Randomly remembered this morning when I was dating a guy ~15 years ago and upon my first visit to his apartment I said, “oh, cool, I didn’t know Keurigs came with different color water tanks. [pause for realization] Oh god. Oh god. That’s mold. Your whole Keurig is covered in mold. Oh my god.”

ACAB includes Elf on the Shelf.

our emotional & practical survival over the next year is going to depend on us developing the emotional depth to say "hahaha fuck yeah, shit has gotten so bad that even [terrible person] is trying to save themselves" without being like "so they're not terrible anymore, maybe?"

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.

All I want for Christmas is the world to be considerably different in many ways.

the president’s baffling decision to put a bunch of deranged plaques under every president’s picture is like a bat signal for me personally so uh here is this quiz www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

With this and the Atlantic piece about academic accommodations, seems ominous that elite media's decided the rights of the disabled are the next thing to have a moral panic about.

One of my 5yos made me a “love card” with drawings of us surrounded by hearts and he used his new phonetic writing skills to laboriously write out “fum [name] fooer mama”

Getting a COVID Vaccine while Pregnant Slashes Risk of Premature Birth, Major New Study Finds www.scientificamerican.com/article/gett...

did it in four words hemmingway

When I by blood and luck am eighty-six and you are someplace else and thirty-three believing in sex and god and politics with children who look not at all like me - Miller Williams, A Poem for Emily (I love this whole poem and different lines from it pop into my head all the time)

“For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break” - John Frederick Nims

“She had thought the studio would keep itself; No dust upon the furniture of love.” - Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin

I felt pretty confident that wasn’t a FAFO situation for the Leavitts - turns out the brother has a history of trying to weaponize ICE against the mother of his child.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes

Of course the article’s conclusion is that executives need to bring workers along on AI, rather than questioning whether the workers might be the ones seeing things clearly here.

it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago

Based on what I’ve seen so far I think I’m an outlier. I’d drop green bean casserole easy, ham if I had to, and pies after that. I’ll keep allllll the carbs.

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

The 9yo friend sleeping over has had trouble falling asleep. Juuuust as I thought it was safe for me to turn in for the night they’re wandering the house at 12:30am. I am trying to remember that this child is not trying to keep me awake, they’re just having a hard time doing something new.

Pay walling your revenge porn is certainly a choice!

Man what the fuck IS the structure of Democratic comms strategy? There's a lot of very obvious details that we can infer from the output, but I would really like to know the specific management structure that has completely monopolized SMS and email for only this purpose and no others.

Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others. Love all, help all. Go Jackets.

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?

The mass murder of civilians in order to maintain the economy is an ongoing moral injury that is only compounding with time and Americas inability to talk about and process grief The necropolitics of Covid were the trigger for and normalization of the eugenic of today and the mass murder of tomorrow

This is powerful, and something I needed to read today.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

"IF YOU'RE ICE, THEN YOUR MOMMA RAISED A BITCH" strong contender for protest sign of the year

It’s not just “don’t comply.” It’s deliberately doing the exact opposite. They want us too sick to resist. Refuse. Mask up in public. They want us isolated and in competition with each other. Refuse. Build community. They want us dependent on their systems. Refuse. Create mutual aid networks.

Cuomo could never.

Just spent a long time scrolling through the replies - a great way to end the night and start a new week.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

They’ll ask you to mourn the deaths they mourn, and no others. They’ll ask you to cherish the lives they cherish, and no others.

you know how it goes

Still thinking about how I had to drive out of state & lie to get mine. If mom wasnt there to back up my lie, I’d be up shits creek. Someone else has prob said this elsewhere but its a shame we now have to set up whisper networks & green books equivalencies for vaccinations in Southern states.

I, a healthcare lawyer, run through how to navigate the pharmacy websites to make a COVID vaccine appointment. This video is completely shareable, there's no patreon account, no log in at all, required. It's meant to be a shareable resource for your normie friends www.patreon.com/posts/138393...

OH: if vaccines caused autism, we’d have way more trains in the United States

Tylenol/autism stuff is bad for many reasons, but it will be used to push the idea that pregnant people shouldn't have pain relief. Women's pain is already dismissed.

To speak of vaccines as a tool for our personal or our children’s wellness is to lose before we start. Vaccines keep COMMUNITIES safe. It’s how public health works. My children’s vaccinations protect children we’ve never met. ✨ Higher education was also once understood as a public good, and then…

One of my primary measures of the quality of a home services company is whether the men they hire feel safe to be alone with. I absolutely pay a premium to make sure I’m not in the house alone - or providing inside info on our household - to men who feel unsafe.

They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal

trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream

i wish i may, i wish i might wake up to news of pure delight

regarding chat gpt if you didn't take the time to write something why should i ever, ever, EVER take the time to read it

Contrary to Trump’s grotesque, self-congratulatory press releases, he has not ended gender-affirming care for young people; rather, as the health care workers I spoke to this week made clear, hospital management, boards, and their legal advisers have ended it for him. My new story:

My niece was diagnosed with a brain tumor at 3 years old; our family’s worst fear is that it will re-occur. Can you spare a few dollars to help this family as they face the reality of a recurrence?

It’s 2am and despite all the awful shit going on in the world, the thing I’m laying awake mad about is the floorplan of the flip I toured today.