"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

We don't talk enough about how many people who would never do XYZ themselves worship the psychopaths who act out "normal" folks' ugliest, often disavowed, fantasies. Apathy is a problem but through the glories of digital media we also get to see how many people openly adore human monsters.

The economy is bad and has been for decades. You don't have to listen to online vibeconomists pretending it's good. They don't matter and most are lying for attention/money. Just do what you can for your friends and community and disregard what financially comfortable internet pundits say about it.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Story of my life! (The first part.) We choose to at least try and do good in broken systems, typically paid far, far less than we're worth.

But it's still not fucking fair that people in non-carework jobs only have CHOOSE EVIL OR BE UNEMPLOYED as their option.

Hell, you pay a premium for doing something worthwhile. People know you’ll work in education, healthcare, elder care, child care, research or NGOs out of the goodness of your heart.

You gotta spend 50 hrs a week finding new ways to exploit workers or fool consumers to get paid a market rate

People are asking ChatGPT things I would normally just ask a friend, parent, mentor, therapist or medical professional for or about. It takes work to build and maintain those relationships, and figure out who is the right person to ask, but the alternative is a digital tool known for lying to users.

A roll of lining fabric. The fabric features a bunch of cats in tailored clothing

the first printed suit lining i've seen that i like. fabric is from carnet. can obviously be used for suits or sport coats. from my friend RJ, a fellow bespoke fan and cat lover

tacky? yes, but no one ever sees the lining and it's cats in tailoring

Around 20% of hospital beds in the US are in Christianist facilities, most Catholic, that have happily been denying reproductive health care and gender-affirming care for decades AND enjoying a nonprofit status. Most people don't realize the stranglehold the church has until it's too late.

What an indictment of Dayen and Watkins.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

It's been nearly five hours since the president of the United States posted a graphic snuff video of a man beating a woman to death with a hammer and there's no mention of it on the New York Times, Washington Post or CNN websites.

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities..labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it..with fifteen political appointees”

www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.

They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

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Jesus wept.

I just called my US rep and senators and told them they have to do everything they can to stop this genocide. I told them I don't care if they're in the minority. They have options. I told them to chain themselves to the White House fence.

Please call your reps, too. reps.fyi

Maybe if historical dramas showed how disfigured people were from what are now vaccine preventable diseases we'd have fewer anti-vaxxers

Thanks - this is one of the better responses to all this mess. And it makes me angry how people who should know better refused to validate the obvious disparity in harm. :(

I think there's confusion. I was referring to Kruse's use of the term "birthday boy."

I'm cis and I support this. A lot of cis dudes needs to stop throwing tantrums when people point out their mistakes.

It's new slang to you. It's well known among trans people. That's why I assumed good faith on the part of Kruse. People correcting me on terms in the context of this overall kerfuffle is quite revealing.

Thank you. We can always count on you for sane-posting. :) I've been really disappointed with a lot of *ahem* big account cis white dude liberals today, either unfollowing, blocking, or muting as they defend his behavior. There are plenty of other people to follow.

Thank you for the sane posting. Watching a bunch of established cis white dude liberals justify piling on trans accounts is just disgusting. Like, can you see/hear yourselves?

the uwu-ification of journalists has to stop. if you're a journalist, cis or trans, and talk about trans rights, sometimes trans people will criticize you.

sometimes they will be mean out of anger. if you really think they're being unfair, block them. but why screenshot them and send harassment?

"Charity goes both ways." 1000% this. His calling out trans critics by name made them fodder for Jesse Singal and Ben Ryan. Two of the accounts have been deleted. Those folks were overly reactive, but they didn't deserve that, and it's much worse than original author received.

Birthday Boy - LGBTQIA+ Wiki Birthday Boy is a derogatory term for a transmasculine individual who is seen as prone to fighting or weaponizing their own sensitivity.

I'm sure your use is inadvertant, but "birthday boy" is a anti-trans slur. lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Birthda...

Thanks for sharing this!

I’m no lawyer but I find it interesting that Christian conversion therapy practitioners have the right to tell kids they aren’t trans but those kids’ teachers apparently don’t have the right to say they are trans and people on the internet may not have the right to affirm them being trans either

Text: vides. Our precedents do not compel this conclusion. In fact, NIFLA draws a different line, and the correct course of action here is to hold it: Speech uttered for purposes of providing medical treatment may be restricted incidentally when the State reasonably regulates the speaker’s provision of medical treatments to patients. Id., at 769–770. To do anything else opens a dangerous can of worms. It threatens to impair States’ ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect. It extends the Constitution into uncharted territory in an utterly irrational fashion. And it ultimately risks grave harm to Americans’ health and wellbeing.

Yeah Jackson's dissent seems clear and compelling to me, must be hard being the only sensible jurist on the court for this one.