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I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants

submitted 12 hours ago • 155 comments

These Medicaid cuts will be extremely bad and they’re just to offset tax cuts for very wealthy people www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 12 hours ago • 341 comments

me: they think it should be illegal to have black people in positions of influence savvy, sophisticated pundits: don't be hysterical the trump administration:

submitted 6 hours ago • 97 comments

the current president is disappearing Americans into the fucking jungle. Try some perspective ffs

submitted 4 hours ago • 20 comments

today sag-aftra filed an unfair labor practice against an epic games subsidiary behind AI vader because it failed to bargain appropriately with the union. more power to them, but this whole endeavor is rotten to the core, an affront to the legacy of an actor who can no longer advocate for himself

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

hi, folks! KOSA’s back in congress. the project 2025 people want KOSA to pass & openly say they’ll use it to attack abortion & LGBTQ people. it's also got a lot of democratic support. 2 other censorship bills—IODA & SCREEN—are up, too. all must be stopped. long thread! call scripts at the end.🧵

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI: It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

we have to keep up the pressure on these bills. I'm calling again today and will be continuing to call until these bills are dead. a lot of these reps get spooked by even a few dozen calls or letters on an issue. sustained pressure can make many of them bend the knee. keep calling and writing.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

Oh so NOW they want our movie??? 😂 Do yourself a favor, buy it on Blu-Ray when it comes out in a week and OWN it. Support Ketchup Entertainment and their tireless work to help distribute our film, both in theaters and physically.

submitted 8 hours ago • 68 comments

Every so often, political media will go out of its way to create a story and then externalize it as though it happened naturally at the hands of some other party. "Continued questions" from whom? "Emerging" from where? This is police shooting-speak.

submitted 7 hours ago • 126 comments

The climate impact of ChatGPT is so frustrating because you can’t get rid of plastic, or private jets or cars, but here’s a product you can opt out of on day one and the same people who recycle, who don’t litter, who believe in climate change are like “This is worth it to never use my brain again.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 148 comments

The Trump administration has reportedly agreed to pay $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt, a Jan. 6 rioter shot and killed by Capitol Police as she attempted to break into the House Speaker’s lobby.

submitted 8 hours ago • 32 comments

Fedex is still trying to tell me Omega Prime is "available for pickup" at the secure location I selected. Even though the business is closed and the strip mall it was in is apparently being demolished. Never should have backed this fucking thing...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

"Chuck Schumer & Richard Blumenthal joined MAGA Republicans to reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) — a bill that Heritage itself has proudly proclaimed as central to its strategy of censoring progressive content around LGBTQ issues & abortion" www.techdirt.com/2025/05/14/w...

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

NYT: “.. People making between about $51,000 and $17,000 could lose about $700 on average in after-tax income .. “By contrast, the top 0.1 percent, including those with incomes over $4.3 million, would gain on average more than $389,000 ..” @tonyromm.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

submitted 13 hours ago • 348 comments

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.” - 1984, George Orwell

submitted 12 hours ago • 106 comments

Has there ever been a technology that has been more forced on unwilling people than AI? They lose billions on it, nobody wants it, they make it FREE and still nobody wants it. They have to sneak it into our programs and operating systems and computer chips. And now this, unavoidable ads.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Even if you think calling does nothing, it just took me next to no time to contact my reps about this thing that could seriously seriously harm everyone, but ESPECIALLY lgbtq kids.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

The great thing about journalism is all the gifted reporters and editors have lost the jobs they went into debt to train for and sacrificed their emotional health to do well, but half a dozen middle-aged moral disasters are now the face of the whole discipline because they suck up to billionaires

submitted 15 hours ago • 16 comments

RFK and Casey Means are both using woo-woo and "wellness" aesthetics to repackage Christian right views. It's part of a larger trend of the Christian right borrowing tropes from "alt medicine" and even pagan-esque communities, to sell its toxic ideas. www.salon.com/2025/05/19/r...

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

it would be cool if some members of the mainstream media cared as much about this administration lying about who's running the agency dismantling the federal government as they do about the former president’s age

submitted 1 day ago • 225 comments

This is the "offending" page. Denying facts don't make them go away. Hiding facts don't make them untrue. This is all about love.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It’s kill the bill or be killed by the bill. Let’s send a message to our elected officials (phone call or email) that we will not be censored. And that #KOSA will harm kids instead of protecting them!

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i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation

submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

And when they've broken everything and made people's lives worse in dozens of different ways, the GOP response is going to be complaining that the government is broken and we need to try New Things instead. No, it was working. They broke it. Don't let them weasel out of responsibility.

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submitted 10 days ago • 730 comments

We’ve got a generation of kids who genuinely cannot think for themselves on a basic level and that’s really scary

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

If you see this, I implore you to post a pic from your device without any context

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

so, in addition to KOSA & many other things, if you find the internet useful & don’t want to see queer people placed on the sex offender registry for being inherently pornographic, IODA is worth your 5 minutes & calls to your senators and house rep. www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

💕💸 Still looking to raise funds for rent! I'm at $45/$175 and would like to get that last $130 met by Monday. Anything helps, even if you can just boost it. Thanks so much, y'all. paypal.me/HulkieD Venmo/CashApp: HulkieD #HelpSky #MABoost #FundSky #MutualAid #Transcrowdfund #HelpFolksLive2025

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Remember when she funded an anti trans bill, then when it passed, posted a picture of herself with wine and cigars and bragged ‘I love it when a plan comes together?’ That is literally where that money for these games go. Buying her trash, funds anti LGBTQ+ laws.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Yes, the level of invention, fiction and fanatacism here hard to put into words. This bill is going to explode the deficit which is a reason Moody’s downgraded. They cannot admit to the clear “sky is blue” reality of what they are doing.

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When I say that excessive wealth causes mental illness, I’m not trying to pathologize or make some sort of poetic statement, I’m being very literal. You begin to lose touch with reality when you don’t have to rely on other people for survival in any way.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Trump stole money from the National Parks and used it to pay for a parade for himself. Hail to the thief.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Businesses forcing Ai on employees is infuriating. At least with previous techbro scams—the NFTs, the crypt—you didn’t have to get involved unless you bought into the lie. But now with AI, they’ve has decided the problem isn’t that they’re selling shitty scams, it’s that they gave us a choice.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I can't believe the new king of the Misogyny Club for Racist Pedophiles turned out to not be cool. Smh.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

So, we need to get very loud about something: There are at least 16 people dead directly because of cuts to the National Weather Service and NOAA. A tornado went unwarned in a major community for over 30 minutes last night. No sirens, no alerts. Multiple people are dead. This is Trump's fault.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

"Waste" is when people get Medicaid. "Efficiency" is when you let 60,000 tons of food that's already been paid for rot instead of feeding someone with it.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

The new Google AI functionality in Docs is total mind-ruining shit. Hit enter in docs, it takes over your cursor to offer to help you write. Every. Time. You. Hit. Enter. Do you know how annoying that is when you are writing something? It's someone interrupting you every minute. MAKE IT STOP.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments

stop interfacing with jowling kowling rowling she puts all of your twee millennial money toward boots on trans people's neck fucking stop.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

They want him to be Hitler. That’s not an exaggeration or quip. That’s literally what they want, a complete evaporation of rights ceded to the state’s whims over who is a person.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments