🧶 I'd rather see lopsided, holey, ragged crochet items full of mistakes, every day for the rest of my life, than look at another pathetic AI picture of "crocheted" slop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll go one step further than Omar. Has anyone in Democratic Party leadership ever, even once, publicly reprimanded someone in their own caucus for not "listening to Arab/Muslim constituents"? Has Gottheimer ever been reprimanded? Fetterman? Did anyone ever say Cuomo needed to address Arab concerns?
Had a webserver getting crushed by Claude for some reason. Dug in to the logs and someone made a shitty php hangman game back in 2008, the dipshit computers found it, and were “playing” it 1M+ times a day until I blocked it. The future sucks ass
waiter told me "wow, I would've thought you were 21!" obviously expecting to flatter me but it just made me feel old. I guess 26 is the age when you're expected to wish people thought you were younger? I'm sure I'll eventually appreciate looking young but for now I just wish I was taken seriously
can't understand the appeal of hiring a live band for a wedding. a good band is like 5x the cost of a DJ and no matter how good they are you're still hearing covers of your favorite songs
Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.
To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago
A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday
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It is so insane how many people on reddit are mad at Americans for using AC???? It literally saves lives. 1000 people died in the heat wave in France. If I didn't use AC I would get no sleep and then fall asleep at work and lose my job. anyone telling me not to use AC can fuck off. It's 95 and humid
Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF BAYER'S BID TO LIMIT LAWSUITS IN STATE COURT CLAIMING ITS ROUNDUP WEEDKILLER CAUSES CANCER
Jeffries refusing to endorse Mamdani through the near-entirety of the 2025 campaign was a constant storyline in the summer and some of the fall—so one thing to note here is that his own disregard for building a relationship with Mamdani is part of what left him no leverage this spring.
HuffPost@huffpost.com · last mo.The House minority leader told CNN the mayor is going to have to patch things up with congressional Democrats follow Tuesday's primary upsets.
I made 2 doctor's appointments just in the nick of time before I get kicked off my health insurance. one for a vision exam and one to have my IUD replaced. it's gonna hurt sooooo fucking BAD I am terrified. having it put in was the most painful experience of my life and they give you NOTHING for it
much his dismay, if I had to credit one person for me becoming a leftist, it would be my (centrist) dad. he taught me it is never wrong to ask "why" things are the way they are, and to demand evidence to back up claims. except for when I'd ask anything about Israel lmaooo
For my newsletter I wrote about how Kier Starmer should serve as a warning for centrist Democrats in the US. It's a real crystal ball moment. www.burnsnotice.com/its-the-cent...
It's The Centrism, Stupid
Centrist American political commentators are mystified that Kier Starmer's time as UK Prime Minister has crashed and burned. He did everything they wanted and everyone hated him anyway.
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at an Indian restaurant with my dad, he ordered his food medium spicy. I ordered mine hot. he then asked the waiter to revise his order to hot as well. can't have his child one-upping him
I interviewed Daisy Rockwell last fall about the DHS/ICE recruitment ads featuring Norman Rockwell's paintings (without permission), and the disgust the family felt about this hijacking of his legacy. www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell
Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.
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this was opposed by Everytown BTW. they are supporters of mass incarceration. locking up cannabis users does nothing to promote gun safety
Ilya Somin@ilyasomin.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy more detailed assessment of today's excellent 9-0 Supreme Court ruling holding 2nd Amendment forbids barring gun ownership by marijuana users. In addition to strong majority opinion, there are 3 concurrences all of which also make great points: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
When Trump went to war with Iran, I watched every speech anyone in the administration gave and made a chart of every reason given for going to war "Eliminate ballistic capability" was the #1 reason given: more even than preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon
Iran War Reasons Chart.xlsx
docs.google.com
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump endorses Iran having ballistic missiles: "I'm saying that if other countries have them, it's a little unfair for them not to have some"
when I was a kid my mom would always accuse me of dressing like a slut. now she makes fun of me for having small breasts and says I need a push up bra. can't win
I feel a bit uncomfortable with people saying Ariana grande is "promoting eating disorders to children" by being on tour. She is suffering from a very serious illness that very well could kill her. she isn't responsible for society glamorizing anorexia
The idiocy of this statement is sort of unbelievable. The one thing Northern Irish loyalists do *not* want is to be Irish.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoKilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."
I love that anyone ever fell for the multi-agent models. Now that they've moved to token-based billing that's about as smart as letting a 900 number put you on hold so they can look something up.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo agoI don't think Anthropic really meant it this way but what an amazing demonstration of why generative AI's energy consumption is only getting worse, and dirtier. "Improvements" only come from nesting chatbots within chatbots, rather than any fundamental smarter design. It's Bitcoin x 1000
at pride I was looking at a booth selling various keychains and rings. they looked like the sort of thing you'd get from a vending machine. the shop owner started talking about how one particular ring was the perfect one for me, it was fate, etc. I ended up paying $40 for a ring I do not like
A new lawsuit filed by Karen Read shows astoundingly racist and sexist text messages between two Massachusetts cops who were involved in framing her for the murder of a Boston cop. They praise Hitler, plot to rape their girlfriends, and refer to black people with the n-word & wish death upon them.
Newly released bigoted police texts are ‘significant problem for the whole commonwealth’
Former police officers Michael Proctor and Sean Goode praised Hitler and used slurs in messages that law enforcement experts warn could damage public trust statewide.
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i've been covering mutual aid groups for quite a while, and was especially impressed with this crew decentralized medical device manufacturing ftw👇 ellafassler.substack.com/p/a-grassroo...
A Grassroots Group in Tucson Is 3D-Printing Tourniquets to Send to Lebanon
A small non-hierarchical collective in Arizona is using an open-source design to create life-saving tourniquets.
ellafassler.substack.com
(reading bullshit jobs) where can I get one of those that sounds awesome
Why do they call me "El Diablo"? Well, it's because they speak Spanish.
as a teen I did these teen group backpacking trips through Appalachian mountain club & they were not "troubled teen industry" type shit but some of the marketing directed at parents made them sound like they were, so every time there would be a few kids in the group who were being forced to be there