“Verify your age” My first college email was on a VAX system

Kate Bevan@katebevan.com · 3w ago

"Verify your age" I wrote my degree dissertation on a typewriter

Shouting it from the rooftops until my voice is ruined

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · last mo.

A friendly empirical note for those losing it over progressive primary wins: ideological positioning barely explains Democratic vote shares since 2006. Turnout explains a lot. The party can run to the center all it wants. It won’t help if the base doesn’t show up.

The idea of “visibility” isn’t something neutral that society gets an opinion on. It’s a person living as they actually are, something no one else gets to define for them. Calling it a mistake isn’t contrarian, it’s depraved

Those who are under their mid-40s may not remember that Slate was originally conceived as a contrarian endeavor. Setting aside whether that was ever useful, this is a really disgusting example of that genre.

Rashida Tlaib said something about these yesterday, but I haven’t heard any other politicians talking about this. It’s such a straightforward miscarriage of justice - the charges are bogus and the sentences intended to stifle opposition to the govt - that if they don’t call this out, what will they?

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · last mo.

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

The Prairieland Sentences Are a National Emergency

A federal court has punished Texas ICE demonstrators with decades in prison. This is dark news not just for them but for anyone who may want to register political dissent.

newrepublic.com

it took decades of cultivated belligerence and stupidity to get to this point—a fox new hosts and a millionaire contractor who now runs the domestic security state, agreeing that loyalist mobs terrorizing belfast just want to be irish

The rioters hate the notion of a free and independent Ireland. They are happy to kill, and many are even willing to die, to prevent a free and united Ireland from existing. The rioters consider themselves as British first, not Irish.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Kilmeade 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."

"Unionist paramilitaries want to be Irish and want Ireland back" might be perhaps the stupidest take on this situation possible.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Kilmeade 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."

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Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

all claims barred by statute of limitations, the jury finds

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 3mo ago

musk v altman: we have a verdict. now waiting for the jury to enter

They came up to him with tears in their eyes and said “Sir, you’ve just passed our dementia screening test, the only person ever to do so. You are the only person in the world who doesn’t have dementia”

Imagine a doctor acting like this in real life toward you. Just locking eyes and saying "You are the healthiest and smartest person I've ever seen. I truly can't believe it. I've never seen it both in the same person like this before," in the most serious doctor voice imaginable without blinking.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Trump: "Anybody running for President or VP should be forced to take a Cognitive Examination! By doing so, we wouldn’t be surprised at people like Barack 'Hussein' Obama, or Sleepy Joe Biden, getting 'ELECTED.' I took the Exam three times during my ('THREE!') Terms as President"

How bleak is it that the *best case scenario* is that he is just engaging in his most ambitious bit of market manipulation yet and will call it off ("we have reached a great deal, a tremendous deal, to save Iran") at 4:30 pm after shorting everything and watching the market tank

Has he made the batshit claim that he wrote about Osama Bin Laden attacking the WTC a year prior to it happening previously? I don’t think I’ve ever heard that one before

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Trump: "I knew the Strait would be a weapon. I predicted it a long time ago. I predicted all of this stuff. I predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center. I wrote it in a book."

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment - dont believe anything the govt says about progress - no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war - the war needs to be ended - the media is not your ally and they love war

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Doesn't matter how they enter the right wing ecosystem - whether it's through red pills or worrying about "gender ideology" - eventually they're raving about race and IQ and how they have to kill inferior cultures to save the west

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NEW from @justinrohrlich.bsky.social: “I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.” "In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

As it happens, Alex Pretti apparently had a carry permit. THAT DOESN'T MATTER, because he *didn't draw a gun.* Even had he possessed an illegal gun, this would still be murder. His alleged gun is a DHS red herring; it doesn't matter. We do not need to debate it one way or other.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

Trump & Vance’s agents saw tens of thousands of people — of all ages & races — come out *in below zero temperatures* to protest their tax-funded violence, their murder of their neighbor. And the very next day, they executed another one. What can Americans conclude from this?

so what you're saying is they're murdering people in these concentration camps and covering it up

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Reported "suicide" at ICE facility in El Paso was actually homicide, per medical examiner. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

That's a photo of someone being tortured

Ashley Miller@amreports.bsky.social · 7mo ago

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Trump: "They're paid agitators and insurrectionists. Nobody talks about the fact that $19 billion at a minimum is missing in Minnesota, given to a large degree by Somalians. They've taken it. Somalians. A lot of very low IQ people."

I’ve hated the word hallucination for these kinds of errors since I first heard it. It isn’t hallucinating because it doesn’t have a brain, and the errors themselves are less like hallucinations and more like confabulations - plausible-sounding answers made up on the spot to fill in gaps.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It can't hallucinate. It can't lie. It can't apologize. It is a machine that works the way that it was designed to work BY PEOPLE.

An AI chatbot does not have PERSONHOOD. It has no agency. It cannot meaningfully apologise. It cannot speak on behalf of another. It cannot speak for itself; it has no self. Stop asking it for quotes for articles. Stop printing its quotes.

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

CNBC@cnbc.com · 7mo ago

Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children