It's me, I'm the bat

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3w ago

I feel pretty sure certain rare species of bat feed upon Pretentious Literature Boys, actually. and then Pretentious Literature Boys themselves feed upon smaller and weaker organisms, like Unsettling Anime Boys With a Strange Odor. thus maintaining ecological balance.

Thinking about becoming less informed

I know this ink was made by squashing kittens and baby pandas in a coal-fired crusher, but I only use it to write poems about flowers.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6mo ago

There’s a lot to hate about AI. But what if there was a mindful way to use it?

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE it will result in dead trans people and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing you see the pipeline right? we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · 6mo ago

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6mo ago

As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in

it is a foregone conclusion that yelling at the tiger will not produce any positive results. the fact that people are yelling at the democrats is actually a positive sign: it means they still believe there is a sliver of a chance they will wake up and become an opposition party

my problem with these takes, is it's like imagine if you were being attacked by a tiger at the zoo, and the zookeeper was over there kinda halfheartedly going "hey. come on now. get off him" and you went HEY WHAT THE FUCK! and the zookeeper went "uh don't oyu think you should be angry at the tiger?"

andy™@andylevy.net · 6mo ago

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

Breaking news: Iran fired missiles at Israel and at least seven Arab states following strikes by the U.S. and Israel. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait confirmed hits, while Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan and Qatar said they intercepted missiles.

Live updates: U.S., Israel strike Iran as Trump calls for regime change; Tehran retaliates

The U.S. launched “major combat operations in Iran,” President Donald Trump said, promising to destroy its missiles and give rise to a change in government.

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"We have to side with our country during wartime!" Actually no, we don't. That's just government imperialist propaganda.

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children. From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

it’s all just video games to them, they don’t believe anyone who lives in the Middle East counts as real people they’re just making things go boom, watching it on TV, and high fiving

Preventing war with war

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 6mo ago

BREAKING: Israel has launched a “preventative” attack against Iran, as witnesses say they have heard explosions in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to the Reuters news agency.

not once have I ever needed a text message or email summarized in my entire fucking life

Lotta things wrong with NYC publishing, but at least we get to have sponsored Heated Rivalry-themed parties and call them "networking events"

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

In 1938, the German Reich invalidated all German Jewish passports. They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as a Jew. In 2026, the state of Kansas invalidated all correct trans drivers licenses. They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as trans.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️@mady.cat · 6mo ago

I'm only linking this to point out the historical parallels, not fearmonger that we are in 1:1 the same situation with the same outcome, but ... remember that while history might not always repeat, it always rhymes. the GOP's intentions are clear, and their actions are even clearer.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

If you are outraged about what Kansas is doing to trans people— criminalizing their very right to exist, seizing drivers licenses overnight and saying if they drive thereafter it’s a crime, which puts them into the PIC under their gender assigned at birth where rape is routine—I BEG YOU

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 6mo ago

After pointing at Democrats and saying they are "crazy," Trump says, "We’re lucky we have a country, with people like this. Democrats are destroying our country, but we stopped it, just in the nick of time." Just insanely destructive. Indefensible — but Republicans stood and clapped.

"People don't want to work anymore," "kids these days are too soft to do physical labor"—or maybe all it takes is reasonable compensation and dignified conditions! A functioning society costs so much less than people assume; those in power just have to be willing to allocate resources accordingly.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

zohran increased the number of snow shovelers from 500 to 1,400 for this blizzard, paying them $30/hour to shovel sidewalks with at least a four-foot berth so that wheelchairs and strollers can get through. he didn't overhaul city government to do it, he just used the power given to him and did it!

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

Dustin Volz@dustinvolz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Three Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax—prompted Anthropic's Claude more than 16 million times, siphoning information from its system to train and improve their own products, Anthropic said in a blog post Monday. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

The military is still just killing random people on boats in the Caribbean. No trials, no evidence. 137 kills so far

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

U.S. murders three more in missile strike on boat in Caribbean www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...