interesting that when a movie with female protagonists does poorly the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists and when a movie with female protagonists is a huge hit the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists
men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.
"Stop overreacting, they're never going to do that."
a threads post from pmccallion Judith Butler every day watching people use the word "performative" to mean "fake in a bad way" a photo of cillian murphy as robert oppenheimer looking distressed
Russia plans to illegally annex lands it invaded, even as its military falters. Israel Plans to Control Large Parts of Southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Says
The difference between these two is racism
I did this solely for my dog, not at all thinking about fire emergencies. That’s just a thing my dog likes to pee on.
I want a robot to do my dishes not replace my connection with my dog
strap in folks that bubble about to pop
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
American workers are taking home the smallest slice of the economic pie ever. One year into Trump's regime, the economic consequences are as clear as day: four out of five working class people are suffering while the top 1% capture more of the pie than they ever have.
6 more sycophant loyalist prosecutors in the DOJ will take their place
I hate being right and vastly underestimating how quickly things would happen
Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.
there can be tho
I need to reread that now that im 5 years in
Personally I love the precedent of the executive branch nationalizing any company it wants.
We spent decades fearing artificial intelligence, thinking it would take over & destroy us.
Turns out it’s just another tool by which we can waste huge amounts of energy & resources producing meaningless nonsense as we accelerate ever faster along the path to destroy ourselves.
these people are going to look so stupid in 10 years. You can build a data center the size of Mount Everest and use up all the uranium in the fucking solar system and still never anywhere near the general intelligence of a human brain with an LLM. It doesn’t fucking know anything. What type of model
As a trans data scientist in Corporate America, I feel like a court eunuch. I have no real authority to make decisions but those that do have much faith in my whispers for mysterious reasons (scapegoating).
rt I mean uh no I uh you know
craving online community in a space that doesn't feel like an evil cesspool, so I will continue to get on this website and shout into the void until it works out
I can never get enough of this magnificent dinosaur bird the Shoebill… 🐦 ❤️
In most of the world day-to-day weather variations are still much larger than long-term global warming.
As a result, both daily record highs and daily record lows remain common.
However as the world warms, new daily record highs consistently far outnumber new daily record lows.
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couldnt sleep in if I tried
The Federal Reserve deserves a literal B-2 bomber
This sounds oddly....."familiar" 🤔
Ahhh time to get a passport if only I had the spoons :D
