Some Tech CEO every day: "You don't get to own things now. I own your refrigerator. If you say mean things about me I will turn off your fridge and spoil all your dairy and eggs and meat. If you don't like it you go to jail."
People in my mentions: "Lmao are you REALLY a luddite? smh"
The protests worked. They won the right to rape.
There are several moments in the piece where I said to myself, "Oh no..." but this is definitely where you know things went awry
1. Attacks on LGBTQ+ people have always been tied with the erosion of democracy.
Now, a bill has just been passed in Florida that lets DeSantis remove elected officials for promoting pride/LGBTQ+ people in their official capacity.
No court hearing necessary.
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Chief Nerd CHIEF NERD @TheChiefNerd X.com SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." 1:22 3:36 AM • 3/12/26 • 1.7M Views
Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.
This is excellent, especially the point below. As I’ve written before, I think it’s desperately important for the left and liberals to rehabilitate the idea of human nature and not reflexively eye roll at accumulated, traditional human wisdom as if it’s all mere superstition.
This is the kind of talk that makes me worried about the "new progressive" era.
"traditional human wisdom" = dude thots
"legislating vice" = criminalizing women
Gotta say that this is some extremely creepy language. And the argument basically is... that if the prevent people from treating gender dysphoria (adults, in this case), that they'll just... stop having it? That's not at all how any of this works.
test tube baby "are you my daddy" instinct kicking in strong
"Crabapple is a time traveler, a necromancer and an unclassifiable genius. She beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible,lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger for justice.“- @naomiaklein.bsky.social
Preorder www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320...
holy fuck, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's new book is fire. I'm interviewing her about it for Cool People, but seriously, I read history books about this exact time period for a living and I don't know that I've seen an author pull off "this is how this history matters today" quite so well.
Right-wing readers are out here making youtube videos complaining that the selection of new fiction books are too "woke." Your ideology is fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-education, and anti-curious. Of course the literary market is not catering to you. You are a freak among your peers
"Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free." --David Graeber
hey, it's Bandcamp Friday! which means that if you buy artists' music today, we get all the proceeds w/o them taking a cut. here is my previous band Bitesize. if you like what you hear, you can buy our entire discography (36 songs) for a mere $10.40, pls give it a listen! bitesize.bandcamp.com
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
the gambling epidemic is genuinely so real like sports are entirely gambling now video games are gambling toys are gambling they're still trying to push crypto somehow which is like if money was gambling
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
The Romans conquering and digesting Ancient Greece really is a case of my favorite historical phenomenon, "the homophobic gays have defeated the gay homophobes"
I've said this before, but it makes me insane that in an age of human civilization when the ultra-rich have hoarded over half of all wealth, the go-to visual shorthand for depictions of gluttony is still "fat"
What the last two centuries have taught us is that capitalism is a system which exists to create and maintain oligarchy, with an oligarch defined as one who steals/hoards resources on a grand scale while blatantly transgressing social norms in the most disgusting ways imaginable to prove their power
Renee Good's last words
"I'm not mad at you," the 37-year-old mom told the ICE agent who murdered her, per new cell phone footage released Friday. Then he shot her in the face three times and called her a "fuckin' bitch."
Always read @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/renee-good...
When juries started refusing to indict or convict activists on bogus charges, DHS shifted very quickly to shooting activists in the face. That is not a coincidence.
This is probably going to demand a depressing amount of repetition, but here goes.
If Renee Nicole Good was a childless foreign national, its still wasn't OK for a federal employee to straight up execute her. Begging everyone to not concede one inch of ground to this toxic framing.
Oh, it goes deeper than that. The Christmas tree is actually a folk memory of the two trees of Valinor, whose pure light was captured in the Silmarils (Silmaril -> ilmaril -> irmarel -> ermarel -> ornamel > ornament)
There's no evidence that Rob and Michele Reiner's son Nick is undergoing a gender transition, despite claims circulating on social media. Here's how the baseless rumor spread. 👇
www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
Ulrike Reichhold of Cineric, Inc., one of the foremost film restoration laboratories in the world, at her workbench inspecting a negative prior to repairing and scanning. Photo by Simon Lund, courtesy Cineric.
A still from Sunset Boulevard, Joe Gillis (William Holden) seated beside a standing Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), who holds her hand up as she stands bathed in the light of a projector
Sean Chapman as Frank Cotton, flayed and bloody, sitting against a tiled wall in a pool of his own blood, I AM IN HELL HELP ME written in blood on the wall beside him
The burning shack in the desert from David Lynch's Lost Highway
Midnight. A light flickers on in the darkness. Coils of smoke hang in the projector's glow. The movie is about to begin, and the theater waits in breathless silence.
BLACK FLAME is finally here. You can get it at the link below, and wherever books are sold.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
They asked a Google AI for Ed engineer “how he planned to enact his vision of the future, one where AI filled classrooms rather than emptied them. ‘The professors themselves,’ he said, would be responsible for figuring that out.”
They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.
