Jill Draper (Makes Stuff)

Four alternatives to Spotify: swapping is easier than you think Artists and listeners are leaving the platform after its CEO invested in defence technology. Here are your options – along with how to keep your playlists

fuck then fuck again every single “alternatives to spotify” list that doesn’t include buying music so that you own it and musicians get paid

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You just can't say it enough times: lots of Americans are going to suffer and die so that people they don't want to be Americans will also suffer and die.

Popping in here quickly to say that the courts do not have first or final say. Ever. Trans people [of all ages] deserve every single thing that everyone else does. The illegitimate court is illegitimate.

This is how they treat a state senator who was asking a question at a press conference when they know they are being filmed, what do you think this means for civilians?

In theory this is the most simple case for AI to get right. A list of actual books that exist to read. That’s it. But it can’t even do that. So are we going to let it make insurance decisions? Really?

Just got a notice that the scour is charging a credit card processing fee going forward so here's the first increased input to my 100% US made yarn. B to B services charging a CC fee is one of my bugbears.

The intermingling of fascist paramilitary and propaganda groups with the federal government is a literal hallmark of fascism.

Do with that information what you will and really sit with what it means that a stochastic terrorist is now essentially deputized by the state to do as she pleases.

Is now a good time to say that people convicted of crimes deserve rights, due process, and not to be deported, let alone to a third country slave prison

I don't give a shit what he chooses or declines to rule out. It's not his fucking choice. Stop writing about it as if his opinion matters. Write about it like it is: unquestionably illegal, not a debate, not his call, not going to fucking happen.

AI art is the aesthetic of fascism

Though not the most wild part of this, I do find it interesting the "people only wear masks to do bad things crowd" makes sure to mask up while kidnapping students off the streets. And we cannot be resigned to this as normal or acceptable.

With all the concern about what messaging app was used by our leaders, I'd love it if we also considered that we dropped bombs on a civilian apartment building and killed 53 people. Some number of whom were children. If another country did this to the United States, we'd call it a war crime.

If you just need a stroll through low stakes drama & we are in a season of TRULY perplexing posts on r/gardening. I suspect some of the posters have never encountered a plant before.

‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s Ultimatum With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education.

‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

I found it really moving & hope many people read it.

Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025

"I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear"

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Read this letter from Mahmoud Khalil.

mass media had led me to believe that the government kidnapping and torturing a citizen of another country would be an international incident but i guess not?

The government is disappearing people with no due process & filming facist propaganda about it while people cheer. Grim.

It is bc the politicians that said he was a dangerous fascist shook his hand & smiled, censured Al Green for speaking up & watch while the police state disappears, abuses & murders people with impunity. What exactly do you expect to happen? People are demoralized & trying to survive.

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?

We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

I have both called & emailed Schumer, if you live in NY I suggest you do the same if this sounds bad to you, tell him NO on the CR & NO on Cloture. Phone: (518) 431-4070 Albany, (202) 224-6542 DC

Don't know if it's true, but it's consistent with Schumer's decision to still have no public stance on it.

Presumably his idea is to get enough Dems to vote for cloture and then vote against the CR; such should be interpreted as intentionally enabling the Trump/Musk agenda, because it is.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

How could you possibly vote for a funding bill that the Vice President is telling you will be overruled by the executive?
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This likely confirms that the decision to arrest him was made at the highest levels of government, a terrifying return to the policies of ideological exclusion last seen used during the heights of the Cold War. A very, very worrying precedent at the start of this government.

If you are a liberal in deep blue territory, one thing you could try doing right now is figuring out how to replace your Democratic member of Congress next year. With very few exceptions, the typical safe seat Dem is not meeting the moment. Find someone who will and help them.

What riches of embarrassment.

These Ten Democrats Need to Be Primaried The party needs fighters to stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

it's me! in the Prospect: angry at the fecklessness of the Democratic opposition? looking for somewhere specific to direct your anger? here are ten House Democrats who are especially ripe for primaries: