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Slowly piecing together the rise of fascism through the news fail complications I'm watching

i use fat for myself but it’s definitely much more common in leftist/fat activist spaces. i would probably use “plus size” or something for someone i don’t know like that, but yeah overweight def feels like a value judgement

not cool with the subtle inclusion of dragons into the halloween canon. dragons aren’t “monsters” and they’re definitely not ghouls. more akin to a griffin or unicorn

your analysis of this political moment is going to fail if you keep using reductionist labels like "wine mom". first of all, there are dozens of factions just within that one term, from whiskey women to chardonnay chicas, and understanding their unique informal coalitions can take decades of study

if you’re using chatgpt to write your dissertation please know that i can tell, and i am disgusted by you

i thought the lies were finally over. got me again 😔

I wonder if part of the issue isn’t that the algorithm rewards “1 cool trick to get any woman to sleep with you (it’s manipulation and coercion)” much more than “how to put yourself out there, speak to women, and deal with rejection in a healthy way”

it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

is anyone ever happy or are we all just toggling between depressed and stressed out until we die

ELON MUSK: It it it it's totally unfair - and illegal! - the way these uh the way these far left lunatics are are attacking my companies. It's actually terrorism.
SNOOP FROM THE WIRE: that's fine man but get back on the plastic.
SNOOP FROM THE WIRE: yeh now stay still as a motherfucker. that's good.

i think people are not used to encountering short stories on youtube and a lot of people haven’t read many short stories at all. so they’re not sure what to expect from them or how to engage with them

idk if you’ve seen it but your comedic style reminds me of How To with John Wilson. i say this bc i think it’s easier to recognize the value in something when you see someone else doing it. he is very funny and so are you :)

nahhh

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

i am being so so brave and strong but if i ever find out what car she drives i will not be able to stop myself from slashing her tires

your punishment for being a bitch to me all day is that you will live a sad, lonely, miserable life and never know the joy of being one with the universe

no one should be able to make snide comments all day without fear of having a potted plant chucked at their head

i should be allowed to throw something at someone once per day. some ppl deserve to have things thrown at them and i think their behavior would improve if there were consequences for their actions

tbh fuck all pharmacists and pharmacy techs. i’ve never had a single one gender me correctly or even use they/them even tho you clearly see me picking up testosterone

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

A screenshot of a PDF from Stanford University. Text is divided into three columns: “instead of,” “consider using,” and “context.” The relevant entry reads “Instead of: Brave (n), consider using: none/do not use. Context: This term perpetuates the stereotype of the ‘noble courageous savage,’ equating the Indigenous male as being less than a man.”

if anyone else is wondering about the “brave” thing - links to an educational resource from stanford, and is referring specifically to using the word as a noun to describe a native american person

Making Tesla a pariah is a fairly easy thing that we can all partake in. Musk has a lot of money, but he absolutely needs these companies.

Nick Adams saying the chiefs are maga and the eagles are the Marxists

Huge congratulations to the Marxists on the total victory tonight

diet culture makes everyone so miserable!! it is so, so much better to be fat and happy :)

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

Look at history. Read what historians are saying now. I would rather sound the alarm and be wrong than live with the outcome of what we know is underway.

Historic truth and current crank:
It took Hitler 53 days.
We’re on day 14.

Must read by historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social

A Brutal Beginning: Orienting Ourselves Amid the Shock and Awe We must be prepared to live and act defiantly, deriving no legitimacy from the illegitimate brutes who would govern us.

Reminder: "Sometimes, 'bearing witness' feels like the only thing we can do, but the relentless consumption of suffering and injustice does not change anyone’s material conditions. It may feel like we’re doing something, but during such moments, we are experiencing an impact rather than having one."

Everyone can organize.

Everyone can contribute to social movements.

Everyone can do something, from somewhere.

None of this is about "professionalism" or policy"expertise. That is counterinsurgency, demobilizing logic.

Everyone can organize and has something to offer.

if you’re tempted to use ai to help you write a cover letter, do yourself a favor and just get a human who’s good at it to help you. i think a big problem with ai is ppl use it to do things they don’t know how to do, and therefore can’t see what’s wrong with the output. but i promise it’s bad