Swistle Thistle

It is not our moral responsibility to coddle the delusional fears and bigotries of white supremacists. It is not our moral responsibility to change reality for them so they can hold onto those fears and bigotries.

It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.

a closer image of the fake Jif logo, which looks like a slightly weird letter J, followed by a lowercase I, followed by two thing that look like a capital T with a little line across the middle like in a capital F

An Amazon listing for two jars of what is clearly Jif brand peanut butter, but with the brand name muddled and weird, like with bad photoshop. The product title is gibberish, made up of characters similar to a J, an I, and two Fs, without actually being those letters, followed by the words creamy peanut butter. The brand is listed as generic.

What the fresh hell is this?

"The Epstein Class"! Perfect. Let's keep that term.

I tell myself: "I'm the owner of the company. But more importantly, I'm also the head of Scriveners Local 23, and I have some demands." So what that means is that I have a four day work week. I work monday-tuesday and then Thursday-Friday. Fuck the boss if they don't like it. I have a workplace wellness program that means I can take breaks for yoga, meditation, exercise, and naps. I have unlimited paid personal days thanks to my project oriented work structure--I get to decide what's the best balance between production and restoration. Fuck the boss if they don't like it. I have five days each quarter for vacation. attending a convention, conference, expo, bookstore event tour, or a writing workshop *is not a vacation.* that's business-related travel. taking a day or two for a weekend jaunt *is not a vacation.* that's unlimited paid personal days. Five working days. Each Quarter. Vacation. and since I always have Wednesdays off, it doesn't count. I know there's a piece of your brain saying "I have to hustle, I have to hustle" I know My brain does that too And without the union boss in my head, I'll just work until I drop. That's what I did for years. And then I burnt out so bad that this is the first time I have actually made real, noticeable progress(1.) similar to my pre-burnout rates in years. Because the union boss went on strike, and the boss' bottom line was *destroyed.* If I have to crunch now, the union boss enforces recovery time. that's all overtime. but since I don't get paid a wage, I get all that back in time. The boss never wants to see a strike like that again. There is power in a union, even if it's only the union in your head. (1.) only it's not similar. it's half the "speed" of pre-burnout. It's probably my actual true real speed and not my sweatshop labour hustle culture speed. FUCK THE BOSS IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT.

some people were asking what this meant. i actually said it on tumblr but here it is

Just because we aren't totally surprised, doesn't mean we can shrug it off. Decency, dignity, and humanity matter, even now. Especially now.

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.

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Every single time I spray my face, use the bathrobe I bought instead of a muumuu, put extra face treatments on the backs of my hands, see online drama she would have dm'd me about, hear the names of any of her kids, send Christmas cards. She is so missed.

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

WHY ARE WE SO PLAGUED. WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE. HOW CAN WE APPEASE THE PF GODS.

I hit "like" for the reply but you know I DO NOT LIKE for you <3

Anyway now I feel dumb asking for input. Also: my heel hurts. Also: WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE IF EVEN DR. G00GLE CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING SCARY

I have something I have been ASSUMING was plantar fasciitis, because the symptoms matched so perfectly and it was one of the only situations where I did not search online for a medical situation and find "IT'S PROBABLY FATAL." But it's been well over three months, and still it gets better and worse.

Oh god I just saw an AI portrait in an obituary. NOBODY WANTS THIS, PLEASE TAKE THIS AWAY FROM HUMANITY

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He is doing such a good job!!

These agencies are a direct, ongoing threat to the freedom, safety, and welfare of every person who lives in this country. That's it. They have to go. "But what about--" sorry we'll figure that out later. Everything is secondary to ending fascist goon squads

This is how authoritarian narratives work you smear the victim, praise the armed agent, and ignore the killing. No video justifies an execution. No insult erases due process. This is propaganda, not accountability.

i have never felt less inclined to donate to political campaigns in my entire adult life

How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.

YESSSSSSSSS!!

I Am the Payroll Accountant for Professional Protestors in Minnesota, and I Am Swamped “House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., slammed Minnesota state leaders after anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators disrupted a...

"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."

Who bears the liability for the damage an AI agent like Gemini does in the world? Is it the billionaires and fancy companies who released this tech into the wild without understanding how it operates, who stole heedlessly to create it, and who derive the profits from it? Or is it you, the consumer?

YES. Yes. I need deep-sea valentines I can pass around to my coworkers without worrying about...starting something. Perhaps in a future year!

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

This is a wonderful article, it's funny and silly and incredibly clear about the subversiveness of absurdity. Please read it.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.