nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

Sana and I were subjected to some really awful stuff online in the early days of Ms Marvel and as a result I have neverrrrrrr posted a single photo of either of my kids on social media, even in friends-only contexts. I don't even use their real names. And I never will.

i just make video games man you can just make them you dont have to get up on stage and say dumb shit instead of making a video game

Manifesto:

Good article by Josh Milton. Please share. metro.co.uk/2025/10/16/i...

Gee I wonder how an American flag with a swastika on it got into the office of a GOP representative from Ohio. Truly a mystery. I really hope the Capitol Police can unravel this mystery.

dune 2 others as you woudl have others dune 2 you

its not just "oh the owner is an asshole and moderation sucks", X is a fully fledged arm of the American govt both as propaganda and surveillance, and existing on that website is simply setting up shop CLOSER to the folks who wanna hunt down minorities and get them fired/doxxed/etc

ok listen. i know no big platform is actually "safe" atm. Bluesky is run by shitheads, this place sucks too. that being said, i need to fucking implore you, Twitter's unsafety is on a whole other level. there's "not safe" and then there's the actual wolf's den.

As we go into No Kings weekend (and with the influx of new followers from x) seems like a good time to resurface this. It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest

fascinated by the images people choose to show off CRT monitors on ebay

The US Virgin Islands Finally Legalises Gender Marker Changes After Decades transitics.substack.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

@neolithicsheep.bsky.social would probably find this awesome. Alt text to come; my ADHD is killing me today.

The dominant business plan these days seems to be let’s turn everyone into slaves, who famously never revolt

The way these guys strain against mortality is only going to get weirder tbh. I would caution anyone against conspiratorial thinking that "they know something we don't" because, first and foremost, these techlord guys are morons

Taps the sign

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS: During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭 Why that matters 🧵

it’s yet another good day to donate to @transjournalists.org i have a recurring donation set up & it brings me a flicker of gladness every time i get an email saying the month’s donation went through, would recommend www.transjournalists.org/donate/

Vance reacts to the Young Republicans chat leak

TIL the extended cut of Star Trek V has a longer version of Kirk's famous speech in which he says: "I've always known I'll die alone While playing Kenny Loggins' 'Safety Zone' on an old trombone dressed up as Al Capone riding on a cyclone"

In the early days of FB it was common courtesy to friend anyone you spent more than five minutes talking with. So now I love to get a Thumbs Up React on a picture of my child from someone I made out with at a party in 2005 and never saw or spoke to again.

I see y'all arguing with Amanda Marcotte & let me crank up the wayback machine...she hung out with a bevy of white feminists who didn't think they were racist, they just thought BIPOC women should wait until all the other issues were solved. She's one of the reasons #solidarityisforwhitewomen exists

Aside from losing many Democratic seats, Black representation in Congress will probably drop from around 14% of seats (nationally representative) to maybe 7 or 8% (not representative)? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

If you can donate to these 49 villages struck by the left over typhoon- on the west coast of alaska (only accessible by plane r boat!)- please do. Thank you. I just did, it was quick.

When I was there, they had cardboard stand ups!

“This is essentially despotism as a service.” Over two decades, a little-known company called First Wap created a surveillance empire. Its phone tracking tech has targeted politicians, journalists, actors, and maybe even you. A groundbreaking investigation from @lighthousereports.com:

*10/15/2025 noncooperation thread* DHS put up an illegal fence. Everyone from protestors, to lawyers, to the fire dept, to the mayor refused to comply & demanded its come down. Yesterday it did. & the regime learned (again!) that they're not nearly as strong as they want us to think they are. 6/

*10/15/2025 noncooperation thread* ICE: Let's grab 'em at an elementary school drop-off! Hundreds of Chicago parents: NOPE. 7/

Spotify responded that the ads do not violate its policies.

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

History kinda glosses over that Hitler was a pedophile obsessed with his own niece Geli Raubal who he pretty much kept as a prisoner in his home until she took her own life, or for that matter how young Eva Braun was when they first met. Nazis were always just like that it seems.

A pregnant woman. They denied a chair to someone who was PREGNANT.

Did we get a list of the people who bankrolled #jan6th? 🧐 “…an unnamed organization budgeted as much as $3 million on the Jan. 6 rally and related events, including for bringing VIP guests and protesters to Washington and ad buys for a show of force.” $1M went to TPUSA … 1/x

"As is often the case in the AI industry, Nvidia came to the rescue, announcing a $100 billion investment in OpenAI. Now OpenAI has the money to send to Oracle to build data centers, which Oracle will fill with Nvidia GPUs. So wait—is Nvidia just paying itself?" prospect.org/power/2025-1...

If this is how Israel treats a internationally-known white European citizen, imagine how they are treating Palestinians every day

Creosote and apples for Hemlock & Silver. What Stalks The Deep has a lot about mine gases, so y’know, I’ll sit this one out.

new rule any time a non-trans man discourses about how we are or aren't lesbians they owe me $1 for each post

The Road of Kings threw some quick colours on this one, not really putting much thought on the whole thing

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?" Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

I was very sad to learn of the passing of one of the most amazing artists of my generation, Drew Struzan. His was a stellar talent, especially in his chosen field of endeavor. 1/3

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says www.theguardian.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Women across the US are facing criminal charges for miscarrying—this is what "fetal personhood" looks like.

People do fandom stuff for two reasons - - it scratches their creative itch - performing, writing, building, drawing, analyzing like other people talk sports - in & of itself this is fine, no more harmful than other people playing golf - or they are pathologically incapable of living in the world

Chicago, LA, etc. have already become something that to me is more worrying than Trump’s “training ground for the military”: training grounds for a rapidly expanding parallel domestic paramilitary force—CBP—that lacks the military’s guardrails and is eager to do what the military is reluctant to.

Your standard online liberal who worked at a conservative think tank in college

“Stop being mean to my friend”

Chain-link cages. Flooded tents. Clouds of mosquitoes. Malfunctioning AC. Scarce food. Zero recreational time. This is life inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz.