The surveillance state is not built to protect us or our families; it is a tool for divorced cops to stalk women that have (accurately) spurned them for being abusive weirdos. FYI deflock.org to find ALPRs near you and learn how to resist their continued implementation into our cities.

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Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 4d ago

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

the performance of trans ambassadorship to cishets consumes a measurable fraction of my spoons every fucking day

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief@katie.bzky.team · 4d ago

this is an example of the thing i talk about in that it sucks how trans people are constantly forced to be diplomats to cis people because there's a good chance you might be one of the only trans people they've consciously met, but precisely for that reason there's an outsized humanizing effect imo.

car brain should be added to the DSM along with transphobia given the high degree of brain damage both cause and i'm Not Kidding.

It will only be too late to address climate change when we are dead and buried. "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the World's grief. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 4d ago

Increasingly seeing "it's too late, we failed" as an argument against climate action. But: a) While we haven't done nearly enough, we've made a lot of progress relative to the "just let fossil fuels rip" world of pre-2000; b) the more&faster we reduce climate pollution, the less bad things will get;

I am starting a newsletter project that I call "Unlearning Academia", to discuss how the academy can move past its subservience to Power and build something better. Please consider reading my first issue below. Subscribe if you like. buttondown.com/sapphic.scie...

The present-day academy is absolutely rotten with sycophants that are too afraid of believing in anything to stand up for themselves. They would sooner let themselves be steamrolled into paving stones than make any political statement. (1/2)

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 6d ago

Amazing that there are still university administrators who think that bootlicking will save them. www.vanderbilt.edu/declaration/

Truly, the Gen Z experience is watching your childhood heroes drop like flies as they adopt subservient, faux-apologetic positions on the most critical issues of our time. "Sorry, I overbooked myself, so I asked the most evil corporation in the world to assist my YouTube research" dude fuck off

A. K. Venrinn@venrin.bsky.social · 6d ago

Omg not Hank Green using AI for research and calling to his “bad habit” 💀😭🤡

Another human rights org surrenders to transphobic fearmongering. Meanwhile, whenever I cross state lines, I have to check the Internet for bathroom bills before I deign to step inside a public restroom.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

404 Media@404media.co · 4mo ago

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Paul Shinter, 45, recently made the decision to try and gain some control of his nonsense life by carefully listing what needs to be done each day, including five minutes of guttural wailing at this cursed timeline.

Efficient! AuDHD man’s daily task list includes carefully planned five-minute scream

An AuDHD man attempting to keep on top of the constant demands of his busy life by tracking tasks has expanded his to-do list to include blood-curdling screams at the horror of it all, sources have…

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gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 5mo ago

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

Delete the app, delete your account, delete AI from your daily life.

Nick "The Media Guy"@newsman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

EVERYTHING you have ever asked about or shared with OpenAI is going to intel database. Our government will know everything there is to about everything you asked or have offered to ChatGPT

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Coming in for instrument time on the weekend and finding that something is broken feels like stepping in cat vomit as soon as you take your shoes off after a long day.

I think this is the single ugliest house I've ever seen, bar none. Give me an hour in Sims 4 and I will do better, for like half the cost.

Count Mysterioso@mysteriosox.bsky.social · 5mo ago

FIVE MILLION QUID FOR THIS? fucking hell www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Never forget, when you’re being asked to prove that safe bike-lanes or pedestrian crossings across currently unsafe conditions are ‘needed,’ it's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a raging river.

If your work is forcing you to adopt Copilot or Claude or another AI assistant they suggest, this means that they expect you to manage a workload worthy of a role that would require a human PA. They’re working you like a CEO, but I bet they aren’t paying you like one hbr.org/2026/01/comp...

Companies Are Laying Off Workers Because of AI’s Potential—Not Its Performance

AI has been cited as a cause of layoffs, but is it actually displacing jobs? And if not, what’s going on? Based on a survey of 1,006 global executives in December 2025, AI is behind at least some layo...

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Absolutely gormless reporting from the NYT. Framing this as a "repealing", as if scientific conclusions are arbitrary legal strictures, helps to manufacture consent for climate denial. The government didn't repeal anything--they just made The Big Lie their official position (again).

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo ago

Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu

a single pathetic green shoot pushes through the desolate blackened soil of a thermonuclear hellscape in a few days it will get eaten by a goose (they'll survive the apocalypse)

alyson “end journalism” greaves@badambulist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

lmao

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

Chicago is a beautiful city.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

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Sitting in a class full of nuclear engineering undergrads, and most of them said that their primary motivation for joining the department was that nuclear is "cool". I wonder how many people never considered nuclear because they never had that "woah this is cool as hell" moment from an (1/2)

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Good luck explaining to your grandchildren why we crossed known climate tipping points. “Oh, we wanted to let big companies pollute for free,” won’t have much appeal.

Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points

Scientists are racing to work out just how close they might be

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