trump is talking about the number of people killed by gun violence in chicago right after saying guns aren't a problem in america.
If you’re still blaming kids for what your leaders did, kindly fuck off. Trying to figure some shit out. Ugh, wtf. Apparently I’m not rude anymore 🏳️⚧️
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trump is talking about the number of people killed by gun violence in chicago right after saying guns aren't a problem in america.
some other asshole with a toupee: alabama rules, the president is great
Trump is higher than DJT Jr right now. I didn’t think that was even possible.
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: Let's meet in the middle. bsky.app/profile/numb...
imagine being so detached from reality that you long for “common ground” with the people destroying your country.
I'm screenshotting @resnikoff.bsky.social here so you can see the 100% spot-on reply. No amount of numbers will convince people they are safe if they otherwise think they are the victim of a crime by virtue of seeing someone homeless in the same subway car.
AI cannot fail, it can only be sabotaged. You must stay ever-vigilant against Trotskyist wreckers.
i think the screenshotted post is helpfully honest. getting in fights with nazis doesn't cause the same cognitive dissonance as getting ratioed by people who are ostensibly in or around your political coalition. i imagine they are an easier bedfellow for some ppl (side effect: brain can get cooked!)
bunch of these are going around today & i found this explanation to be the most honest of the bunch. some ppl who are taking a principled stand to stay on twitter are just there bc the ppl they like talking to are there, they don't like getting dunked on here, and find nazis less annoying
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
No shit.
Bluesky: Catch the vapors
also sorry to be rude but some of the grown adults on this website need to graduate high school in their minds. "bullies" "mean girls" you are 30-40 years old
Speaking of do-nothings
thank you for coming to my big announcement that was planned for weeks and not thrown together at the last second to get ahead of speculation that my health is in decline. alabama (taking a huge huff of a mysterious gas like dennis hopper in blue velvet) is in charge of space
We don’t means test human rights. Your solidarity shouldn’t be contingent on a cost benefit analysis but on a recognition of our shared humanity. How about we start there?
Gonna be banging this fucking sign for the next three years.
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
It's unconscionable that in a time of such grave peril for a vulnerable minority, one who has borne the brunt of all Trump's hatred and extremism in executive order after executive order (and I didn't even scratch the surface btw) that a single Democrat is making trans women in sports their focus.
In some states, as a trans man who passes for male, I'm legally banned from using a men's restroom but practically banned from using a women's. My choice is between breaking the law and being arrested for breaking it. Few Democrats are talking about how much trans people have lost, and how quickly.
Trans people have been expelled from the military and punished and humiliated throughout. We're fighting in court to retain a right to accurate US Passports. Books mentioning us are banned in classrooms in much of the country. In FL, trans teachers are required by law to misgender themselves.
I mean that literally - no one is discussing the massive loss of rights trans people have experienced throughout the country. When Dems talk about trans women in sports, they're not just giving ground on sports. They're giving ground on everything, bc sports bans were the big issue 3 years ago.
So, when a Democrat makes their only statement on trans issues about trans women in sports, they are saying that this is their priority on trans issues - not restoring our equality under the law but joining Republicans in eroding it.
Okay hang on. As usual Rowling is saying the quiet part out loud not just for the UK but for the US. There’s a bunch of people that demand solidarity from trans folks yet continue to treat the idea of trans rights as a “luxury belief.”
It's not the primary anymore. Our job isn’t just to make sure Zohran gets elected, it’s to crush the billionaires' latest ploy to buy our city, and crush whatever they try next too. Donate to DREAM so we can keep crushing them, until we have truly won. actblue.com/donate/dreamfornyc?refcode=b
genAI is really trying to end language by stripping it of all meaning. Inherently fascist enterprise, period.
AI stethoscope can not in fact detect heart problems in 15 seconds if it's wrong 2/3 of the time, you clown.
From 2021:
Ben Smith is one of the most violently unremarkable people in media here, he's too worried about access and money to provide any sort of coherent answer that meets the authoritarian moment, just like the larger industry
Tragic that Oliver had amnesia immediately on hearing the answer for some reason? Assume that's why he didn't bother to follow up on smith's non-answer
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
I saw a few Brazilians saying the country’s Supreme Court justices were gonna get Bolsonaro not because they’re committed to Brazilian democracy, but because they have big egos. Whatever man. Enjoy the accountability.
The flaw in everyone who makes a Bluesky bad post is that they come to the conclusion that making the site better involves importing people with centrist politics to talk politics when the actual truthful answer is that we need less politics and more goofs but that’s difficult when the world sucks
Human rights are human rights
30k!! I did not expect this kind of number around here but I’m grateful nonetheless!🌿✨ Let’s do a Q&A!
A viral TikTok claims that a woman getting a Brazilian wax in Manhattan discovered that her aesthetician was wearing Meta RayBan glasses and recording it. Meta’s response “there’s a light on the glasses that shows when it’s recording and it’s a violation of our terms of service to cover it” 🫠
If you’d all just shut the fuck up and vote exactly how I want we could come together
Nitpick on “stupid shit” like human rights and genocide
One of the great unspoken assumptions in American politics among the media and even the Democratic Party brain trust (such as it is) is that the Republican outlook on the world is fundamentally correct and their job is to figure out how not to *pointlessly* be cruel and stupid about it
They have to invent shit about "electability" and "polling well" because if they just said they were opposed to the policies we support, they couldn't pretend to be allied with us or pretend we should listen to them for how to best achieve our goals.
Since Michael turned off replies and quote tweets, like any good journalist seeking the truth would, I'll point out that people like him, Nate Silver, Matt Yglesias, etc. say shit like this as cover for the fact that THEY DO NOT SUPPORT THE POLICY AND THEY WANT IT TO FAIL.
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
The Labour party right now:
“i’m an ally, but only if you’re sufficiently deferential and nice to me” is one of the most embarrassing statements imaginable, yet so many people feel perfectly comfortable shouting it from the rooftops absolutely mortifying
Rookie numbers y’all.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
i would point to this interview if i was trying to explain how sometimes people who don’t think of themselves as journalists or reject the notion altogether can be the most effective interviewers newrepublic.com/post/199737/...
When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
That anyone is willing to say trans kids shouldn't be allowed to play sports with their friends in their public schools should alarm even the most radical centrist that Democrats care so little about public education when public education is under constant incredible fascist attack on all fronts
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When the boss is definitely doing great and just taking a casual photo with a buddy and nothing weird is happening in the room at all, even a little.
This is also routine rhetoric in Silicon Valley — even by immigrant founders! — about America and nobody says shit. Journalists refuse to even *mention* it, let alone ask questions or hold anyone accountable.
Media running things like a shitty restaurant changing their logo as news ain’t helping either. The right constantly sets the field and the Dems keep letting them
They’ve been pretty openly abandoning the people they’re supposed to represent and it’s really been papered over by a social media culture much more interested in identifying what people “should” be doing calling out individual bad actors than holding actual power to account.
These are the Senators(!) who are supposedly fighting on your behalf.
Because he feels safe
It’s their reaction now that’s the problem
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Limbs dont match
Thanks for not using substack
He looks fuuuuuucked
It’s going to be fun watching Republicans do for Trump what Democrats did for Biden
wow
If you've added yourself to the Your Party email list, they count you as a supporter. Might want to think about that...
They’re gonna release some video of this that’s as believable as the Patterson/Gimlin Bigfoot film
all of a sudden it's hearsay sightings and grainy 80s UFO quality photos man you can't expect people not to wonder about it
todayborday is labor day! support your local unions youtu.be/KBXsx1ZHgg0?...
THE HOSTILITY WILL CONTINUE UNTIL NO SUBSTACKER REMAINS. IF YOU ARE NEW HERE: I WILL SNEAK INTO YOUR HOUSE AND BREAK YOUR STUFF. I WILL TURN INTO ONE OF THE BEASTS FROM "ALTERED BEAST" AND ATTACK YOU IN YOUR CARPORT. DON'T LIKE IT? GO TO THREADS. BSKY WAS BORN A GRAVEWORLD. THUS SHALL IT REMAIN.
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
ICE has kidnapped 5,000 people in L.A.
THE LAST EPISODE!!!! im really really proud of this show. We filmed it in my house but we take a trip at the end of this ep with very permanent consequences.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡
My post was about praising Taylor Townsend & her only. Here you come, YT'ing your way in with this. Why do y'all always feel the need to do this as if Taylor has never faced a hostile crowd?
Hey guys, quick poll: Like and repost this if you think Gen AI sucks and should be destroyed. Comment “I’m a dipshit that hates my planet” if you think Gen AI is good.
In addition to the corporations trying to destroy the NLRB and 90 years of labor law, don’t forget a university is also helping, just to fight their own faculty and students.
You should come on a tour sometime, esp. if you haven't already 😅 fullstorybaltimore.tours
Alot of these folks whining that certain platforms are dying are just mad they can't get their parasocial instant gratification.
Who should we be nicer to? Tell us exactly who you want here. They never will
There's a reason that the people who complain that Bluesky isn't welcoming never explicitly say WHO isn't being welcomed. Who should we be nicer too? Be specific about the kind of people you want here. I'd've quote posted this. But he turned replies and quotes off. Making me feel very unwelcome.
We’re on the same wavelength wife wise
The number of children expected to die from policies that have already been enacted is unimaginable in isolation, even before factoring in the other concurrent and compounding threats from this new epidemiological landscape.
Top tier
one time me and the mrs were walkin the pooch right and she says to me "that's a dogwood tree" and i says "yeah you know how i can tell" and she rolls her eyes and says "because it's made of dogs" no i reply "from the bark"
Did I just have a stroke or did the op?
unironic use of the phrase "purity test" is the best way to signal to everyone that you're a selfish amoral piece of shit who would eagerly sacrifice any marginalized community you aren't part of in order to preserve your own comfort
“Gaza Riviera” is such a uniquely horrifying phrase, contemplating it is like looking at a death mask for the world.
Maybe outsourcing your thinking to a tech company isn't a great idea?
I firmly believe that "hey man look at all this delicious food immigrants have made and keep making" is a really powerful weapon for pro-immigration advocacy.
I don’t know why musicians get a pass for using AI images. “I don’t know how to do that!!!” okay so??? tough shit, find someone who does! Collaborate with other artists!!
Plank
This was a serious question and I wasn’t rude
