(regular voter voice) Well ah I don't really know about Israel and all that but it sounds like this group wants to help Trump keep the Senate and enable his ongoing crime spree and I'm against that

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 10h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

saw this meme and it was like getting hit by a truck

Social media has made it so everyone talks (and then, I imagine, Jojo poses) like every sentence is their big, courtroom drama OBJECTION moment, and then you have to sit there and look dumb as hell as everyone screenshots you and says "Yeah man, ezpz, is this hard for you, you little baby?"

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 19h ago

I have one answer.

To all the lgbt folks out there who say age verification doesn’t matter. Surprise surprise they intended to use it against us. Like this doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see. When they get to change the rules all of us are targets.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · last wk.

The Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.

> But while officials debate how to handle the unauthorized benches, they still haven’t decided who will remove them or what comes next. "Unauthorized benches" do you all hear how ridiculous you sound?

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

Avoid such fates by doing as I do: (1) Never use AI for any part of your book, (2) loudly tell everyone how much you hate AI on social media

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 6d ago

One thing I can confidently say is that more than a few other books have been canceled for AI use--including by established authors and non-fiction books--that have just not made the news yet.

It is in fact racist to call an Arab with views you disagree with an antisemite. I know this will be a surprise to many but unless that person is actually saying something antisemitic, the Arab is not genetically predisposed to antisemitism

George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d ago

So $SPCX swallowing $TSLA is absolutely happening. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Such little brother energy of "Us too, us too, we did an extremely unsafe thing, regulate us pleeeease"

Reuters@reuters.com · 6d ago

Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three companies during cyber tests reut.rs/4yP1TnF

AEW has transcended the need for binary heels and faces, and exists in a more vibes-based state.

shintigercurl@shintigercurl.bsky.social · 6d ago

kenny and will are both faces. kenny and will are both heels. they are both and yet neither.

What is it with folks doubling down (sorry, Daily Doubling?) over the most innocuous critiques? Like, I know many cis folk who play NYT Games. I wish they wouldn't, personally, but I'm still gonna call them my friend and ally. If they weirdly rubbed it in my face, then ...yeah, let's chat a bit.

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 6d ago

This may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.

Trump engineered a situation in which the outcome of votes now pivot around a handful of lawmakers he has no leverage over. Real art of the deal shit.

yes, and unfailingly predictive of absolute cowardice. If someone waffles on trans rights, they're wrong and gross, but also, you know they're just spineless losers who don't care about anything. nope, bye, next.

ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 7d ago

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

Nice of them to use Lindsay Graham's latest selfie

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 7d ago

Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0

like anti-semitism, covid crankery has become a universal destination whatever your ideological starting point was

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · last wk.

Ana Kasparian on COVID: "If this is the type of virus that would not develop naturally, why would you want humans to artificially create it? I mean, unless you're looking to create biological weapons."

> To identify this person, the cops contacted Kik, but their subpoena accidentally requested information about the Kik user “fus_ro_dah” (one underscore after “fus”). Kik provided Klayme’s email address in response. So, cops fucked up a dude's life, and somehow this dude still got convicted anyway!

Clive Thompson@clivethompson.bsky.social · last wk.

holy *crap* "One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months" full story here: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

Fauci should have hit ‘em with the Pete Weber.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Maniacal laughter as I laugh at my likely now-deceased grammar teachers in grade school that told me that if I couldn't spell properly or put punctuation in the right place, no one would take seriously. Turns out, Ms. Moriarty, that you were so hilariously wrong.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

Listen up white suburban men with power tools do you want to drown in pussy I bet you do so here's a fun weird trick that cops who we all know can't get any voluntary pussy do tend to hate, but the people in your life and community forever will love

3 charged after cops interrupt Flock camera theft spree in Lisle, prosecutors say - CWB Chicago

Three suburban men were allegedly caught using power drills to rip automated license plate reader cameras off their poles after cops stumbled onto one suspect holding a drill next to a Flock camera be...

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if this happens on a flight that i am on i will make 9/11 look like a children's birthday party

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.

Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · last wk.

A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.

I have no patience for the argument that anti-trans bigots care about protecting women and girls and women’s and girls’ sports. The conservative agenda is to destroy our autonomy and our equal opportunities. This is not a secret. It is the entire point.

"If you really can’t read my mind, you should have disclosed that disability in your application. Now what am I supposed to do? I’m all for reasonable accommodations, but there’s nothing reasonable about forcing me to communicate what I want."

As Your Manager, I Don’t Think It’s Too Much to Ask That You Read My Mind

“I just can’t keep reminding you to do things I haven’t told you about. I don’t know how many warnings I’ve given you now. How many have there been? You shou...

buff.ly

> Artificial intelligence systems have also been used to rate their empathy and tone of voice. I fucking hate every dipshit who supports this technology in any capacity.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 2w ago

Great @khari.bsky.social piece on the workplace surveillance of Kaiser triage nurses: "You aren’t calling Comcast. We’re dealing with life here." calmatters.org/economy/tech...

Just gonna say, as the author of the 2021 report, I stand by every single thing I wrote

Sal r.r. tamarkin@sal.gay · 2w ago

center for american progress (2021): "Trans inclusive policies "which allow transgender athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity, should be implemented nationwide." Center for american progress in (2026): "restrictions may be appropriate under some circumstances"

These people will NEVER LEARN and ALWAYS take the bait. Let trans people play sports. This is not about sports. It is about eliminating trans people from public life as we have told you OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Think tank braintrust once again tricked by jingling keys.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 2w ago

The org that wants you to know they won’t be swayed into pushing the anti-trans agenda, just the parts that anti-trans groups designed expressly to peel off orgs like them

Extremely common W for Weird Al.

Steven Santos@stevensantos.bsky.social · 2w ago

Guess who had the integrity not to accept $1 million to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival last year?

I stg I'm thinking of tattooing this chart on my palm with how often this conversation comes up when I talk to "the well-meaning, I just don't understand it'"crowd.

Nina@zeitgeistmistress.bsky.social · 2w ago

[Sighs] [Leaves the room] [Comes back with the chart]