Maybe he shouldn't have made the choice to live his life in such a way that so many people would celebrate its abrupt conclusion? 🤔

And using those words to do what he had done for near all his entire legacy,

Blaming a minority he personally hates and using disgusting, violent rhetoric to justify violence and further oppression of said groups.

Kirk was a horrible human being and it is okay to like that he died.

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

Okay let’s get back to that birthday book

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

I’d think what you’d want during a highly volatile, politically polarized time marked by violence is a president who can appeal to our common values and humanity and inspire calm and unity, rather than promising revenge.

If you cared about the collective well-being of the country, that is

What is Blueskyism? And why is it so toxic for political persuasion?

From Nate's new blog post "What is Blueskyism?"

Nate, if you've been trending on Twitter for a decade, maybe the problem isn't with Bluesky.

Time to rename UBI to "Automated Income" and see if we can slip it by in the confusion.

Well. He’s puffier and oranger than usual. His hair is insane. But that seems pretty normal to me.

I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.

r/relationship_advice u/ThrowRA-Badvows 3h I (35M) Was Caught Using Al to Write Wedding Vows and Partner (34F) Walked Out. What to Do? I (35M) recently had a wedding with my partner (34F). We've had a stable and happy relationship so far, and I love her more than anything in the world. The problem arose when it came to writing vows. Don't get me wrong, I love many things about my partner, but I couldn't figure out how to put them into tangible vows. I decided to use ChatGPT so I can have something well written and expressive to share at the ceremony

The thing about my partner is that she's very confrontational and no-nonsense. If something annoys her, she immediately addresses it with no room for backing out. I also know that she's expressed disdain for Al in the past, but I didn't realize how far the hatred could go. I don't know how, but she immediately recognized that the vows were Al. After I had finished, she had this angry look and whispered to me "did you use fucking Al to write that?" I was quiet because I couldn't believe she had noticed that, and she was choosing to address it while we were on full display for everyone. She then said that I either speak from the heart or she walks out. I literally couldn't get any words out, and she kept her promise and walked back down the aisle, much to all our friends and family's confusion.

She's been ghosting me these past few days, which is atypical for her and honestly giving me panic attacks. Most people agree that calling off a marriage because of Al vows was an overreaction, and that maybe it was a sign that our relationship would have issues, but a few female friends have said that they would have done the same. I'm hurt and honestly just needed it to help make the day more special. Is it worth fixing?

Piilootus 3h Reply 185 Agreeable_Error_8772 2h Expressive and Al don't go together. She was able to figure out it was Al because Al doesnt have the same tone as you. You outsourced how much you care about your partner to a machine and you're upset she didn't like the idea. I want to say this is fake, but one glance at LinkedIn proves how using Al rots the brain and makes you incapable of critical thinking. He outsourced expressing how much he cares about his partner to a machine she has already told him she disdains, during an event and in a moment that is entirely about expressing his genuine feelings about her I agree I would like to believe it's fake but Ive seen the same thing 45

Oh brother

Look at this graph.

The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.

This is why we must build back union power.

What's going on at the White House?

US has struck three Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says, joining Israeli air campaign President Donald Trump says the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel’s effort to decapitate the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid T...

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I haven't been to DrupalCon since 2019. I've got a terrible memory for faces, everyone's faces have had six years to change, and I'm struggling to remember who anyone is.

Everyone's name badge says the same thing: Material+.

This must be what the Twilight Zone is like.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap at you.

It was really nice seeing you too, Material+. Please forgive my short temper.

It's Material+.

I know you know that. We've talked about this.

The US intentionally excludes trans people from travelling. Rachel Lawson calls on the @drupalassociation.bsky.social to consider hosting #DrupalCon in a different country rather than exclude a large number of people from our community.

https://rachelnorfolk.me/2025/denied-entry

@drupalassociation.bsky.social At future DrupalCons, can people's names please be printed on both sides of their badges? As far as I can tell, literally everyone I've met in Atlanta is named Material+.

The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop.

I want our World Wide Web back.

Oh, if history teaches us anything....

Blocking anyone who is mildly sus immediately and without particular emotional engagement is obviously the best way to go but once in a while it would be nice to have a block option that ALSO produces an animation of the profile being flushed down a toilet or maybe the text melting gruesomely away

Every anti-trans-care argument falls apart when you ask why it doesn't apply to any other medical decision