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ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement.

YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

We should honestly start with the working assumption that the Trump administration murdered these people and buried them in a mass grave. Then, go from there. Make them prove they're alive. If they are, it should be easy to demonstrate.

I took a trio of tweens and in the car on the way home they informed me this was the best night of their lives. Thank you @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, @rickriordan.bsky.social , and @markdoesstuff.bsky.social !

some people here really do wield the word "zionist" so you can hear both k's

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

(You are one of the ‘this Tim is good’)

There are seven Tims on my poly flowchart.

Listen, I have a friend who recently told me she’s poly and moving to MA. My FIRST RESPONSE was ‘if you hook up with a guy named Tim I’m gonna need you to text me his last name first so I can give you the rundown on that Tim as your local monogamous friend’

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people

reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

White and purple lilac, and a hard-boiled egg.

#GNUTerryPratchett #Glorious25thOfMay

Well this fucking sucks, and I started to list off the “especially for” list, hit “anyone who cares about their long-term health,” and realized that, “this fucking sucks” will have to do.

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

Your regular reminder that the more often you own your mistakes, the easier it gets.

It is like any muscle-- work it more and it gets stronger.

All people mess up, and sometimes we do so publicly.

It's not the end of the world to acknowledge that we missed the mark; it's how we clean up.

Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

Picture of Senator Elizabeth Warren with three children and a constituent.

Oh I didn’t know she was here! Great, here’s a picture of when we met her (eldest face obscured because she looks THE SAME as when she was four)

We’re just matching energy.

What finally solved the problem? Well, I spent literal months on the phone arguing and quoting the ACA at them, and then finally legit met Elizabeth Warren at an event and her office called to ask some questions and poof. Bill was fixed. Twins were five months old by that point. And we were LUCKY

Oh hey, same! I gave birth via Csection on a Friday evening of a holiday weekend eight weeks early after months of a complex pregnancy. Insurance tried to deny the first three days in the NICU because we ‘hadn’t added them to insurance’. The office to add them WAS CLOSED UNTIL TUESDAY MORNING.

Sometimes romance shifts from a mad passion to ‘hold the light so I can apply my skincare properly’ and then reading Reddit stories while it soaks in before bed. And it’s great.

People don't remember Timothy McVeigh because his extremism was sanitized into a generic anti-govt thing, and the links between his belief and white supremacy were erased in the retelling. I'm old enough to remember the OKC bombing and I didn't know the white supremacism bit until adulthood.

still from the folgers commercial featuring a brother and sister that are definitely into each other

dammit alexa i said “play sister wives”

Listen, because there was significantly less corporate oversight on some of those sequels, some of them are bonkers in AMAZING ways. Ask me sometime about Cinderella III, a movie I legit bought on hard copy because it’s that fun.

Fun medieval fact! The term 'Reply Guy' actually takes its name from Guy de Réplaille, a 12th-century abbot known for his prolific but inconsequential letters to multiple noblewomen

I'm going to keep saying this: A party that won't defend my child's rights is not a party to which I can belong.

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things:
1) "nah, I'm not doing that"
2) "nah, you're not doing that"

a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid: “Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s. Over half of those deported were US citizens.”

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Image of entry in hebrew

Maybe more shocking even than that? The first appearance of the *Italian* word pizza is....

Matzah pizza (photo from @rusisher)