Erica Van Houten

Trans people are better off if he loses. These ghouls need to know this isn’t acceptable.

Because this isn’t fucked enough… they were playing at a place named MLK Park.

I think drivers should, generally speaking, pay something approaching the full cost of the infrastructure they use

When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.

AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"

There are bombshells and there's this www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

And the secret police start roaming the streets.

literally illegal

As someone that lives on this intersection — fuck these people. More housing is more housing. Shitting on housing from your $6000/month or $1.5 million unit is beyond tone deaf.

“Ross insists he did nothing wrong on Sugar Pike Road that day in April. He will fight to prove that claim.” Should never see the light of day again. Zero remorse. A danger to society. Fuck that guy.

This is an insane take away. The people that attempted to egress died before getting to the stairs, the person that sheltered in place protected by the other systems survived. Guess we need to protect egress! Not a serious engagement with the facts or reality.

Cars are weapons

“One more law” never solves the problem. It just creates an ever more invasive set of conditions that authority can use to obliterate you. Assault is already illegal. Sexual harassment is already illegal. Enforce those laws when they are broken.

Hunter Schafer is pretty

Okay, at this point I have to ask where the national Democratic party is on telling its candidates, "Don't talk like JK Rowling, it's probably demoralizing." Because this is just fucked. And if your answer is, "They need to run to the concerns of their district," you're fucking wrong.

@drannieandrews.com I think you should know that hating people is bad, actually. I know it's hard to believe in the age of Trump, but now, more than ever, choosing not to hate people is going to be important.

As far as I know, none of the Democratic Party politicians who represent me have made the anti-trans heel turn (yet). But the Dems' refusal to ostracize these assholes makes me doubt the whole damn party. Will my reps be next? This shit is a poison rotting the Democrats from the inside out.

The Turing Test was cool, but what about the Inverse Turing Test? How does a human prove that they are, have been, and continue to be a human and not a program that is able to pass the Turing Test?

I would not willingly live in Tennessee. Is it good or bad that a class of people have to decide where they will live based on the legal rights they have there?

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

Generally agree knowledge should be free, but I have a hard time reconciling that with “and people should be paid for curating and sharing it” If everyone pirated textbooks, nobody would make money from writing them and they would stop being produced. How do we ensure that doesn’t happen?

Sorry I’m not gonna do idea landlords discourse today. You want authors to not get paid? Cool go totally rework society so that we also don’t have to pay for things.

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

See polls showing him with 25 total approval. Thinks thats +25 NPS.

"In the states examined in this analysis, a drop of approximately 20% in inflation-adjusted rents—as happened in Austin, Texas, and Minneapolis after those cities made reforms—could reduce poverty by 18% to 26% and child poverty by 21% to 38%." www.pew.org/en/research-...

I love that one of the most powerful people on the planet is flinging slurs. Good stuff.

Oh no, a tax that can only affect 4% of the population is unpopular with the people that have more money than god. Whatever shall we do?

People get demoralized when transitioning when they discover that beyond the initial identification of "the problem," transitioning itself will not make you happy. What it provides is the POSSIBILITY for happiness by allowing you to more easily participate in romance, community and self-improvement

One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.

Mastodon didn’t take off because it’s a huge fucking pain in the ass to find places to find people to follow. Bluesky only shows me people I follow and stuff they repost. No algorithm in site. And it’s easy to connect with people. Too bad about the moderation thing.

Nah, just copyright law.