krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!)

If you aspire to be mediocre, LLM AI can help you get there.

For most, that means delivering far less than what you're capable of, stunting any real growth, and trapping yourself in the mediocrity.

There's a better way. It's called "learning."

On the list of shit I definitely do not want to learn how to fix (but still have to), either my router or my ISP is blocking access to my own website... that I use and working on 24/7.

So that's fun.

The supposed inevitability of any technology is mostly an illusion.

The City to Sea bridge feels like a real metaphor for this country at the moment. Pretty, nostalgic for another time, not suitable for the current situation, so we'll spend high on arguing about it but in the end we'll just shrug and let any actual decision be someone else's problem.

You couldn’t get an exchange more in line with The Handmaid’s Tale if you got Margaret Atwood to write it.

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

And thus ended my years-long love and daily readership of the Washington Post.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

It boggles my mind that Hakeem Jeffries can't be trivially primaried

but loves to watch you leave

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

As someone who does NOT have experience with on-the-ground activism and who DOES remember the Occupy movement, this thread is fascinating.

I know people are twisted about the term "normie libs," but context matters. It's "normie" in terms of their (lack of) awareness/entrenchment in activist space.

As opposed to….👀🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

NZ Greens dangerous income tax vs Australia

So so dangerous....

#nzpol

I love this! Always happy to uncover more New Jack Swing.

I know you just used the scissors to open the box, but they are a very threatening presence in this photo 😂

I am thankful to Representative Castro for supporting Liam and his family.

Castro is from Texas. Liam is not his constituent. He acted because it was the right thing to do.

These should be the actions of EVERY elected official. You're either making the world better or you are part of the problem.

I know Liam is just one child who was illegally kidnapped and detained. I know there are many more like him.

I know this is one family being reunited when thousands of others have been fractured.

It still overwhelms me with gratitude and joy. We're allowed to be thankful for individual victories.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I am awaiting a lot of emails about wigs right now.

Wigs and full-face masks.

Plans are afoot.

I just trained over 60 volunteers, a good 80% of who have never been involved in a campaign before, to get out there knock on doors and connect with community and support Tamatha Paul.

That’s the most volunteers I have ever trained before in one sitting and I worked on the 2017 Labour campaign.

Absolutely this!

The Right Wing has never been shy about raking candidates across the coals and primarying them... only to grit their teeth and vote for whoever is on the ticket in November to advance their goals.

I think the issue (which I have personally had!) is people conflate holding Dem accoutable all term long AND not voting for them in November.

Or, that being rough on them will turn away undecided voters.

No. Fight right up until you're in the voting booth, then vote who gets us closer to the goal.

I absolutely get the idea of trying to tamp down people who are spreading despair right now, but also... an unflinching and accurate look at what is happening is pretty despairing.

Sorry there's no way to avoid being perceived on BSky, but don't be @-ing my comics profile to try to harass me because you live under Fascism and you are trying to put on a happy face about it and are pissed I live in NZ.

Even as someone who is still USian as fuck, USians are so goddamn tiresome.

If you follow a US elected official who is doing something about the current regime and their abuses: AWESOME.

I am thankful for them. Signal boost them!

I believe less than 100% of Dems at every level doing things is TOO FEW.

(GOP ought to be doing something too, but they've chosen complicity.)

Am I a "doomer troll" because I am trying to contend with the fascist horrors of the US by stating them plainly and have my replies turned off?

OR

Do I deeply not give a shit about whatever a bunch of "BLUE NO MATTER WHO" randos have to say because I am fine interpreting my own primary sources?

Got really stressful news and really good news that is also stressful and also Ben & Jerry's was 50% off which never happens in NZ, so I think you can guess how that turned out.

ICE is illegally arresting people, then violating court orders to ship them across state lines to concentration camps.

It's not new, but now it is happening at scale.

They now know they can murder protesters with impunity.

Almost no elected officials are trying to stop this in a meaningful way.

good lorde I have not thought about these in easily 20yrs but I was OBSESSED with them