Brand contamination?
@sirwol
Game programmer (and designer), writer, nature lover. Puzzles, conlangs, history and mythology. Fled the city to live on a farm, but bad at farming π Tasmanian. AuDHD. Married to @ratbag.bsky.social. Poly. She/Her (Trans Lesbian - HRT since 18/3/24).
Brand contamination?
Screenshot of an X post by HasanAbi commenting on how to discuss trans issues with median voters. The post quotes Marco Foster, who says the anti-trans campaign in Maine is funded by an out-of-state billionaire to distract from tax discussions and notes that very few trans kids compete in high school sports there. Below is a podcast-style video still of a man speaking into a microphone.
When you hear them target any vulnerable communityβimmigrants, trans people, refugeesβask first why they're trying to distract and divide us. Don't fall for it.
I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
This is why we bred them to only be able to say their name.
This is a terrifying development.
I think we should go back to only selling software on CD-ROM.
A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.
Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.
Maybe God also got some breasts and is otherwise occupied.
A deeply disturbing development.
Same. Albanese is such a spineless lickspittle π
Dozens of graves are excavated by digger in Minab to bury the 165 school victims of the US/Israeli attack.
The neglect of this story by Western mainstream media is one of the worst examples of whitewashing propaganda this century.
An unforgivable failure of public service.
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.
This is pure cruelty.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
Axios headline: "Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes."
I love that US media simply can't stop blaming Palestinians for bad things.
Israel committing genocide and Harris not committing to stopping Israel's genocide cost Harris votes.
Gaza suffered genocide. Palestinians being torched alive didn't cost Harris votes. Harris cost Harris votes.
Wow, I sure am glad my code isnβt continvoucly morged!
A coffee jar with exactly one teaspoon of sugar tossed on top of the coffeeβ¦ Well at least I didnβt pour the kettle in there π
Brains were fartedβ¦
Like clockwork.
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
Ageless words
Child at the podium: βA woo woo woo.β
Mamdani: Thatβs how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our cityβand what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
I painted this this weekend to deal with my rage
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that theyβre the ones who are alone."
Gun Owners of America (GOA) making a statement too. Our minds are blown. Damn pardon our French but hell is freezing over. NRA and GOA calling for an investigation but not the government. Fuck.
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
Imagine whatβs happening in the camps.
I know it's not within the hundred most awful things here, but... the nearest penguins to Greenland are in the Galapagos, five thousand fucking miles away
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maherβs detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Waelβs caregiver put his life at risk.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
ICE caused his death.
They didnβt get to say goodbye.
I suspect heβs in a full gimp suit at partiesβ¦
We got to talk about the fact that the first target for this is a Black woman which a lot of people in the terminally online world we know these comms staffers (and others) inhabit represent a particular archetype of person who needs to be βhumbled.β
US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota
Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administrationβs request to block, at least for now, a lower courtβs injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.
One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.