Alan Scott

What is the non-binary equivalent to the phrase "boy trouble"? I'm definitely not asking for any particular reason.

Deeply distressing that this karaoke app doesn't have 4'33" in its repertoire.

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Objectively correct.

If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins.

It’s so funny to publish this stuff in the Sacramento Bee, a place that has seen more per capita housing development than any city in the state and has seen 4 straight years of nominal declines in local rents.

well the Tyrannosaurus first decides it's a good day for stomping, then has conversations in turn with Dromiceiomimus and Utahraptor

I have been saying this for years. "Drinking the Kool-Aid" sounds a lot less funny/pithy when you realize over 300 people who died there were under eighteen and 150 of them were ten years old and younger.

This is good thread on pbta moves, and there are also a lot of good insights in the reply chain for the thread that this one is quoting.

Can I just say--the bit in that first piece of concept art where the goop is stuck to the invisible shield bubble and not the Cerritos herself is great.

When I was young, and my mom was a stay-at-home parent with three kids, she helped pay our family's bills by providing in-home daycare, in part, this was due to programs like these.

Webtoons is a brand name. People have been calling the medium "webcomics" for about thirty or so years now. I think this distinction is important.

No, you just want to *run* the purity testing committee despite not being a Democrat. Sorry but you don't get to use the Democratic Party--which while imperfect is an actual force for good in this country--to settle your intrafactional conflict with your fellow right-wingers.

This image popped into my head a while back and I just remembered it today so here you go

do you think tony gilroy knew that "Revanchsim exists in star wars but its named after a guy called Revan" when he decided to make a show about insurrectionary realpolitik where the main realpolitik guy is called Luthen Rael. do you think everybody in star wars starts talking about "Rael-politics"

This has two major corollaries: 1) If you care about trans rights, you should vote blue 2)Scorched earth policy on anyone trying to make the Democratic Party less good on trans issues.

the structure of the coalition contains, basically, 4 groups, of which two are “insane wrecker centrists” and “insane wrecker leftists”, and the other two are “sincere, principled liberals” and “sincere, principled socialists”, and the only way to victory is to fight both that left and right fringe

So many of the supposed divides in the Democratic caucus simply boil down to "this one will fight for all of us, this one will not" and for the past two years Team Fight is sweeping the board.

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👀 High praise, as twisted is my favorite Star Kid musical, and the subject matter of this one is right up my alley.

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE

This whole “what if C3PO was your LLM” discourse is actually a great test because supposedly its a robot built by a mass murderer but really its just piloted by an underpaid human inside because its not real AI

One of the funniest things about using AI for legal tasks is that a conversation with your lawyer is completely privileged, while a conversation with ChatGPT is literally public

I saw this on Facebook, and I feel like it's a joke made for like ten people. I am, however, one of those people, and I love it.

One of the most underrated storytelling techniques: lowering the stakes

If you used a time machine to bring George Washington to the 21st century, he would be speechless. If you brought Benjamin Franklin, he'd look bored and say "Gentlemen, your conveyance is not the first device to have brought me through time, and I doubt it will be the last."

As the celebrated author of "Don't Invent the Torment Nexus", I enthusiastically endorse TormentCo's Torment Matrix, a fantastic device that has none of the nexus-like qualities I warned about in my novel.

As the celebrated author of "Don't Invent the Torment Nexus", I enthusiastically endorse TormentCo's Torment Matrix, a fantastic device that has none of the nexus-like qualities I warned about in my novel.

If it helps, remember that most of the dinosaurs & dinosaur species were dead for other reasons before the meteor ever got there.

My new political theory: voters value authenticity. In the past, moderation on certain issues signaled authenticity because it does willingness to break with party orthodoxy. In a more poll-tested, Moneyballed era, more extreme positions are now also an authenticity sign.

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

This is a deeply valuable thread that everyone who might need sleep should read.

Either you're a weird freak about the most vulnerable among us or youre an empty soulless husk willing to hand over said vulnerable people to said freaks if you think it'll get you 1% more votes from the South Hitlersville district and either way you are not to be trusted in a democracy, full stop.

When Dems attack Trump's corruption, is that "leftist" or "moderate"? It's neither. People need to stop trying to map everything on to these ludicrously simplistic little templates, which are just designed to facilitate factional infighting and build online followings.

if there's been one key theme for me of the last decade, it's been "wow, a lot of people with power and influence seem to care way more about worrying about hypothetical threats than doing anything about or understanding very real and non-hypothetical threats that are happening right now"

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*