The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

This week is the last week before Congress goes on December recess. When calling your House Rep also mention these bills: KOSA SCREEN Act COPPA 2.0 RESET Act Sammy Act App Store Accountability Act GAMING Act Safe Messaging for Kids Act Parents over Platforms Act (1/5)

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

#gravityfalls #artpost

Peanuts style experiment ft. Dipper and Mabel #gravityfalls

science experiment

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

As an actual writer I have absolutely no time for the romanticization of what is an underpaid and enormously uncool profession, but I will say this: if you use generative AI, you are not a writer. Being a writer is not about having a book or a byline in your name. It's about doing the writing.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

Device hoarding is saving lives in Congo! Thank you for your solidarity everybody, this is a group effort. 🇨🇩

Golden hour shots of some tote bags I embroidered a while ago 🧡⭐ #art #embroidery #tatreez #palestine

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

Cloudflare being down should translate into a snow day for people pushing 30

🌐 #art

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Legitimately I have been looking for years to complete this set @[email protected] RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/users/johncarlosbaez/statuses/115536284674899702

I’d also like to add: Share artists’ work. It’s not unusual for me to see people sharing AI images to dunk on them. For every AI image you share, even for the sake of outrage, you could have been sharing real art from a real artist.

Big and Little Spoons xkcd.com/3166/

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

oh it gets worse

My only edit would be he’s searching for movies he thinks he’s supposed to like

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

𓇢𓆸𓆏𓇢𓆸🪬𓇢𓆸𓆏𓇢𓆸 11.11, please, make a wish! 𓇢𓆸𓆏𓇢𓆸🪬𓇢𓆸𓆏𓇢𓆸

Everytime a natural disaster rips through the philippines, people from BGC come out of Satan's asshole to talk about their fucking city talking abt how flood and earthquake resistant it is compared to rural areas in the philippines, like its a moral failure to live in neglected, lower class areas

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

For everybody in the despair hole, some actual good news

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

I think democrats should push for a thorough review of all Elon Musk govt contracts as part of their 2026-8 portfolio. Why are taxpayers financing the work of a racist near-trillionaire? Leaving that unexamined was one of the biggest failures of the last Dem majority.

Look at it.

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

Muffins pumpkin! #mlp

What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.

I've said it to death but Disco Elysium's final moment is telling you, the player, "Please, please please please, do not let your political ideology become so all encompassing that you forget to be a person, this is where it leads," and then a ton of people finished the game and did the opposite.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.