Augustine Merganser Flournoy

Punishable by a fine means legal if you're rich

Children are a marginalized population, and too many otherwise "woke" people tolerate anti-child bigotry in the form of childfree discourse

"We should've had an administration that wasn't bound by rules, but one that was on our side, since thar means they would never turn on us"

I think Matt Gaetz sucks and yet I also think that making him the central villain in a story of a homeless teenage sex worker is missing the point. This is a girl — now a woman — who was so colossally failed at every point that Matt Gaetz himself is almost incidental to the story. Which is not…

The Dance with Big Tech is Different under Trump 2.0 | TechPolicy.Press If we are going to repair democratic institutions, we are going to have to do it ourselves, writes Dave Karpf.

I'm attending a workshop hosted by @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow. They invited me to write a "provocation" about the state of technology and democracy right now.

I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding.

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Maugustine, the new disaster bi he/they lieutenant stepped on the the promenade of Deep Space Nine....

If you see this, post a bird

I'm intrigued

It's true: I have never had malaria

This gin and tonic I'm having right now

I've been waiting my whole life for this

Siri set a reminder to give a shit oh wait this is an android

I'm mad but you're not wrong

You need to stop eating cheese right before bed

Everyone once in a while, I'll be having a pretty good day, then I'll remember that the movie Duce Bigalow Male Gigollo exists

Cooking With Titus Andronicus

It looks like you're handling the argument pretty well on your own, so I'll just let you go on.

What an odd thing to say.

This exactly

I teach teenagers. I find them to be a fascinating population, capable of great insight as well as extreme insolence. But hanging out with them is such an unappealing prospect.

False information. Name a hero that doesn't eat crepes.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Minnie Pearl Jam

We should have never ceded November to "The Holidays." The dominoes will continue to fall and your children will sing "all i want for Christmas" in June.

Yeah I get what you mean

Lunchtime!

"Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Wanna Get Off" is a masterpiece for sure

See also Xander Harris never facing consequences for his gross behavior (because he was a Whedon self-insert)

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

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