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TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
I feel like it's actually worth pointing out NONE of these things actually meet that description.
Specifically, a waymo has all the same downsides as a human driven taxi, which is only really superior to buses and trains in privacy and route options.
Specifically, a waymo has all the same downsides as a human driven taxi, which is only really superior to buses and trains in privacy and route options.
December 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I feel like it's actually worth pointing out NONE of these things actually meet that description.
Specifically, a waymo has all the same downsides as a human driven taxi, which is only really superior to buses and trains in privacy and route options.
Specifically, a waymo has all the same downsides as a human driven taxi, which is only really superior to buses and trains in privacy and route options.
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Please for the love of god call your reps and tell them to vote no to KOSA and other bad internet bills otherwise we lose everything we have
You need to do it now, today is the day
You need to do it now, today is the day
Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
reason.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Please for the love of god call your reps and tell them to vote no to KOSA and other bad internet bills otherwise we lose everything we have
You need to do it now, today is the day
You need to do it now, today is the day
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“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
- 1984, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
- 1984, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
"Let them be cakes"
“Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.”
I think we should pelt more fascists with eggs, flour, and pies
I think we should pelt more fascists with eggs, flour, and pies
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 AM
"Let them be cakes"
I am so fucking cursed this month i have lost a SECOND pill i can't afford to take an extra of and this time it literally disappeared from my hamd picking up my drink to swallow it, even worse than going to get a drink and standing up and hearing it hit the floor. I have no idea where it went.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I am so fucking cursed this month i have lost a SECOND pill i can't afford to take an extra of and this time it literally disappeared from my hamd picking up my drink to swallow it, even worse than going to get a drink and standing up and hearing it hit the floor. I have no idea where it went.
#4 the last strong message that democrats ran on? Which I personally remember enthusiastically voting for?
This. One word. No focus test shit. And happens to literally be the same message Mamdani just won on.
But they refuse to ever run someone who can embody it again so it'd be false advertising
This. One word. No focus test shit. And happens to literally be the same message Mamdani just won on.
But they refuse to ever run someone who can embody it again so it'd be false advertising
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
#4 the last strong message that democrats ran on? Which I personally remember enthusiastically voting for?
This. One word. No focus test shit. And happens to literally be the same message Mamdani just won on.
But they refuse to ever run someone who can embody it again so it'd be false advertising
This. One word. No focus test shit. And happens to literally be the same message Mamdani just won on.
But they refuse to ever run someone who can embody it again so it'd be false advertising
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Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.
"Mussolini once said that he didn’t create fascism – he extracted it from the Italians’ unconscious. And I think it’s the same thing with Bolsonarismo. Bolsonaro dies, but these radical ideas and ideology are here to stay." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘Foam that’s washed away’: support dissolves as Bolsonaro starts 27-year jail term
Brazil shows little sign of feared rightwing rebellion, with only a few die-hards protesting outside prison
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.
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In case you were wondering where to send your thoughts on the AI "dub" of Banana Fish, you can do so here.
Be polite--and I *mean* that--but so long as you're polite, feel free to let them know exactly how you feel about the AI "dub."
Be polite--and I *mean* that--but so long as you're polite, feel free to let them know exactly how you feel about the AI "dub."
That I can do.
Search Prime Video for the title (I went with Banana Fish), then click on Details, and scroll past the Cast page to "Send Us Feedback."
Search Prime Video for the title (I went with Banana Fish), then click on Details, and scroll past the Cast page to "Send Us Feedback."
November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In case you were wondering where to send your thoughts on the AI "dub" of Banana Fish, you can do so here.
Be polite--and I *mean* that--but so long as you're polite, feel free to let them know exactly how you feel about the AI "dub."
Be polite--and I *mean* that--but so long as you're polite, feel free to let them know exactly how you feel about the AI "dub."
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As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
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tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
The worst part is that people keep saying the same optimistic stuff like "don't worry you'll get back on your feet".
Sure, if it's a flare up. But if it's the new status quo and you're running out of treatment, that's a very different thing.
Sure, if it's a flare up. But if it's the new status quo and you're running out of treatment, that's a very different thing.
I think the coolest thing about disability, bar none, is how it continues to progress and shit gets more and more difficult by the day/week/year and just when you’re like “cool I figured out how to accommodate this and live my life” your body says “oh fuck that! ALL HANDS ON DECK HES ADAPTING”
a group of police officers are chasing a man who is running down the street .
Alt: a group of police officers are chasing a man who is running down the street in his boxers and a T-shirt
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The worst part is that people keep saying the same optimistic stuff like "don't worry you'll get back on your feet".
Sure, if it's a flare up. But if it's the new status quo and you're running out of treatment, that's a very different thing.
Sure, if it's a flare up. But if it's the new status quo and you're running out of treatment, that's a very different thing.
Lrt: I don't support punitive justice forever guilt that people can't come back from, but the time to suggest uncancelling someone is when news about them is heavily skewed towards examples of putting the work in and not having a fucking pity party which is what actually happens 90% of the time.
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Lrt: I don't support punitive justice forever guilt that people can't come back from, but the time to suggest uncancelling someone is when news about them is heavily skewed towards examples of putting the work in and not having a fucking pity party which is what actually happens 90% of the time.
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Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
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also stumbling across something unfamiliar yet instantly compelling while channel-surfing TV or scanning through different radio stations
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
also stumbling across something unfamiliar yet instantly compelling while channel-surfing TV or scanning through different radio stations
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Tbh the biggest reason I don't really vibe with iding communism is that under it, it seems I am either considered boutgeoisie for labor that i find functionally identical to hairdressing (a trade I had to quit for health reasons) or lumpen.
You expect me to fight a revolution to still be othered?
You expect me to fight a revolution to still be othered?
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Tbh the biggest reason I don't really vibe with iding communism is that under it, it seems I am either considered boutgeoisie for labor that i find functionally identical to hairdressing (a trade I had to quit for health reasons) or lumpen.
You expect me to fight a revolution to still be othered?
You expect me to fight a revolution to still be othered?
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can confirm thats all any consignment will pick up from us is 2-3 copies
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
can confirm thats all any consignment will pick up from us is 2-3 copies
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When ever one of those AI bros tires to tell you that artist are gatekeeping art remember that pros, armatures, hobbyist all stopped what they where doing to provide guidance to a newbie artist over the shared experience that "this one angle is hard to draw"
The "Frieren Looking Up" Art Trend attracted some Big Names in Animation! Excited for Season 2?
November 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
When ever one of those AI bros tires to tell you that artist are gatekeeping art remember that pros, armatures, hobbyist all stopped what they where doing to provide guidance to a newbie artist over the shared experience that "this one angle is hard to draw"
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WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page
As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...
autisticadvocacy.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
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People really need to learn the value of saying “I was wrong”
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 AM
People really need to learn the value of saying “I was wrong”
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Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving
The lines are getting clogged from calls and Mastercard is feeling very pressured, they're looking into how to act in response. They're collecting information on callers to have a better understanding of who is calling in re the censorship issue
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving
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"Death of the Author" doesn't mean separating the author's bad behaviour from their art. It means taking away their authority and allowing readers to interpret the art based on their own perspectives. It doesn't absolve the author of being a bastard, in fact it may inform how you interpret the art.
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Death of the Author" doesn't mean separating the author's bad behaviour from their art. It means taking away their authority and allowing readers to interpret the art based on their own perspectives. It doesn't absolve the author of being a bastard, in fact it may inform how you interpret the art.
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THIS
It saves a tremendous amount of overhead (money) and time (money) and complications (people who are eligible dropping out because they can't prove they are), but mostly it forecloses an extremely common form of fiscal parental abuse.
It saves a tremendous amount of overhead (money) and time (money) and complications (people who are eligible dropping out because they can't prove they are), but mostly it forecloses an extremely common form of fiscal parental abuse.
Periodically I see people justifying means-testing to ensure The Rich don't get stuff for free when they can afford it.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
THIS
It saves a tremendous amount of overhead (money) and time (money) and complications (people who are eligible dropping out because they can't prove they are), but mostly it forecloses an extremely common form of fiscal parental abuse.
It saves a tremendous amount of overhead (money) and time (money) and complications (people who are eligible dropping out because they can't prove they are), but mostly it forecloses an extremely common form of fiscal parental abuse.
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I don’t know how your agency managed to survive the current administration with your dignity and ongoing mission intact, but I appreciate your messaging and salute you.
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I don’t know how your agency managed to survive the current administration with your dignity and ongoing mission intact, but I appreciate your messaging and salute you.