I find it funny that the premise of this interview is like “You know what voice we haven’t heard enough of? An anti-LGBTQ, racist pastor.” But also you wouldn’t know from this interview but Partridge is a straight up groyper-posting “hey the Holocaust was good actually” guy
can't roll my eyes enough at the QuitGPT initiative telling people to switch to Anthropic as the "more ethical" option. we gotta raise our standards for the alternatives we imagine for ourselves y'all
It uses some Bing search output, I'm not sure if it's fair to says it's "based" on Bing or not. I've tested by searching the same thing in both and seen different results, so it's not just skinned Bing, or at least it wasn't last time I checked.
In the beginning, the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Years ago in a book called "America, The Book" the writers of the Daily Show posed a Q&A:
Q: Why do they hate us?
A: Because the shrapnel in their bedroom wall says "Lockheed-Martin" on it.
Kind of wild that every day yet another tech company advertises why I should never, ever use their product.
Reminds me of Ginger from CASINO doing coke in front of her daughter while telling her never to do this. If you are against fascism and you keep voting for the fascist guy’s appointees then I think you might not actually be against fascism!
I'm not saying I would kill for a 79, but
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Katie Wilson is proposing a 7-year, $410 million library levy renewal. The previous 7 year levy approved in 2019 was $219 million.
Expanded hours, building infrastructure upgrades, and increased materials are being put front-and-center with the renewal.
The official NOAA stats out this week confirm that winter 2025-26 was the warmest on record across a huge portion of the western and central U.S., which has contributed to extremely low mountain snowpack & worsened the CO River crisis. Meanwhile, record March heat is in forecast.
ICE has a playbook for buying warehouse detention centers: move fast, tell nobody, and let communities find out from property records or news leaks. It's happened in at least 20 towns across the country. A thread. 🧵
Wow, he's doing the "oh, you know the ones" meme
everyone is extraordinarily desperate to pretend that Donald Trump is a coherent individual with a real plan who understands what is happening in the world and none of that is true
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
Jesus fucking lord this entire administration is just manipulating the stock market in between murdering people.
My latest for @truthout.org examines ICE’s efforts to deport women who survived & exposed sexual abuse at FCI Dublin
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Heartora, a white tiger with heart ears and a red cross on his forehead, is the mascot for the Japan Red Cross.
Fun fact: I got fired once over TNPS surveys, and the issue wasn't even that I got bad surveys, it was that I talked to people who weren't in the system and couldn't be emailed surveys.
#cats
Waffles, a cat who apparently enjoys doing yoga on the newly installed artificial grass. This is my friend's house, they just finished a lot of refurbishing and it's quite lovely.
Let the waffles hit the floor
Trump *is* doing debt cancellation.
It's just not your student or medical debts.
In his second term alone, Trump has already canceled $1.5 billion of criminal debt — payments fraudsters owe the federal government and victims.
They don't mind debt cancellation—for themselves.
GardaWorld being one of the private contractors helping to operate the South Florida concentration camp (Alligator Alcatraz) which has conditions so vile and inhumane that Amnesty International has described the conditions as torture.
If someone breaks the law and nobody enforces it because of the offender’s power, then the law does not apply to the powerful, and the law, subordinated to power, is revealed as illegitimate in its helplessness and/or corruption.
He can do a perpetual damage control tour for the next 30 years, but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s trying to build the panopticon.
Worth also noting that some of these gig platforms also disrupted heavily unionized industries—taxis, etc.,—so not only do we now have a new 21st century servant class, we’ve had to start at square one in terms of organizing those workers (thinking of the Uber “independent contractor” fight)
hey internet, do your thing. i'm looking to chat with a PNW based bird expert who knows things about crows. i have a crow connundrum and i need advice.
The Iranian Red Crescent has sent a request to the International Criminal Court calling for a criminal investigation based on the US/Israel's systematic attacks against civilians and civilian objects including:
6,668 civilian structures
5,535 homes
14 hospitals
65 schools
(1/24) 🧵 Many people asked me for more information after my thread yesterday on the Tijuana River Valley health crisis. So here goes — what our @airborne.ucsd.edu team has found, and why no one should be forced to breathe this toxic air for another day.
Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran
- chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact
- the rain is corrosive + could damage structures
- heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems
Across the country, various right-wing nonprofits and tech bros (especially Elon Musk) are rewriting the laws in every state to make them MORE punitive, not less, thus guaranteeing that such grave injustices are more common.
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