Claude Weaver III

BIG BOAT STUCK

So @governor.ca.gov made sure to say something about Charlie Kirk

But didn’t speak up when a Black woman was pulled off television in front of him and has had NO follow up to the targeting of Black colleges

Aight cool

“Ideological opponent” is an interesting way to describe someone who wants my friends dead

once again it is not fucking normal to lower flags in oregon for random member of the opposing political party who was born in illinois, lived in arizona, and died in utah. this is not a normal thing they're extending to a white supremacist, it's a special thing they're doing for a white supremacist

i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.

"Joining the right in piling on attacks on the diverse many barely getting by in an economy structured to benefit asset holders in the global north isn’t just a bad strategy for the left. It’s not a left strategy at all."

Why are there so many news stories involving Charles Entertainment Cheese lately

oh HELL yes

This is the archetypal Brownshirt. Not even exaggerating. The literature describes them and the Stalhelm guys who preceded them in almost the exact same terms.

So.... the same people who are cheering on the dismantling of birthright citizenship... are mad that Superman, from the start, is an immigrant story.

And are probably the same folks mad that "the American Way" got dropped off of the tagline, too.

Yeesh.

“Then they started to talk about cuffing me, and that if the kids were here legally, what do they have to lose by answering. I told them that they still have their fifth and fourth amendment rights, and that they don’t have to speak to you or help with any investigation.”

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

I literally warned against exactly this in my dissertation and i am very tired of eugenicist fascist authoritarians using all the things we've warned about as a fucking shopping list

unrelated to anything, but just a reminder to NEVER let anyone dull your enthusiasm for anything. be loud, be excited, be unhinged. as long as you're being respectful, you're not doing anything wrong. people who try and kill that joy, who make it out to be a bad thing, aren't worth keeping around 💜

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If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.

Screenshot from Quantum Witch: protagonist Ren stands before the water god Laticauda who declares, “ALL THAT IS GOOD FLOWS THROUGH ME, AND ALL THAT FLOWS FROM ME IS GOOD.”

Today’s the day! The latest game I worked on, @nikkijay.games’ Quantum Witch, is out later today.

I’m incredibly proud to have written a conniving bitch of a god for this lovely queer “plot”former.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes summer lunch program for low-income kids

Entitled Child Expects To Eat Lunch Every Day

Everyone should hear it though

i do not require politicians, political pundits, commentators, or people in general to be "right" all the time

but i do require that they acknowledge when they are wrong and welcome new knowledge

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled.

LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

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this is not intended as a substitute for trained medical professionals but

if you also saw some of the footage going around and thought 'wtf do i even do if i or somewhere near me gets hurt at a protest'

here is a guide specifically for first aid at protests

activisthandbook.org/wellbeing/ri...

When Los Angeles actually *was* burning down six months ago, these people didn't give a damn about us. Now they're spreading fake AI videos showing LA burning

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Hey assholes

UNCLENCH YOUR JAW

DROP YOUR SHOULDERS

RELAX YOUR TONGUE

BREATHE

Real photo from 1937 LA found in the LA Times