I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.
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With both Chicago teams out I don't much care who wins the World Series as long as LA goes out as early as possible.
I said this before but you’d seriously much rather your city be invaded by pirates or some terror cell than by DHS. All those groups are equally lawless but at least you can defend yourself against pirates and it’s not a give local law enforcement would aid them.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayHoman: "We are gonna flood the zone of sanctuary cities"
If there is good news, it is this: we are at the dawn of an age when no one will care what anyone who let Trump happen says about anything. I kind of think that’s a future worth living for.
driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 4d ago"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
DraftKings really put their thumb on the scale today lol
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 2d agodumbest football team in the league
Yes, it is probably worth reiterating how extreme a media bubble Twitter/X puts its users in; it's not enough that they feature white supremacists & fascists outside the mainstream — many are so hateful that they were suspended when the site still had a trust & safety team. bsky.app/profile/poli...
PoliticallyInteresting@politicallyint.bsky.social · 3d ago
Normal people didn't used to hear, "this person built a platform that pays a man who published images of a 2-year-old being sexually abused" and ask "how are the sports scores there?" This is very recent development. Read this story, if you haven't. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Twitter under fire for reinstating account that posted child sex abuse
Twitter reinstated the account after some of its more than 500,000 followers complained that the account had been suspended for its political messaging.
washingtonpost.com
I (probably obviously) disagree with John's POV here, but let's grant that all of what he says is true, and that X is good in all the ways listed in the post; let's even grant that's true for all demographics (it's not). It'd *still* be a site that pays known CSAM distributors at its owner's behest.
John Gruber@gruber.foo · 2d agoI'm sure this one won't make anyone angry.
Sometimes people push back when I say that staying on Twitter/X breaks your brain & makes you lose touch with reality. Here's a post from the guy who led product at X when they shipped their "create CSAM" feature, with a reply from a psychotic dude who's been posting about me for 14 years straight.
Trump’s last 3 press secretaries: Kayleigh Karoline Katie
I’m sick of the bitching by people who will only police others while doing nothing themselves.
I’m tired of arguing about interfaces when the layers below all of it are being taken over by the worst people on earth.
THE SUPPORTER SECTION IS WALKING OUT. THE POLICE MADE THEM TAKE DOWN THE SIGN. All the normal signs are gone. No "y'all means all." No "trans lives matter." Nothing. It is now quiet. No music, no drums, no chants #AustinFC
Liz Sepper@lsepper.bsky.social · 3d ago#AustinFC supporters say, "No ICE in this melting pot!"
Been thinking about how I pitched around a book about how Big Tech is contributing to rising violent misogyny and sexism, and there were no takers because publishing houses didn’t “get” the common thread.
Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙@blabalino.com · 6d agoSomeone at Cornell doxxed Jane Doe. Her pictures are now plastered across social media and she's getting death threats. No reports of threats against the men involved.
Armed men (no badges, no uniforms) bumrush someone like this, it's not *if* someone shoots them, it's *when*. Stand Your Ground laws were written expressly for this, by Republicans, so there's gotta be a reaping what they sowed at some point...
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d agoThe NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
It’s striking that the GOP has a massive cash advantage even when Trump is currently causing lasting harm to the US and global economy. What does that say about the interests of capital?
Not to mention the number of replies that have, "Well in the Bible, it says..." Dear child, the Roman Catholic Church is pretty darn famous for not being sola scriptura. In fact, the very era of history you keep wanting to cite is when the Church made that EXCEEDINGLY clear.
Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ@kenhomansj.bsky.social · 3d agoAll these bros trying to tell the Pope that he's wrong on the death penalty seem to think that there's no Church history from Paul to the Council of Trent. "The Church has ALWAYS..." No, it hasn't, you goofballs. Because the Church as you want to define it didn't even exist until after Trent.
It’s the Friday before a 3-day weekend after the last two weekends were mostly lost to work travel. This might be the longest Friday ever!
I do enjoy the Marketplace podcasts but the absolutely insane number of Odoo ads on them means it is a product I will never, ever use. Also, if I could pay for a premium, ad-free, version of their podcasts I absolutely would.
I could see @floridanorcross.bsky.social wearing a shirt like this.
🎃EM-SCREAM-KAYVEE 🔪@youremceekayvee.bsky.social · 5d agoNew shirt who dis
Getting old means getting way-too-excited about a new keyboard.
FINALLY GOT IT! I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000. Over 20,000 the past month alone. Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away" In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare: Fish success story. 🪶
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
