Squabbling over disputed terf can get messy…

Yeah, if someone hasn't committed a crime the correct course of action is to let them walk free. Jailing people who haven't committed a crime is bad.

Pet very carefully

On a much lighter note than my recent posts, I very much want to write or draw something that I definitely should not be writing or drawing in my office :D

Dies ist der Zeitgeist. (ow my sides)

The inverted red triangle and paraglider in their handle (the reddest flags) tells you this person's worship of antisemitism and murder is central to their public persona. I know it's Twitter, not here, but wherever online you find 'em, block such people. Your experience can only be improved by it.

I think now that we have a Democratic congressional nominee (yes, denounced by many prominent Dems, I’m not blaming *Democrats*) *literally running* on concentration camps for Jews, it’s time for “there’s no leftist antisemites” to be viewed as as embarrassing as it always should have been

Also, even if we weren’t talking about long-established rights which they’re fighting to protect, those rights aren’t actually fucking unpopular. There’s a small loud minority of bigoted people who hate and fear them but they are a minority. Stop letting them dictate the narrative.

Some posters here seem to think the issue with the lady who wants to put "pedophiles" and "Zionists" in concentration camps & mutilate them is that her plan wouldn't be putting the ~right people~ in concentration camps & mutilating them, and we would be hurting innocents instead. If that's you,

The flashy expensive Samsung and Apple phones have one real advantage I can think of over less expensive ones, and that's in their cameras. They have both hardware and software image stabilization, and movable zoom lenses. It's kickass. But if you can get by with software-only features, the cost

Why is posting up this quote evidence that someone "didn't get" Andor? I thought the bland normie understanding of the show is that it shows how fascism takes hold, dilemmas in pushing back, and one or more paths toward survival...? (I haven't watched it yet.)

Periodic reminder that when you say "pedophile" you generally mean a person who harms or threatens to harm children via sexual abuse, but when people who would actually be dragging people off to these camps and forcing medical interventions on them say it, they generally mean "queers and weirdos".

Can someone please explain to me, again, ELI5, why highly visible members of stigmatized minority groups would voluntarily put on a show of support for political causes that see them as deserving incarceration, torture, or extermination? Like flamboyantly queer people boosting fascists. Why?????

I understand why someone (extremely unserious) might type the word "AmeriKKKa", and I get that they might type "ruZZia" to refer to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine since Feb. 2022, but why "ISSrael"? Oh, I'm an idiot, it's a reference to the Nazi Schutzstaffel. Har har har. Type correctly.

I imagine parsing the difference between "enthusiastically picketing a place where an unpopular activity is happening" and "interfering with people going about their lawful business" was already fairly politicized for decades because of picketers at, say, OB & public health clinics. Just a WAG.

Hell yeah, that's why I post my doodles online (and on my office wall).

Piloting a scout mech is risky enough. Only the truly bold or truly insane (or both) would volunteer to pilot one across a world with a deadly thin atmosphere, but here's this pilot, wearing a pressurized suit and probably working like mad to avoid getting seen or shot at.

[Fic/2SH/2ndP] You'd had that dream again, of stalking someone through the woods, then joyfully chasing them down and - well, better not to dwell on it. The subconscious mind does mysterious things, you tell yourself, brushing fragments of leaves and bark from your hair. It's time to take a shower.

Tired. 1) The word "antisemitism", a euphemism for Judenhass, has no hyphen, because 2) there are no Semite peoples and no Semitism ideology - Semitic is a family of languages, and 3) the idea of Semites is a product of race science freaks, which the hyphenated spelling endorses. Don't do that.

Work internet is down and my phone's Wi-Fi hotspot doesn't apparently allow connecting to some of the servers I need access to, so I'm posting this touchscreen sketch I made. I drew a portrait of her in Nov 2025, but I decided to develop her as an OC/'sona.

Why is it every single TTRPG campaign I've been in, there's always been some random buff and sweaty physically imposing female NPC that I (vis a vis my character) have to be instantly smitten with? Clearly all DMs have been the problem.

I found an animatic of a dialogue between A.M. and Ultron today. I'm not sure I'd say it was very good, but it touched on things like their respective obsessions with humanity, despite plotting its annihilation; a reason A.M. might hate Ultron; and a reason Ultron might have contempt for A.M.

"Unctuous" is a good word, and solid passive-aggressive tone. 👍 AI in general has fantastic potential already being realized. There are a lot of genAI implementations that are net negatives. Hence, we should be cautious of individual implementations, and impose restrictive regs on corporate ones.

I remember a scifi story (Niven's "Protector"? maybe?) that proposed a potential Act IV in which Act III people exposed to a critical nutritional item become much smarter, stronger, faster, and hardier than baseline, and we on Earth have forgotten that because the food doesn't grow here.

We've seen apparently functional people developing fantastical delusions of grandeur and promising to neglect their families as a result of AI use. I don't know if it's psychosis in a clinical sense, but it's derangement of some kind, and the chatbot owners create a moral hazard they should foresee.

This is super pretty.

This seems like a unique character concept.

"Who should we blame" seems less important RN than "who can we trust to help us make better policy". Granted that it includes few to no Republicans, but I'm sure some Democrats on either the state or national levels are more biddable than others.

This seems pretty grim. (and confirms some of my biases, so I'm somewhat wary, but I'm also not in position to evaluate the claims.)

It's probably (I say this earnestly) a coincidence that Hamas and their friends use 🔻 to indicate targets (or their loyalty to Hamas or antipathy to their targets), but it's an interesting symmetry nevertheless.

There was a writer on bsky who posted something antisemitic (maybe it was using "Pharisee"), was told it was antisemitic, and he apologized, said he never thought about it like that, regretted harm done, and pledged to do better (& has). That was nice to see, being earnest about being decent.

#gameoverse #halo #digitalart Immediately thought to draw this after the pilot

Shabbat Shalom/Gut Shabbos. My message this week is a little different, it is one of defiance. No amount of hate on or off this cursed app will ever diminish my pride in being Jewish. To quote Menachem Begin (z”l), “I am not a Jew with trembling knees”.

This was in response to my remark about lying down beside fire ants getting you stung. [Unhinged laughter] Posting without further comment.

"you *undress* the Torah?? you uncover its feet?!? Oh! Oh! Jail for hagba'a! Jail for hagba'a for 1000 years!"

The full quote, which comes about 3 minutes into the livestream, was "...the power to determine who gets to access information has never been circumcised by Congress, which is another reason why it's dedicated to the Executive."

Folks, I hate that I have to write this. Arguing that it is a physical and physiological impossibility for a dog to be trained to mount and penetrate a human on command is both wrong and misinterpreting the argument about grotesque sexualized human rights abuses. First, ask a z**phile about it.

I acknowledge that, and I appreciate that. Panic doesn't help, acting rash doesn't help. The line between "it's not that bad (positive, calming)" and "it's not that bad (dismissive, ignoring)" is hard to read in text, especially when primed by a decade of the 2nd version rather than the 1st. >

Sometimes it feels, when you pause to stretch your arm and shoulder muscles after hours spent on a computer, like the unclenching of the muscles makes way for blood to suddenly surge through them, and the shift in blood volume leads to greying out. Maybe that's BS. But it feels both good & v. odd.

Fear, like anger, is a response that should motivate us to do something about them, but it's important to avoid positive feedback loops (for either one!), and where that becomes too difficult for the individual they need outside support. And that is okay, that is human.

Raphi Bloom of the Jewish Representative Council: “More and more people are being drawn to Reform,” Bloom said, adding that Reform “has definitely had its issues with anti-Jewish racism” – but had “dealt with them” This is an unbelievably unwise assessment. Active self-sabotage, to join w Nazis.

Goddamnit

Is the framing of New York City retirees who are paid out of of city pension plans as fat cats who were hoarding wealth a reasonable take? I have an idea of who retirees from city jobs are but I might be wrong.

President Nixon was awful enough without needing to lay the blame for the fuel crisis and stagflation of the period at his feet without mentioning Egypt, Syria, KSA, or USSR. The 1973 oil crisis was part of the Cold War proxy war kicked off by Arab nationalists on Oct 6th of that year,

I have a list of organizations that fraudulently discharge PRP prior auths for us to treat our patients, then fraudulently request their own auths and fraudulently bill under them (without actually serving the patients). Three so far. Cutting Medicaid funds is not the answer to this kind of fraud.

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As a non-binary leftish person, I really don't understand why, every time I see another trans or non-binary leftish person posting about the Arab-Israeli conflict, it's one of two mutually exclusive things:

Sometimes they act very confused if you ask who or what is getting cleansed and how. I'm assuming they're aware of the implications, but some of them might genuinely not have a single thought in their heads.

This is real #firstworldproblems stuff that I should "check my privilege" over during, let's say, a discussion of hate crimes. Quite a contrast vs real problems like antisemitism and racial hatred, for those unaware. If you think fearing violent hatred is whining over "first world problems",

I'm trying to troubleshoot a game I have had installed on my phone(s) for about ten years now with relatively few issues, but which is now crashing constantly. I've tried uninstalling, removing residual files, rebooting the phone, and reinstalling, but within seconds of reaching the game's