"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Acid in swimming pools or filling them in with cement; closing libraries (yes, even before the modern trans panic); deliberately infecting men with syphilis; flooding communities with drugs; setting fire to apartments for insurance: There is no limit to what whiteness will do for supremacy.
There was a time not that long ago, when a number of people I thought were talented and funny and who it might be cool to be friends with weren't openly transphobic, and now I wonder if it was that they weren't transphobic then but decided to be, or were always transphobes and just got loud about it
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
Very cool how we have literally in the last few years restructured our entire economy around this technology that is being rapidly abandoned by everyone involved. Really bodes well.
There are some incredibly vital issues at this moment in time that go beyond like, oh we disagree on marginal tax rates but we can still be friendly. Trans rights are one of those issues. Trans rights are human rights and those are not negotiable. (see also: genocide; fascism. not unrelated!)
I love the Kids in the Hall like crazy, the show and each Kid individually. They’re brilliant, incredibly talented guys. And I’ve gotten to work with 3/5 of ‘em and liked them personally. It sucks when you come to expect nothing but the best from awesome people then they act like tools. Ah well.
If ChatGPT is the future, then why is everyone working on it desperate to sell their shares of OpenAI?
Canadians, this is a parliamentary petition, not a random online thing. Takes a minute to sign. An easy good deed for the day.
Antarctica is in extreme peril [via @grist.org]
Your occasional reminder that the positive effects of UBI have been tested and validated hundreds of times more often than the murderous Musk robotaxis or LLM’s we’re rushing to put into our schools and streets.
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
This is the disillusionment felt by anyone who was an adult from 2009-2015. Things were moving in the right direction, even if they weren’t perfect. We’ve gone backward and there’s nobody who seems prepared to help stop it. What did we get during the Biden era? Dems clinging to outdated norms.
2025: the public is forced to get all quality news about the destruction of the federal regulatory state from independent newsletter authors because brunchlord-owned outlets like The Atlantic, Politico, Semafor, and Axios aren't interested
The thing that depresses me about Trumpism is that 2009-15, however imperfect, felt like positive incremental change. Reading this, all I can think about is how Steve King felt real repercussions for his racism in 2020. Schmitt won’t get stripped of committees for this. Because it’s mainstream now.
In the hiearchy of sciences physics is often at the top and Biology and Earth Sciences are at the bottom and it leads to stupid ideas like this like you can live to 150 with organ transplantation. A very basic understand of human biology would explain that you cannot.
This is the result the bosses wanted to guarantee by bringing Trump back in, to end the Biden era labor market that gave workers power over bosses
J.K. Rowling is truly incapable of taking even the absolute mildest of criticism. Article by @alyssaur.bsky.social
If we are to get free, then we must embrace new ways of seeing and being in order to build a world where The Biggest Loser or My 600-lb. Life isn’t the dominant script about what it means to live in a large body. It is not just on fat people to create the world; it is going to require all of us.
This is like watching a Victorian time traveler befuddled at trying to work an iPhone. Just completely lost and confused by all the intervening context of the different era he's now in.
I saw someone earnestly say they didn’t understand why a gay politician would be closeted “in this day and age”… do people not realize that due to the continued and arguably resurgent existence of homophobia some people never even come out to themselves.
"I don't do academics really at all." This whole piece is a must-read. But this paragraph? Oh my, what a 🎤🫳 within it. (Seriously: read this!)
It was our party, the current Democratic leadership intentionally took it over in the late 70s. We are trying to take it back. You shouldn't like it, because we want the people to matter, not the rich donors.
Wherever there's an inspiring younger candidate for office, rest assured that the leadership of the congressional Democrats will do whatever they can to snuff it the fuck out. Jeffries already has Mamdani covered, so Schumer is going to take down Platner.
EXCLUSIVE: Susan Collins raked in $2 million from a billionaire private equity exec a day before she voted to advance Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
hey its almost like theatrics and media stunts break through and thats how you do politics
I'm glad I finally decided to listen to it again. Much better than continuing to do the same thing, and hoping for different results. This time, it was a breath of fresh air because I FINALLY got what I needed to hear. Contradiction of the official narrative with evidence and facts.
@democracynow.org is everything I keep wishing NPR would be. They directly contradict narratives from Tump, instead of just airing his words with objective distance. They air reports from Gaza instead of Tel Aviv. They air statements from congress members who are fighting, instead of bending.
I'm sure you can trust a company that knowingly pilfered literally all the copyrighted material in the world to keep their word that your data is safe and secure.
Statsig, the product development platform which Bluesky uses for app analytics, among other things, has been acquired by OpenAI, which means all your interactions on this website will now be captured by OpenAI.
Your neighbor is not your enemy. The billionaires are lying. Because it’s easier to pick our pockets when we’re fighting each other.
This was the *point* of these things being taken up by corporations. If you're just hiring people to "fix" something, you can pay them less than if you're asking them to create it -- even though it requires them to do more work. In particular this was the reason for the WGA strikes around this.
Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
As long as you do not shut out capitalists from the media they will control it and whip up fascist resistance to your socialist project. There are countless examples. Look at Allende and Pinochet.
It’s not actually a virtuous thing that 99% of media is capitalist controlled, that we have a variety of opinions on vaccines and global warming. That actually doesn’t help.
Never start a headline with "Trump Says." It is true that he *said* it, but whatever he said was almost certainly not true (or it's propaganda or conspiracy theories or unproven assertions or hate speech). Print truth, not lies.
My opponents are *still* competing for love from Trump and the billionaires. And I’m going to let them fight it out at whatever unofficial debates pop up this month. We’re bringing this campaign to you.
Just drafted my quick reaction piece about this, and I think it's important to get across this is not Los Angeles, or DC, bad as both of those are. This is an extreme escalation. I've never had more of an "oh god, it's really happening here" gnawing in the pit of my stomach. I feel physically ill.
Trump really picked the wrong city to mess with. People in Chicago LOVE Chicago. I’ve never been to a city with that many loyal people. He picked the worst possible enemy in this little war he’s waging 😭
I think one of the thing that feels the most refreshing about AEW and I have never seen in a big western promotion before, is that there the most sure way to get to the very top of the card is to be the best wrestler possible. Wrestling skill is valued and rewarded and not just treated as an extra.
to borrow from @hurricanexyz.bsky.social, a bunch of people tasked with covering american politics seem to hold this implicit view that executive authority is unlimited except for those limits placed by the constitution
I share this CYOA ending every couple of months, because it comes to my mind every time.
Same thing happened when leftists moved to Reddit from Digg. Everyone on Digg said Reddit was dead, none of one would use it. Funny how that worked out.
shouldn’t the people still on big twitter be happy that the people they hate are all over here on tiny blue sky instead what are they complaining about
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
I would be too embarrased to admit this is how I felt
Trump can lose in the streets, in the polls, and even in the courts, but he's finding victory in Democratic politicians and leaders of elite institutes working hand in glove to rubber stamp, expand, and streamline his push towards authoritarianism.
DAILY MEMO: Hundreds of New Agents Arrive in L.A. as Chief Bovino Prepares to Take “This Show” to Another City @eltragon.bsky.social
"Alarm" to say the least. Fascist fucks.
Many amazing games included in this bundle, for a cause that sorely needs it - what relief we hope to provide through this must go in concert with calls and actions toward justice; peace is not enough, peace does not stand up to the shame of what’s been done. The arc of history needs hands to bend.
Do the horrific people that stretch 4:3 games still do it when they have ultrawide monitors
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
When management introduces automation under claims that it will create more free time or somehow lessen the workload, it’s either: 1. A lie 2. To be filled back up by other work 3. Both.
it only takes a few minutes to call and email. use this toolkit, print it out, distribute it, do it together.
Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?
Meanwhile, I've got someone on LinkedIn complaining that I went against the "stated aims of the conference" and didn't say anything about how to use this trash the "right" way. I guess they thought the aim of the conference was edtech infomercials?
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
If the Israelis lay down their arms, a genocide ends immediately. If Hamas lays down their arms, Israel’s planned ethnic cleansing of Gaza happens quickly and without resistance.
Im someone who can be seen like that by many (I have one tattoo, and it says “gravitational pull”). I figured it came from a combo of autism and learning ppl so I can write novels. From my personal experience, that choice wasn’t chance or fate, but a lifelong concerted effort to be better than that.
"bluesky is dying" that's cool man. i go on here to make funny posts with my friends
There’s room for joy in our politics @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fascist empire when, in fact…you're voting for candidates that were selected for you by the people in the oligarchy…from a pile of "libs".
And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2020, small towns across AL went for several blue candidates. And then blue quickly showed up in the campiagns of eight different counties.
In researching my latest video, I found a clip of dialogue cut from the first X-Men film: Magneto makes it much clearer why the Mutant Registration Act will lead to something worse than the act's "intention." I think it should've been kept in! (My full video's available now -- youtu.be/ZhtkT0IeavA)
"Rapist felon forces university to shutter women's center."
1. Denver Public Schools is doing what some prestigious universities and hospitals refuse to do: Standing up for trans students and refusing to capitulate to Trump's anti-trans demands. "We will fight," says the superintendent, despite funding threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.
This is the real story most mainstream journalists are missing. Ppl are setting up neighborhood watch groups to patrol their block, volunteers are accompanying migrants to school/work, etc. and much of this is happening organically as well as being organized by @freedcproject.bsky.social #FreeDC
“Stay at a safe distance and don’t interfere. Video the encounter, make sure people know about it, get the person’s name and where they’re from, and their birthday,” says Lukens. “We all have to be witnesses to what’s happening and make ICE’s terror campaign public.”
Yes, most indie games need to sell like a hundred thousand copies to break even. And most indie games sell, like, a hundred, or a thousand copies. Absolutely ludicrous business proposition, insane that we expect indies to do this
Well now we’ve reached THIS stage. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
who the hell is this guy? where did he come from? $1.1bn in STOCK for his company? My guess is that this is Fidji Simo hiring her old Facebook friends (she was head of product, Vijave Raji was head of entertainment/gaming, two of FB's least-successful parts).
"Who do you call when the police murders? Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.
It's an honor to earn the endorsement of the Bronx Democratic Party and the elected officials who fight for this borough every day. Families in the Bronx are being crushed by the affordability crisis. As Mayor, I’ll deliver for them and all New Yorkers.
Expert here. What happens is the generative AI you fed this to is a piece of shit that tried to extrapolate a shadow into what statistically should be flesh, while you sat there loudly saying "ENHANCE. ENHANCE." like a dipshit.
Geese, seagulls, deer and groundhogs keep us connected to nature and life and make us feel more human.
Harvard is no longer committing to funding student affinity groups after closing the office space for the office of LGBTQ life and the Women's Center. This university is run by craven cowards. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The fundamental issue is that cutting crime means investing in things that since the civil rights movement, and especially since Reagan, the US has argued that people need to "earn." And having well invested public resources lowers the cachet of being rich
I think we need to stop saying that people hate crime. They like punishment. There are clear ways to reduce crime that involve systemic investment in communities but we avoid doing that in favor of ever more militarized policing because too many people in power like punishment.
"The U.S. announcement follows a report that the security firm of former U.S. Navy SEAL Erik Prince will soon deploy nearly 200 personnel from various countries to Haiti as part of a one-year deal to quell gang violence." That would be Blackwater btw idk why the AP is being coy it's Blackwater
I also don't think that people outside of the US grasp that hanging the flag outside of discrete days (like Memorial day, the 4th of july etc) reads as racist to a lot of Americans (especially as Black ones). It's like a little warning sign to be careful, when someone seems a bit too into the flag.
The mayor of Baltimore drastically slashed crime despite close proximity to Virginia with its lax gun laws and it was a blip in the news cycle and then a return to the only way to stop crime is law and order. We are a cruel, punitive country with a national press that loves facism.
NEW: Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the only two Black jurors had voted not guilty. By @richardawebster.bsky.social, @veritenews.org
federal consumer protection is dead and the impact will be generational
the biggest problem with "online discourse" right now is sexist and racist assholes, but notice centrists never spend all afternoon lecturing those voices or the platforms catering to them also, as an aside, the entire political spectrum has annoying people. That's what the block button is for.
the whining about bluesky (whether Nate Silver or Mark Cuban) is about narrowing the contours of "acceptable" discourse with an eye on protecting center right ideology from criticism but they can't be honest about this so it gets dressed up as some deep, noble intellectualism
Everyone cheering his death makes him feel bad, so he’ll do what he always does, announce a new form of violence on an entirely unrelated minority of people.
Something racist is about to happen
I’ve seen this guy in so many shows and movies that I can’t even list and small fraction of them. Sometimes it was complex and nuanced, and sometimes he was a construction demolitionist whose love of explosions made him hard of hearing on Red Green. He was always a treat and a delight. RIP.
Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. “The real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals…“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"You'll get more conservative as you get older" Me:
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
Really still need your help I have nothing left
"My goal before I die is for people to see my creations — to know I did not waste my time in prison but gave back to society by creating and sharing my art."
I thank the United States, its people and individuals. I have good and strong relationships with American friends who truly have a kind, humanitarian heart toward Gaza A party was held for my family yesterday in America Your support for us, my friends tinyurl.com/help4samaa @mommunism.bsky.social
I’m glad to finally know. I watched the first one once as a teen, and remember nothing other than it didn’t do much for me, as I was pulling myself out of religion at that time, and had little patience for it. I always wondered if the series found a groove or was what you found it to be.
AI stethoscope can not in fact detect heart problems in 15 seconds if it's wrong 2/3 of the time, you clown.