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Also, men often fail to recognize that their need to be viewed as rational, logical, and not ruled by their emotions, is an emotional need. Because if we're able to describe why something is good or bad we think we won't be judged for *feeling* good or bad about it. We're avoiding being vulnerable.

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Every year you do a drawing that is your best drawing of the year, and the Komodo Dragon Ass drawing is it for me.

Gonna start printing all the Butlerian Jihad Now sweatshirts next week. Get em while they warm. Etsy.com/shop/bumlung

Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

AI calipers! Get youuuuuuur AI calipers right here! Fine tuned on the most exquisite racism! You over there, fine gentleman, won't your good lady wife appreciate some new AI calipers?! Tell your high brow from your low brow! Nothing but the best phrenology can supply! AI calipers!

I see lots of apps and pop "science" socmed trends about this too: face shape/body shape/limb length etc can tell you something about the person. It's not cute or a curious game or quiz (as it's often presented), it's normalizing race science and eugenic thinking. It's all been debunked, stop it

Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.

A Walton, a Kroger and whichever hedge fund runs Albertsons got on the party line and took it to hell with everybody.

Ii would strongly recommend buying travel insurance for any upcoming flights and if you have a Costco membership, you can also book car rentals through its website.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

The Rutherford County Library System in Tennessee is temporarily closing two branches in order to remove books from them. Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon. bookriot.com/rutherford-c...

My crone heart feels like it's found home for some inexplicable reason

“Look at those women with their Stanleys and their toddlers and their bullet journals” they will ruin your life buddy

The key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. That’s the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogue’s stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the Condé portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.

the level of wishcasting is astonishing, they really believe they have a magic fairy dust they can sprinkle over a game production and it'll make huge chunks of the workforce redundant

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

Late stage capitalism is swiftly collapsing beneath its own contradictions into a full throated kakistocracy. (It's clear that capitalism was always headed this way.) I'm counting on sheer interest convergence to save us if anything at all can. For there are more of us than there are of them.

Treating anti-Blackness as beside the point, as not disqualifying, as something to be overlooked, I’d argue, is partially how we got here.

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

there is a LOT going on here but lord have mercy if you don’t get the fuck out of my good jewish face with ‘judaism is both a religious and a national identity’

I have had it up to *here* with every poster writing variations on "the oldest hatred...imagine if anyone said something like this about any other race...but no...nobody cares when it's Jews...." as if the past 25 years were not wall to wall examples of the most hideous anti-islamic shit imaginable

This is a big deal, the opposite of Obama standing down his organizing base after 2008.

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Something crazy about the US and international copyright enforcement regime is that they consistently criminalize digital archiving when it is done for pro-social reasons, but consistently protect the reuse of archived materials by other parties when it is for commercial reasons

"It's part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking... If we can offload that cognitive work, it's far too easy to become reflexive and hateful, while having a robot cheerleader telling you that you were right about everything all along.”

Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.

People who rarely interact with anyone even resembling an average skilled worker claim some bullshit

My mother was the breadwinner in the family, first to get a college degree in the family, and when she was pregnant with me her boss came into her office, told her that she'd never be the same accountant again, and fired her on the spot. That was in nineteen eighty two

Other than how horrible this situation already is, this *will* lead to employers reconsidering hiring discernibly foreign workers and/or the abuse of said workers due to their increased vulnerability.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

“LOL look at this—“ “I wanted to try out Chat GPT to—“ “Look at how realistic this creepy thing—“ “Its just a funny video—“ “I know its AI but—“ No. Many of us have said/done this innocently before or without thinking so I issue no judgement here. But the ones that know it & do it on purpose tho…

Good: Wearing your union T-shirt to the protest. Better: Bringing a whole group in union shirts, with your union banner. Even Better: Getting your union to publicize the protest and turn members out labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

There's no better way to understand how this economy really works than to see news that over 1 million jobs have been erased this year at the same time that the stock market is at or near a record high.

I woke up in a bitch eating crackers kind of mood.

"Lupe" sent this vid of a crew of farm workers harvesting peas near Greenfield CA. With recent rains it’s crucial for them to pick as much as they can as the rain can harm ripe peas by washing away essential nutrients and lead to physical damage and lower quality. #WeFeedYou

Viral posts about how Moms For Liberty had zero wins on election night...aren't true. They're misinformation, even dis-info. M4L did have a number of school board candidates win. You can verify that information pretty easily. They had *A LOT* of losses and their power isn't what it once was.

The response to Zohran Mamdani's campaign reminds me of the stories I've heard from ambitious, optimistic Millennials (esp. BIPOC) whose ideas are repeatedly shot down by managers, are told they don't have enough experience to be leaders, and are constantly subjected to microaggressions and racism.

Again: these people will not change their behavior or their culture until the consequences are meaningful. Start fining tech companies 1/3 their yearly revenue for each infraction, and then we'll start to get somewhere.

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The headlines from Chicago today are vile: '"Yo tengo papeles': Teacher detained by immigration agents in North Center day care" 1/ chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

ICE tortured this man to death

The fact a payment processor can make moral judgments is wild. I know MasterCard etc have already done shit like this, that's wild too. Like your job is to process payments. Not be a moral thought police.

Yes! And for all the Mamdani talk this year, Wu could be a step ahead. As my colleague @hsouvainehorn.bsky.social pointed out Tuesday morning, depending on how the city council elections shake out, it could be Wu cementing her ability to make Boston a center of progressive policy.

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it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry