But seriously, can somebody (or group of somebodies) make a trans version of BDS. A small number of long term targeted groups with specific demands from those companies is a better strategy. Nice and easy to follow even for shitty allies.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7h ago

Gwen deactivated 😔

Just sayin🤔...

I wonder if Stevens will drop the fake accent for her concession speech.

I told someone that I was sorry their emotional support YouTuber (John Green) sucks. She did not take it well.

Her counter argument is that Rogers has a PAC lined up to give him $45 million. It is then pointed out she has already received $60 million, so even if she won, she'd still be the dark money favorite.

Return of the Cmonmacques@cmonmaque.bsky.social · 24h ago

God bless you, Haley. You’re the gift who keeps on giving

Every 4 years, there's going to be a new president who will propose some new bullshit student loan program to reset the clock on 25 years until forgiveness. It's dumb. And it's really clear no party will fix it.

Look, all Francesca Hong has to say to win is "fuck data centers". We're all primed to hate them, especially after the Foxconn disaster cost Walker an election. Even R+20 counties have anti data center protests so severe that these companies are signing NDAs with city councils to sneak them in.

Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.

A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

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Oh, hey, Boots theory is what the Menswear guy blocked me over. He did a long ranting thread about the difference in lifetime costs between having a cobbler repair your $10k shoes vs buying new $1k pairs every few years and found them roughly the same. Lots of people caught blocks dunking that day.

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · yesterday

okay now he's gone too far

A PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE

The last Republican governor we had was Scott Walker. His major accomplishments were 1. Losing hundreds of millions in Federal aid for infrastructure 2. Wasting time and money opposing gay marriage and abortion that were struck down in court 3. Getting scammed by Foxconn This shouldn't be hard.

Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)@kleinman.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Wisconsin gubernatorial election will be a test of whether bad posts from 2020 are more important than trying to overturn an election in 2020.

Hey is it good for democracy when an illegal secret police force operating on the orders of a wannabe dictator tracks down its critics

I've been watching disaster movies with my mom. It's weird that Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to make them since the good ones are pretty formulaic. 1 hour: Introduce cast and locale 0.5 hours: Try to prevent it but rich jerks won't let you 1 hour: Set pieces killing/saving everyone

After rewatching it with my mom, Independence Day is a really good movie. The sequel is trash. But hooo boy is the first one great.

So, the strategic petroleum reserve is down to around 307 million barrels. We aren't able to extract the last 150-200 million because it would cause the caves they're in to collapse. We're still withdrawing 3-5 million barrels per week. That's 26-39 weeks before we're out out. What happens then?

Deeply fucked that “regardless of what genitals a little girl has, I don’t think adults should demand to look at them” is considered a radical freak position in some corners

I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing

Wow, he blocked me less than a min after I posted this. I'm not normally one to do the "HE BLOCKED ME, MUST BE A POS", but if you're response to trans ppl calling you out is to mass block them, that's a deeply childish and anti-self-reflective. IM SUCH A GREAT TRANS ALLY, LET ME BLOCK TRANS WOMEN.

"Healthy bodies" were one of the central ideas driving eugenics and fascism. Modern gymnastics arose from gyms created by Germans while under Napoleonic occupation who used physical fitness as a way to promote German nationalism. Mussolini considered the perfect state to be a perfect body.

Daniel Harper@danielharper.bsky.social · 3d ago

The lib "he's obsessed with men's bodies, so he must be gay as hell" is homophobic, of course, and utterly cringe, but also just misses the point. Hegseth may or may not be gay. I'm not here to say. But his obsession with the male physique is because he's just a fascist.

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

After poking around in the sqlite db that manages data on Jellyfin, I completely understand why the team resisted moving to any database at all for so long. The structure is made by someone who was trying to be too clever by half at the cost of readability.

Ken: What is an apology? *incorrect buzzer*

So the key findings of Amnesty's report was that these anti-rights groups have massive funding, that it comes largely from far-right christian groups in the US, and that they're abusing UK charity law to misrepresent themselves as pro-rights organisations.

Why haven't we seen a rise in pre-credits scenes? 15 minutes before the scheduled start time of the movie they can have a little scene to build suspense then go on to the ads and trailers. Surely somebody considered that to make ads more valuable.

James Miller@16bitirl.bsky.social · 4d ago

Movie theater innovations.

20 years ago I remember hearing that the greatest future threat in cyber warfare is whomever we attack now. Unlike conventional bombs that only work once, for cyber warfare, you must give your opponent a working copy of the weapon that they can then reuse.

Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · 4d ago

This week hackers penetrated critical infrastructure in 7 US states. Rather than developing a plan to mitigate and counter Trump blamed.....Tim Walz? It's a searing sign of how vulnerable US has become under Trump & why we must fight now for a better path 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-ter...

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

JK got her start nicking from Amnesty International, and getting canned for it. Human rights was too boring so she spent her paid time making up pretend little elves that enjoyed being slaves. Truly a vacuous person.

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 4d ago

Always hilarious to me that the true story of JK Rowling's harrowing and #relatable story of writing while unemployed was actually "she was fired from Amnesty International (!!) for writing her dumb novel on company time" m.economictimes.com/magazines/pa...

A reminder of what Abraham Lincoln thought of the Know Nothings, the party that championed "heritage Americans" and attacked immigrants in his day. quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

I only have to keep watching these damn dogs for another 15 hours. Then my mother will be back from her trip and it won't be my problem anymore. One of them prefers shitting on carpets instead of outside even when outside is 6 feet away through an open door. I do not know how to solve this.