okay i don't know what everyone else thinks but the reason i am not willing to compromise on trans athletes in sports is because human rights are more important than "fairness in sports" or whatever ***IF*** allowing trans people to compete made them unfair, which also it doesn't so nonissue anyway
framing this as an "error" is doing everyone responsible a huge favour they don't deserve. the entire administration should be up on war crimes charges and the data centres should be permanently shut down
@ me next time
Repeat after me:
I am not buffer than Ed Balls.
I am not buffer than Luigi Mangione.
I am not buffer than Sean McElwee.
I am not buffer than Nick Mullen.
But if I stand back and watch and learn,
I will be buffer than I am.
The thing about it is that the U.S. has always been like this. It may have been more polite or circumspect or subtle, but since the days of James Monroe the United States has made it abundantly clear that it considers the world its toy, and only now is that opinion finally gaining currency.
Gringo tourists being their usual racist selfs in Puerto Rico, then they whine when the walls say “Gringo go home”.
Docter and many other old timers at Pixar wanted to deal with heavier, more serious issues like grief and emotional regulation, with tons of “therapy speak” in Inside Out, Wall-E, and Up. But when it’s queer themes it’s all “Back off loser, I’m not your therapist. I’m just here to sell popcorn!”
For International Woman’s Day, a thread.
UIs that went hard. Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Science 2.0 (1997)
I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.
I'm serious, read it all please
When your business is making content claiming you've got the magic thing that will help peoples ADHD and its either products they're selling or techniques picked for their novelty and likeliness to get clicks not their actual effectiveness, you're taking advantage of people, fuck that
Ooh where are you going?
Bumping this for the daytime crowd, as I'd like to get a heating-oil order in tomorrow if I can. 🙂
Didn’t realize you were in San Juan! Say hi to the island for me.
A slide for our stream tonight: it's a sapphire-tiled background with a golden compass rose and three chevrons pointing right. The text says "International Waters: an alt-history OOTP 26 baseball stream."
TONIGHT:
The 🧭 #NavegadoresNAG face their consistent rival 🍞 #CuervosPAT for the Crimson Pennant.
fun begins at 7:05 PM EST (less than 10 minutes!):
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta/
Not since 1554 have the English been this worried about Tudor’s future.
they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends
The special Trail Blaze-It rank, with exclusive access to my most *hits blunt* thoughts.
Good to know, because I would rather personally send every subscriber a handwritten letter through the United States Postal Service than use Substack.
She skitters darkly, like the night
Of cheerless climes and smoky skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bug
Meet in her aspect and her mug;
Thus sitting in that spider face
Which sits in Mordor’s deathly caves.
- Lord Byron, Third Age 3019
Question while I plan my exit from my workplace:
If I started some sort of general-purpose newsletter writing about politics, education, etc—basically anything not already covered by my other projects—at what level would you be willing and able to support such a publication? Free? $1? $3? $5?
Driving in Rochester rules because the same people who will nose their cars in the road to force you to play chicken and ignore pedestrian crossings when it suits them just completely dissociate at every protected left, even if they’re at the head of Cortázar’s entire fucking Highway of the South.
A quick note on that new "AI declaration", which is mostly just a bit clueless but which also assembled some of the most vile people on the planet for a bunch of scientists and activists to put there name next to.
https://tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-declare/
Ironically, I’m a New Yorker and have eaten Texas toast for breakfast.
Now, the Texas toast in question was being used to make a grilled cheese which was on top of hash browns, gravy, a country-fried steak, and another Texas toast grilled cheese, but I fail to see what that has to do with anything.
If you left Twitter, you can leave Substack.
If you left TikTok, you can leave Substack.
Alternatives exist. Some of them may take a little work, but tell me it just isn’t worth it to you to do so and that’s gonna be a real short conversation.
m.soundcloud.com/user-647898855 listen to local rochester labor radio instead! don’t let landlords and bigots tell you what to think!!!
Just saw a post dunking on semicolon placement as an outdated form of knowledge, and it’s honestly dispiriting at times trying to communicate how language works to people who don’t think the world exists as anything more than keys on a keyboard.
Shout-out to the New York State Piggy who kicked it all the way up past 70 in a 55 because they couldn’t handle the offense of me merging into their lane ahead of them—when they were intending, without even putting on their signal, to change into *my* lane, where there was pure daylight behind me.
Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.
