J.L. Comes // Joey (they/he)

Emma Thompson on AI and writing

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My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Make out, make love, make a mess

Damn 😍

Omgggg 😍😍😍

They’re using AI to make videos of Black women yelling about their EBT cards on Tik Tok. I knew this would be the first way they would use AI to come after us. Please stop using it! Stop feeding the machine!

I could be your weighted blanket—
*call disconnects*

Sometimes the nights engulf me.
Sometimes they bring me peace.

Tonight I’m caught in between.
But I'm looking to brighter days.

It won't always be this hard.
It won't always hurt this much.

There's joy on the other side.
But there's also joy NOW.

I just have to grab hold of it.
And not let go. ♥️

please remember your sick and disabled comrades in your calls for community. we’re here and belong to this world too.

LA Peeps! Come hang out with me and some other really cool people this Sunday!

Yup. It matters A LOT.

I give A TON of credit to Bad Bunny for the way he's been able to manage/weaponize his global popularity.

Right-Wing Activists Are Pushing For a Constitutional Right to Harm LGBTQ Kids The Alliance Defending Freedom wants the Republican justices to hold that the First Amendment protects homophobes’ legal right to ignore state laws that protect kids.

I regret to inform you that the new Supreme Court term is opening with a bang next week

Tuesday's oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar will feature right-wing activists claiming the First Amendment gives state-licensed therapists a right to traumatize queer kids

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Wow what a mood lol

Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE.

Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.

Using ai for brainstorming is hilarious and pathetic, bro. What, you can't tap into your brain meat and whip up tornadoes of lore? Hurricanes of world building?? An amalgamation of tsunamis crashing weird scattered shit ashore??? Skill issue.

Video below: “I am American. I am American.” A man pleads, “Ayúdame, ayúdame. Help me!”

Meanwhile, an ICE officer pulls a gun on innocent bystanders — in Hyattsville, MD. This is happening in America. Right now.

What are we doing about this? It MUST stop. @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats

I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Thank goodness 😍

University of Missouri violated free speech rights of pro-Palestine student group, judge rules A federal judge ruled Friday that University of Missouri System President Mun Choi violated students' freedom of speech when he barred the group Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine from taking part in the Homecoming parade. The judge ruled Choi excluded the group because of its views on Israel and Palestine.

BREAKING: A pro-Palestinian student group at the University of Missouri in Columbia can participate in the school’s Homecoming parade next weekend, after a federal judge ruled the university cannot exclude the group because of its viewpoints.

Oh…
Oh??
Ohhhh!
Yeah she fucking nailed that.
Start showing this to your parents or friends or whomever is in need of a wake up call bcuz this is as succinct as it can get.

In an abusive relationship, the perpetrator makes the biggest power grabs when he feels his control over the victim is slipping.

I’m keeping that in mind whenever we see massive escalations from Trump. It’s all still very dangerous. But these moments are a sign of weakness, not strength.

Protester holds sign that says “where dreams come true”

An inflatable of a large rat

Protester holds sign that says “the mouse is a rat”

Protesters walk outside the studio

Happening now: Protest to bring back Jimmy Kimmel outside ABC Disney Studios in New York City

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Unanimous consent.

Meaning if one Democrat or Independent from Vermont or Maine objected this measure would not pass.

Because no one objected the country is honoring someone famous for exclaiming their bigoted ideology.

That was my entire childhood, and it absolutely was it’s own wealth.
Escaping home to spend the day at the library?
Walking home with bags full of Goosebumps and a new Fantasy find?
Becoming besties with the librarians?
Massive highlight of my younger years for sure.

How I’m currently dealing with stress ☕️🎃:

It's Bi visibility week, so you can't not perceive this bi author & her bi heroine in a bi-panic love triangle

Saints is a coming of rage abt a woman hiding in a nunnery from her Goddess of Storms who sings of drowning colonizers & the Inquisition who'd burn her at the stake