If they can send even a single scientist to prison over something that plainly did not happen, they can imprison anyone for anything at any time for any reason. Those are the stakes. You don’t hear that from legacy publications like NYT.
Andi Zeisler
@andizeisler.bsky.social
Former culture writer, Salon.com. Before that: cofounder, Bitch Media. Forever fan of print magazines. Single mom, dog mom, your mom
The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.
As everything seems to crater around us, I want to impress upon you that there is ALWAYS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO. Billionaires and their politicians want us to believe that we are helpless. We are NOT. If something makes you mad, find out who's responsible and CALL THEM. Tell others to call.
extreme income inequality is bad for a lot of reasons but today the one i'm mad at is people having the wealth and power to force me to live inside their delusions
Well, actually, kinda, yeah, close to what happened. It's not for nothing that Jack Dorsey, who started the place and was on its board, basically ran away when the trans folks and furries scared off all the crypto bros he assumed would be the natural demographic here (they went to Nostr instead).
jack@jackalltogether.bsky.social · 2d agoBluesky often seems like a project run by tech people who place great value on its architectural differences from Twitter, which nobody cares about, while not understanding how they walked ass-backwards into having a userbase (whomst they fear and despise)
An absolutely batshit decision regardless, but it also bolsters my suspicion that Vogue is setting the stage for a Terry Richardson comeback
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 2d agoHahahahahahahahha SURE, WHY NOT people.com/2027-met-gal...
my drafts folder looking at my newly minted post "miso soup with tofu is just one bean soup"
Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce
Reuters@reuters.com · 2d agoMichigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E
Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
Americans talk about “lockdowns” as though we experienced a uniform national policy. We didn’t! We had a patchwork of state and local responses. Treating “lockdown” as the single explanation for everything that followed erases that complexity AND the deeper problems that long predated COVID.
I know it's hard but please imagine in the Before Time a senior senator of the same party defending the president in the same way you'd excuse a cranky toddler.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoSen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."
no idea why we’re doing lockdown discourse but one of the defining images of that period involved guys who strapped on long guns and went to get sandwiches at Subway
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d agoif you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid
I Will Happily Pay Money to Feel Bad In A Different Way
Helen Rosner@hels.bsky.social · 3d agoFor a while now my policy across all media has been I Don’t Want To Pay Money To Feel Bad and it’s been pretty great. Plenty of feeling bad for free/getting paid to feel bad for my job to be found elsewhere.
There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
A frozen kielbasa going through a garbage disposal.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking
Not to brag but I have flabbergasted more than one person by bringing up the Lenny Kravitz/Nicole Kidman years
Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 4d agoWait a goddamn minute, Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford were once a couple????
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
It's weird, when you look back on the coverage of Jackie Robinson integrating Major League Baseball, there weren't a lot of these sympathetic pieces about the fans practicing their rights of freedom of speech by screaming the N-word at him. Progress!
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 4d agoSpeaking for the first time since ralliers began assembling in support of her stance against transgender participation in women’s sports, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said this was an opportunity for the WNBA to uphold its values of diversity and inclusion. nyti.ms/4fHr4Qn
However horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.
The Tate Brothers' Should Be The Trumps' Second Epstein Scandal
The truth is much worse than most people realize, and they knew a lot of it.
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DO NOT GIVE YOUR IDEAS AWAY TO THE INTERNET PEOPLE
Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d agoYou have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social
In retrospect was it bad to give the most thin-skinned, middle-school-grudge-holding motherfuckers on earth billions of dollars to build themselves flattery machines
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d agoYouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green
I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
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The measured, reasonable, middle of the road figureheads of mass media will lash out like prison guards the moment someone lower in the hierarchy than them dares to ask for a modicum of respect.
El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"
