i read this essay a couple months ago and thought "yeah that's right" but did not link it at the time, and now it's making the rounds again, so: yeah, this is (still) right

Degeneracy is a Symptom

On Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you.

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They're a pretty great company! www.drbronner.com/blogs/our-em...

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵

Puppy was scared of the fireworks and went to his deaf dad for comfort. Seems like the dog could understand ASL. 🥰

A vastly underrated good quality in a person is their ability to apologize when they’re done something wrong. I know it’s hard to do, so I give credit to those who do it.

One of the biggest mistakes made on both sides of the Atlantic in the last couple of decades is people assuming that once a battle for rights is won, it's settled forever. It is not. You have to continue to defend those rights.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · last mo.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

Getting comfortable being bad at something, at doing something you're not yet good at, is just as much a skill as whatever it is you're trying to do.

It shouldn't need explaining that "vote blue no matter who" doesn't apply in a primary right?

Open dresser

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@bskyplays.bsky.social Low cunning is my favorite kind of cunning

Thank Goodness Hantavirus Is All Over And Everything Is Fine

The funniest thing about people who say that chromosomes are determinative of sex and gender is that 99.9% of them have no idea what their own chromosomes actually are and if they had them tested, a good number of them would suddenly have a problem. 🤷🫠

This seems like a really good time to remind folks here in the U.S. to help Democrats win as many seats as possible this November. Pick a page, pick some candidates, donate today! Blue26.org #Hungary

Blue26.org

Not a PAC. Just helping raise money for Democratic candidates to help save democracy.

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Vance is realllllly trying to position himself as the sane one right now, for some reason

I'm here because my Jewish grandparents escaped the Holocaust. Many of our family were not so fortunate. NEVER AGAIN is supposed to include Iranians. And Palestinians. And Ukrainians. And on and on. There are no exceptions based on religion or country of origin.

Our NIH/CDC director spoke at 2 presidential rallies, and though he continues to speak at right wing rallies, his name isn’t even mentioned in this paper. Only critics of the MAGA/MAHA agenda can be “political.” Only we have free will and agency.

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’ve been warned that by engaging in politics, I might undermine myself as a scientist. Or worse, reduce the trust that people have in me or scientists as a whole. This latter point is the thesis of a recent article by Byron Hyde: link.springer.com/article/10.1... I disagree for multiple reasons.

For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today.... This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine. 🧵

The space rocket didn't blow up and the world's oldest tortoise didn't die so I say we all just agree today is a win

If you gaze long at the moon, the moon also gazes back at you. It looks right back at each and every one of you fuckers. And it's taking notes.

China should go "we're sending you 1,000 engineers and the shit they need to help you. No strings attached. You will have a solar power infrastructure by next week." What's the US gonna do, slam its own dick in the car door harder about it?

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 5mo ago

‘Can’t live like this’: Cuba hit by second nationwide blackout in a week https://aje.news/c90nem

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

Aaron Cohen@unlikelywords.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)

Writing process: (1) “I have the best argument in the world”; (2) start writing, think “oh no, this is a terrible argument, I’m going to lose”; (3) keep writing, think “this is pretty good, I think we have a good chance”; (4) proofread multiple times; (5) file; (6) find typo.

The god of bad luck doesn't require much- just for you to rail at your string of stupidly bad cards or die rolls or whatever. In return, he will make your friend's brain cancer treatable.

They really think Orwell’s 1984 is an instruction manual.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "We've been at war with Iran for 47 years"

It's like they read a book about the Gilded Age and thought, wow, we should do all of this again -- tariffs and trade wars, massive corporate power, white supremacy and immigration fights, a creepy sex panic and, of course, unlimited acts of brazen corruption and graft.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin? NOEM: Yes WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that? NOEM: No.

man its so weird how appeasement doesn't work. fortunately there have been no historical examples of this that could have served as a guiding light to avoid it in the present

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 5mo ago

🚨 NEW: Donald Trump says Britain “is not such a recognisable country anymore” and suggests Keir Starmer “could be” pandering to Muslim voters “Keir has not been helpful. It’s very sad to see that the relationship is obviously not what it was” [@TheSun]

They had NO FUCKING CLUE Iran would strike Arab states. That's probably why they were unprepared for strikes on Kuwait (AKA, next door to Iran). They probably didn't think through what retaliation would mean for Bahrain. Maybe they don't even know where KSA's Shia pop is.