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Reminder that Marissa Mayer had a personal daycare for her kid constructed next to her office at Yahoo while simultaneously cutting childcare benefits for every other employee. Just thought I'd mention that.

You can't beat fascism by agreeing with fascism. You can't beat fascists by accepting a fascist frame. Corporatist Democratic Party leadership needs to be defeated and jettisoned. We have to fight them, not because we don't want to fight Republicans, but because they refuse to.

Thread 🧵: the fraudulent transgender mailers have a connection back to Dallas, Texas, where a local Republican megadonor used a similar playbook years ago when he funded a fake BLM group to send letters to wealthy white parents that were designed to discredit the BLM movement.

This one is a pretty big bummer, NGL.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

Watching Gundam Zeta in a group data.runhello.com/gundamzeta.jpg

New: OutYouth, an LGBTQ+ youth program in Austin, says it's briefly closing for safety reasons because it was mentioned in the fake trans resource guide pamphlets that went out this week across Texas - www.chron.com/culture/arti...

it's pretty funny to see people on Bluesky watch You Can See Everything and go "wow, documentaries are always a construction and we can't take anything at face value," only to watch this one, very one-sided video and take it fully at face value

There's an entire generation of Beltway conventional wisdom that needs to be retired and ignored so that we can be clear eyed about what needs to be done to meet the polycrisis of technofascism, climate change, et al.

For folks that missed it, Paxton's campaign is, unsurprisingly, doing fucky bullshit with fake mailers.

Good thing they're not doing this during hurricane season for the South. That could end up being awkward.

imagine being a teen in the closet and watching your parents get this in the mail

among other things, this shooting really has me thinking back to Uvalde. a whole army of cops had each other's backs and were too scared to go after the shooter. versus one dad who heard shots and decided to act

I didn’t know the WSJ was posting Crusader Kings guides

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them

This is Carolyn Marvin, the writer of When Old Technologies Were New. A very sick move by a theorist of technology.

I've heard nothing but good things about Ladykiller. I *have* played it, but it made me blush so hard I stopped, so you know it's good. I can't wait to take another crack at it and be completely red for like a week.

Hey kid, I'm a computer… stop all the vibecoding

Bingo bango.

News so shocking it blew his eyebrows smoove off

Her "immigration status" is that she's been a US citizen longer than either Melania Trump or Elon Musk. The Democrats SHOULD use this opportunity for 100% solidarity with one of their own, and throw the fucking kitchen sink at Trump and his Republicans. I doubt they will but would LOVE to be wrong.

torn between shock and disgust and amusement imagining the DoD getting orders to execute the same-day invasion of a major ally

Asking a room of people "Can we find some way for people to hate our store even more?" is certainly a choice.

Came across this tweet earlier bc an artist i know criticized this guy, only to find out that he already had me blocked. Now this has GOT to be the first time ever an ai bro blocked me, a d2 shitpost account, before i ever interacted with'em lmao

We talk about the AI bubble like it's just the biggest companies but a lot of very confident AI dudes on Twitter are going to go bankrupt soon and that will be pretty funny

More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d

you know what, palmer? you've convinced me. there are some deaths i consider good and aligned with our natural and national order.

A great game. Also one of the few times I was done dirty at RPS - wrote a glowing review, only for one of the old regulars to do a 'Second opinion: Nuh-uh it's bad' piece.

This is what government software can be again if we get the yahoo cowboy dudebros out

YouTube hasn't paid out music streaming earnings to Distrokid for almost two months with no communication, so my income has been cut in half just for fun. It's a startling reminder that the entire streaming ecosystem could just go away overnight because a tech company lets it. Buy albums if you can.

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

I've made this scale to help people out during this holiday season

I remember my father telling me how anti trust laws worked as a kid. Something like "Well son, we have laws where one electric company can't just buy all the OTHER electric companies. Then they could just charge whatever they want because there'd be no competition." We were a very optimistic people.

That anyone in a position of authority could be influenced for something as cheap as a plate of cookies offends Ken Paxton to the depths of his very soul. You should ask for much, much more.

Has anyone heard anything about this guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...