Black Lives Matter fundamentally broke these people’s brains. They couldn’t bear the idea that they might have to tell a different story about this country and thus tell a different story about themselves. They hated it, and now they are using everything they have to never feel that way again.

The speed with which companies are abandoning DEI is a clue about how shallow their commitment to it ever was.

Don’t let the outrageous distract you from the insidious, but don’t let them get away with either.

So damn true 💯

For a variety of reasons, I never finished this book when I first got it a couple years ago and it got lost in the sea of half-finished books on my bookshelf. After the past couple weeks, I decided it was time to pick it back up and finish it.

Quick question for those of you diagnosed with #ADHD

Can you read the words below while the animation is running?

I can read most, perhaps all of them, but my NT colleague cannot.

Hardly statistically significant. But maybe this is a ND thing?

Please share for reach.

I have a feeling I’m gonna be giving this video a lot of views over the next few years.

"Bluesky is awesome now, for how long?" I mean, look, all things change and end, we will all die, earth will be uninhabitable in a billion years, then the sun will expand and destroy the planet, and the universe will die a slow death of proton decay. But BEFORE THAT, let's make this place fun, okay?

The idea that you *must* coexist with and listen to people who are cruel, unjust, and just plain unpleasant to be around is the logic of abusers, by the way

i admit i live in an echo chamber of leftist politics, the only exception being when i hear things said by the president, the next president, the supreme court, members of congress, people on the news, my family, or people i encounter in my daily life.

I wouldn’t call it an echo chamber, it’s just a lot easier to have adult conversations about our nerd shit when there aren’t thousands of screaming, contrarian children looking for attention and shouting obscenities at the top of their lungs.

lots of discourse on whether there should be a True Detective S5 but only one right answer: hire Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny at their current ages, name their characters Mulder and Scully, make them longtime (work) partners, do not otherwise acknowledge the existence of X-Files in the show

It’s been so long since I’ve been an engaged user of a micro-blogging site like this that I have no idea what the hell I’m supposed to do.

Can someone direct me to the section of this site that has table top / roleplaying games and software dev so I can stop doom scrolling politics?

Joining Bluesky so far has been like a fresh install of my social media operating system. You know the kind, where you don’t import any of your previous settings and manually bring over only the things that are genuinely important or valuable.

Is anyone else…breathing just a little bit easier?