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shipwreck camp is obviously the gayest settlement right

@oceanstuck.bsky.social · 2mo ago

(no i have not beaten refugees scenario. i kept eating shit and decided to try an easier one first)

"If it weren't for LLM I would not have immediately destroyed this code base. I would have destroyed it slowly, over time" ;)

cis Black women athletes are also VERY FAMILIAR with having their bodies policed by, or on screechy indignant behalf of, their white peers which is why we always say “scratch a TERF, find a racist”, and why the right is so motivated to downplay the very real solidarity happening across communities

LunchCounterPunch@theultrasecret.bsky.social · 2w ago

The right-wing wants to portray Black WNBA players as menacing precisely because they are the opposite of that; inclusive, welcoming, and proud to be so.

Also, the point of the media coverage is to set Mamdani up for a classic double-bind, which is a fundamental feature of all kinds of bigotry. They want to make it so that no matter whether he attends or stays away, he has done the wrong thing.

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2w ago

the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism

“Winning is the worst thing that could happen to the left” is a genre of commentary that you can expect to get more and more popular now that the “These wackos will never win” genre has lost its plausibility.

Washington Post Opinions@postopinions.bsky.social · 2w ago

"If the AAUP wants to be in the political fray, rather than above it, the organization will have to learn to think of politics like professionals, rather than professors," @mcmegan.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4z1Wnyd

look, you can serve the 8 million residents of new york city, or you can serve the people who really matter: people who are trying to sell their second luxury homes and have national political reporters saved as contacts

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.

Poll results vs. how poll results are presented in the Wall Street Journal.

Ralsei Olson, from the channel Folding Prophecies

FWIW from my teeny tiny perspective as a freelance writer, I am not going to watch the Harry Potter show, I am not going to pitch on it, and I will decline any assignments if offered. I could really use the money, but it's not worth the cost of hurting trans lives.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · last wk.

I don't know how effective a viewer boycott of the show could be--I guess we'll see--but I do think a media boycott would have some impact. If all the websites that would ordinarily cover this from every angle just greet it with oceans of silence...maybe it'd mean something.

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

...So you made a movie. Where the premise. Is that people can only have sex. One night a year. Because Sex Purge. And you didn't. Want. To show. SEX??????? Bro, at least the Purge movies showed people getting murdered! XD

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w ago

‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’ director Will Gluck says they cut out “so much nudity” from the film because he thinks audiences dislike sex on screen. “Whenever people now see nudity or very adult situations in a big theater, they get uncomfortable.” (Source: variety.com/2026/film/fe...)

There are so many annoying things about this, including that we have already solved off grid power

Mike Caulfield@mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2w ago

Almost *everything* you see in this format, whether infinite power cubes or solar powered houses for the homeless that fold out of suitcases or French "bread libraries" for the poor is liberal catnip bullshit by content farms. Stop being idiots. Thank you.

Lots of great stuff in here (and philosophers being cited!) I particularly enjoyed the distinction between liberation and representation

BASH BACK@bashback.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our interview with Tom Gann of @newsocialist.bsky.social, talking about who we are, why we do what we do, our philosophy, and Woodcock's sinister proscription attempt. This is our most in-depth interview yet, so please give it a read xoxo BASH BACK newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

So, to answer this question: I paid out of pocket for six months to get the executive function medication I needed so that I could navigate the stupid process of getting insurance that would get me the executive function medication I needed

roasted by my 9 year old nephew who confidently told me if i was a pokemon i would be psyduck "because he is always worried and runs around holding his head because he has a headache"

My sons, Aryann and Grokulus, love to visit local establishments and shoot at the feet of service employees, causing them to "dance." Do you like this. Is this relatable

K. Thor Jensen@kthorjensen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

yes, absolutely, sir. extremely based. tremendous parenting.

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

Literally what fandom discourse has turned into I fear.

one of my favorite things in the world is when someone hates a generally mundane thing with the sort of white-hot wrath you normally reserve for someone who has murdered your whole family

Andy McKay@korimakoecology.bsky.social · 3w ago

Incredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.

Jax is too afraid to get close to other because she thinks either they will hurt her or she will hurt them, so she's a dickhead preemptively so that they'll stay away. But she craves connection with them so much, and that's where... It's the fucking HEDGEHOG'S DILEMMA AGAIN, FUCKING SHINJI-

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

And then class, humanity poured all its resources, its water, its books, the very air they breathed, into making the magic money machine and as we all know this started the second dark age as the machine did in fact, not do anything useful

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 3w ago

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

from the bottom of my heart, 😑

coyotebroad (Jayne Cravens)@coyotebroad.bsky.social · 3w ago

SpaceX rocket that exploded shortly after takeoff destroyed land & wildlife: Concrete chunks had left craters a foot deep & were strewn across tidal flats, almost four acres of state park burned, 7 bobwhite quail eggs & a collection of blue land crabs incinerated. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

beato

This is actually a wonderful example of why we should not try to squeeze ourselves into their framing. As Jess points out beautifully, parents rights is never about parents like us and it never will be. Because it's a thought killing cliche designed to undermine equity and progress.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3w ago

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

if I am an influencer for one thing in this life it is the Jurassic high tea at the Ampersand Hotel in London

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew@amandasmith.bsky.social · 4w ago

Oh my god you guys I love dinosaurs and I love high tea and I love drama and this has ALL THREE