🏳️⚧️ they/he, multiply disabled, former homeschooled child of evangelicals, cat parent, sci fi lover 🩷💜💙 “It just goes to show you stuff.”
In an era where everyone lies incessantly blatantly and repetitively to achieve their political ends it is revolutionary to refuse to forget, to repeat the truth, to tell the story of what you lived and experienced carefully and accurately
that one big article about how a bunch of americans were taught how to read wrong changed everything for me. now when i get a comment about something i never actually said i think oh, are you one of the kids that got taught three cueing instead of phonics? are you half guessing what i said
the internet archive aims to make the texts available for people to actually read, AI companies don't. they intend to enclose the commons and destroy access.
Sen. Lemon Gogurtputting aside the destruction of rare books, how is digitizing a copyrighted text "transformative" for anthropic but the internet archive is guilty of infringement for the national emergency library
TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.
Important anti fascist skill to learn is being brave enough to yell "shut the fuck up" at someone in public
Hemant MehtaEvangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
The success of Emily Wilson's translation had nothing to do with Christopher Nolan. The hardcover edition came out 9 years ago and was a huge success. The paperback has been in steady demand since 2018. My store has sold 75 copies (a lot for 1 book for us) and 66 of those were before January.
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
Capitalism is a machine that turns human consciousness into wasted time
This is the problem with reactionary appeals to compassion—it all depends on the *direction* the care is moving in. This is what I call a care hierarchy, by which those at the bottom of the hierarchy are compelled to give care for those at the tope; care is extracted like a resource.
being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
The death penalty remains an unbelievable moral stain on America. But that’s not my main takeaway from this piece. My main takeaway from virtually every piece about someone who’s terribly harmed others is that society should be throwing every possible resource at children.
The children who loved a killerThe Carr family took in Steven Judy, hoping to ‘save’ a troubled teen. They didn’t know he would become one of the most hated men in Americawww.theguardian.com
if this flag offends you i'll help you pack
heaumeau e. rotacismjoining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell
Here is an account of the police shooting in Madison today that does not directly contain any video but does contain eyewitness accounts, if that's something anyone is looking for www.wpr.org/news/man-sho...
MPD: Man shot, killed by police on Madison's east side after officer was injured with knifeA person was shot by police on Madison's near east side Wednesday.www.wpr.org
if you just went by the headline you might think the author was rehabilitating an egomaniacal white supremacist for no reason other than shock value. not so! it's actually to rewrite the "dems should moderate on wealth taxes and trans rights" article for the 1000th time
Gilad Edelman“I fucking hate him; I think he’s a scumbag, and you can quote me on that,” one progressive said about Richard Hanania. And yet, “I think, bizarrely enough, that he and I probably share the same broad overall analysis of the American right.” Read my piece here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them
BeijingPalmerthere is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.