Welp we’re to the point in the @buttplug.io discord of telling people who want to set up private teledildonics connections to “just use tailscale”.
And anyone not tech focused who hears that thinks we built it thanks to the name.
Politico is finally on it! with quotes from Jeff Van Drew and Chris Smith saying that they've called and texted out of concern and received no response, and a number of other quotes that make me think Kean may have already fucking died somehow
AOC is genuinely smart and talented and savvy.
But watching stuff like this is just a reminder of how much of what people respond to is how she just.. acts like a normal person. Whereas most Dem pols are socially awkward lawyers and accountants trying and failing to act like normal people.
Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—
AOC: Wah wah wah.
We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.
What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
this is I think the key to the Trump magic
a lot of his audience knows that he’s bullshitting but - importantly - feels that they are in on it
Same. 🌽😿🌽
This is a great example of the pathological thought pattern that I keep seeing everywhere on here but can never put a name to. It’s this like, aggressively escalatory response to the idea that some random user wrote a post that’s not tailored to your prior knowledge & reading comprehension level
Really think the game being played with futures markets is leaving a lot of folks unprepared for the future which now seems functionally locked in.
If supply is down 10m barrels a day, then demand will, eventually, have to conform and that is going to be unpleasant.
Unfortunately, there isn't a single prominent person on the right who's bothered by hypocrisy. They consider it a tool, not a flaw.
Planning to assassinate Frick for persuasion. Whereas I'd argue the billionaires in this administration need to be put down as national security risks, regardless of the persuasive value in doing so.
bsky.app/profile/sdfs...
When someone talks about "freedom," my question is "freedom for whom?"
A slaver says that anti-slavery laws take away his freedom to enslave.
Any pro-freedom policy will always mean removing somebody's freedom to harm or coerce others.
Libertarianism is freedom for the few, chains for the many.
From what I can tell, this invitation to speak was revoked at the behest of billionaire-funded TPUSA and GOP Senator Mike Lee, NOT because there was a groundswell of authentic, grassroots opposition from the student body.
Ms. McMahon said she felt like the victim of an organized cancellation campaign - the kind, she said, Mr. Kirk probably would have opposed. She defended her deleted post, noting she had used Mr. Kirk's words. "There's nothing I said that I believe was incorrect or that I feel I need to apologize for," she said.
Look, no offense Ms. McMahon and I'm sorry your talk got cancelled by an arm of the Republican Party called TPUSA, but Charlie Kirk led an organization who's entire purpose was to drive voices like yours out of the public sphere to clear unchallenged space for their own ignorant bigotry.
Billionaire funded TPUSA's goal is to police public discourse such that anyone to their left who speaks truthfully about what Charlie Kirk said or did, using his own words as evidence, will not be allowed to speak those truths to college students in red states. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
(I'm going to argue that this is one reason they resort to chatbots so heavily to begin with)
Oh my god, the bsky dev team is running actual site functions from their personal accounts and those functions break for any users they block? This is not how you run a company.
Republicans reacting to redistricting is just Republicans finding out in real
time that just because someone is morally opposed to gun fights doesn't mean they won't shoot to kill if they're forced into one
My hometown of Nashville -- a blue city which went about two-thirds for Harris-Walz in 2024 -- was gerrymandered by the TN GOP into three different districts all represented by Republicans now, so please get in line to complain about how unfair this all is, Virginia Republicans
Ruby Bridges being on social media rn is why I’ll never not cuss a mf out when they say “it happened so long ago”
*stares while remembering various occasions where water things were used in breaches like casinos or dumping sewage on gold courses*
The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
its absolutely incredible watching people not realize the stakes watching DOJ being weaponized against SPLC and not realizing that its basically an existential fight for the republic now
There are no technical or compliance reasons to double the size of symmetric keys in response to the threat of quantum computers.
This common misunderstanding of Grover's algorithm risks wasting limited resources that should go towards deploying actually urgent post-quantum algorithms.
another real eye-opener is driving at exactly the speed limit and giving cyclists the correct amount of room and seeing how many drivers behind you go absolutely apeshit
A Christian economy?
Universal healthcare
A livable wage
Debt forgiveness
Care for the orphan widow and stranger
Williams says that the bill wouldn't apply to "appropriate drag," and said that it's written in a way that obscenity could be determined by individual law enforcement.
Conservatives *want* the vagary inherent in the law because it makes them, and their police, the arbiter of morality. They don't like the idea of justice being blind.
"Of course we won't go after Shakespeare!" they say honestly, and they're correct.
They'll decide what drag is "appropriate."
The peak of fear mongering. The author claims Ohio HB 249 will jail women for going braless in a T-shirt. HB 249 is about shielding kids from adult performances & imagery —not policing whether women wear bras, bikinis, or T-shirts. Twisting it into "women could be jailed for going braless" isn't just wrong —it's a deliberate misrepresentation. It's common sense to shield kids' innocence from adult performances & imaginary. Nothing but perversion - twisting a bill that aims to protect the innocence of children into something it's not. Do better.
Here's the thing:
If legislators didn't intend for HB 249 to be used against women wearing leggings and low-rise jeans, if they didn't mean for it to be used against trans people existing... THEY COULD FIX THE LANGUAGE.
They drafted it that way for a reason. It's naive to think they won't use it.
Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.
HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.
