I was told electric car adoption and battery storage were impossible and that by 2026 we’d all know we’d never travel more than 100 miles in our lives and would be living with local agrarian societies with no electricity or modern medicine because we would have literally used up all extractsble oil

It's wild how many people are upset about Stancil commentating on a post that has an order of magnitude more viral engagement than his does.

This guy sure did www.amazon.com/Gunpowder-Ma...

as others point out, karl marx himself was extremely disdainful of luddittes and not metaphorically, he mentions them specifically

This is so dangerous. Will has never said anything transphobic, he’s not transphobic, he supports trans rights and is a civil rights lawyer! And he’s an abuse victim! This is Literally Orwellian!

you also have to grapple honestly with what they were trying to protect, because the guild system wasn’t exactly a model of equitability

I swear to God, the resistance of the anarchists I used to know to Then What Happened? the Paris Commune.

if you're going to hold up the luddites as a model of resistance to techno-social changes you think are bad you should probably grapple with the fact that they very definitively lost.

Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.

I was curious after reading the 100th reply to Will accusing him of “sending his insane followers to dogpile a trans woman” if Sarah there was getting dogpiled. I saw a couple people saying “this sounds like depression” in the replies, no mockery, nothing mean. Probably 95% positive

They happen when you drop ink into a cup of water

Yo there's more to life than guns and pleasure It's just till I find something better But I ain't ever gonna find a trunk of sunken treasure I'm a troublemaker, not a fucking double-major I love being with slug-traders and drug-takers

The left's core belief is that all Muslims belong under a boot and all Jews belong under the dirt.

😄 The pro-Kremlin newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets published an article arguing that defeat is actually a victory, and that losing a war is even advantageous.

I want everyone to imagine hearing the following from a friend or relative: “I’d like to introduce you to my new boyfriend. He doesn’t have any Nazi tattoos anymore”

This Gaddafi supporter is of course also a Putin supporter. "Russians with swastika tattoos aren't Nazis, Ukrainians are for electing a Jew" is a common belief among dumbass lefties, so it's no surprise.

This thread is pure gold.

AIDS took out nearly an entire generation of gay men, nuclear holocaust was an ever present threat that gave kids nightmares, Reaganomics, and a ton of other shit. We just didn't have instant access to social media so we could be in communion with other folks in a doom spiral.

adam mastroianni’s illusion of moral decline rules everything around me

Things are bad now in lots of ways, yes. But as a queer who came out in the 80's I can tell you w/o question it used to be way, way worse.

You know what is also free and doesn't include jerking it for 6 hours at a time? Going to a park! Touching grass. Hanging out with friends. Reading a book. Going to the library. There's so many fun free things and third spaces to be had if you just go outside!

"I'm a degenerate porn addict because it's the only thing I can do that doesn't cost money" is an insane self report

twitter v Bluesky

"When police asked the victim if Fournier had made any threats during the incident, she said he said, "I'll kill everyone here," and added that he regularly makes statements of that nature." They are so screwed up at a personal level.

Pop stars don't hype up flute players enough these days.

Ah! I'd been trying to find the answer to a closely related question: Is it possible that anyone, ever, has seen a neutrino? The Apollo astronauts reported seeing cosmic ray flashes. Maybe if there were a Cherenkov flash from a neutrino interaction at just the right spot in the retina...

the phrase i use in the podcast is "the democratization of airpower," which i think is correct: ye drones aren't something new, exactly, but a kind of cheap airpower accessible to nations that can't put together a fleet of 4th gen fighter-bombers

I always thought of gatling arms as firing mostly conventional bullets, but can we get a shotgun chaingun as a treat?

Am I crazy in saying this doesn't seem like the worst idea in the world? A buckshot blaster for things you absolutely, positively don't want to get droned. It's not super efficient but until better stuff rolls out this seems workable

"there's nothing in the rulebook that says i can't put eight shotguns on the turret"

A thing I've said for the past 500 years tbh

again it's striking how yarvin read the writing on the wall way before any of his fellow travelers: trump II has failed at the project of authoritarian consolidation

“What Democrats should be seeking to do is better fund state legislatures and Congress. Just as we are the side defending the vision of a competent and well-staffed civil service, we need to be the side defending the role of legislatures.” @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

Which way, liberal?

my confidence that these people are going to lose is rising and my estimate of the amount of damage they are going to do on the way out, especially as they realize they're losing, is also rising

Not only was violence a privilege (and indeed a means of socially acceptable amassing of wealth) for much of human history, many of the modern civil rights movements for various oppressed minorities eagerly embraced armed service under a principle of "you cannot say we are not citizens if we fight"

This is downstream of something we forget after the past couple hundred years of agricultural surpluses: historically, the vast majority of people were subsistence farmers and it was the lowest status, and *any* profession where you ate food someone else grew was privileged and higher-status.

glp-1s, drones, ai... yes, the silicon valley brofucks are obsessed with all of these, yes they are selling you snakewater "this will revolutionize EVERYTHING!!!1", and yet also... glp-1s work, drones are important to modern warfare, ai has legitimate uses

"Things exist and have meaning in the material world"

we really need to reverse like all of the shit they've done to DC

it's just absolutely wild that things that were absolutely 4chan troll claims about trans people being hypersexual are now taken as absolutely true, and I absolutely do not believe that there were zero cases of "real trans person believes RW lies & emulates"

if you posted like almost every trans person who screams in Stancil's mentions does when they're not screaming in Stancil's mentions -about puppy play or specific anatomical stuff or being horny all the time or whatever -the old trans community *which was also toxic* would have assumed right wing op

I regret to inform you that if you think “I must masturbate for six hours a day because society has been destroyed by neoliberalism” is a goofy take, you are now Transphobic

It’s honestly art. 2.5k likes bsky.app/profile/pale...

I like how in the past decade it's become an absolute article of Internet canon that all trans people post constantly about their sexuality. Like, I am not saying I think this is bad, I am not saying people should be repressed, but like, when I came out almost 15 years ago this was *not the case*

The three (3) unique policy positions Platner has staked out that are distinct from a generic Sanders/-adjacent Dem? —Big Pharma bad (RFKJ-adjacent slopulism —gas tax holiday (literally a Trump idea) —rebuild the American military and close the shipbuilding gap (also MAGA)

it might be controversial to say, but people who loudly and repeatedly say in public that "yes my trans identity is a weird sex thing!" are bad for the cause of trans rights in general.

in which supporting trans rights is transphobic, because I don't think someone's stand on Israel has anything to do with LGBT rights in countries not called Israel. 🤪

LGBT Jews in Italy (or the US, UK, Canada, etc) shouldn't have to release a statement about what's going on in Israel to march for LGBT rights.