Alissa

If nothing else, Elon has made a dramatic demonstration of the fact that as long as billionaires exist, our democracy cannot and does not legitimately exist.

The music in this AT&T/iPhone iPhone commercial drives me CRAZY. First commercial I’ve muted in years. I’ve even reactively turned the TV off. Not saying the musical piece is bad but I’m saying this particular use is torturous—the people who put it in a commercial are psychos.

I keep seeing people on threads defending ai like this & I don’t actually think it’s a slippery slope. I think the slope should be slipperier, towards being HIGHLY critical & self-critical of technology, how we are using it & the companies profiting from making us dependent on their products

I’m sorry… I think because I feel it’s my duty in this life to study the masses to gather data & contemplate what the fuck is wrong with everyone(& consider solutions!) I ended up lurking on threads more than Bluesky, lately I’m trying to compliment you & the elevated discourse here 😅

This person on threads replied to a sassy post saying ai was making people schizophrenic (prob meant psychosis) & I was like… “this reply is so ai” 🫠 to which they replied with more of it… and I’m sorry but I just can’t with this ChatGPT style 😭 “it’s not ____, it’s ____”

Over on threads I enter the discourse with The Lonely Men & I assure you they are not looking for solutions—ways to get closer to women. No, they are looking to complain about women (in theory—I don’t believe they have genuine experience) & they are looking for high-fives from other men.

Sorry I started posting on threads because you guys already agree with me & there are a lot of noobs over there that never even used Twitter who are still like “wow, I can’t believe that in 2025 Elon suddenly turned out to not be as cool as he seemed,” like years after he made that painfully obvious

Ha I guess others noted that he was describing himself because I just saw this on threads (with no credit so no clue who did it)

lol

Ok but using his own words: Trump is a criminal, murderous, mentally insane convicted rapist, & incompetent president, who released J6 prisoners on us & is dragging our country to hell with his sick & dangerous ideology… so it’s hard for me to understand him as someone who is against those things

If you think the Dems are one vote away from *anything* you are STILL not paying attention. My god. Not even 3 votes. Imagine whatever it takes you to participate in the next election like they need 50 fuckin seats. If you’re suggesting it’s one, you’re not only wrong, I think you’re a Republican.

I haven’t seen this meme before but I’m having that feeling where I want to take it and smash it like a handful of cake into so many people’s faces

Those with psychology like Trump’s will do shit that doesn’t even help them just because they are seeking proof that they have power & are in control. They want to put their finger on something & push & see movement. They cannot otherwise believe their power. It’s one reason they are so dangerous.

It's been orthodoxy among antivaxxers for decades that better hygiene made polio magically go away, the vaccine being introduced at the exact same time was just a coincidence.

And it’s not just that… the rules are unclear & incessantly changing, in the hands of an elderly, mush-brained narcissist who is unfamiliar with his own executive orders, & his drug-addled billionaire blood boy or whatever Elon’s position is. It’s a complete shit show. Enter at your own HIGH risk.

One of my earliest posts on here (in Jan) was about how I’d gone to make sure an Elon tweet I saw shared was real, & ended up having to scroll foreverrrr to just get thru one day. I once imagined this graph in my mind. It was satisfying & disturbing to see it.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

collaborators love to say they don't have a choice. you always have a choice.

The real problem is that our institutions’ integrity is not baked in by law… it relies on the people running them to have integrity. That was a major miscalculation.

Being so awful that accurately describing your actions sounds like the ravings of a lunatic is a political cheat code.

This is also why a lot of people have trouble parsing the stuff Musk or whoever is doing to the federal government "Why would you do this? It only hurts people, with no conceivable benefit to anyone!" yes that's why, they like hurting people as an end in itself

Economist/YouGov Poll, March 16-18 % who say the following should be expanded | reduced | eliminated U.S. Department of Education 39% | 13% | 17% U.S. Department of Defense 34% | 15% | 1% EPA 32% | 17% | 7% National Park Service 30% | 10% | 1% DOGE 25% | 9% | 34% today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Oh man if only we’d hoarded billions of dollars this year so that we didn’t have to pay anything in taxes But no, we must send ours in so that we can crowdfund one of Elon’s personal projects

It’s funny—when you teach a toddler how to do a thumb’s up you realize it’s something you have to practice & understand to master. It doesn’t really come off the same without finger mastery, confidence & understanding of the gesture. Anyhow, Trump always looks like a kid doing it 👍 #babyhands

He thinks “Jewish” & “Palestinian” are both slurs in their own way tbh. It’s just so harmful to have this person leading our country + disgusting that people chose to allow him to access the presidency. Millions *chose* to elect him… & millions more *chose* not to participate in stopping him. Gross.

This is thought policing. You which foreign-born man I see as a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to foreign policy & national security interests of the United States? Elon Musk Which American citizen? Donald Trump  They have taken actions that have already proved it Foreign allies(former) agree

Friends, stop telling people stuff online and talk to them IRL everyone in your social media network already knows