Does anybody remember when teen pregnancy was a huge boogeyman of the right? They had all these purity dances and whatnot?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Feminists for ages: we are not just vaginas and baby making parts.

A trans woman enters the room.

Those same feminists: we are only vaginas and baby making parts.

Fucking clowns.

This is the first time Israel has participated in a ceasefire where another party was capable of and willing to enforce the terms.

Accountability is a foreign concept for Israel, and something that the international community has never asked of them.

Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done.

Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.

MAGA Sycophant Elise Stefanik says that college students chanting "from the river to the sea" is an open call for genocide against Jewish people, but Trump's threat that "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," is mere diplomacy against Iranians.

1/2

This is land that has been cared for for millennia. The cedars of Lebanon were mentioned in Ancient Egyptian texts. Israel does not care about history.

ANYWAY, falling marriage rates are always cast as some sort of issue? Don't agree with that. Marriage is no longer *compulsory,* is all that tells me, and that's good. It shouldn't be.

Maybe it's because I'm Gen X, but I CLEARLY remember old, married couples who despised each other for decades.

Thread of videos about today’s protests by veterans against the Iran War and other actions the US is supporting:

Today's wisdom: You can be comfortable with conversations about moose, you can be fine with the idea of a moose but none of it prepares you for the first time in your life you actually see a moose

While I was visiting Nathaniel Hawthorne's grave in NE I spotted this other one off on the side that said "I told you you'd be back to see me" and nobody's ever topping that one if they bury ppl there for another 300 years

Good thread

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

If the test is the only thing that's rewarded, why would they do anything else?

After deadly Louisiana shooting, a doctor shares the realities of domestic violence NPR's Michel Martin speaks with gun violence expert and emergency physician Dr. Megan Ranney about the mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana.

“more than 70 women…[are] shot &killed *every month* in the US due to domestic violence. & we find that DV shootings often overlap w/other types of shootings…a history of DV is a big predictor for committing a mass shooting. & we also find that DV & suicide…often overlap”🧪🛟 @meganranney.bsky.social

And I glossed when I said AI, mea culpa.

We really need to separate "machine learning", where limited datasets are mined for limited purpose; which is really useful, from LLM's and the idea of an artificial intelligence; capable of independent thought.

Whenever you ask an average democrat candidate about Gaza they get all wide eyed like a lost bunny and start stammering like Porky Pig.

How the hell are you not prepared to answer such an obvious and pressing question of our times?

👇🎯 Jake Tapper will have a very nice pocket square, though

Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

how on earth do I tell white liberal feminists that I am completely uninterested in a women's strike unless it has a safety plan? 'Let's do it & see if the incels show up to shoot us or drive over us en masse' is all very well. My idea of a women's strike is for every women who lives by herself /2

I noted yesterday that we would do well to describe what role the actions Trump is performing, rather than assuming he is functioning as President.

Mostly, Trump is an old man retreating into his lifelong hobbies: construction, cons, and corruption. With lots of golf.

Peter Thiel Has Wanted To End Politics For A Long Time If the tech fascists can't escape the annoyance of politics, they would like to end politics altogether

Silicon Valley tech fascists' drive to be done with politics animates everything they do today. Peter Thiel has been daydreaming for decades about an escape from politics. I wrote about it for BadFaithTimes.com.

badfaithtimes.com/peter-thiel-...

The real failure to look in the mirror is academics falling back on comfortable “we’re partly responsible because we enforced left wing orthodoxy“ thinking rather than the less comfortable truth that Trump/MAGA are bad faith actors who will only be satisfied with resegregated MAGA academies

The very best part of Forever Knight is that it wasn't a vampire show with cop flavoring, it was a cop show where one cop happened to be a vampire.

IMO more supernatural shows like this: that take the mundane end/genre of things seriously and don't just turn into 99% super nonsense by episode 5.

You all already know about my love of the Wonder Twins, but also I would absolutely write a Thundarr the Barbarian reboot.

Because open borders are good. Because the money we spend immiserating millions of people whom our economy won't run without is wasteful, on top of immoral.

Because an open border does no harm.

Reminds me of this post: AI is so hyped up that it's reached many people who have been entirely unaware of the world of automation over the past 40-50 years, and so they think it's something entirely brand new that needs LLMs.

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”

My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

I guarantee it wouldn't be this much of a problem if it was the gay of Hormuz

You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2.

A few warnings:
Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is.
Absolutely /do not/ lick it.
Keep far away from any Supermen.
If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts.

Let's talk about the science here.

Someone is unbelievably ignorant (though she is right, I am something of a "gender abolitionist" in that I don't think gender is innate, nor that there are per se "boy things" and "girl things")

They are talking like traffic engineers haven't been trying - and failing - to fix traffic congestion for the last 70+ years

It's the wrong question to ask

And a good part of the reason we're in the mess that we're in