Anti-fascist, anti-genocide by any name, and so anti-Trump. This space for books and nerd stuff and sanity and the odd haiku. Also, libraries. No gods, no kings. We are the only ones who can save us.
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You can't beat fascism by agreeing with fascism. You can't beat fascists by accepting a fascist frame.
Corporatist Democratic Party leadership needs to be defeated and jettisoned. We have to fight them, not because we don't want to fight Republicans, but because they refuse to.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC - @electdemocrats.bsky.social) is running anti-trans ads now, so I don't know how you can say the party itself isn't embracing transphobia.
There are still some good Dems out there, but transphobia is apparently a party value.
So, I've heard the "most people don't need more than basic math, and chemistry and physics is useless to them!" before, and on further conversation it emerges that they believe one should only teach those subjects to people who *will* need or use them.
since California ballots are now out:
prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them
but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box
yes on 40, no on 41 and 42
When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in.
The joy on their faces says it all.
😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬
Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka
Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan
CN: School shooting.
In 2019, Trystan Andrew Terrell came to a UNCC classroom with a pistol and began shooting indiscriminately.
A friend of a friend, Riley Howell, charged him. He tackled Terrell to the ground, shouting at the other students to run. His last words were "Go, Go, Go."
Very VERY glad to see Jon Ossoff leaning all the way the fuck away from the centrists trying to tell dems to "reconcile" or "tone it down" or "find the persuadable republicans."
This is the shit, right here. Hammer down and make them have to say on live TV that they love Nazis. The end.
Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
It should come as no surprise that a mean, angry man married to an unpleasant kook is not in favor of allowing other people to be in happy marriages. But Christian Nationalists are notorious busybodies.
Watched the very silly War Machine, featuring Reacher’s Alan Ritchson, which has the sublime pleasure of not-Reacher fighting a giant battlebot with a bulldozer and a pile of rocks, and delivering the line “Thermodynamics, motherfucker” while doing it.
Perfect scene.
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path.
Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
Minor point but I really hate this performative “y’all” people do to try and appear more folksy. I don’t type in a Yorkshire accent and I did people would rightly tell me to shut up.
I will never forgive Mystery Incorporated for their collusion with the very kind of villain they built their business on unmasking. Was any of it even real? I’m not so sure.
It’s time to figure out who these monsters *really* are
Two fiction books you should read right now?
"Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents" by Octavia Butler
Sincerely,
The BLACK-Owned Online Bookstore
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for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include?
Coins from a currency you don’t recognize and may no longer exist
for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include?
a mysterious key that does not unlock any thing
*THE ODYSSEY*
BY ELON MUSK
SING, CHATGPT, OF THE BIOHACKING ABSOLUTELY GOATED ONION-LAYERED CRYPTO DADDY
HE WAS SUPER VERY GOOD RAD AT EVERYTHING,
HOW HE SELF-DRIVING CYBERTRUCKED AF TO ITHACA AFTER BUSTING UNIONS AND DEFYING TAX LAWS IN TROY
MANY NPCS HE OUTSHINED, MANY IDEAS HE STOLE
Preaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
I know I've boosted this a LOT in the last 12 hours or so, and I want to thank all of you for bearing with me.
I'm so grateful for the help. I hope the OG thread explains context, and how the last 16 months have repeatedly led to unwanted consequences because I made the choice to call for help.
Someone recommended I write a clearer thread for the GFM (to help people understand why I'm sick/stressed/the need), so I hope all of you don't mind the additional context.
*trigger warning, mentions of abuse*
In February 2025, I was violently attacked by an ex. He was 440 pounds, I was 137.
All I want is a castle on the Irish coast, a lantern-filled library full of centuries-old novels, a raven to deliver and retrieve my post, an eccentric butler with a mysterious backstory, and an endless supply of emotional support pastries.
The Democratic establishment crash-out is a wonderous thing to see. A bunch of people, their organization named after democracy, unable to handle the results of just a few popular elections, appealing to the unspoken rules of a club they thought belonged exclusively to them.
Let's do it everywhere.