Marghi

Marghi

@marghim.bsky.social

Doing my best when the shit is hitting the fan

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Marghi reposted

Microsoft literally told fragile white guys to use AI to compete with Black co-workers.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

I was thinking about how just two months ago, some SF Giants wore hats to express their hatred toward lgbt folks. A slap in the face. And I haven’t heard much about it since. As a San Francisco native, who grew up in a family of season ticket holders, I won’t go to a game now, and that’s a shame.

There are lots of articles on why we should do away with the electoral college, the filibuster, the 9-person limit on the Supreme Court, and so on - but I haven’t seen anything calling for the end of executive orders, which Trump has weaponized to cause so much shit. Am I missing something?

If I understand correctly, Jason Arday is dead because the media gleefully feasted on the idea that the youngest black man to become a Cambridge professor was a liar. His accuser, Nathan Cofnas, is an avowed white supremacist. And the media didn’t check the claims. Arday’s blood is on their hands.

I love this!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

I feel like the term “ceasefire” is used a little loosely, given that all of the recent ones had nothing to do with the ceasing of firing for more than a day or so.

Don’t understand why the media constantly refers to “ceasefires” (in Gaza or Lebanon or Iran or wherever) one the “firing” resumes (usually within a day or two). They say the “ceasefire” is weak, or under threat, or at risk when it clearly is a joke.

Marghi reposted

Read the names. Look at the pictures. Ask what goal is being pursued that might possibly be worth these lives. And do not lie to yourself that Donald Trump is trying to "liberate" the people of Iran from an evil government. www.middleeasteye.net/news/names-and-ages-children-iranian-school-strike

middleeasteye.netNames and ages of children killed in strike on Iranian schoolMEE has collected the names and ages of some of those killed in the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school strike

I don’t think the Trump administration is going to cancel midterms, because that would get a lot of complacent people to be less complacent. I think they are going to do everything they can to disenfranchise people, and then lie about the results.

The fed government is now occupying a US state, in direct violation of pretty much everything. All the “conservatives” who were into states’ rights, and hated government overreach, but now make excuses for Trump et al - well, I hope you are ok with your grandkids eventually denying they knew you.

If I am understanding correctly, Trump and his acolytes have bombed Venezuela and taken their leader hostage. I guess there is no such thing as Congress now. Not saying I have a lot of love for Madura, but you have to be fuxking kidding me. But it’s not a joke.

It’s been clear for a minute, but Steven Miller is one of the worst people in the world now. He is trying hard to be the very worst, but there is some competition. He should never, ever be allowed to have any power, any say, any platform, any influence. He is a cancer, and cancer should be cut out.

Trump wants to scrutinize every immigrant from Afghanistan because one is accused of shooting two National Guardsmen. For fuck’s sake. That one person is bad doesn’t mean other people who share a nationality are also bad. That is regular understanding of basic things 101.

Also, I want to correct my post: the person is accused, but not at all proven guilty, so it’s not even about “one person” being “bad”—I wrote hastily and without thinking enough.

Marghi reposted

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

That Scott Adams (the Dilbert cartoonist) is asking for Trump to personally order Kaiser to fast-track his health treatments because he loves Trump is…something.

As a native of San Francisco, just wanna point out the murder rate for 2025 is (so far) lower than any year since the 1950s. The City isn’t perfect, but doesn’t need “help” from any kind of guard or military or random assholes who won’t show their faces.

This is super funny - Kristi Noem needed to be on top of a building in a safe area with armed guards to confront chickenman, ten people holding signs, and a few senior citizens. WAR ZONE!!!!!! Honestly, is that the best photo op they can muster? (Also when I say funny, I also mean terrifying.)

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Not always a big Schiff fan but I think this is good.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

It is hard to accept each of us have to stand up in this moment, when the media, companies, universities, and even our elected officials make us feel alone. I knew that the Trump regime could become authoritarian, but I thought we would have better support.

So now the US can blow up people with no trial because they felt like it, and ICE etc can detain anyone who is brown for no reason. I guess since Trump knows he won’t get the Nobel Peace Prize he is thirsting for he has decided to compete for the Evil Incarnate Prize, and is in the lead.

My pets make me sane and also not so much. My dog Winter, here, whose dna said he is half pitbull and half chihuahua. I love him but the anger and confidence of a chihuahua should not be coupled with the jaw strength and musculature of a pitbull :)

Mostly I post about how angry I am at the current state of the nation. But I just went to see Operation Mincemeat in New York, and it was fabulous, so today I am posting about how anyone who can should see it.

Ok what if a bunch of anti-ICE folks who need a job got a job at ICE (they are hiring in huge numbers), and then stopped the other ICE agents from doing their shit?

Starting to think that switching back and forth between the weirdness of Love Island USA and news about the fascist horror descending in the US might not be a good idea for my mental health. That said, I am unlikely to stop. At least Love Island has an end date.