Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.
Their new position also doesn’t include new restrictions either - phasing out direct financial support is the only new feature. Though that’s great, the position on sales to Israel is completely unchanged from their previous position of ending the exceptions - not something they’ve held endorsees to
Glad the needle is moving for sure, but the demand should be arms embargo. That they’re moderating their position is good but their dedication to the settler project remains. It’s not dishonest to say their position still maintains support for the Israeli incursions into Syria, Lebanon, or Iran
Mejia has moved away from her previous more hardline positions alongside Booker. With the recent J Street endorsement it’s clear that actually stopping Israel from getting the weapons they use to do their genocide isn’t a fight she’s willing to fight. Meanwhile, Booker can keep up his appearances
Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.
"Other countries are our property, and we dictate their behavior. You know, like women in marriage."
It really wasn't enough though, because in many men, their desires to act however they want with no consequences outweighs the principles they were supposed to be learning and molding themselves around. Revolutionaries just aren't really revolutionary if they can't first revolutionize themselves.
also i promise i don't mean this in a snippy way or anything but the cold war was about 3/4 of the planet attempting to stand up to the US and the US and its comprador puppets just killed everybody and erased this history. so like
Opinion I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence - but we are as valuable as ever Stephen Marche Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness - but language is more powerful than ever. It's up to the writer to do what machines can't Thu 2 Apr 2026 08.00 EDT
There seem to be two options facing writers. The first is not to use AI at all, or to pretend not to use it. The other is to automate their writing practice. The first is retrograde and fearful. The second forgets that art is a human practice, made by people for people. As becomes obvious when you actually try to use AI to make art, this is a false binary. Already a few paths through the slop are emerging.
The fact that machines can generate meaning in the first place is an existential curiosity. But for writers, and for young writers in particular, Al has a more practical significance. A recent survey found that 86% of college Read more students use AI regularly, which means that 14% are lying to survey-takers. The ordinary business of quotidian language - writing student essays, emails, memos, all the granular sentence-by-sentence work that once trained writers in their craft - is dissolving. Mastery of style, the laborious gift of the skilled writer, is being automated.
This is one of the strangest aspects of AI discourse to me. This article *twice* asserts that anyone who claims they don’t use AI tools is lying. Which feels like … such weird projection?
COMMENTARY I'm Gay, but That Doesn't Make Me 'Queer' My sexuality doesn't require me to reject all that is 'normal' and 'legitimate! By Ben Appel April 2, 2026 2:59 pm EDT
“I wrote a ‘commentary’ in the ‘Wall Street Journal’ but that doesn’t mean I have ‘original thoughts’ and am not just ‘writing the same article we’ve been reading since 1996’”
touching the hot stove and going back to an old account Snackson#1709
Is it worth getting into the game at this point or just engaging with the cutscenes/lore
There's a lot of conservative politics rooted in the fundamental idea that accommodations of difference are "special treatment" at constant risk of being poached by the "undeserving", and that suffering is both an inevitable fact of life and virtuous.
It's a contemptible social rot.
you should try to find a local reading group or study group to study and plan actions with (maybe look into DSA). the group should be reading Marx, Engels, and Lenin at least. marxists.org has the texts free online and SocialismForAll has audiobooks.
Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world
This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities
"Communism now no longer meant the concoction, by means of the imagination, of an ideal society as perfect as possible, but insight into the nature, the conditions and the consequent general aims of the struggle waged by the proletariat."
Engels, On the History of the Communist League (1885)
i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!
Instead of watching anything related to the terf supreme series, watch the Witch Hat Atelier anime streaming in 2 weeks for a well thought out magic education universe with complex characters and an author who continues to support LGBT causes. Better yet read the manga for the most stunning art
The eternity devil is so instrumental in being the first instance where Denji embraces being Chainsaw Man - but that starts the same cyclical repetition that Denji keeps fighting until he can’t even remember his lines in Ch230. They both pull out their own hearts to end their suffering
I've been working on this piece for a few months, and I won't lie it's hurt to go from hearing the suffering inflicted by this transphobic theocracy to seeing progressives sing its praises.
The bishops' ban is the most extensive trans healthcare ban in the country. It deserves way more attention.
The eternity devil is so instrumental in being the first instance where Denji embraces being Chainsaw Man - but that starts the same cyclical repetition that Denji keeps fighting until he can’t even remember his lines in Ch230. They both pull out their own hearts to end their suffering
People will be mad but the abruptness of the chainsaw man ending is way better than the terrible mad dash pacing of the jjk ending
but at the same time nothing is really "solved". the devils are still around. control is back. it's sort of a No Ending. no real resolution to many of the characters. life goes on. extremely funny. bro wanted to end that manga immediately
denji did it! he was freed from being the protagonist of the story "chainsaw man", the battle shounen action hero, and in doing so he is now happy. the end of Chainsaw Man is the end of chainsaw man. now he's just some guy enjoying food & working a shit job. and we can get the real hero (power)
I describe it as such as a historian of disability because I want to remind scientists and the world that the history of science IS the history of eugenics, scientific racism and medical racism, and more.
I’m not comforting them with the idea that it was a ‘pseudoscience.’
This is your history.
see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
falling down on the job as NNJ's Bsky hype man, did you know that Plainfield has two train stations and they're in the same ward? anyway, we're trying to contest that ward, which is racially diverse and dominated by renters, w/ my comrade and branch chair Meg Anandarangam, who we endorsed last night
You need to look for professional designations like “divination engineer”
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