Colin Ferguson

Specifically they're attracted to his vision because it's one of the only "optimistic" versions of the future that DOESN'T involve fundamentally restructuring modern power relationships. There are other optimistic visions of the future but most of them involve flattening hierarchies. They hate that.

Anthropocentric damage to the ozone layer was recognized, there was international cooperation to ban the substances actively weakening it, and it gradually began to recover on its own once we stopped making it worse. Now if only getting the world on board with the rest of the climate were so easy.

When filming "Trouble in Mind", Kris Kristofferson accidentally hit Keith Carradine in the face during a choreographed fight scene. Carradine's tooth pierced the skin of Kristofferson's fist and Kristofferson had to spend two weeks in the hospital being given antibiotics. It delayed the whole film.

“Grindset culture” is just a modern day reformation of the infamous “Protestant work ethic” cultivated to push people toward capitalism. In this essay I will-

happy sickos day to all who celebrate

I take the potential for internecine violence in this country very seriously. And I've tried to be careful with my rhetoric around this. But how long are we supposed to sit by and respond politely when the other side talks EXCLUSIVELY about killing or imprisoning our loved ones?

Death Stranding 2:

The first couple of years of grade school. "He's so smart, why does he struggle so much?" I hated it there.

I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.

In high school, I had a civics teacher who claimed to be the former mayor of Medina. He said that when he'd host BBQs, the guests there would complain to him about there being "too much democracy in this country." I don't know if he was making up his backstory, but it was intended as a parable.

Hierarchy is what keeps you from being able to exist comfortably and in pluralistic harmony with all the various flows of humanity. It keeps you locked into arborescent modes of thinking. Until we slay that dragon, we cannot be free.

We must become the consequences we wish to see in this world.

Is this what they call a “computer virus?”

Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.

Oh god damn it. This is disappointing as hell. I expected better.

Two things need to happen regarding the Cornell Seven: they need to be removed from society, and their families need to be punished for raising men like that. It would be elegant if we could do both things at once.

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“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

I’ve always loved cats because while their love is conditional, those conditions are clearly defined and easily understood. Food, lap, pettings. I feel like if a cat loves me, then I’m doing something right. A cat’s purr is a signal that I am a good human.

No, no, you did it right.

We need a General Order 227 for Democrats. "Not one step back!" on trans-rights. I'd volunteer myself to be a commissar. Because if you give the opposition an inch on this, they'll take a mile, and mile by mile we would lose. This is our Volga and there is no land beyond it.

my life was better two days ago when i had never heard of ed sheeran

He won his primary by thirty points. Say it with me now, "Trans rights win fights."

I remember classmates from middle-eastern families not coming to college for fear of misplaced reprisals. I remember the demands by jingoists to stick our metaphorical genitals into a beehive out of bloodlust. What I experienced in the aftermath of 9/11 was a bond fraying, not a bond being shared.

attacking trans people hurts dem politicians and that take is missing from this whole news cycle. dems attacking trans people makes it more likely you will lose, defending trans people makes it more likely they win I want democrats to win so they need to defend trans people

Sorry to bring gender in it but when you're a man and you fail to defend vulnerable people whom it is within your power to defend guess what you just failed at being

on the occasion of world suicide prevention day i just wanted to say that if it helps you can imagine your suicidal ideation as a weird little guy in your brain who lies to you and then you can imagine jack reacher is also up there beating the shit out of him

That was certainly a big day. I was eager to play it with my friends. For all the criticisms one could make about the launch version, it ran at a consistent frame rate on four different consoles spread across two generations, and I was damn proud I played a part in delivering that.

No. Jaywalking is forbidden here by unspoken agreement. Also by the law, but I’m pretty sure the unspoken agreement is the bigger factor.

"The only route to true security for all — for a world that doesn’t toss aside common public interests in order to protect the narrow private interests of politicians or shareholders — is the solidaristic protection of all by all." - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

You cannot publish the phrase “reverse decades of structural disinvestment in public higher education” at the New York Times. It’s illegal. You’d be arrested.

Something I once told a class of special needs kids that I was invited to speak to was, “You can use your condition to explain your behavior, but you should never use it to excuse your behavior.” The onus is on us know ourselves and know how we need to approach situations we might struggle with.

If you’re not pro trans rights, I’m gonna kick you in the fuckin head mate