Texty the Bard

Wreckers out here getting increasingly upset that Democrats might actually have a historic midterm win. Because heaven forbid anything might get a little bit better across the board. Apparently no-one gets to have anything good--or at least less bad--until we burn it all down and start over.

To be clear Grim’s post here is a loving requiem

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

See? There is no secret “defeat fascism once and for all” belief system. You just do the work, every election. Far left, center left, it doesn’t matter. Learn the lesson: Stop pretending you’re special and just fucking vote for Democrats.

My kingdom for a Dem who runs on making it a federal crime to even look at DraftKings

The fucking US military is more willing to stand up for its trans members than any UK institution. The US military: yes we do a lot of awful shit but we’re not doing transphobia just because you said so The British Girl Guides: oh gosh, we better throw out all the trans children just to be safe

Democrats flipped Virginia and immediately got rid of the Republicans' anti-trans measures but sure

Hey “both sides are bad” leftists, I found someone exactly like you and it’s Joe Manchin

Trump didn't like Ramaswamy until he saw him sticking up for child rapists and their enablers. He hated the Ivy League until Cornell had a prominent fraternity gang-rape story in the news. He's not just a rapist, not just a serial rapist—he's a rape *enthusiast,* and it's why Republicans love him.

@aptshadow.bsky.social I need you to put down the Lathe of Heaven and back away.

this is why you don't comply in the first place because nothing is ever enough for this dipshit of a human. pretty soon he's going to want to rename earth "planet trump"

One of the many reasons I love living here. All the blather about mail ballots not being secure is just pure bullshit.

Why do people like this all seem to believe AI critics are also using AI? Most AI critics I know wouldn’t use ChatGPT if their lives depended on it.

I love how Ramaswamy's ad was so odious that even a lot of Twitter Groypers started going "okay, maybe a bit much..." and JD Vance, who is Vice President of the United States btw, looked at this situation like "okay I know whose side I should weigh in on"

Not my country nor my fight, but as a relieved outside observer allow me to extend a hearty "go fuck yourselves" to the Albertan separatists nonetheless www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

British TV writer Graham Linehan went crazy because people criticized some of the stuff in an episode of his show, an episode that depicted a trans woman. He ruined his career over it. I think it’s ironic that the BBC would almost certainly refuse to air that episode today, for being too pro-trans.

Yet another great reason to vote for the Democrats in 2 weeks 👇

People are wondering why he's saying this when Trump's approval rating is so bad, and I think they're at the level of desperation where their only real play is to try and get the unlikely Trump voters out.

The idea that we are obliged to save the online fascists and nazis from themselves is not one I subscribe to, I've been online for 30+ years now and the number of right-wing chuds who have ever engaged in "dialogue" for any reason except to waste other people's time can be counted on a single hand.

I don't know how the next couple weeks are going to shake out and who knows if the polls are right... But I love knowing that the entire GOP will have a stress ulcer by November 1st.

There are two kinds of people who say "Dems need to lose" 1) Republicans 2) Russian operatives

TELEGRAPH: Trump & Musk conspired to throttle Starlink and make Ukraine more vulnerable to Russian attacks — then Musk tried to blame only Trump. Putin wins again, as usual. Russia was never a hoax. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

This is the end result of being in a culture that demands that women look young forever instead of aging normally. I generally support people doing whatever they want to their bodies, but let's not pretend that these women haven't been brainwashed into believing they have to do this.

The biggest reason I really hope Gavin Newsom never runs for POTUS is that he has such shit judgment he was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle.

Dogcatcher xkcd.com/3309/

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As ballots arrive this week, I would like to remind my fellow Washingtonians to please use a drop box if you can, and get it done early. Yes, very few of our races are all that competitive, but we have some critical ballot measures.

My extremely hot take is that this is closer to Starfleet than a lot of people are ready to hear.

"ADHD label risks lifelong harm to children." If you don't label the disorder, then what we will be labelled instead is "Lazy." "Underachiever." "Doesn't live up to their potential." "Bad student." Those labels come with pain, shame, and abuse. The ADHD label comes with a chance for support.

People don’t remark enough on the fact that the most gender-essentialist people on the planet have dubbed themselves “gender critical.” It’s like if neocons had named themselves “war critical” and people had just gone along with it.

As hard as it's been, I'm actually glad that the nightmare of moving (after 17 years in the same house) is happening in the run-up to the election. Keeping so busy I'm half dead from exhaustion is keeping me from obsessing.

I love you, Mr. Zelenskyy

At the end of the day it’s almost irrelevant whether you think communism would work or would improve people’s lives (no and no). America is never going to BE communist. It’s simply not a possibility. “Communists” know this. It’s a feature. If your ideology won’t ever be tested, you can’t be wrong.

projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

what, and I cannot emphasize this enough, thE FUCK

they did the thing

“Joe Biden is too old and slow, unlike Donald Trump, who yells about nonsense all the time, something no demented old people ever do”

So Republicans lying about trans people is their midterms centerpiece strategy — during the affordability crisis? They got nothing. www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

Also, I spent way too much of my very limited time in a pointless flamewar here yesterday. Need to remember that with the level of stress/low sleep I'm at right now, it's too easy for me to get baited into rageflailing. Probably a good idea to go dark for a bit until things settle more.

Today is a day to remember that terrorists are evil, and giving them what they want--in this case, the complete elimination of Israel--shows them that terrorism works. And if you think the above statement is an endorsement of Likud's equally deplorable actions, you need to get offline for a while.

The Magicians. S4's last few episodes were so offensive it soured me completely on the whole thing.

How I arrived on Bluesky.

It's not really fair that I blame her more than anyone else for Roe v Wade because 50 other senators helped... But she is the only one who got on the senate floor and gave a defensive angry gaslighting speech chiding us for daring to think Kavanaugh would do what we all knew he would do.

Look, I still remember when Tulsi Gabbard was supposed to be a bold anti-war progressive and everyone pointing out she was an Assadist bigot was actually a centrist shill

"You HAVE to nominate this guy we discovered ten minutes ago and decided we adore or else we will NEVER EVER vote for you and it will be PROOF you're THE SAME AS REPUBLICANS." "Okay, fine, we nominated them. Are you going to help them win the general?" "Lol no we decided we hate them now."