Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

me - lol, lmao even me scrolling a little further down the tl - oh no you meant literally, they are literally doing this

In some moments, I am tied to the idea that transition is about making me love myself more. But as I've progressed, I've realized the true point of it is to allow you to relax enough to love others more effectively.

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

dudes who have built their entire careers around being really good with numbers and pattern recognition and shit reading all the same news articles about staggering, literally gilded age level inequality every day, and going lol, what a crazy amount of isolated incidents with zero correlation, wild

Broads: Are They Really People? Join us tomorrow at nytimes.com as Ross Douthat and a Neanderthal model we swiped from the Smithsonian investigate.

nah man, dude got put in the de-evolution chair and koopa set it to "Miocene", went to the plastic surgeon operating out of the old superclips in walmart and said "gimmie the undead danny trejo", dropped by spirit halloween's closeout sale and picked up the "90's prop comic" wig, unrecognizable.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

To say that the majority of Trek fans are right wing and that women don’t *really* like it is something that only a real trek fan would know that only a fake Trek fan would say

everyone says they want a third space until i offer them the use of the dank, lightless prison cells i've dug out beneath my home in secret over 30 years. way to let the perfect become the enemy of the good, guys!

Between Charlie Hebdo and Charlie Kirk, the whole of love is lost.

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

“YOU hit HER.” CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

One time, Jay punched me in the face.* It was 𝑎𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒. *metaphorically

"there are no atheists in foxholes" is a terrible expression. sure, the things that foxes worship do not resemble our "gods". that does not mean that they are atheists

I was an early adopter on bluesky and have enjoyed my time here and loved what we've tried to make here. But if trans people don't feel safe on bluesky, and bluesky leadership is actively disappearing the accounts of people raising concerns, no one should feel safe.

BSky hid @asukafield.xyz's transphobia mod list. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

I hold many grudges against "Artificial Intelligence", but perhaps the biggest one is how confusing this era is for all us Weird Al Yankovic fans.

Your site is gonna die harder than tumblr. Your community is built off the ruins of other sites that have done this.

This is a great thread.

in two years we went from "come here if you’re not safe on twitter" to "if you feel unsafe here gtfo"

CEO: We need to cut costs. Accountant: We paid you $50 million last year. You are being paid $1 million for this meeting. CEO: Who's that in the hallway? Accountant: That's Greg. He is the only thing keeping this company together. We pay him in nickels and Grubhub gift cards. CEO: Fire Greg.

Welp... now hateful conservative commentators don't have to invent a guy to be afraid of because there's an actual guy to be afraid of.

so much is bad right now but the AI stuff in particular is making me insane. a desperate attempt to smother all human creative labor at an absurd cost to the planet by some of the most short-sighted, rapacious, and pathetic people who have ever lived

A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.

I thought it was about the Pearl Jam song until same

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

The US and UK have been locked in the most intense of combats since 2016 to see who can destroy their own economy the most. And 9 years in, they're both pulling off bonkers moves every month to one-up the other.

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy. @kimoco.bsky.social

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

"There aren't enough resources for everyone! The only solutions are mass sterilisation and voluntary extinction!" "How about instead we redistribute resources so that everyone's human rights are met?" "GASP! What are you, some sort of radical!?"

"stick to menswear"

Them: debate me! You: *flips coin* ok cool you're arguing for trans rights this round.

For some very inspiring trans joy today, I recommend the following search:

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

I miss when the internet was just a place where we could easily find facts we were trying to find and as payment we’d have to watch a few seconds of a Rick Astley video every now and then

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

This nails it.

It’s giving “Sansa Stark dealing with Joffrey”

i keep seeing people say that LLMs are good at search. NO. WRONG. You have just forgotten how good search used to be. Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.