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Dog mom. Artist. New Englander. New Yorker. Angeleno. New Englander again. Xennial.

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I keep pondering what the world would be like now if this one serial rapist had been held accountable for his crimes. If he understood, in his bones, that no means no. Would he still be pulling colonizer bullshit? If he was, would anybody care? Or would his effect on the world be imperceptable?

06.03.2026 23:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her

06.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 2384 πŸ” 511 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

NOPE.

06.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brilliant planning and flawless execution are the hallmarks of the Trump regime.

06.03.2026 11:44 πŸ‘ 475 πŸ” 173 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 9

Omg me too! They are horrid people who should be in prison so they can't harm anyone else!

06.03.2026 11:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Exhibit A

05.03.2026 13:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Call them.

05.03.2026 07:10 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

05.03.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 7325 πŸ” 2309 πŸ’¬ 183 πŸ“Œ 50

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

05.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 20098 πŸ” 5688 πŸ’¬ 512 πŸ“Œ 220

Doesn't seem like Jesus' style. I'd want to see the withering look of disappointment he'd give.

05.03.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I am now in my 55th year of being an imminent millionaire.

04.03.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 17749 πŸ” 2591 πŸ’¬ 1094 πŸ“Œ 275

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

04.03.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 3219 πŸ” 988 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 7

It occurs to me that if the government did force UK writers to hand over their work to the big AI companies, that would now among other things mean contributing to the development of US advanced weapon systems.

04.03.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 377 πŸ” 194 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1

The number of justices on the Supreme Court SHOULD be the same as the number of district courts. This is the correct plan.

04.03.2026 12:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Supreme Court

04.03.2026 02:52 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the β€˜most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

I recognize I am an extremely rare holdout in that I have been so hardline anti-AI that I have still yet to use a chatbot willingly, but uh, I feel like every other story I read is about how all the consumer-facing stuff is a mental illness particle accelerator www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

03.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 1532 πŸ” 321 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 34

The domestic abuse of this administration is staggering. Colossal. Horrendous. No hell hot enough.

04.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...

NEW: Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do.

With @oregonian.com

03.03.2026 13:00 πŸ‘ 352 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 18

Oh, so everybody is insane. Every one of them.

03.03.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This fucking lunatic in the White House is supposed to be talking to the country about this war and is instead rambling on about his ballroom and money.

02.03.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 648 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 5
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Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more.

It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

02.03.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 11180 πŸ” 3647 πŸ’¬ 612 πŸ“Œ 239
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two women are standing next to each other in an office . Alt: Julia Louis-Dreyfus's VEEP waves her arms for emphasis as she says, "the amount of incompetence in this office is STAG. GER. ING."

Veep wouldn't have done this.

02.03.2026 04:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Muder everybody?

02.03.2026 04:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Insane old man. Really wish we had a Congress and a 25th Amendment right about now.

01.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

National security? Their war room was an open-air tent in a country club ballroom. An Apple watch was there, ffs. We have never been less secure than right now!

01.03.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s super-duper secure SCIF with soft banquet-hall curtains, open air top, unsecured electronic devices, and roving guests located next to the bathroom where the classified documents are stored?

01.03.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 5122 πŸ” 1499 πŸ’¬ 383 πŸ“Œ 96

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: β€˜your leaders aren’t right for you,’ β€˜we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

01.03.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 3455 πŸ” 1025 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 31

I'm starting to dislike the word 'progressive'. I'm not progressive. My political positions are not only sane, but a reflection of where we actually are already. We should label people who are subservient to abusers and billionaires, who hate migration and diversity as 'regressive'

01.03.2026 08:15 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Did Clause tell you that? 108 dead children would like a word....

01.03.2026 09:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So we're gonna blame Claude for targeting an elementary school?

01.03.2026 09:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0