I have to live with this now, so so do you.

It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress. Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights. But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

Ok. I fled the US 10 years ago. I want to talk about it since welll. here we are. Why I left isn't overly important, but lets just say that none of where the US is now is shocking to me. I however, had two fortunate things. My father was an immigrant and my job was portable to an extent.

This whole section really.

To quote Terry Pratchett: Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.” ― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

Look. I'm not going to say "If you wouldn't give up your Harry Potter fandom for trans people why do you think you'll put your life on the line to stop fascism in America" But.... only because I know the answer.

Superman and Lois is very good Superman.

What the psychic said you needed was a beautiful Italian Sand Witch. Easy mistake to make.

The Orange Order is literally a hate organisation though? It's sectarian and homophobic and racist like, don't pretend it's just a meeting of polite dads who like a bit of drum and pipe music.

I don't know what Irish people can do about this, but I'm signal boosting in case anyone in #speirGorm can suggest something for me.

Every 4 years Ireland's data protection "regulator" writes to the Irish Council for Civil Liberties to say their investigation into shady Real Time Bidding ad networks' surveillance of <everyone> is at a "mature" stage and its release is imminent And surveillance + sale of data to ANYONE goes on

8 internships applied for so far.

This is literally the only tool in your tool belt, Americans. The second ammendment was never going to protect you against your government becoming tyrants. Only your collective ability to shut down the gears of industry will. Cost them money. Make fascism unaffordable. General strike.

There is a special place in hell for people who design websites that require popups to work, don't tell you in advance, and then fail if you don't preemtpively give them trusted status because the "allow this time" feature won't work. This is *particularly* unacceptable if the position is IT based.

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Yeah. Look. Violence is a tool. It should be the tool of last resort, or at least not the first nor among the first. But the right is using it liberally.

So. I object to Downton Abbey. I think the way they turned a Republican Irishman into a Noble because "they're the good ones" was tone deaf and indefensible. But. This man has earned my life long respect.

Oh... oh dear.

From 2023…

This is now etched in my brain forever more.

No criticisms, top marks, excellent cover. And the original, ofc www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkP...

My money remains on Charlie Kirk's killer being an accelerationist republican.

I am appalled that the EU Parliament even remotely considered giving a minute's silence to Charlie Kirk. This disgusts me in ways I find difficult to articulate and I am incredibly grateful to the MEPs who said "fuck that noise" and disrupted it.

They droned a second boat. We’re still going to Gaza. Pressure the Irish government any way you can to support the flotilla and sanction the country attacking us

A whole bunch of npm modules have been made vulnerable by by a phishing attack. www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-deb... The number of vulnerable packages is significant.

I never though the face eating leopards party would eat MY face.

On fascism and racism, Langston Hughes said, "Fascism preaches the creed of Nordic supremacy." He also noted, "Fascism is a new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America... This kind of terrorism is extending more and more to groups of peoples whose skins are not black."

The emergency alert will go off today at 3pm in the UK. If you need to have a hidden phone, here’s how to disable the alert.

If you are a trans firearms owner in the US, my condolences on the boating accident where your entire collection went over. In other news. Post hole diggers and PVC tubes and grease are relatively inexpensive.

I am normally *very* protective of Irish culture, in particular rebel songs (I generally don't think non Irish people should be singing them). And I can only speak for the Irish part of this. But fuck if it doesn't slap.

Gods. I wish there was a website IsTrumpDeadYet.com Because I keep seeing posts about it.

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

As a survivor of CSA; I am finding the "this bill isn't just about stripping you of privacy, it's about protecting children". It only does one of those. And it's not the second one. They are weaponising our (understandable) revulsion at the thought of CSA to hotwire our brain into accepting this.

I have learned a new thing in React. And learned that I continue to dislike React.

The poem was wrong. They didn't come for the socialists first. They came for the trans people first. Then they came for the other queer people. Queer people, especially trans people, have always been the wedge that fascists use to crack open the door.

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

We need to start speaking up- no- YELLING to support and defend trans people. If you're in the USA, call your legislators. Literally email and call your representatives. Cis people have the loudest voices right now and those voices MUST be used to protect trans people.

The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

I know I'm beating a dead horse but most mental health advice and therapy itself is designed to bring you up to a point of being a productive worker Healing in the service of the system without acknowledging the system is what that makes you sick

Liberals thinking the West Wing was educational or aspirational is part of what got us here. WW is political education in the same way Star Trek teaches you physics.

colonialism is a species producing system. it creates humans and subhumans. and these creations aren’t rooted in biology but systems of domination and violence.