Dead Ostrich and 12.5k ghosts

After the election can we go back to hating Twitter and bullying people for being on it

the thought of either the UAE candidate or Orban as plausible candidates as Secretary General shows just how much key states want to destroy the UN, the promise of the Charter, & a future that centers human rights.

This is why I've been enforcing for myself a strategy of not quoting (or screenshotting!) posts I disagree with. I recommend as a way to break the habit just replying and then rting your own reply.

Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

i feel my time is coming

"We've investigated ourselves and determined we fucked up actually" is a refreshing change

I'm now imagining a whole pantheon that you have to proactively invoke for different flaws that you know your code contains. Athena forgives this lack of wisdom. Thor forgives this waste of electricity. Shennong forgives this lack of test coverage

Need this in US MSM tbh

in which two nerds who each have more than a thousand hours in hearts of iron iv bitch about hearts of iron iv. but also it's important to understand why we are all still talking about world war two, and also how so much media essentially imagines "what if the fascist worldview was correct"

1. Lose election 2. Assume Trump will steal election for him 3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election 4. Oh shit oh fuck

Oh and shoutout to the guy working the polls while wearing a Tasmanian Devil jean jacket

Bro he RECYCLED it

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

The cynic will say Vivek didn't get away with it because he's brown and while that may be a factor, any source of blood in the water will empower the forces of Common Fucking Decency and that's worth celebration

see also gavin, it really isn't going to happen

Trump stole hundreds of billions of dollars from us and handed it to his friends at the oil companies. We pay, they prosper. Trump take gas

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Psychiatrist trained on ChatGPT, to a schizophrenia patient: Do not hallucinate

Honestly this is a really concise and insightful take that captures a lot of my feelings about AI.

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

That's it. I've had it with you. I'm sending you a very quiet voice note so you turn up your volume to 100% just to hear what I'm saying and then forget to turn it back down and get blasted by the next youtube video you watch.

WHO ARE THEY MAKING HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OFF OF, DONNY 🪿 WHO ARE THEY MAKING HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OFF OF MOTHERFUCKER

lolno the workers abandoned the Democrats for Getting Too Woke about civil rights and the Vietnam War, take your own advice and read a book

Lovely lovely pots on www.roseschmits.com

No but like can we talk about the people who hate the middle-class PMC more than they hate billionaires

People like Matt Yglesias treat the militarized border as an unchangeable reality and an automatic political loser when in reality it is an incredibly recent lurch to the right whose consequences are now in full view of the citizenry.

“Ramaswamy’s ad embraces a woman who enabled sexual abuse—and uses the language of ‘parental estrangement’ to mobilize MAGA voters who can’t understand why their children won’t take their calls. But they know the reason. They just don’t want to accept it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

if you ever happen to see someone post a joke you don't understand or discuss a subject you aren't familiar with, you are well within your right to complain, and perhaps even scold them if necessary. you are their customer and you have rights

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software engineering has had a mentorship/training Problem for a while (and a Valuing Product Management Problem, too) and they're both about to get MUCH much worse

where is the idea that AI is like Uber (where they are heavily subsidising the consumer-end product in order to Disrupt Markets and Get Everyone Hooked, only to plan to raise prices later) coming from? is this an Ed Zitron article of faith? it SOUNDS like an Ed Zitron article of faith

You can take the man out of the Republican Party but you can't take the Republican Party out of the man Anyway we should do UBI

Triangulators didn't convert a pure trans-friendly Labour to transphobia- a "trans-friendly" Labour never existed! You have ALWAYS been rife with SWERF/PERF/TERFs in a way the US simply isn't - because our axis isn't "exclusionary" it's simply right-aligned bigotry!

In the least critical way possible, Blexas has always had existential stakes. If you live anywhere in America you likely know Texans personally who left mostly because the state is deadly hostile to them and their loved ones. It does not get higher than the risk continuation of the status quo.

Again this is simply rewriting history. Single-sex exemptions to the Equality Act were in 2010 under Gordon Brown. Labour consistently elevated TERFs to leadership with a palatable left-friendly "feminist" transphobia. The self-id reforms were under the May government for Christ's sake!!