Bernie needs a successor. And unfortunately although I think his heart is in the right place, he is actually stuck in boomer generation think. His version is better than most, but it’s still outdated and he does a lot of stuff I don’t support that I think is coming from older generation myopia.
Currently helping an elderly family friend figure out if an email is a scam (which it obviously is) and hey, people who make mobile email apps, it's a dark pattern to not make the email address of the sender visible without needing to click on the little arrow thing.
Just thought you should know.
Why would you imagine that they ever knew?
I wonder if AI spam will be what finally gets us to decide to fix email so that it's not spam-positive. Maybe we can vibe code something...
When I taught on theories of death/afterlife, I often adapted the quote from a (cancelled) comedian. I’ll do it here.
“I don’t want to live forever in an algorithm. I want to live in my apartment.”
Also you no longer have a deflector dish.
I still cannot get over that ST:TNG episode where they had to stop at the fantasy island planet because the deflector dish had accumulated too large a charge of bosons, which had to be purged. THE DISH IS MADE OF BOSONS AND LEPTONS! IF YOU PURGE THE BOSONS, YOU GET ZAPPED WITH THE LEPTONS!
If it doesn’t come from a supercharger, it’s not electricity: it’s just sparking leptons.
As I watch footage of explosions in Beirut and dust clouds towering above apartment blocks in Tehran, I keep coming back to something that I witnessed back in the summer of '04, during my first tour in Iraq. But first, let's start with a question:
Have you ever heard someone wail?
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This is honestly pretty sobering. I see myself here, but I also see my wife devaluing her part of the workload, as if only the earning of money counts. If you are doing this to yourself, I can't even really ask you to stop, because that's more work.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
No, they are deporting the people doing the jobs you imagine immigrants will do. Haven’t you been paying attention to the news? They’re deporting naturalized US citizens. Leaving old men to die in the cold. They exist for one purpose: to scare the shit out of good people so they won’t protest.
Nobody’s eager to come to the US anymore.
America is facing a real population crisis: as older folks age out of their ability to continue to work, the population of younger workers is smaller: immigration is down, and birth rates are down.
You're right that having kids is often fiscally irresponsible nowadays. But that's the _problem_.
What is chilling about @anandwrites.bsky.social's latest post is how familiar it sounds. It sounds like Valspeak. No, not SFV.
the.ink/p/epsteins-n...
Really important post: www.patreon.com/posts/gender...
"EVERY more quiet, submissive person, man or woman, watching this video needs to understand that ultimately you are your best advocate. Do not put up with partners who test you, who violate your boundaries, or who treat you as lesser."
Wat erg. Ik wens je een spoedig beterschap.
I just wrote a book about a bunch of people whose unfulfilled dreams shaped history. Among the many reasons that we need to study dreams, especially ones that don't come true, is that we need to empower ourselves to dream regardless of the outcome. @adapalmer.bsky.social
I'm pretty frustrated with the DNC, the DSCC, and the DCCC. And also the House and Senate minority leaders. What do you think they're talking about (can't tell, post was removed)?
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
We need a legal system that doesn’t have corrupt muppets at the top first, or else laws like this will just get overridden if there’s money in it for the kleptocrats. It feels a bit off-topic to talk about policy in a time of such corruption. You’re not wrong, mind you.
The year is 2436. After the loss of all printed books due to an engineered bacterium run wild, scientists are using an ancient copy of Claude to recover all the world’s literature. The main challenge: coming up with prompts that aren’t blocked by the copyright lawsuit avoidance training.
I find it a very strange compulsion to respond to horrific news by aiming vitriol at folks who opposed genocide. We are not here because some people had the moral decency to draw a line at genocide. We are here because not enough did.
Kill the idea that fascism begins when its victims look like you
Mood!
Really good post about how to think about the Epstein files and the conspiracy theories that feel so similar:
substack.com/app-link/pos...
Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.
Understood instantly what it meant.
This is what I need cis folks to understand.
It's been a decade.
Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it
“And by that, I mean towards the center.” Ouch! :)
A lot of people seem to believe that the Democratic party is conservative for good reasons, like that it's what voters want. We need to drop this completely inane misconception if we hope to escape fascism skepchick.org/2026/02/why-...
