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This is how it’s done.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2451 comments

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

submitted 21 hours ago • 1049 comments

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

submitted 17 days ago • 586 comments

Just in case people don't know the context, this is a policy called splitting the letters, developed by fundamentalist Christians to use feminist and queer language and culture to split the T off and then turn the others against each other. You can watch their 2017 conference planning it.

submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 6 days ago • 345 comments

Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war. Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.

submitted 5 days ago • 117 comments

A reminder: 1. Elon Musk's wealth is mostly in Tesla stock 2. Tesla is successful because at a key moment in 2009 the federal government gave it a $465 million loan so it could make sedans 3. Musk is now firing thousands of government workers and slashing every service ordinary people depend on

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

I literally said this was what MAGA stood for last night

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 2 days ago • 987 comments

NEW: On Section 504. "Attacks on any one group will be used as a wedge to attack all of us. You may not personally know any trans people, and you may even be uncomfortable with the idea ... but letting this attack go forward will eventually hurt you and the things you love, too." /1

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1119 comments

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

Here's pt 2 of this week's Better Offline. I walk through how the tech media misses the stories that hurt billions of people every day - and how deep down, most people really do love technology and miss when it wasn’t so actively harmful. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 2 days ago • 203 comments

I have solved Bird Flu. Give the chickens ivermectin. Have the chickens practice Earthing. The problem with their immune systems is they are not touching the soil enough. Coffee enemas for all chickens. Also we must stop reading them Ibram X. Kendi. Eggs will be back and most importantly not gay.

submitted 1 day ago • 1334 comments

MapQuest 2001: If this unlocked a core memory, your knees probably creak now

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

happy hades 2 update day <33333 #hadesgame

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

my first attempt at a comic panel thingy, and its between minthara and lamb <3

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

I am not kidding when I say Madison intended impeachment to be used on the first, next, and last President who referred to themselves as a king, and we ought to do him right

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

I'm sorry but no. The traffic to ChatGPT.com doesn't match this at all. And why doesn't OpenAI announce monthly active users? It'd be higher!

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 3 days ago • 568 comments

Works as advertised

submitted 3 days ago • 1208 comments

Everything must grow forever at all times. Such is the Rot Economy. Games cannot be "kind of popular" or "profitable," they must always be insanely profitable. If you aren't growing you're dying www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-econ...

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

submitted 3 days ago • 2408 comments

Ok that made me laugh

submitted 3 days ago • 648 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 4 days ago • 609 comments

Leshen sketch from 2023 🌱

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

(かわいいな…)

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

A point to consider.

submitted 6 days ago • 1263 comments

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 292 comments

Doing great 👍

submitted 7 days ago • 1850 comments

"Look, buddy, you’re in no condition to be getting behind a desk at the Defense Department right now." theonion.com/concern...

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

Gee I wonder why so many more parents are flirting with anti-vaxx beliefs, Emily. Could it be the anti-vaxx adjacent messaging in your own article about this phenomenon? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 7 days ago • 71 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 8 days ago • 440 comments

We just noticed Uber is using Dynamic Currency Conversion in its app, and it defaults to paying in USD (if you have a USD account) regardless of where you order the ride. This obviously is a scam and is an extra 1.5% at the moment for, say, a ride in France. 1/2

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Moonlight #pixelart

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 419 comments

Joined @racheldonald.bsky.social on Planet Critical to talk about the rot in Silicon Valley youtu.be/6ubQhZdkmTE?...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Happy to say this portrait of my adored cat Casimiro has been selected for the 13th issue of Infected by Art. 😁

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Here's this week's Better Offline monologue. I walk you through how the AI industry’s limp Super Bowl commercials show how little this industry has to offer - and how much contempt they have for consumers. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments