This. It was always the goal not to ease our labor but to devalue it.

State Republicans have been strangling SEPTA, by the way.

Betting its for the same reason they don't want former felons voting; they're afraid they'll "legitimize crime" (somehow)

The replies to this are mostly great writers doing “I don’t know how how good writers do it but I, a bad writer, just work until it’s done and then fix it” and that should tell you everything you need to know about writers as a species.

the sound i just made was not dignified

We need to stop accepting views expressed on Twitter as real opinions. The sooner everyone assumes that the median post on that website is done in bad faith and principally designed to chase clout, the sooner we stop letting these fake controversies take up all the oxygen in the room.

"We need to form a united, nonpartisan front to defeat Trump in the midterms and 2028, so here's my plan to encase every single progressive in concrete so they can finally stop sabotaging our perfect centrist strategy of Capitulation and Finger-Wagging."

Construction for Enbridge's Line 5 oil pipeline has started in northern Wisconsin.

Anishinaabe leaders are raising alarms about the threats to the water & covert police deals in the state.

A rally against Line 5 is being held today in downtown St. Paul outside the Army Corps building at 4:30 pm.

a device that rewards you with fake money for getting addicted is just a metaphor for [gestures broadly] everything going on in every industry

Oh uh this is specific to the Desktop web interface, afaict

Tell me again how this place isn't running on slop-code when it can't even perform the basic functions of a booru site.

Okay, so, fun new thing on Bluesky I've noticed:

I have to click THREE times for an image to expand -and actually appear-

Four if its behind a label.

CivicSearchlight - by Canada's National Observer Search transcripts of municipal meetings across Canada. Find discussions about topics that matter to your community with Canada's National Observer's search tool.

I signed up for the @nationalobserver.com’s Civic Searchlight that allows users to search council meeting minutes etc from hundreds of municipalities across Canada. I’ll be using this to follow up on issues I hear from mayors across Nova Scotia.

civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com#/register

"Okay Grok initiate Self-Destruct."

Decided to do a little more digging to learn more about those 2020 Biden voters who skipped 2024, why they skipped, and what sort of message might win them back, and found this helpful research by Celinda Lake from last year: waytowin.docsend.com/view/rnv5spt...

Not to mention that like... why do they need that space? It's not as if we're preventing them from getting the necessities of life, like they are with us.

I keep saying, time and again, right-wingers don't just want to kill us, they desperately want us to like them while they do it.

Have you checked between the sofa cushions?

Hard to believe a journalist would make this statement. Happy a president who relentlessly attacks press freedom and insults journalists is attending? At what point do you say “This is not normal, and normal conventions do not apply”? When democracy is gone? Sad, embarrassing, and disgraceful.

Quick question has "browbeating people into caring more" ever worked in the entire history of human sociology?

I assure you that telling someone "The truth hurts sometimes, but it's time to pull up the big boy and girl pants and start adulting" will make them want to do the polar opposite of whatever it is you're asking them to do. It's a truly insane strategy.

Up to and including uploading your consciousness to God's POP3 server for a while after you get got.

virginians, if you planned to vote in today’s election & have not already: don’t forget we have same day, in person registration AND if you’re 17 but will turn 18 before nov 3, you can register and vote today.
(post from the charlottesville office of voter registration & elections)

Zionist doxxing campaigns upended their lives. Now they’re suing for damages. Canary Mission faces a class-action lawsuit under a new Illinois anti-doxxing law.

Canary Mission faces a class-action lawsuit under a new Illinois anti-doxxing law.

Well I mean we also have actual evidence that, at least to some extent, Epstein et al wanted to turn trans people into an exploitable underclass.

"Oh you're transphobic? Sorry I don't support ideologies mainstreamed by international sex-criminals."

Trans people haven't done anything, but a bunch of Epstein islanders still collectively lost their absolute shit over us for no reason

Melania Trump is Donald’s long term humiliation kink dominatrix, and you can tell when she’s on the clock by her footwear. If she’s in Louboutins, she’s working. The wide brimmed hats are to stop him from PDA because that’s not part of their contract.

There's a thing called pseudodementia, or depression-related cognitive dysfunction, where recollection is impaired.

Importantly, the person is *aware* that they are having memory problems, and is distressed by it. Also it's temporary.

The aim of the organised transphobic movement is to mandate trans people out of existence, they won't be happy until their targets are dead, it's a movement motivated by genocidal mania, and the cruel, vindictive, hateful bigotry extends from there.