Jack of a Couple of 🎃Lanterns🎃

I don't write much. Lots of people who are better informed and more articulate out there, so mostly I share their stuff

No you know what I'm still mad about this, fuck you, you utter plague of rancid fats, I'm gonna learn MORE about this to tell you to go fuck yourself with an electron microscope let's learn about some Arabic contributors to science that won THE EXACT AWARDS he mentioned

REALITY CHECK Send this to all the clowns saying, “The prices were higher under Obama.”

are we still doing this and by "this" I mean taking a deliberately vaguely weasel worded statement from a dem pol with a shot at winning in a red state facing a bajillion dollars of "he wants to trans your kids" ads and deliberately twisting it into the most unfavorable interpretation possible

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

"You look like you're trying to delete democracy. Are you sure you want to do this?" "Oh fuck, nonononono, cancel! Cancel!"

Bolsanaro

I would not be this mad if they hadn't hijacked the vast potential of an entire branch of technology so they could manufacture fake money based on chatbots that give you delusions and let scammers break the backbone of the internet while everyone gets fired & nothing works anymore.

Obama points out that values (or lack thereof) are just as big a problem for our civic society as affordability

There! PFP Uploaded! Surely now everyone will recognize me!

I wish I was exaggerating, 16 games from one dev, all AI slop, all clones of something else, all pumped out in the space of months. That's my experience of what AI tools are enabling, not creativity, not anyone's dream game, but spam. Constant, low effort, neverending, AI generated spam.

This isn't a causal claim. Of course unemployed people spend a lot of their time watching tv and playing video games. Like, that's a very common activity on weekends too.

Ugh. I worked at a company that had unisex restrooms and no one was ever assaulted in there. You know who DID assault women, in his office? My cis male boss.

a crude attempt, but I do not possess the patience or skill at this time to fully edit out and replace all the planes

Need me a WWII propaganda poster but for voting against the Republican Party "EVERY DISTRICT! EVERY RACE! EVERY VOTE HURTS THE FOE! EVERY LOSS DRIVES THEM BACK! POUR IT ON!"

We had an interaction, probably in 2019, where I just wanted to know what evidence he'd need to accept that detransition actually was rare, and it became clear that there was none. He's ideologically invested in something having gone wrong with trans care and will accept no evidence to the contrary.

There was a time I thought Jesse Singal was, like me, an honest journalist who came at trans coverage from a cis-centric perspective that sometimes led to outsized concerns about rare or nonexistent problems, but was also really trying to get to the truth of things. But that was 8 years ago.

When my kid came out to us in late 2019, I read everything I could find. Most of the coverage I found at the time was in line with what we still think is best practice, but the night before we met with a psychologist I found his 2018 Atlantic article and freaked myself out. I mentioned it to her

during the appointment and her eyes about rolled out of her head. It was clear that this article had really made it difficult to help parents truly understand where evidence-based care was pointing, and she was able to reassure us very quickly, but I'll never forget her disdain for singal.

Nothing reveals the fragility of liberty quite like watching citizens cheer for powers they would condemn if exercised against themselves. The path to tyranny is not merely an ambitious ruler, but a multitude willing to surrender constitutional principles for the pleasure of humiliating opponents.

Finished! I think I will go cry now WAHHHHHHHH

Setting up a new space in the rent-free portion of my head for "waiting to be stripped clean anew"

easiest way to "torpedo" his evil "plot" is to simply do what you should be doing, and arrest the terrorists (not the Standing Together volunteers) when they start attacking the farmers. There's no excuse for this shit

I mean, fuck, if you think @bradlander.bsky.social is acting as a provocateur by going and legally standing next to a bunch of Palestinian farmers legally picking olives on their own land to protect them from assault by Jewish terrorists (and yes, that's what people who attack civilians are), the

Not probably. They ABSOLUTELY would have (and should have) because getting the word out to a skeptical public is an important part of making change

it sounds kind of ridiculous but i think you can make a not entirely facetious case that 1) the industrial revolution and therefore ~modernity is downstream of mass-market stimulants (tea, then tobacco and coffee) and 2) a key impact of stimulants is their effect on specifically certain ND types

We lost something important when the central dogma of leftist thought shifted from “we need to find a just and dignified way to reward the people who work shitty but necessary jobs in the absence of the market economy” to “all work is made-up bullshit and no one needs to do anything that isn’t Fun”

what the fuck, man

In theory, the number 4 is just as secure as any other number. In practice, theory and practice are different.

This is not a tomorrow thing, this is a "if you're reading this take down your PHP based website" thing.

The greatest challenge of our time isn’t to figure out how to get to Mars or become interstellar, but to figure out how to live sustainably on Earth.

oh it's bad. oh it's BAD bad. oh this is CATASTROPHIC, drop-whatever-you're-doing-and-patch-NOW levels of bad cert.europa.eu/publications...

6: Speculative fiction lends itself very readily to individual readings and individual reading. That's part of what makes it so much fun. 6a: So probably your reading of a character isn't the only one available.

Capitalism is a disease that makes you think just because you sold your soul for infinite growth that all your customers have infinite wallets.