Fell up some stairs and fucked up my shoulder in a way I know is going to suck for a week.
Jae
@jaehanley.social
Product Designer, Web Developer and nerd. Proud black trans woman 🏳️‍⚧️
Hate does not exist only within an economic context, and thus addressing hate cannot be sold only within an economic context. If you are fighting for a more equitable world, that must come with a message addressing hate directly and explicitly, not as a consequence of some effort.
A big part of the problem with DSA messaging towards Black voters is focusing primarily on economic issues being the root of society’s ills. This tone that DSA policies are especially good for Black people. It gives race based economic classification, feels like Trump’s “what do you have to lose.”
Also, we’re going to need a better analysis about DSA underperformance that isn’t just blaming AIPAC.
DSA troubles with black voters narrative is going to stay strong after tonight, and legit is something they will have to work to fix ahead of 2028.
Reuters alleges that America has used virtually all it’s precision weapons and half of it’s tomahawks, which means there isn’t much Trump can actually do in terms of attacking Iran. A stalemate here is an Iranian victory since they can’t credibly be challenged for control over the Strait of Hormuz.
Indiana Fever has X-Pac Heat with that MAGA energy. Like, I don’t want to see any of their games, all they do is bring in outside culture war bullshit, and it’s all on the back of two players.
First they came for the trans people, and I did not speak out because the polling wasn’t favorable.
Electability is such a boring argument to make in a primary. It’s especially heinous if you don’t have a decisive advantage going in. Like, you can’t be fighting for your life against a less established, worse funded opponent and tell me that actually people like you more.
I can’t think of any politician that ran an AI ad that wasn’t a complete piece of shit.
Why even bother trying to be straight anyway? Y’all be having so many debates about what is and isn’t straight you might as well make a committee and publish a guidebook.
Got a cold call about a Design Engineer role AI-ifying a component library, and I truely just want all of this to end. People are crashing their UX by taking designers out of the loop and having random project managers just doing whatever with Claude.
GitHub put 🥞 for the hamburger menu icon and we’re so deep into AI slop world that I just assumed that some agent fucked up somewhere along the line.
Being anti-trans is easy hot take bait with a revenue track associated with it. Being pro-Trans does the opposite, flags you as “political,” and risky. Being trans? Pure harassment.
Unironically the cost of a PS5 is a heartland issue that would get people to vote.
Entire economy propped up on the back of commitments that can only be sustained by future investment, while everything is literally on fire.
Me being a parent is immaterial to “parents know best,” because my parenthood is not desired by those who say it. There is no hypocrisy for someone who values words only for their ability to shoot venom.
Trump administration to make conservative safe spaces; aims to prevent screaming, crying, and throwing up over the concept of trans people.
Trump orders warning about 'inaccurate information' be placed outside D.C. museum
President Trump says Smithsonian exhibits are anti-white and dishonest. Museum leaders react to Trump's order that signage be placed outside a museum that "corrects inaccurate information."
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NY Times back at it with an op-ed about how therapy is bad for mental health.
Read this article in The New Yorker opining about extramarital crushes. They talk about it like petite fours you have to stop yourself from gorging on, lest you finish the box.
With gas prices so high, and food prices so high, and housing costs so high, Americans are focused on the real issues: trans women doing basically anything.
Used to be that you would have these sheltered, unworldly kids who would make it to college and flame out. Now we have safe space diploma mills, and conservative politicians who want to force colleges to pass them, so they can fail a little further down the line in the job market.
Trump came into office and Hakeem Jeffries got on a podium—asked what he was supposed to do. Had a year’s worth of debates about whose liberties should be sacrificed for the sake of winning. Now we’re at the midterms and people are crying foul because the base votes for people who want to fight.
If leftists have problems messaging Black communities, it’s because they engage in class reductionism to the extent that it flattens Black identities and anti-Black prejudices to socioeconomic concerns, ignoring or minimizing the racial axis that Black people are intimately familiar with.
Buying another fighting game I’ll be terrible at because I like Arc System Works’ animation.
Ordered a pizza and the guy on the phone said “what can I get you daughtah?”
Had to replace a dying hard drive. Same model I bought five years ago is double the price now.
We’ve got Neocons turned Democrat talking out of both sides of their mouths. They claim that all elections are local and anything happening in heavy blue areas doesn’t warrant national policy change, while also demanding that elections be tilted towards national optics and sensibilities.
People complained about cancellation and found themselves in a world without accountability.