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I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

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I like how every season of The Wire basically came down to the top criminals saying "no talking on the phone" and then someone inevitably slips up and talks on the phone and the whole thing falls apart but anyway I bet organizing your armed rebellion on an open social media site will go well.

submitted 16 hours ago • 14 comments

As others have already pointed out, this is not the number for Canada's anti suicide hotline, but instead a right wing attempt to try to flood and overwhelm a trans support helpline.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

OpenAI will soon argue that if you don’t want their bot to make up stuff about you, you should submit all your personal info to them.

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

the magic of isaac chotiner is not in his questioning, which is often just the thing you would ask if you were listening in a non-servile fashion to the things someone was saying the magic is in getting people to sit down with him, all of them believing that they won't be the ones it happens to

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

The reason that Democrats can't compromise on the culture war is that the actual demand from conservatives is that LGBT people simply disappear from public life, which is not something that the Democratic Party is capable of actually conceding.

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

The fact that 90% of people see the phrase "male loneliness" and immediately think "incels" is a big part of what makes men's actual problems hard to address. Men aren't lonely for pussy, they're lonely for friends!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Not going to respond directly to it but someone is saying the "male loneliness epidemic" is "just rape culture" and no. The male loneliness epidemic originally refers to the documented fact of men having fewer FRIENDS and receiving less emotional support FROM THEIR FRIENDS.

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I love you all but there were six times as many of you on The Other Site.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Trying in earnest to get a book deal is the first thing in a long while that's made me genuinely angry about getting banned from Twitter for saying that Johnny Depp stans could die mad.

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Adolescent therapist niche shitpost: call me Dan Savage the way I'm always telling teenagers that life gets better after high school.

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So who had "David Brooks calling for mass strikes in the NYT opinion pages" on their 2025 bingo card because I sure as FUCK didn't.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates

submitted 11 days ago • 112 comments

Mary is a 12 year old student who had written an essay against book bans as part of a competitive civics event Argall was judging. For others who didn't grasp the implications at first.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Thinking about this.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Evergreen reminder that having a Harry Potter tattoo is regrettable, but having had a Harry Potter tattoo that you paid blood and money to get covered up because you love trans people is sexy and cool. #CoverUpYourHarryPotterTattoo2025

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Exactly! If you're unsure what all this is about and looking for somewhere to start, here's that primer: www.scarleteen.com/read/identit...

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The year is 2013. I am trying to get my writing published and listening to the new Lady Gaga album. The year is 2025. I am trying to get my writing published and listening to the new Lady Gaga album.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I know it's a necessary evil if I ever want my writing to be read by anyone, but one of the worst things for me about Putting My Writing Out There is I can already feel my self-concept shifting from Gainfully Employed Therapist back to Unsuccessful Writer.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Neat how both the “pro-natalism” and “anti-natalism” crews are just different kinds of caliper guys

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Just submitted my first agent query for the book I wrote last year! Excited to get my first rejection out of the way.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if other people worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

submitted 16 days ago • 250 comments

A lot of "post-left" personalities like Brand claim they were pushed away from the left but were in fact drawn to the right as a means of escaping accountability for their own actions

submitted 26 days ago • 106 comments

Most Dimension 20 seasons are about capitalism in some allegorical way, but Titan Takedown is more explicitly about how it feels to be ruled by the biggest, dumbest assholes of all time.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Me and all the girls serving 30-year prison sentences for throwing Kraft singles at Cybertrucks

submitted 29 days ago • 22 comments

Sundress madness is real, I got catcalled today by a guy with a toddler.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist it’s not an accident

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

I Believe That It’s Possible to Agree that the Prior Status Quo Was Bad While Also Acknowledging that Things Have Swiftly Become Much Worse

submitted 34 days ago • 22 comments

one of the great messaging victories of the conservative movement is how it, outside of nerds like me, successfully buried the fact that it was vocally anti-anti-apartheid

submitted 34 days ago • 161 comments

just keep washing your hands y'all i'm sure it'll get out eventually

submitted 34 days ago • 64 comments

the AI art crowd is just suffering from extended main character syndrome. It's the need to not train for battle but to fast forward past the training montage and take selfies with a sword. It's the inability to accept there are skill that will not just be gifted to them. It's being overcoddled

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

I think a lot of people missed that Bluesky updated its terms of service and, good news, it is no longer required that you reply "I don't even know what this is about, I don't pay attention to this kind of thing" when you see a post referencing something you aren't aware of.

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

"And whatever" is a 12 fingered chatbot that edges you sexually then urges you to end your life

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

submitted 34 days ago • 38 comments

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

submitted 34 days ago • 106 comments

Have the Harper's signatories commented yet in another letter about whether it's "intolerant" to be disappeared for co-authoring an Op-Ed?

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in all fairness, my brain has been working on this for like 24 hours and i still can't think of a plausible way in which this went down. I need this forensic examination

submitted 35 days ago • 53 comments

23andMe declared bankruptcy and the company is gonna be sold off for parts. That includes your DNA information and the only amount of control you have is to delete your info immediately. It’s very simple to do. Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF

submitted 36 days ago • 18 comments

If you're sitting on a lot of Tesla stock, I hope you're thinking about the fact that Tesla's hot new product converted 2% of reservations and had 8 recalls in its first year, and the big marketing idea to turn it all around is claiming organized terror groups are targeting the people who drive them

submitted 37 days ago • 97 comments

Let’s disappear people to foreign prisons based on allegations they committed crimes isn’t a slippery slope, you’ve already rolled all the way down the mountain.

submitted 37 days ago • 113 comments

The funniest right-wing grift to me is the beef tallow thing. Like I think I speak for most Americans when I say that no one would love it more than me if animal fats were good for you.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

She thinks the child workers whose labor she profited hugely from should have been committed from age 11 to supporting her political views for the rest of their lives, no matter how hateful those views became

submitted 42 days ago • 153 comments

Read books (& seek out other media) by women is as close as I get to One Weird Trick for the Straight Lad About Town/Apps. You’ll encounter a bunch of cool stuff and immediately stand out from the herd.

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments