon

this timeline is so surreal collapse of the republic! football! bluesky moderation meltdown! collapse of the republic some more! more football! the republic: still collapsing!

VERY chill out here tonight at ICE processing facility south of downtown Portland. Federal Judge (Immergut, appointed by Trump) just made ruling from the bench no federalized Guard to Portland from anywhere period.

Terrified Curtis Yarvin—the “philosopher behind JD Vance”—plans to flee the USA. The Dork Enlightenment guru says the Trump administration is failing to go full authoritarian. “I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

In so many cases, the solution to a frustrating interaction online is to take a deep breath and remind yourself that the person being deranged to you is not someone whose opinion you would care about if they screamed it in your face on the street, and you're deforming your nature by listening at all

i do think that’s where a lot of the obvious resentment for the userbase comes from. 90% of us on here doesn’t really care about the primary reason why this place exists but use his place out of sheer convenience

they reinvented twitter from first principles right as the most drugged out man in the world destroyed the last good bits of twitter. smart mgmt would realize that they’re just in the twitter business now, like how slack realized their pitch was irc for work after nobody cared about their game

Thinking how Stephen Bannon got fired in 2017 because Trump got mad that people were saying he's the real president. Probably wouldn't work with Miller because they only feed Trump AI slop now. They got him in the Professor X rig watching videos of himself leading troops in battle

"Nothing really happened... just a little pepper taste... I'm Mexican, what do you expect?" Why the outfit? "I like frogs!" Legend.

commit exactly one heinous crime that haunts you for the rest of your days. never tell a soul. this will allow you to look brooding and mysterious when you sit alone at a bar table in the wee hours of the morning.

"the Bad Faith Threshold" is a great coinage. The first wave of comments on a post, from those who do actually follow you, is usually interesting or fun or both. But the later waves are of scolds, humourless reply-guys, "sorry to be pedantics", "whatabouts", and "why are you insulting".

Just to clarify: The CEO responded to criticism by trans users by posting WAFFLES, which then was echoed by Jesse Singal, then she posted accelerationist stuff, then they banned one of the more prominent Black creators for pointing out she follows Tom Nichols and now is promoting Laurelai Bailey?

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

In the last 2 weeks MAGA aligned people have done 2 attempted mass shootings of a gay bar and pride center in Arizona and Texas, murdered 2 teenage girls for mocking Charlie Kirk, and torched a judge's home. Meanwhile, the government mobilized the military to go after the left.

Megyn Kelly has now made multiple denigrating posts about me across X, YouTube, her podcast so I’m sharing this. Unlike her, I don't perform dislike and disdain in public,then become my real self when the cameras are off. That's the definition of the grift she accuses me of;I find it profoundly sad.

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it

I don’t want to talk about this because I don’t want to be a target But on just a human decency level the person tirelessly deleting Gazans just permabanned the guy who uses his thousands strong platform to boost the fundraisers of literally anyone who needs money or mutual aid every single Friday

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Bluesky engineers when their website is successful