Gerisuits and other age simulations are no better than disability simulations. They don’t have the outcomes they purport, and we could just, you know, listen to older and disabled people about their experiences and believe them? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28287757/
Ballroom ❌ BRAWL ROOM ✅
The former now redirects to the latter.
Hegseth in the green room before this hit: “Maximum lethality, not… *slaps self* come on, Pete, you GOT THIS”
All fun and games until the big authors and publishers hold it all up, demanding the payout to be based on historical retail sales
“tepid legality” is a sub-Nickelback-level bar. Cornier than a case of Doritos.
100% Hegseth has been lobbying for this name change since he was nominated, and this US-flag-pocket-squared chump has been tumescent since the moment the big guy said OK
Re-keying Social Security numbers would be an ENORMOUS project. Probably less than Y2K, but way more than the Daylight Saving Time shift in 2007. I bet not many systems ever contemplated SSNs being changeable. Plenty of opportunities to steal/cross-ref new ones as we re-enter them everywhere, too.
Trump with a final knife in the back for conspiracy theorists who believed he would reveal the truth about Epstein and bring down the international pedo elite rings. He got your votes, now he's done with you.
On the one hand, being laid off this entire year has sucked. OTOH, based on the stories I’m getting out of people still working, I think I’m having a better time of it being unemployed It’s something else how quick the tech world went mask off about treating their employees like crap
Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.
Petition to rename legs “fart baffles”
Okay, but when you clean house the purpose is to get rid of what's useless, and you haven't gotten rid of yourself THEREFORE
Witness the RFK Jr. of energy
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
I cribbed it from this toot. No idea where it is, but if I had to guess I'd say it's in walking distance of a cable car. mas.to/@carnage4lif...
I’m old enough to remember when Republicans would call this behavior “lawfare” *checks notes* oh, right, that was 2024
“If your boss thinks you can be fully replaced by the bullshit machine, it’s because they think your job is bullshit.” #NailedIt
Happy (late evening of) Labor Day. I wrote about how AI is toying with the labor market, and why we need to organize. buttondown.com/practicaltip...
Except on Labor Day!
I do kind of love that nine-figure PL deals get reported via SurveyMonkey form.
Finally, someone made shoes for people who want to *checks notes* walk comfortably www.cnn.com/cnn-undersco...
As We May Grift
Disabled people have been warning about this EXACT SCENARIO since 2016 and raising the alarm that if Trump installs a fascist government *this is what would happen* We very literally predicted all of this. None of it is a surprise. People just don’t listen to the disabled so you are caught off guard
Eugenics and the elimination of “weakness” is very literally at the core of every fascist regime that has ever existed. The Nazis were famous anti-science and the very first people they imprisoned were the disabled and chronically ill. This is absolutely classic fascism.
There and Back Again, Again
How many felons are shitting bricks right now because they transferred the funds as instructed and the pardon still hasn’t gone through
O'Neill is a "longevity guy" and is buddies with Bryan Johnson and... "He has also supported the libertarian idea of creating new geographic zones, possibly at sea, in which residents can live by their own rules (including, notably, permissive regulatory regimes for new drugs and therapies). "
Okay, let’s start over and explain why he’s addressing the Seasteading Institute
Minor nitpick: It’s not Section 508-compliant. ADA doesn’t apply to the executive branch, and where it does apply (state/local gov), it just points to WCAG. Also, fun fact! The logo’s alt text at least at one point said it was the logo for Stephen Miller’s 501(c)3, America First Legal.
Being disabled is hard enough without you weirdos writing RPF about us and it doesn't escape notice that when we ask you to show up for us you usually leave us in the cold lmao
Weird how quiet all those talking heads shouting “lawfare!” over every investigation of a right-winger from 2021-24 are now that their guy is digging up years-old home loan applications looking for something to charge.
Bookmarking for January 2029
“America First Legal Foundation (AFL) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit conservative public interest organization founded in 2021 by Stephen Miller.” Did… did they crib web templates from Stephen fucking Miller?
American officials negotiating the end of the Vietnam War, April 1975 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
“Dude, where’s that rhythmic tapping sound coming from?”
I remember one time several cycles ago when he rocked up to our temple’s annual event, gladhanded some folks in the entryway, and left a stack of campaign brochures. Among our religious handouts. Without asking, obvs. Fortunately, we have a proactive recycling practice.
I've got it on two iPads without trouble. Haven't taken the plunge on my phone, though.
Something about camels and needles
Practicing my flying knee-spinning backfist combo for the start of the REI sale this weekend
Officiall Meta policy: > It is acceptable to create statements that demean people on the basis of their protected characteristics. www.reuters.com/investigates...
No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.
With agentic AI contributing to the AI hype-cycle, I've been giving it some thought from the point of view of a disabled person, and as an accessibility specialist who's already witnessing the arrival of the agentic web first-hand: tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08... #AI #agentics #accessibility
ALSO WE SHOULD HUNT BIGFOOT LIZARD PEOPLE ARE REAL are we still live?
Press corps: Is the vice president having a planning dinner with other officials to discuss the Epstein case Vance: no Press corps: Okay, it's just that we heard— Trump: I didn't let them order food
"I'm Really Going to Leave Town—and This Time, I Mean It!", part 805 of an ongoing series, by Rockefeller Pierpont Carnegie IV
And here comes the Treasury Department official to take this away since we don't allow the president to accept emoluments oh wait we're not doing that anymore? ok ok ok
Must be fielding calls from angry customers
With the number of survivors rapidly declining and their average age now exceeding 86, this year's anniversary is considered the last milestone event for many of them.
GPT-9
Congrats to Katie Wilson, here are all my democracy vouchers, can’t wait to see how you break my fucking heart once you’re in office Why yes I have lived in Seattle since the 90s, how could you tell
I think Verizon just never noticed he was still there
Special thanks to the Davison and Nelson campaigns for the sweet dartboard material
Shingy did stay paid, tho
“If he were in Japan (during the time of the book Shōgun by James Clavell, the only book about any period in Japan that a man of my age and temperament could be expected to have read), he’d be…”
"Epstein's former girlfriend"? Come on. She's a convicted accomplice. Do better.
the policy is the brainchild of the only Republican in city politics, who may be ousted in an election in ten days (or in November if she makes it past the primary)
for those who missed it earlier this week: Seattle has set up a system where some people are being banned from ever going into six areas of the city like downtown — and they face jail or fines if they do. boltsmag.org/city-attorne...
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
Counterpoint: of all the people I care about being hurt by OBBBA, professional poker players are last by a lot
There is no quiet part and never was. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
omg RICE I never had anything but like Minute Rice and wild grain shit until I moved to Seattle, and now I have *opinions* about how rice is done
Evergreen remind that it costs California taxpayers ~$130,000 a year to incarcerate someone. We could house and provide health care for struggling folks for less than that. But our system prioritizes cruelty rather than results. lao.ca.gov/policyareas/...
Election denier U.S. Asst. Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon at today’s hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee: “Either DEI will end on its own or we will kill it.” In response to questions from Sen. Welch (D-VT) She won’t say President Biden won the 2020 election.
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of mixed heritage sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II. https://n.pr/3Iz0M6f
New rule: anyone who interviews an admin official must have on hand the last 12 months of: - Unemployment rate - GDP - Major indices - Inflation data - Border crossings and interdictions - Trump approval rating They lie about these CONSTANTLY, despite being easy to verify. Call them out, for once.
“Without immediate intervention, the last remaining reporters in Gaza are going to die.”
Let me know what the Professor offers you for them, I’m out of candy
ChatGPT, Esq.
Weird, he always seemed like such a trustworthy guy
There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit. They just want a toy that makes them feel good.
CROSSBAR CHALLENGE YOU COWARDS
it’s impossible to talk about epstein stuff without sounding insane, even if what you’re saying is true
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-...
The R word is not a funny, edgy word to throw at people who annoy you on the Internet. It is a medical diagnosis created during the eugenics era that people with intellectual disabilities and families have literally spent years trying to stamp out from polite conversation and public life.
And also, their good genes need to be propagated, to make the world smarter (see: Elon, Pavel Durov of Telegram)
my regular reminder that many of the wealthiest and most powerful people in this country very plainly believe in eugenics
Periodic reminder that Marc Andreessen's sole claim to fame was being the first to shove his college web browser project in front of a VC 30 years ago. He's done nothing of consequence since, just pushed his money pile around.
I met Andreessen in very early Mosaic/Netscape days. Was another nerdy, weird-but-"normal" guy back then. The transformation of hugely-fortunate people like him, whose fortune depends *crucially* on public infrastructure and support, into self-pity machines and bladders of bias, is ... bad.
Update: apparently she’s called “Jillian Michaels” and I would like to opt out for eternity, thanks
Who is this Turbo Karen on CNN right now
Right now, I am asking how I can remove tech company influence as much as possible. It might seem hard to remove tech from our lives, it can be, but we can choose LESS tech. We can choose to step away from our phones and computers and give them as little of our data and attention as possible.
DUNE, WHERE'S MY CAR?
That's the rookie, they have to carry all the Red Vines and contraband
A nation in morning turns to the White House for the words of comfort they desperately need: "look, this isn't our fault"
Finding out he was a Ron DeSantis supporter (in 2024!) crystalized my previous opinion that Lalas is Wrong About Everything
"Hey, man! Where have you been? I haven't seen you in forever" "Just traveling, for work"
LA Galaxy supporters walkout in the 12th minute following the club's lack of response to the ICE raids in Los Angeles ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
"He is an academic who opposes affirmative action and writes often about IQ and race" bro just say he's a eugenicist and save a column inch
"The ultimate source was Columbia admissions data and Mr. Mamdani" Cool cool cool so why don't you believe in parallel construction when it's Trump's tax returns
"Writes often about IQ and race" is a hell of a way to dance around eugenics.
Effectively the Trump playbook against Harris, accusing her of weaponizing & misleading about a background because it couldn't be summed up in the usual few words, now in a cleaned up NYT iteration.
ooh, orrr if you've migrated from one syncing architecture to another
Once ICE is built up, all it will take is for Trump to go "actually, let them do domestic law enforcement" and voilà, he's got a national secret police that answers only to him. Who's going to stop him? SCOTUS? Kristi Noem? State national guards?
"A lot of times when people think they're 'burnt out', what they're actually experiencing is moral injury."
The House just passed the bill. Here’s our best sense of the situation based on available data. We’ll update next week with analysis of the version that gets signed into law. I’m really grateful to the people who got some of the worst provisions removed and who fought to stop this terrible bill.
Fallout: New Redmond
At a code level: strongly agree At a societal level: given how the range of employers right now goes from everyday grifter to nation-state-level robber baron, quitting programming may be the most ethical alternative most laborers have.
Remember as you are watching your friends and colleagues get unceremoniously laid off today that last year Microsoft posted a 17% increase in profits in 2024 to $171 BILLION dollars. They do not now or ever need to lay off a single person.