Rust-loving transgender menace with a knack for type system abuse and micro-optimizations. https://hera.wtf
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Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
Ahem her name is Rolinda and she pays with ideas.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.
Decommodify. Essential. Needs.
#bannedbooksweek #censorship bannedbooksweek.org
no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. don’t say stuff like that
“Jobs disappear and the markets cheer.” On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw
The Stock Market is nothing other than a measure of how badly owners are screwing labor.
Science is real
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
It's not just the Pulse memorial, DeSantis is ensuring any and all murals across the state that go against his bigotry must be painted over and ripped out. www.axios.com/local/tampa-...
From 1990.
We are watching resegregation happen in real time. It's neo Jim Crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
The Minnesota shooter this week originally planned to shoot up a music venue that primarily catered to trans folks but they were worried that trans folks might b be carrying guns and wouldn't be an easy target.
Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science. Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering. RIP, Margaret.
The Rev took attendance…
Another old Soviet era joke: Why do secret policemen walk around in three? One does the reading One does the writing The other one keeps his eye on the two intellectuals!
I updated an old American joke: Russian: "What's so great about America?" American: "I can stand on the steps of the white house and say the president sucks donkey balls" An unmarked van of masked men drag the American to a concentration camp to be killed. End of joke.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
We could have a modern parliamentary democracy, universal healthcare, human rights in the constitution, bullet trains, proper infrastructure etc. It would be so great.
It's so absurd how blatantly illegal the tariffs are but Trump can still continue violating the law while costing Americans hundreds of billions of dollars. www.ft.com/content/f3c7...
Technology is value neutral. Takes the nerds who to me, seem like artists at heart, who keep me willing to even engage with a terminal these days. Keep up the great work :3 Also your hair is, so cute, I need to experiment more with mine.
Often enough I feel drained by technology. Often enough how it's being used to aid and abet today's crimes against humanity... It's people who're just, idfk passionate, deeply curious nerds, who keep me working with it. Your videos, helping a lot. So, uh, thanks :3
The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.
If not for Chicago, we might not have Labor Day. Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.
"it's a magic con, it's gonna be filled with hot non-binary people"
BREAKING: Missouri governor orders redrawing of U.S. House map, expanding President Trump's push to tilt more seats toward Republicans in 2026.
$483k!! Can we get to half a million for PCRF?
I'm not sure anyone who looks like this should be talking about outbreeding anyone.
One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.
Don’t look away
Really not great that this ketamine addled piece of shit is using an entire social media network he bought to spread blatant lies and go after trans people because he couldn't accept his own trans daughter.
You good girlie?
In other news I'm going to build a dogshit, bespoke static site generator for my, underused website. For some reason I saw it fit to invest heavily into utilizing tree-sitter for highlighting... That's gonna take while for me to uh, hash out.
I need to read more. I'd be able to draw from more, succinct and accurate language to describe the organized amorphous blob that are my thoughts. I see the structure, yet I can't describe it. To be continued...
My brain is getting scattered, mixing up a lot of related but unrelated things together here. That's all for now. Fucking hate how LLMs are being used in 99% of scenarios. It is legitimately exhausting trying to explain this shit to normies. I do like the analogy, "stochastic parrot"... Yeah.
Failure at least shows, well, your fallibility as a human, and you can take, lessons from that, find tools to *help* you in the future... But they usually see little value in trying, or learning from other people's work. They see it as a commodity. One they're *owed*.
Are they so fundamentally devoid of anything resembling character, or they feel that they are, that they feel a "stochastic parrot", an analogy I got from a friend, has more intrinsic worth to it? Well it doesn't. Even if you fail, horribly, that has more intrinsic value, to me anyways.
More frustratingly is, they're offloading it to a black box that is itself fundamentally incapable of cognition. It's exhausting being around and engaging with people who are so, allergic, to the idea of trying to learn new things.
To a certain degree I think people, well, hate thinking. They want some black box to offload one of the more difficult, yet extremely important functions of life, to. It's one thing to use something as a helpful tool, it's an entirely different thing to offload your cognitive function.
Occurs with software development. Really fucking annoying dealing with someone who utilizes LLMs for "writing" their code and when it, inevitably breaks, me having to explain the issue that is ***one of the first things the documentation for their tool talks about***. Erosion of critical thinking.
FEMA employees were just placed on leave after criticizing the Trump regime in open letter. Their letter was meant to "sound the alarm" about inexperienced appointees and drastic cuts to agency programs. Like all tyrants in history, Trump wants to squelch dissent.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
the entire world is moving towards the mobile gaming model - focusing on the whales and nickel and diming everyone else right up to the point where they’re just about to quit out of frustration, but not quite stepping over the line the line between the haves and the have-nots is brighter by the day
Really feels like we're just repeating the 1920s 😮💨
damned if you do, damned if you delight @netflix.com "gender agenda" comedy special
(The shooter was not a minor)
Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe. womp womp. 😂😅🥰
The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
“The new @lindsayellis.bsky.social video has everything: Analysis of pre-K children’s entertainment, doomsday cults, digressions about Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rwandan genocide—“
youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
This format is going to be like 60% of what journalism is in the next few years and, honestly, good! This is incredibly thorough. I do wonder when the major networks are gonna get the hint.
Earlier this month, Katie Miller launched her new podcast with a specific origin myth. The former Trump administration official and wife of Stephen Miller said that by creating a lifestyle podcast for conservative women, she was filling a hole in the media. This claim happens to be deeply untrue.
Why is this phallic to me... Jesus christ I've got issues lmfao
after 8 years of making ps1 inspired graphics i finally got around to making a shader that rotates a sprite around the up axis to face the camera lmao
Karoline Leavitt without a shred of irony: "Decline is a choice."
I do think it's fascinating how the modern right-wing reactionary movement has successfully coded heterosexual marriage as conservative agitprop for women and super gay for men. Feels like an unwinnable dilemma for them, tbh.
Not even against gun ownership, but holy fuck this shit is exhausting.
the shooter was detrans? hoo boy not touching that one
This is disgusting. We need trans allies to take this seriously. Replace “trans” with “Jews” and the rhetoric sounds a lot like 1930’s Germany.
Daily Wire reporter is asking this question. They are itching to lock up every trans person in the US and eradicate us.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
this really happened
This genocidal maniac is going to get so many people killed.
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
New suicide by cop feature just dropped on chatgpt. futurism.com/openai-scann...
People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
Christian nationalist pastor says that women are violating God's created order by participating in the public sphere: "They shouldn't be speaking. Period." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.
We're aware of the crate, gave up going down that rabbit hole ourselves, for now anyways.
Maybe they like ropes, to tie things together... Namely, uhhh, strings... Yeah strings...
boycott microsoft
Looks like... prosecutors found a sandwich they couldn't indict. 🕶️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
I’ve been briefed on a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School and will continue to provide updates as we get more information. The BCA and State Patrol are on scene. I’m praying for our kids and teachers whose first week of school was marred by this horrific act of violence.
As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives. Children shouldn’t fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t risk their lives. Parents shouldn’t wonder if their kids will come home. We are the only country with more guns than people—and this is the devastating result.
There’s no conversation I’m willing to have with people spouting lies around the COVID vaccine Not only am I an epidemiologist who SPECIALIZES in infectious diseases, but my 31 y/o brother thought COVID was bullshit too until it put him in a coma for a week before killing him.
When we say "we need another FDR", this is the timeline we'd get isn't it?
theonion.com/former-japan...
... This photo has nullified my crush...
Amphetamines. Next question!
Unsure what's worse, the fact my healthcare may be banned, the fact we'll never own a home, or the fact the WOKE mob took my hawppy hwite wasicm 👉🏻👈🏻. All jokes aside I'm reasonably sure that *part* of why a lot of my fam voted for Trump was, "i can't say the n word" **womp womp**
Elizabeth Warren: "Donald Trump needs a scapegoat and a diversion, and that's what he's doing with the Fed."
Why do they both look like thumbs
Many centrists are bigots. Hiding it being a middle class lifestyle that gives off the illusion of being a progressive. You may drive an electric car but your husbands a sexist cunt.
embarrassing urself is 1 of life’s most sacred joys
Current and former Microsoft employees were among those arrested. Microsoft has said it is reviewing a report that Israel has used its platform to facilitate attacks on Palestinian targets.
I was this man’s business staffer. He knows nothing about business and he’s actually rather stupid about the private sector altogether. All he knows is how to curry favor with private sector leaders to fund his campaigns. By “pro-corporate” he means pro grift.
The only thing in FDR's legacy he's a fan of are the internment camps.
all im saying is if we start saying we think the first one is more woke we can really fuck with their heads
Pretending not to hear the whole room chanting “shame” at her is the most Susan Collins things ever
Americans love their national parks. There’s a reason why they were once described as “America’s best idea.” So why are Trump and Republicans taking an axe to the National Park Service’s budget? Follow the money. youtu.be/HS7IJaB5NDc?...
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
Full story here. From Mayor Daniel Biss: "This vendor has failed to follow state and local data protection laws. With constant attacks from the federal government and other far-right actors, we will not sit idly by while our people’s data is shared inappropriately."
Y’all - Fox News just played @andrewcuomo the clip of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social saying “Andrew Cuomo is a man who doesn’t understand no means no” 👀