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The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily

submitted 8 minutes ago • 5 comments

I continue to believe that in times like these, we all share a collective duty NOT to splatter our demotivating feelings of doom and despair all over everybody else in public. I don’t care if it makes YOU feel better. This isn’t about YOU. Deal with those feelings outside of public venues.

submitted 15 hours ago • 35 comments

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 22 hours ago • 542 comments

Let’s go ride bikes

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Our own government is now using our own military against our own people! There is NO NEED for this and it isn't legal - this is a show of agression and intimidation by Trump against US citizens. PAY ATTENTION to what is going on right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

immigrants belong in our community. ICE doesn't.

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

I think nuance and respectful disagreement can be found on a lot of issues, but ICE isn't one of them. Fuck ICE. I'm rooting for their abject failure and personal misery. May the people of Los Angeles send these discount gestapo hacks packing.

submitted 3 days ago • 76 comments

and furthermore, ICE delenda est

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Years of NC State fandom has trained me for today: the correct answer for "are you rooting for Duke or UNC" is "I'm rooting for the roof to fall in".

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The War and Treaty. It was one of those shows where you come out saying "okay, it was great but OMG THAT OPENING ACT". Grabbed front row seats the next time they came through town as the main ticket.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Night of the Long Threads

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

As much as they've gutted the US Government, I'm concerned about how long it'll take us to replenish the National Strategic Popcorn Reserve after today.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

It’s the happiest day of Elon Musk’s life because he finally posted something people actually want to read

submitted 5 days ago • 57 comments

I feel like Musk could really blow MAGA's collective minds just by continuing to tweet out facts the rest of us have known for years but never penetrated their media bubble.

submitted 5 days ago • 88 comments

Tesla lost $100 billion today!

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out

submitted 5 days ago • 313 comments

It’s not every day when you get to watch stage four cancer face off against nuclear waste

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Oh, I’m sorry. Did your rational and logical economic system not account for what if two terminally online men had a falling out?

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments

Who knew that the thinnest-skinned, money-hoarding, drug-addled, malignantly-narcissistic, terminally-online, casually-fascist, profoundly-incurious frail fraudster dipshit philanderers couldn’t stay BFFs forever??

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

submitted 5 days ago • 429 comments

I think the fetishization of “information” and the promise of limitless and instantaneous access to it go a long way towards explaining how people can regard themselves as near-experts without having the slightest idea how anything actually works or the slightest interest in taking time to find out

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 6 days ago • 96 comments

hey here's something I would love us all to do like RIGHT NOW: find out if your local library is doing any kind of pride programming or display, and if they are, email them to say thank you and why it matters to you. whether or not you're queer. especially if you're in an area where it's fraught

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Cuomo decrying "toxic" politics is like me decrying late-snacks.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Breathtaking, and worth the time to read it.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I'm just close enough to the research grants process to be able to say HOLY FUCKING YIKES.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Look, I’m a college lecturer—ie non-tenured faculty, with a renewable contract & “robust performance reviews.” I rely on the university continuing to hire people like me. But YOU DON’T WANT ME TO BE THE NORM—not if you want higher education to matter in any real way

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Something about this feels like kayfabe. Would be delighted to be wrong.

submitted 6 days ago • 267 comments

It’s weird that RFK types will invent hundreds of conspiracy theories but rarely are like “Americans would be healthier if we didn’t have to drive everywhere and could walk”. That’s the wild thinking you can’t divulge, walking, not that Bigfoot is behind it all.

submitted 8 days ago • 55 comments

Happy #WorldBicycleDay #Sykkelensdag! I cycle because it's good for me, good for the planet, gives me freedom and allows me to experience the world at the human scale.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

In an excellent AP story about Trump’s public health disaster, the name “Trump” doesn’t appear until the 2nd sentence of the 4th paragraph, and it shows up just once in the first 20 paragraphs. Does this let Trump off the hook? No, but perhaps it avoids triggering MAGA’s “fake news” response.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

It was the third of june www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv33...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Not loving this trend of "oh no this week's hate crimes are extra hatey".

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I think at some point we have to stop indulging the fiction that conservatism is a legitimate political tendency and isn't simply a grievance cult for those who value the ability to enact cruelty over their literal basic needs.

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

That’s the thing I love: That Silicon Valley is full of people who “do nothing,” so they fire all the middle managers, who they later discover were doing a ton of things, and now company productivity is in the toilet I have no idea how I’d even know that

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

We just got an email that Hopkins is freezing salaries, hiring, and some construction projects. In addition to the 800 million USAID we lost, we’ve had another 50 million in grants canceled so far. And a 2/3 year over year decline in funded grants despite an increase in submissions

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

Gut-wrenching and liberating honesty.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

These families are emptying their life savings and leaving the only home they've ever known just ensure their trans kid can get the care they need. Now ask yourself--would you even think about doing this for health care that was anything less than essential for your child's life?

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Never buy fountain pens You’ll get addicted, and want to buy more because they are “pretty”, “write so well” and “oh, but look at this color” and your wallet will suffer. But you will make new friends at the art stores, who are also addicted to it

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

When left-wing American Jews comment on a rise in antisemitism in the US - without ever mentioning Israel or attempting to scapegoat Palestinian solidarity activism - here are some trends over the course of the decade since Trump first ran for President that they are likely referring to:

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

American Fascism uses the palace intrigue and reality tv style coverage of Trump and musks actions to keep many people from ever acting to protect themselves as they believe the intrigue is the real story not the shiny object meant to divert from the real power consolidation and damage being done.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments