Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read

well, turns out several reasons

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

supporters have been through a lot following this team, and much of it hasn’t been good. now they have a team they’ve deserved, plus players and a coach who understand the importance of this connection, adore it, and do their part to make it special. everyone here will remember this for a long time.

this is quite frankly outrageous

🫡

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.

Filed for future use.

Starting with "You can have your opinions on trans issues & who can/cannot participate in women's sports leagues based on gender standards" is positioning this as a debate. Trans people's ability to fully participate in public life is NOT an "opinion" to "disagree" on! We have lost the plot!

What the actual fuck?

The primary use case for "AI" is disinformation. Any discussion of the benefits of "AI" needs to include an understanding of the harms it does to our information environment.

They don’t even have to pretend to hide their racism and classism anymore. They just show their whole bigoted asses.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

That's no ballroom

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Updating my LEGO White House

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence” when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

Congress Sends Unemployed Americans 40 Million Boxes Of Saltwater Taffy From Vacation https://theonion.com/congress-sends-unemployed-americans-40-million-boxes-of-1844729789/

Same shit, different country.

💪🏾

Repost with alt text:

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.

Page A4, @inquirer.com.

I've just discovered there's a chip shop in Llangynwyd called 'Frying Nemo' 😭

Using ChatGPT

Dr Assal Rad— "This is how you do a front page story."

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

I do find it interesting how many people I know who are very sensitive to how CTE and physical brain injury change people but are just not open to the idea of a stroke doing the same thing

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

One of the perks of work-from-home days is being able to change your mind about what's for lunch. Today I cooked some pasta and tossed it with the homegrown tomatoes I roasted recently and topped it with Romano cheese. 😋

This is exactly why some of us told all our friends in swing states that they needed to vote for her even if they disagreed with her on big things - to make sure we’d have an election in 2028.

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Hey if you’re canceling a subscription maybe make it a donation to your library instead! Or to your local PBS / NPR station! All 3 have great resources available for free or very low cost and they all need our support right now

You can buy a secondhand copy of Bluey (the full series) on DVD or Blu-Ray for like $25 and BONUS you get to have it forever

If "political violence has no place in our country" as everyone is dutifully reciting, then abolish ICE, abolish DHS, abolish police, abolish the Department of War, shut down the prisons, redistribute the wealth and resources, stop the extraction and pollution, end billionaires.

Hannah Einbinder accepting award: "Fuck ICE & Free Palestine" and after: ''It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state.'

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Librarians (and honestly, everyone). Block and/or watch out for this account, which appears to be gathering posts critical of Charlie Kirk/right wing ideology. Note the misspelling of the handle.

where does the left go to get its apology

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“I am SO an American!”, summer 1949, New York, by John Vachon. “YOU BET, Sonny … No Matter What Your Race Or Religion! FIGHT Racial And Religious Hate”.

Thought his name was Kid Starver.

Who is more effective? Pritzker or Newsom? One is SUBSTANTIVE. One focuses on what fucking matters. One is focusing on artifice in part because he, too, is happy to sell out his own constituents for votes. WORDS AND ACTIONS ONLY

America is the Tesla Cybertruck of countries

If you didn’t institute a freeze months ago when we suspected this, do it now.