I don't disagree with this, but do want to add: I think it's good to intentionally take moments and ask yourself if you might be trans, and to imagine yourself as the opposite gender or agender. Not because I think it's likely you'll be surprised by the answer! (cont)

this is helpful. but I can tell I have the brain of a parent-with-kids-in-school, because I read this very differently than intended, lol.

in addition to being lies made in bad faith, this is such a bleak worldview. "THEY are hurt, therefore WE have won." even if you believe that the destruction and suffering was worthwhile (it wasn't) or necessary (it wasn't)... what did it make better? (nothing - it made the world worse)

I'll take this a step further: most of the AI proponents I see - especially with social platforms - don't understand the methods, theories, debates, and philosophies of machine learning either (aka - the three raccoons raccoons tech companies are shoving into a trenchcoat and calling AI).

the "I don't do politics" thing is so hollow, empty to me. you ARE part of communities. EVERY community creates processes and organizations for communicating, understanding, negotiating, and organizing with itself and other communities. those processes? politics. those organizations? political.

ya, grew up in Minnesota and I've always just assumed that "ope" (not really a thing) was how people heard Minnesotans say "oops" or "oh" (ya, pretty common and we kinda drop the "s"). now, if you wanna talk "duck, duck, grey duck" or "hot dish"... those topics got some meat on them (pun intended).

lol. this is such a funny misunderstanding of AI. if AI is trained on collections of stolen / minimally-curated human work (and a lot of what we call "AI" is), then it's going to capture and sometimes reflect their mistakes, too. which mistakes show up and when can vary, but...

first, "technical" teams I've worked with who had more women (& more diversity overall) were straight up better than those without, & the exclusion of women from tech is a disaster for industry & academia. second, hate to be reductionist but... prob explains a lot about how we got modern "AI".

look. I hate our justice system, and the fact that it is no way a system of restitution or community healing. I'm all for getting the most folks possible out of our shitty prisons. but this person? lol, they'd be very, very low in the priority order and it's embarrassing a Dem acted otherwise.

this - and when I mentioned that coffee made me sleepy - were the flags my therapist used to begin an ADHD eval. (yes, it turns out I very much fall into that spectrum, and it was very helpful to get access to language, strategies, and meds that guided me to.)

ya, I dunno. maybe it's just me, but I kinda think it may do more to reduce crime (AND make life better for people who deal with crime as their job) to build systems and supports that reduce the causes of crime.

there are so many wonderful, generous artists on this platform. sincerely grateful. also: I really appreciate it when you put your name in your piece! I try to be careful about sharing the artist when I share the art, and I appreciate when you make it easy to give you the credit you deserve!

"Brian, who lost 2,500 working hours to sleep in 2025, warns he will perform poorly under new work schedule where people do not sleep" lol THE COST OF A COMMUNITY GOOD IS NOT A LOSS, AND IT'S MISLEADING TO FRAME IT THAT WAY.

we all live in community. community develops systems and organizations to communicate, make group decisions, and take group actions. those systems and organizations? government. the process? politics.

And as someone who closely monitors both websites I can assure you that X is a right wing radicalization pipeline, including for people who consider themselves smart and progressive, while Bluesky is just an overwhelming left leaning platform. Those are very different things.

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

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here me out: fly by ski jump archery.

I would ENTHUSIASTICALLY pay more if I knew creators (designers, artists, QA, devs, etc) were being paid fairly and treated well. I would pay more even if it took longer to make the games. honestly, that would probably often result in BETTER games, but I'd pay more even it made games worse.

Anyway, when all of this started, I kept saying that you have to always look at these new technologies through the contempt that the tech world has for labor, and their campaign to destroy anything they can get their hands on for a bit more money. Human deskilling, not flourishing, is their goal.

authoritarian checklist would have been a better label. tho I get that the goal of calling it a playbook is that it highlights the way that authoritarians are usually proactive and intentional in their efforts.

It’s not just that they normalize political violence. They also accuse the left of engaging in mostly imaginary violence, which gives unhinged right-wingers justification to “retaliate.”

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

The idea that this political violence is the consequence of people on both sides cheering it on seems like a sympathetic point but just doesn’t hold up to history. In my adult life, I’ve seen people on the right do everything from kill politicians to kill regular citizens, and it’s shrugged off.

I worked on intimate image harm moderation / reporting at Meta, and based on my personal experience I agree company leadership is not acting in good faith on the issue. they elevate public facing fluff while ignoring and demoralizing people and teams trying to make Facebook (at minimum) less bad.

the core concept of socialism / Marxism - that separation & imbalance in power between workers and capital holders is toxic in both theory and in practice - is so transparently obvious that (most) capitalist systems try to safeguard against the worst abuses of it to slow their self-destruction.

big mood.

supporting this: the people likely to suffer the most if the US keeps going this way should not be the ones we expect to fight it head on. if there is any true obligation to fight for the US, that should fall on the relatively safe and comfortable allies* around them.

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

the people writing satires of war-loving, fascist regimes are weeping. "what do we do now? that would have been over the top even for us..." someone who played Helldivers 2 and didn't get the parody wrote this bullshit, and they deserve to be exiled more than any immigrant.

(speaking into a flashlight) and, in the dark, you would hear: errrr-MMmmM-EEEEEEEEEEEE! YOU'VE GOT MAIL.

(looks at images of destroyed buildings full of dead people that we killed to kill one guy kinda like a war crime) going to (dis)respectfully disagree.

it's very tiring to constantly see Democrats and media orgs - when they meaningfully criticize and interrogate GOP nonsense at all - get hung up on details vs putting shit in context. opsec blah blah? ok. sure. but also: * attempting to hide * war crimes * for favors from other countries

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

I was born near here and can confirm! Minnesota actually had to agree in advance to build the city to be featured in the game, including writing a whole bunch of lore for it!

embarrassing take. are there ugly misogynist bubbles of propaganda that a lot young men get sucked into? yes. obviously. but we fail bc we need to tear down those bubbles and what enables them. plenty of people speak to and / or are good models for men! they just get drowned out by trash.

hate the reporting on this, because it's three lies and this hides the more important ones. 1. lying about amounts 2. lying that it's a "savings" (as if there is no cost to the loss of things or the method of cutting) 3. lying that they are in good faith trying to "save" anything

If your digital privacy advice is impractical for most people, you're committing malpractice. Dogmatic, absolutist, elitist approaches towards privacy and security are actually harmful. These attitudes lead to "privacy nihilism", where people assume there's nothing they can do to help themselves.

trans man are men. trans women are women. trans people are people. please know that you are valid and loved and cared for. fuck anyone who says or votes otherwise.

writer: [very high] so, like, instead of, like, a wood puppet becoming a boy... editor: [very high] yea?! writer: what if Pinocchio was, like, an ABSTRACT idea, ya know? like, what if... what if we made the CONCEPT of "both sides" into a real boy? editor [realizing they are not high enough]: wtf

it's not only morally good, it's more financially and logistically efficient! do it!

this also reminds me of the extent to which the media is willing to assume that the GOP will NOT do ("how much of this is just playing a character?") vs assuming what the Dems WILL do ("will X choice cause inflation?", "will Y policy FORCE the GOP to do bad things?"). exhausting.

ah. yes. it is the left that systematically embraces hostile, inflammatory rhetoric. for sure. (picture taken by me in good old Woodinville, WA this morning - lol, the light changed as I took the photo so, no, I wasn't driving or blocking traffic)

as a former t&s person who - courtesy of wonderful colleagues - worked from a restorative justice framework: 1. I get why a "neutral" principle like this feels reasonable. 2. I acknowledge that it can be a good starting point for interaction goals and to inform certain t&s tools / interventions.

my adhd brain kept skipping the first paragraph in this post. that context makes for, uh, a very different experience, lol.

one thing I've truly loved about getting older is an expanded view of who and what is attractive (regardless of gender). gimme scars, tattoos, dirt, and some smile lines, plz. smooth and pretty is a hurdle for a character to overcome to avoid being bland and forgettable.

maybe not motivated by a specific ideology, but certainly enabled by one.

I really appreciate the effort @michaelhobbes.bsky.social puts into his thoughts, and that he takes the time to share them here. I think that here he is getting at the heart of a lot of conflict in "how are economy / wages doing" dialogue. short, quippy: removing the knife vs healing the wound

I agree with this perspective wholeheartedly. also want to add: politics and government are simply formalizations of the processes and orgs communities use to negotiate among and meet their needs. if a story is going to have characters with any depth, it's going to be "political".