Franki Butler

Monied right-wing donors have been investing millions, like tens of millions, in batshit nobodies for years with an eye toward legitimizing disinformation and fascist propaganda. Monied left-wing donors have responded by hoping that, I guess, Maddow does a real good show sometimes

Honestly, it's like even well-meaning people and outlets are obsessed with framing the most egregious shit as if it were an anomaly and not a well planned goal based in 500 years of planning

You should never be shocked by what authoritarians are doing because they always been doing it!

Okay i support the article but for the love of all that is holy

Stop calling this shit

Shocking
Unprecedented
Never seen before

Yall aren't carnival barkers ffs, yall are supposed to be truth tellers

And the truth tells us this is who they always were

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes.

You know some whiner's going to latch onto this, kicking his feet, going, "but they're taaaaaaalllllllll."

Have you considered generosity?

Not as a method to procure sex… just as a feature of who you are?

I’ve found that people respond to generosity

Have you considered kindness

Not as a method to procure sex … but as a way of life

I’ve found people respond to kindness

I shouldn’t tell you this … because if you ain’t getting none you probably shouldn’t be getting some

“How can we get girlfriends”

Shower (with soap and a towel)

Go into the actual world and procure a personality

Cultivate Social emotional acuity

there's a lot going on but i dont want us to lose sight of one huge issue plaguing us all.

hollywood still has a wig problem. a massive wig problem.

They are the human equivalent of a neighbor's unleashed, yippy dogs.

One of the most banned films ever is a Raggedy Ann/Andy movie from the 40s; the dolls were viral and a studio wanted to make bank so they animated a backstory.

Problem is no one bothered to read the boxes of the dolls which stated the duo were brother and sister and the film had them get married.

I love Prime and I love Prime for speaking on this, but let's be real here, no one but Deion could wear that getup talking about bladder issues and still look cool while doing so. An impenetrable level of swag on the man.

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

So.

It's not that I inherently disagree that disinfo/misinformation is a serious problem

My issue is that these takes rarely address the complicated mess that is race in America

Because, as an example, Latino isn't a race.

I absolutely lost it where the sixteenth notes kick in

(also the internet and humanity was a mistake)

Headline from The Conversation: More people are considering Al lovers, and we shouldn't judge

I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.

The Wall Street Journal 9m ago In a stunning moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admitted to fueling a man's delusions and acknowledged how dangerous its own behavior can be

no it wasn’t and no it didn’t

i am starting to develop a real fear that men are currently dealing with something WORSE than women’s 00’s diet culture here

Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid

They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be.

There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive.

We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.

Driving a 100k truck and living in a wealthy conservative suburb: working class country boy

Working at a meat packing plant in a rural area but you're black: out of touch liberal

Ringing the bell again that "blue collar" and "rural" mostly now mean a series of cultural signifiers that often cost a lot money and have nothing to do with where the person lives and what they do

Pure evil to torment innocent people like this for no damn reason.

The better you are at a thing, the more "AI" will be a drag on your time, because it's operating at a lower level of skill than you are, and you have to fix what it does, rather than just do what you already know how to do.

It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!

Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.

According to the Supreme Court, the President can cancel the Department of Education but can't cancel the student debt that the Department of Education holds? Do we have that right?

Constantly reminded of how poor people's communication skills really are. I am not exempt from this, even tho it's something I work on a lot. We are so alienated from each other. We are so bad at having serious conversations about serious matters.