The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.

HuffPost: RFK Jr. rejected the findings of a recent Danish study that found no link between autism and Tylenol use during pregnancy. Isn't it great a guy who snorted cocaine off of public toilet seats get to decide what causes Autism? #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

Apparently, Kash Patel is known for frequent drinking binges, which may have something to do with why he's released false information to the media about major operations on multiple occasions. He is, however, aggressive about hunting down Trump's "enemies" in the media. archive.is/202604181500...

My life.

People who say the dreaded R slur isn’t an actual slur and it was made up by 4chan need a serious reality check. Throughout my childhood, I’ve been called, labeled, and even misdiagnosed by the R slur from professional doctors who had no experience working with autistic children. It’s not fun.

a world where sex is only okay if it can be turned into a punchline to punch down at somebody

If you haven't already, I strongly advise watching this new Extended version of Tank! the theme song from #CowboyBebop, with Yoko Kanno strutting her stuff with the original Seatbelts. It's also on streaming audio, but it's just really fabulous to watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d75o...

I didn't know about "unc," but I certainly know about appropriation of AAVE into white pop culture. This one does seem particularly sad, transforming a term of affection into a snarky putdown. Thanks to @aftermath.site & @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...

I swear that a "whites only" trailer park without running water reads like a fucking satire of racist assholes. But no. It's real. lucy-m.medium.com/a-subscripti...

This Tax Day, every American should know: Because of Trump, Amazon avoided paying over 90% of the taxes it owed. That's $17.5 billion that should be going to health care, schools, child care, and more. But instead, Jeff Bezos gets wealthier. Congress needs to tax the rich.

The Nordic model operates under the premise that the government and politicians know what's best for sex workers, whether sex workers like it or not. The Nordic model believes that silencing sex workers, surveilling sex workers and punishing sex workers will magically create safety.

The Nordic model doesn't work for one simple reason: It doesn't trust sex workers. The premise of the Nordic model is that sex workers cannot be reliable narrators of their own lives. It reinforces the idea that sex workers don't know what will keep them safe.

There it is: For a not insignificant number of people, it’s always only ever been about making people they find annoying angry. A whole movement built on resentment and vibes. Pathetic

bro. are you unwell

While Graham Platner has made some attempts at making amends with the Jewish community in Maine, @juliametraux.bsky.social reports he has taken no such measures for using the word “retarded” regularly. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I have lived inside the culture of not being believed as a victim of sexual assault. Eric Swalwell should not just drop out of the governor’s race. He should be nowhere near public office. He should fucking resign from Congress. 👇🏼

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

I'm seeing far too many people from progressive lefty communities trying to brush off the allegations against #EricSwalwell as "unproven gossip." The accusations against Swalwell go far beyond internet chatter. There have been fact-checked articles in the SF Chronicle and CNN. 1/5 🧵

When people say the Swalwell allegations are a distraction from Trump/Epstein (they are all part of the same bigger picture), I have to wonder why these people even supposedly care about Trump and Epstein. Do you care about sexual violence or don’t you? Why do you only care about some of it?

Journal comics- the joys of being autistic and anxious in which you worry your friends secretly hate you

Not even surprised about this. The one thing that people always mistake about fascism is thinking that THEY'RE not on the menu. You're always on the menu. It just depends where. And there's so much overlap between queer and autism that they're almost like complementary courses.

Describing MAGA accurately sometimes makes you feel like a moon landing conspiracy theorist. But like if NASA constantly bragged about faking the moon landing and gave tours of the moon set, and people just ignored it

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

It is absolutely impossible to play Rage Against the Machine's version of "The Ghost of Tom Joad" loud enough. I don't think that there's speakers strong enough to do the job. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyp...

Beautifully-executed piece by @drstaceypatton.bsky.social taking apart the ridiculous arguments in favor of striking kids as so-called "discipline." I wish to hell that we weren't still having this fucking discussion after all these decades. drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/charles-ba...

Scarlot Rose. 48" octa box flat overhead, black v-flats either side. #monochrome #impliednude #sensual #portrait #photographer #onelight #lovemyimagenotmycaption

Pay attention. We're on #TDoV, day 2. Until we can get everyone to stop being a pain in the ass about respecting genders.

basically like 3/4ths of the trans people I know are poorer, less stable, and less confident about their futures than they were six years ago when I first came out. I genuinely cannot tell you how vacant and hollow “TDoV” is for me at this point. Sure, allow me to paint a bright target on myself

Potentially unpopular idea: YES, I do judge people's morality by their politics. If you can really listen to Trump for 12 years and say, "Yeah, this sounds like the guy I want in charge," you deserve to be judged.

Please. Alt-text.

Got into a cycle listening to several different versions of Woody Guthrie's "Deportee" today. It was written in 1948, and goddamn it, it should not STILL be relevant. woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Depor...

Can we please dump this piece of shit now?

I wrote ten paragraphs today and deleted seven of them. Sometimes days just go like that. That's the process. You explore ideas, and discover some of them are bad and so you try another idea. This is why just putting your idea into AI doesn't make a real story. You need the back and forth.

Before you come in here trying to defend this garbage, please explain to me how isn't isn't antisemitic (All Jews are Zionists, and secretly support Israel even if they are anti-Zionists) and also not a call for ethnic cleansing.

It's not great that more and more of the political left seems to be embracing just openly rank antisemitism cause they've convinced themselves that, no, actually, I AM immune from propaganda and everything I consume is the unvarnished and righteous truth.

I FREAKED when I saw there was a sequel coming; I gave the original 5 stars the first time I saw it. And when I saw Stephen Lang in it?! THAT is a get, in my book. It didn't need legitimizing, no, but you put Stephen Fucking Lang in your movie and it is IMMEDIATELY a bigger deal to me. So let's do.

Other than ChessDotCom, what are some good online #Chess sites? I've been looking at ICC, but kind of feel deeply frustrated that there seems to be an emphasis on speed chess games there.

I'll show the patriarchy! Ladies, let's get our red robes on that let us pretend fascist gender oppression is science fiction & not the history of what women of color always endured in America!

Of course, many of the people who nitpick the science in old novels are also the same ones who will tell us that we need to excuse the sexism and racism because "it was a different time."

here's my hot take: I think poo pooing a book for having inaccurate science when it was written 50, 70, 100 years ago is just...that's not a critique, that's being mean

I'm gonna start taking up a collection for matches and fuel.

The antifascista conference in Porto Alegre Brazil has kicked off with a massive spirited march. Thousands of antifascist socialists, workers, land defenders, students, feminists have filled the streets for two hours already

Never trusted SURJ and am now feeling extremely vindicated

beyond parody that SURJ ("Standing Up For Racial Justice") endorsed the nazi tattoo politician lol

The thing about the leftists who are radicalized into antisemitism by their grief over Palestine is that they are so very very similar to people who are radicalized into Islamophobia by their grief over some other atrocity and they cannot see it.

This part. Starfleet Academy was the culmination of the TOS promise that we could have nice things (but of course, we can’t). SFA was devoted to canon while pushing Starfleet to embody its rhetoric. These writers deserve awards, not cancellation.

No VO > AI VO

david c. kaufman is such an incredible dipshit but he’s really taken it to a whole new level of dipshittery and commentary, well, lol what’s left to be said that hasn’t been

Oh, dear. This is taking the "Dark Urge" mode of #BG3 to its extremes. I mean, these are the people that I want to escape FROM in this game. Original: www.tumblr.com/hughmunculus...