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I live in Iowa so if you wanna see a cow up close, you have plenty of opportunities to do so. And when you do you understand exactly why pasteurization is an essential, life-saving process.

This shouldn't be allowed to happen. Jeff Bezos should simply not be allowed to walk amongst polite society without being scorned as the guy who voluntarily destroyed the Washington Post.

The same reason Skyler White and Carmela Soprano are so hated; you're not supposed to get in the way of a man's empowerment trip, but fade into the background and let him become the protagonist he was always meant to be

Or read it and thought "aha, so you're telling me to CRUSH my enemies so THOROUGHLY they'll be completely unable to oppose me, exactly what I hoped you'd say"

This is the landing place of a good thread that considers revelations that are so outlandish as to be the work of comic-book fiction with a perspective grounded in the actually existing world we live in, not losing sight of either pole.

Minneapolis Shows Us Anarchism at Work — Assigned The trans community should look to Minneapolis as an example of how leaderless, bottom-up organizing can be more powerful than traditional politics in making change.

When anarchism isn't being villified as evil it's being dismissed with an eyeroll by people who think they know better. But in Minneapolis, we're seeing the power of this maligned philosophy.

Today on Assigned: The argument for anarchism, by Emma Arcadia.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

(that the "people" turned out to be members of the local GOP party machine would be glossed over)

Get enough people to just lie that a top Dem donor did this and the mainstream media probably *would* speak about it for months. The people deserve to know if there's truth beneath the rumor, after all

jellofish is clearly superior to the British spelling, "gaolofish"

The best scapegoats always are.

I agree! It's just that folks who like the idea of being able to say and do whatever they want, to whomever they want, without any sort of consequence or pushback like to peddle the idea that this is to blame for everything.

Yep. It's not even holding people to account, it's the mere possibility, that results in having to moderate or self-censor to avoid it.

I don't see how this is different to "courtesy" or "civility" but then, most of the people complaining about woke don't have much use for those either.

Trump, ICE set to be handed access to Australians' biometric data, ID documents The Albanese government is giving the Trump administration and agencies like ICE access to Australians' biometric data — and we're not being told anything about it.

The Australian Government is now quietly handing over Australians' PII to ICE. www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/03/a...

Clearly, the arc of the universe bends towards Billie Eilish voicing a character in a well-known RPG series.

Beware of ‘anti-woke’ liberals: they attacked the left and helped Trump win | Jan-Werner Müller So-called ‘reactionary centrist’ pundits proclaimed that there was a global ‘vibe shift’ in favor of the right. They were wrong

"The other iron law of reactionary centrism...is that only the left and liberals really have agency. The right just reacts – everything is always backlash, never a self-generated political project." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Darwinian DEI for incels

Look, if they entomb Miller, Hegseth and Noem with him to serve in death as they did in life, it just might be worth the expense

"And then M. Night Shyamalan sort-of-remade it, but with plants"

"I don't need to obey speed limits because I've never run someone down"

Musk keynotes and press conferences would be vastly improved with a suite of Teletubbies sound effects accompanying his movements and gestures

elon musk claiming he’s going to build a sentient sun is the direct downstream result of investors, media and wall street analysts letting him say whatever obviously false, crazy shit he wants for so many years without ever facing even the meekest pushback from them

I fear you may be forced to defend your title against several challengers

How a trans woman's removal from a restroom tore the world of competitive pinball apart Pinball is one of the most welcoming sports for trans players. But after a confrontation at an arcade last fall, pinball’s governing group is struggling to rebuild trust.

I keep reposting this article because it needs to be seen. This is what responsible journalism on a discriminatory act against trans people looks like. Jo put in the work.

It's no longer just my and others' personal accounts vs. random men with opinions.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Every man who complains that women worry he might be a potential rapist, serial killer or abuser should consider that if men were normal, women wouldn't need to make this assumption

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

this is what really killed the place even before the nazis fully took over

the Venn diagram of “people willing to pay for Twitter so their replies are boosted” and “people capable of making funny comments” is just two completely separate circles side by side

Which is to say, it's not so much that I'm a pessimist about the long-term viability of the UBI, as I am a pessimist about the public ever getting to choose a government with enough leverage against big business and the oligarchs to actually implement it.

I do think it's likely that to even reach the point of being able to implement a liveable UBI you would need a sufficiently progressive society that reining in the businesses would be possible.

And introduce more red tape that might eventually come back to bite you when you inevitably* become rich yourself? Perish the thought!

* never

The first layer of the Thriving Kids scheme will involve improving the ways that children’s developmental support needs are identified – whether through community workers, GPs, or early childhood educators and teachers – so that this happens early on. Next, there should be several access points that enable parents to seek more help. This should involve a national website and phone line, where parents can ask questions and be directed towards local services and support. There could also be physical entry points, such as at family and children’s hubs, or GPs could guide families to further supports. The third pillar of Thriving Kids will be a program of “Universal Parenting Supports”. This should include online courses, webinars and workshops that help parents understand their children’s needs and how they can help. Peer-support groups for parents should offer another environment where they can build community. Supported playgroups also fall into this category, where parents can connect while their children develop social skills, and allied health professionals offer guidance. Family programs that help kids with positive play, communication and emotional regulation would be delivered by trained facilitators. The fourth element of Thriving Kids will be “Targeted Support”, which most closely mirrors the services currently available through the NDIS. This will be available to children who need more occupational therapy, speech pathology, physiotherapy, psychology or other therapies.

The Thriving Kids model has been released. Guess what it doesn’t contain? In home supports. For parents who previously used NDIS funding to provide home supports like cooking or cleaning? That’s not gonna happen anymore. But feel free to ring the parenting hotline if you feel stressed