Average GITS cyborg: aghhh my eyes have been hacked!! my brain got a virus!! reality is nothing but suggestions fed to me by a sinister mastermind!!
Motoko, expending 1.7% of Japan's defense budget: F cup. No wait, G. They must be big enough to put the fear of God in them before I pull the trigger
A coworker yesterday mentioned that she only found out we were currently in a war because she googled “why are gas prices getting so high”
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
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Spiegel »Die Republikaner haben ein Naziproblem« US-Präsident Trump verwandelt Rassismus, Sexismus, Korruption und Demokratieverachtung in Tugenden, sagt der Journalist Tom Nichols. Die Republikaner hält er für politisch und moralisch ausgehöhlt. Ein Interview von Martin Pfaffenzeller 04.04.2026, 09.39 Uhr
New York Times: How Trump-Kennedy alliance is pushing thr boundaries of public health
New York Times: Legally creative, democratically dangerous: Trump's plan to twist the news Feb. 24, 2026
Untranslated headlines in German are much clearer than New York Times headlines in English
"Let's track the location of everyone's cars so we can build a visualization of all their movements for a month or more so we have a marginally better chance of solving a property crime that wasn't noticed for several days."
Compelling argument there.
Bluesky has more tools that let you protect yourself from dogpiling than other microblogging sites. Are they not effective or are people just not using them?
When I wrote features this kind of thing happened and the solution was what magazines have done for decades: WRITE ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE!
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A classic
I’m sick of this shit. The mayor made promises about protecting trans healthcare. He’s not following through so we’re holding him accountable
That doesn’t mean we all wish we voted for Cuomo! This isn’t a fucking cult! The whole point of being progressive is we can push our electeds to do better!
For the people telling me that today's SCOTUS decision isn't that bad because it's only talk therapy, I'd like you to sit down for an hour a week whilst someone tells you that you don't actually know your own sexual orientation and gender identity and you're really just crazy for thinking you do.
All other issues aside, we can’t beat a guy who fucks couches with a guy who fucks salads.
Jackson is the only liberal justice who understands the moment and what it calls for. which we already knew because if Sotomayor understood it she would've retired under Biden
Jesus!
I’m sorry but be serious www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Who wants to come with me and use the new train to do crime on Mercer Island?
Solar is not less than revolution in Pakistan. Almost every home and factory has solar installed on their roofs. More affluent houses have almost gone off grid; others are selling back to grid and others who can't afford has their own small scale 12V solar panels to run fans in the scorching summer of Pakistan to save electricity bills. It is all done by people independently without much support from the government as ROI (if you are using full potential of your installed capacity, it can be as low as 1 year and afterwords it will be free) is much better on solar than paying the grid. I myself has got one my roof, 6KW with 5Kwh battery backup costing me 700K roughly 2500$. Now, I can use AC without thinking of electricity bills and the most importantly I do not have to face inconvenience of grid being not available in some cases for 24 hours. Now Pakistan is facing energy crises not because it does not have enough, because it has too much as people are generating their own and due to nature of the contracts with electricity producing companies' government has to pay them according to their installed capacity not by generated. According to a government report in 2021, 116,816Gwh was consumed commercially and in 2024 it stands at 111,110Gwh and in 25 and 26 in would be even lower. Isn't it insane?
thought this comment on hacker news about the energy race was interesting
One of the most odious developments of the last two decades is the adoption of "woke" language by certain sections of the right wing and of hawk foreign policy think tankers when discussing stuff like this. If you object to bombing Iran they invoke "local voices"— aka conservative Iranians from LA.
Look at this. Look at how much the people yearn for trains. Now think about the Ballard link expansion project and how much time and money they’re wasting looking for a way to avoid doing it.
Long line to ride the 2.
*ALARMS BLARING IN THE LAB, SCIENTISTS FRANTICALLY PRESSING CONSOLE BUTTONS, READING LONG PRINTOUTS, WIPING SWEAT FROM THEIR BROWS*
Found ET and beat him with hammers but now he’s framemogging us :(
**Q. You want to raise every boy as a girl?** Yes. **Q. Why?** A boy will learn to hate girls as long as he is raised in such a way where he is treated as better, and superior to, his girl peers, whenever he is cruel to girls. So, instead, we raise boys as girls. **Q. What if they say they are not a girl, and want to be acknowledged as a boy?** Then you know they are a boy, so you must make sure to understand them as a boy, and not a girl. **Q. What does it mean to be 'raised as a girl'?** That's up for you to decide. The only difference is that you should not raise boys any differently than you raise girls, since you raise every boy as a girl. **Q. Girls and boys are raised in specific ways for specific purposes, so it does not make sense to raise boys as girls.** If you raise every boy as a girl, then there is no being which is not raised as a girl, so anyone raised as a girl necessarily must learn to do anything and everything to grow up, without restrictions on tasks, labours, or interests. **Q. But boys and girls are different.** All two girls are different, and raising girls in one specific way destroys this individuality in favour of moulding girls to serve the same master. Still, the girls resist to live life on their own terms. If girls can be raised such that they know they can do anything they want, including not being girls, so too will boys raised as girls. **Q. Why not raise every girl as a boy?** Because if a girl does not exist among boys, then the girl is made. **Q. Why not raise girls and boys as themselves?** The self must be made in a world where girls and boys can first and foremost be themselves. One step towards this goal is to raise every boy as a girl. **Q. The way people raise girls is cruel, so why would you raise boys with that cruelty?** If you raise girls with cruelty, then you should stop being cruel to girls.
New today: @reveleth.com has spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t. www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...
I’m such a slut for a quilted texture. Or a waffle knit 😫🥵
In case you needed any more proof that the institutional transphobia and pro-genocide ideology reaches up to the executives of the NYT, here is their PR account issuing yet another blatantly false fact check.
They stopped doing this the first time - in 2000 - because "cis" women were finding out, from these tests, that they were in fact intersex, and it was a cluster fuck.
