This type of thing where voters think their vote is just a nice little I'm mad button they can press instead of an actual serious responsibility they have infuriates me

Why did the white working class abandon the Democratic Party by 1968? Did something major happen in between 1964 and 1968?

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

with all due respect to @jamellebouie.net I do not think I actually have enough core strength for that

Oh, god. Do I need to be on the side as Christine Brennan?

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If your name is Russell and you don't refer to brussels sprouts you make as "Russell's sprouts", you don't deserve happiness.

OMG thank you. A bunch of dipshits have wildly over-indexed on this and the Lynn Cheney thing, when not one voter out of a *million* knows who all those people are or what happened.

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

they deserve to be exponentially more widely hated than they are, and I believe we can make this happen together

Watching Olympic curling I had recorded. Most sports, even if I don't know the rules, I can get the basics. I have no idea what's happening here. If you showed me this as performance art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, I wouldn't question it.

Asimov's actions, and the tolerance-up-to-celebration of it, absolutely drove women out of field and out of fandom, and made it easier for others in the field, writers, editors and fans, to follow his lead for decades. Asimov pinching asses was not about his work. It kept women and their work out.

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

This is a crucial point. MAGA is mostly not made up of people who want to act as foot soldiers for a fascist regime, they want to watch someone else do that. They are above all consumers of content and their love for Trump is as someone who makes the fascism-themed content the crave.

Bannon says shit to get people wound up, then people think they're savvy politics knowers for getting wound up.

This is so tone-deaf when the league can't even be bothered to show up to a negotiating meeting prepared. If you actually cared about the power and progress of women in sports, you would give into the players' demands today and let the offseason finally commence!!!!!

Forgive me for not being shocked that a spiritual cult leader turns out to be a child rapist.

Without a major investment in publicly funded media or VERY well-funded worker-run collectives, we are all on a sinking ship. The problem is convincing the public that they're going down, too.

We gotta stop conflating "All feelings are valid" with "all feelings are proportionally appropriate reactions."

no like literally I am sitting on so many stories that I don't have the legal protection to run at my newsletter and I can't find a newsroom with the money or resources to commission them

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

The mass layoffs at the Washington Post feel worse than the ones made during 2020, especially after the ones at NBC News, CBS, and the WSJ. So many smart and experienced people will leave the industry forever.

If many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...

timeline cleanse

I genuinely don't know what any political movement gains by disparaging normies. To win power, the vast majority of normies have to support you.

None of whom are out, root for women’s hockey instead, it’s gayer

if she doesn’t want men beating up women why is she in the goddamn republican party lmao

Imagine the things that Stokely Carmichael would have posted about Dr. King

yeah, the strategic battle is over legitimacy and popular support. nonviolence doesn't make you safe from a violent regime, but it does visually clarify to bystanders who the villain is, and undermines their legitimacy and popular support in proportion to how thuggish the repression they can see is

A story in two photos, or, why nonviolent resistance is how to win

What about MoveOn dot literally org?! I know people who were arrested in anti-Iraq War protests in 2003, got treated badly while in custody, filed a lawsuit, and got damages because of civil rights violations. A lotta that gonna be happening in the future.

All else aside, it’s really weird to hear someone say that Occupy in the U.S. was the first time “people from the Internet” showed up to do on-the ground activism - uh, what about Iran in 2009? Or the entire Arab Spring (which began well before Occupy)?

*Drank raw milk in pregnancy* Good lord. You have MAHA demonizing vaccines and Tylenol when they love them some raw milk, and this is the shit that's actually dangerous.

hey brain hows it goin?

i'm a single issue voter. it should be illegal to call it 'buffalo chicken' if its just a chicken sandwich with a little chipotle mayo. and you can't call it chipotle if it is mayo with a little paprika sprinkled in. two issue voter i guess.

Not totally ignored because other people targeted tended to know. So did the black women who exposed YourSlipIsShowing. But come on, the dominant narrative always tried to boil it down into something unique to video games or abusing women

why did I have to do better critical analysis on what started as an act of domestic violence my abusive ex was doing to me only to be mostly fucking ignored about the larger implications until the pedo web ring blew up

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

Firefighter here, please don’t light dumpsters on fire. They are full of god knows what that can be real bad for people near it and the firefighters putting it out. Thank you in advance.

Look, I am ready for this to be a compromise. These things are always a compromise. But I was expecting the W to make an effort.

God forbid women do anything.

Payphones ringing ominously in sequence is possibly one of the all time great conspiracy movie bits

Someone posted this quote, about Boston in the aftermath of the Fugitive Slave Act and the kidnapping of Anthony Burns in 1854, the other week and I’ve been thinking about it a lot since

‘Isn’t it interesting how protestors are always vindicated 20 years later?’ was such irritating smug midwit shit. Protestors are wrong all the fucking time.

I mean, part of the problem is that those who self-identify as 'libs' understand it's a big tent and hate some of the leaders. But the leftist straw man of 'libs' is that we all love chuck schumer

my objection to black bloc and, in fact, the entire associated set of tactics is that they don't seem to work, which i guess makes me a lib by bluesky left/liberal divisions amusingly this does not work the other way; i am not a leftist because i think nearly every democratic institution is rotten

“I hate small talk and performative greetings, I want real connections with everyone I meet” have you considered for a moment that not every person you meet want to connect with *you*

"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.