Bitter Burnout

cycling through my various signs to tap - I think the "we have an elite impunity problem in this country and nothing will get better unless and until we address it" seems like the one for this occasion

"Censorship begets censorship ... We've reached the dystopian stage of the internet."

This piece is a vital accounting of how we got where we are and where it's going if more people don't push back against what @ericgoldman.bsky.social calls age-verification's "segregate-and-suppress" laws.

Same in criminal law. The Miranda of "Miranda rights" fame started doing burglaries in grade school, was convicted for raping a teenager (twice; the first conviction was thrown out by SCOTUS in Miranda v Arizona, and he was convicted again on remand), and got murdered in a bar fight

I tried to find out if the fossil I bought online was real. Then I realized I was asking the wrong question | CNN It’s obvious a 95 million-year-old fossil would have a rich past — but what a CNN writer discovered about a dinosaur tooth he bought for about $100 was more than he anticipated.

I was interviewed for this article. It's pleasing that a Moroccan fossil dealer confirms what I said the law was and clarifies that it isn't 'a grey area'. It's got nothing to do with UNESCO, btw John. www.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s...

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No it definitely has multiple definitions because historians and PoliScis can’t agree on the key features. The definition I heard that I’m most partial too is that Fascism is a political strategy that attacks the legitimacy of opponents to participate in society/politics.

Some numbers I just dropped in one of the threads about "Itch should have already set up a high risk payment processor and been using it": these numbers are from 2010, but to the best of my knowledge have not substantially changed.

Sources: Female off-duty CPD officer attacked, allegedly by same officer who fatally shot CPD Officer Krystal Rivera CHICAGO — A female off-duty Chicago police officer was attacked outside a bar in Wicker Park on Sunday, allegedly by a male off-duty Chicago police officer who sources tell WGN-TV is the same offic…

A cop killed his partner earlier this year and then beat up another woman this week.

Just another day in the life of CPD.

That's the exact metaphor I use with my students

Wow. Fantastic reporting here.

Not a booby pun but “family jewels” is also a classic

Our whole timeline has been nothing but journalists, critics and culture writers announcing their own layoffs and I'm literally sickened by the thought of what will happen to society when all of their work will be taken over by Clippy

oh brother, the dorks have invented political lesbianism from first principles

The most pernicious thing about capitalism is that when shit goes sideways you've got all of us in the mud flinging shit at parties who are the face of but *not responsible for* abusive policies while the actual authors of said policy are insulated and squeaky clean.

getting your post read out loud by a lawyer, directly to the person you made fun of, and entered into public record is the poster's dream

It just deeply bothers me how an app populated with the best shitposters on the planet needs to recycle outrage topics like we're Bethesda reskinning elder Scrolls games

I had this exact feeling with Wicked but that film also helped me recalibrate my expectations and understand how the new timeline works because my mom, my cousin, and I each saw it for the first time a different way (streaming, bought early digital, and in theaters respectively).

Why Labour's Online Safety Act has become a political nightmare The Online Safety Act's broad and vaguely defined scope has led to widespread and seemingly indiscriminate censorship.

How bad is the Online Safety Act roll out going?

UK officials have started spreading rumors that it's the internet's fault — accusing sites like Reddit and Twitter of purposely overcensoring to undermine the unpopular censorship law.

That's Trump-firing-economist-for-reporting-bad-numbers bad.

Since y'all are here: It's been almost 3 years since I packed up my life in Norway and came home to practice midwifery. ‪My last 2 classes EVER (GYN + the last lab) start Monday. I'm down to the last 23 births needed for board exams eligibility. It's been a slog, but every bit helps.

Everything Taking Too Long

Everything Taking Too Long theonion.com/everyth...

closeup on Idris Elba/Stringer Bell with caption "I want you to put the word out there that we back up."

the hummingbirds in my neighborhood watching me refill their empty feeders

The Mississippi River wants to change course. The struggle to stop it faces new threats. Of all the levees, gates and walls keeping the Mississippi River in place across the length of America’s spine, Old River Control in Louisiana may be the most consequential. But the structure’s opera...

This is a good explainer on the Old River Control structure, also known as the thing responsible for 50% of my nightmares.

www.nola.com/news/environ...

this is tragically going to work. they’re going to roll back all rights to before the time of ronald reagan and it’s going to take so much to reverse course of this fascism

I think "why are people mad at Dems" is pretty straightforward at this point

they will crawl over broken glass to vote these people out and would like Dems to match that energy

An excellent (unsurprisingly) summary from the EFF

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

If course the POW was lying his ass off lol but if they didn’t think he knew anything they wouldn’t have tortured him and at that point Hirohito frankly seemed to trust what the enemy had to say more than his own military leaders because they lied to him that many times.

I do think if the US seriously attempted negotiations directly with Hirohito we may have gotten a similar deal, although the rewrite of their constitution and the occupation probably would’ve gone down differently. But negotiations with Hirohito are very different from the attempts with the USSR.

That’s another good reason to discount them but I don’t think we can say definitely they would’ve gone no where. Their demands weren’t serious but we also never took them seriously or tried to make them act reasonably. Of course it’s all speculative now but based on the sources I’ve looked at…