world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Just like the narratives around trans rights and racial justice, this framing constructs "activists" as unreasonable, radical and holding all the power.

"Do you know how mean fat activists are if you lose weight?"

Do you know how mean everyone else is if you don't?!

attacks on trans people are deeply misogynist and will inevitably justify (and are intended to justify) abuse of all women and girls, cis and trans.

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the missing secret ingredient

wasn’t his party in power for like 20 of the last 25 years

Humans will never accept caring profession jobs being totally replaced by computers. I work for a telehealth helpline. There’s not much that our counsellors tell people that they couldn’t already find themselves online, but they’re looking for human connection. AI *can* be used for record keeping.

the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender

just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

btw I’ve missed you I hope you are well! Altricial and I are going to a cabaret tonight.

(This isn’t a slam on Bluesky, it was delightful to remember that I still had access to certain people after deleting X months back)

I genuinely forgot this app exists until I wanted to see what @jamellebouie.net had to say about the signal issue yesterday and didn’t have time for TikTok

💯 You’re just ceding ground to them

The Existential Threat of Ultra-Billionaires A handful of rich guys will burn human society to the ground rather than pay a dime in tax.

billionaires pay functionally no taxes. Kamala Harris halfheartedly promised to impose some. in response they spent $2.42 billion to elect a criminal madman president prospect.org/power/2025-0...

If you want to learn more about the history of this and why it was abandoned in the first place (along with a lot of other really key stuff on this story) listen to my podcast! We also have transcripts online: www.tested-podcast.com

Can’t express how little interest I have, as a lockdown old timer, in the opinions of people who were mildly inconvenienced. They’re oblivious.

I find the Aussies least affected by lockdowns were also the biggest whiners about it — spent years locked down in Melbourne and most people were just resigned to it, the second I landed in the Gold Coast after people would not shut up abt it. The only time I’ve heard someone say Dictator Dan irl.