Unfortunately, it still happens. It’s not uncommon for there to be a secret producer that pays the model and pays for someone to run the page and then take a cut.
Unfortunately, it still happens. It’s not uncommon for there to be a secret producer that pays the model and pays for someone to run the page and then take a cut.
You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
bro just one more billionaire funded group arguing for milquetoast centrism. bro please just one more, we'll throw gay people to the wolves this time too bro, not just trans ones. bro im begging you
people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life
being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.
Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
Guy who sells doo doo (squinting wisely and doing visionary voice): We believe within 10 years the world economy will be almost completely powered by doo doo
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
The cave thing, the moms, fire/ice, mother’s necklace, tying her up, the southern raiders episode……
“Use logic to have dialogue” actually meaningless
And for fun, here's a little sparring with lazy stories about the printing press. bsky.app/profile/sonj...
Tbf re: zutara and kataang, my understanding is that the show runners had some intentions to make zutara canon before changing it so that aang as the main character could be partnered up. I feel like there was more groundwork laid for zutara than kataang! Latter was big sister-little brother…
Kind of weird how Roberts declared the VRA preclearance to rest on dated and unfair assumptions about the South and within 15 years the former Confederate states will have effectively eliminated almost every black district within those states.
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I absolutely hate to say this. But Kash Patel kind of rocks. He became the FBI Director and has seemingly only used his position to take private jets to NBA games and eat at high-end restaurants. It's the sort of old-school 20th-century abuse of taxpayer dollars that we sorely miss in this country.
The absolute decimation of the right in the Australian elections in May, the miracle recovery of the Liberal Party of Canada against the right in Canada, the defeat of the nationalist presidential candidate in Romania…
one of the things that was most jarring about being undercover in nazi chatrooms for my book was how often violent videos were posted in the channels. executions, murders, blood. purposeful desensitization to violence can be detached from ideology and just entail inurement to the sight of death
Yes, I noticed that about both Beyoncé and Chappell Roan! Made me happy
I went to a little show recently where a bunch of small groups played, including one where the drummer was a woman who was also a drum teacher, and she fucking kicked ass!!!!! Envious of her students
And of course, my point still stands. These are exceptions to the general trends.
Yes, and I’m happy to hear of exceptions. I was a huge Annie Clark head from her second album specifically because of her shredding, but she has really moved away from that in recent years, unfortunately
Yes and I’m really into folk. But mostly older folk, and lots of women are present there—Peggy Seeger, Karen Dalton, Elizabeth Cotten, Norma Tanega. I think they were mainly just singers and guitarists and songwriters.
You truly love to see it
😮💨 I totally agree. But also…as a woman who does music, man I am tired of the prevalence of gender in music. Man = guitar, drums, bass, sometimes singer; woman = singer, keyboards. And good lord how many bands that are all men with a female singer!
IMO draw is (1) dopamine but also (2) some socialization/community. Even if someone’s isolated/stuck inside, they can feel like they’re part of a culture and understand references online. And multiplayer games actually provide *some* socialization.
oh my god
"Resolved: Debate is stupid" by Aisling McCrea in The Outline from 2018 "Wow, that is correct and there is no counterargument. Debate is indeed very stupid". theoutline.com/post/6709/de...
IF this is true-- and it's a big if, remember who is running the FBI right now-- please be aware that back when I was monitoring 8chan and later Terrorgram, this is EXACTLY what Nazis urged their followers to do. They encouraged each other to do mass murder and then frame the left for it.
Anyway. Happy ‘It wouldn’t have went down like it did’ Day 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk
Being a feminist can get you fired; being a sex pest will get you preserved in perpetuity.
Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.
People say Boston is a white city because they don’t know Boston is a city in a majority minority metro where the Taiwanese American mayor succeeds in part because she campaigns in Haitian Kreyòl
The right has built a social architecture of state-enforced harassment for implementing ideological and social control through participatory engagement and bottom-up escalation of individual’s grievances via personal media creation and sharing (cf trading up the media chain)
yes! one was a technology of popular and bourgeois revolution; the other, for a neofeudal restoration of elite privilege and security from democratic intervention
People are always like we didn’t solve the school shooting problem, but actually we did by making dead kids really profitable.
We should probably be making more of the fact that the Trump administration is successfully bullying CBS into becoming yet another conservative news network.
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the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile
Absolutely scathing essay on the so-called opposition party by @ddayen.bsky.social at The Prospect. A must-read. 3 paras from the middle of the piece:
This seems like almost implausibly on point evidence for the @mtsw.bsky.social and/or @theophite.bsky.social theory of billionaires liking Trump out of pure class interest. Gates doesn’t even have a board or shareholders he’s responsible to, he’s being a lickspittle for pure love of the game
Everyone who said Me Too had gone too far in 2018 has these politics now.
So much in right wing politics now is saying the outrageous thing you mean and then pretending you didn't really mean it, it's obviously a joke, and anyone who takes it seriously must just be deranged or obsessed. The 4Chan playbook is literally US government comms now
Me: Can I have one of those blue milkshakes that symbolizes Grimace’s blood? McDonalds Cashier: (offended) We believe every beverage symbolizes Grimace’s blood
Little League coaches, neighbors, pedestrians using cell phones to record ICE arrests put themselves at risk every day to fight fascism. Meanwhile, powerful billionaires grovel and debase themselves so the mad king might exempt them as he ruins the rest of the country.
This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.
Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.
"ProPublica found at least 3 of Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages. We discovered the loans while examining financial disclosure forms, county real estate records and publicly available mortgage data." www.propublica.org/article/trum...
My mother always told me that if I was feeling bad about myself, I should go help somebody. I’ll have to tell her about these findings.
By age 30, you should have a magic act, your own ministry, some prostitute friends, and an omnipotent, all-loving father who orchestrates your crucifixion
surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity
Women cited as experts in news stories has actually declined in the last five years, from 24% to 23% of experts cited in news stories. From the Global Media Monitoring Project.
Shocking finding: a new global study finds women remain almost invisible in the world’s news. "Women appear in just 26% of media. Women make up half of the global population, yet just a quarter of those who are seen or heard in the news." This statistic has barely changed in the last 15 years.
Now joining press conference from UN Women: "Half the world, only a quarter of the news", on women in the global media from the Global Media Monitoring Project -- the world’s largest and longest-running study of gender in news, conducted every five years for the past 30 years.
oh i forgot about hochman. that's probably the nazi who wrote this www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...
This is not particularly encouraging.
I want to have a life, enjoy myself, develop my career, and be as prepped for motherhood as I can. But the narratives around “geriatric pregnancy” are scary! Feels like pressure to not wait.
I wish there were more resources (info, support, w/e) available to those who choose to have a child later in life. My plan is to have 1 kid in my late 30s, but the info I find online is consistently “this is risky and bad.”
I think it’s largely aesthetic. His youth, his religiosity. He thinks Vance “charismatic.”
My 4chan-using family member is a *big* fan of Vance. Not surprising.
Correct. I shared this fact a couple of weeks ago but there are now many school districts in this country that 1) don’t provide bus service 2) provide it to all schools 3) provide for all students. Some are even worse— they steal from public kids for private www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"it’s hard to imagine anything more emblematic of the Trump Era than what is for all intents and purposes still the Commerce Secretary’s company (yes, yes, arms length hand off to his twenty-something sons) making bets on something Lutnick himself has significant influence over"
He’s already here
He said "Sir, Sobek will soon devour you in the most beautiful, brutal ways. Ma'at has deemed you so unworthy, the most unworthy." Im pretty impressed with myself to tell the truth
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
This is very fair. As a kid, I was typically one of the last kids to be picked up by parents (when pickup was necessary). It wasn’t terrible but I think I internalized it, and I remember feeling a little bit sad/abandoned.
I totally agree that car culture is a huge issue, including here, though I don’t really see how not building schools on a highway is an “immediate fix”
People obsessed with this country's "heritage" are violently opposed to ever actually addressing its real heritage, so all they're left with are consumerism and symbols chosen for their plausible deniability. Imagine claiming the Cracker Barrel logo as your birthright.
This is the one Labor Day graph that tells you the actual problem in America. The problem is not that America lacks abundance. The problem is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding America’s abundance. www.levernews.com/the-labor-da...
Not 100% related but this reminded me of how much I appreciate how thoughtful you are re: the portrayal of class race etc in your books. The Wedgeford books are so good!
Thousands of women writing and speaking for decades with all the creativity and feeling possible about the wrongness of rape can’t make sexual violence stop or even be understood as real violence but RFK Jr croaking “beef tallow is the philosopher’s stone” has the force of policy now
If you’re a feminist you can spend your whole life grappling with the inadequacy of narrative to convey reality or summon enough political will to enact change. But if you’re a fascist you can just use narrative as a hammer to claim ownership of reality and beat material conditions into conformity.
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
Thank you for sharing. I’m sorry that your experience was so troubling.
Would you mind sharing what led you to homeschool!
I’m not rly sure how one gets around that when they homeschool kids. I recognize that it’s personal, so please feel free to not share, but: how do you think that isolation affected you?
Ok I was gonna ask…I know an adult that was homeschooled thru high school. Especially compared to non-homeschooled ppl, the homeschooled apple hardly strayed from the tree. Really attached to family, didn’t deviate much from their parents’ worldviews/interests.
I remember reading something years ago about how natural science and CS bros would avoid basic history, philosophy and psych classes in college and spend the next 20 years 'discovering' basic concepts via pop-business psych. Now this.
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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.
Not an exaggeration. If anything, this understates how unhinged the video is. It is, quite literally, five white guys talking about how to free the states from the burdens of the 14th Amendment so churches can effectively be given ownership over "gangbangers in Baltimore."
These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
due to funding cuts, foodnet is no longer requiring state-level monitoring for campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and yersinia. the 10 foodnet states can still do that, but they’ll need funding to replace CDC’s
MANAGING AN AIRBNB PROPERTY
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
Dude did saying this make you feel any better?
It’s different because it’s a new, additional thing. LLMs aren’t as embedded culturally, socially, infrastructurally as video/socmed, so it makes sense to focus on that (also because c-suite/mgmt easily weaponized it against labor).
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
One of the things I’ve learned a lot about this past year is how in many smaller towns, the sheriff, judge, real estate developer and construction company are either the same person, same family or just as good as. It’s all landlords all the way down.
a very good thread on this industry
just thinking about it makes me so angry. the worst kind of open race baiting in american politics since george wallace.
"Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality" is a sentence I can immediately recognize as something that will be seared into my brain forever
This is the thing: the very same people who are going "we need to platform technofascists and literal neo-nazis" are the ones tut-tutting about "too much work on/talk of" race, or gender, or sexuality etc etc. This stance only defends the comfort and privileges of the white cis able bodied man.
"Fascists take power. Fascists immediately purge anyone who stands in their way. Then it’s 30–50 years of dictatorship. This happened in Germany, Italy, Spain, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Greece, Portugal, Croatia, Romania, and Hungary."