🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her]

I think a fair amount about Biden’s “welcome home” moment on January 20. Just an abject, total failure of understanding of the crisis we were in, and the path out of it.

Pleased about this and also I am a never Rahm-er

There is literally nothing he can say that will get my vote

I feel like this is the same feedback pattern that says “the market supports fast food chains; people must want predictable bland food.” We often gravitate toward what is easier, but that doesn’t mean we think it’s better.

"We took idiosyncratic passages out of context from longer, often challenging works, and asked a supercomputer to render them more palatable in isolation. Which version do you find more palatable in isolation?"

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gender affirming care for trans youth is about suicide mitigation so if you remove that you are obviously intending to ramp suicides.

the idea that wes streeting and hilary cass don't know what they're doing is silly. they are absolutely trying to kill those children and they both belong in prison.

Exactly! Look at this shit. The Washington Post doesn't exist anymore. Bezos killed it. This is why we need to throw these pubs in the garbage and stop referencing them. They're not real anymore. You learn nothing and get fed shit.

Dems are winning special elections because those are new candidates. Republicans hate Dems but Dem voters ALSO hate Dem leadership (Chuck, Hakeem) for folding on literally everything. Dems will win big in the midterms, but incumbents are gonna get rinsed in the primaries.

This is true, but also, I think what people don't understand is how informing on kids who are trying out a nickname and a pronoun raises the stakes in way that could drive the inappropriate transitions and regret, the thing we're supposed to be so scared of.

Let me explain.

rt if u hate nazis and love boobs

cool what's your bluesky username

They're not being "kept under wraps."

They're being "illegally hidden from the public."

CAPCOM MOMENT

Trump posting “forthwith”

Opinion | By killing schoolchildren en masse, we are giving Iranians the freedom and liberty that Americans have enjoyed in Littleton, Newtown, Parkland, and Uvalde.

My neighbor told me Iranian mines keep eating his ships so I asked how many ships he has and he said he just goes to the port and gets a new ship afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding ships to mines and then his daughter started crying.

I could make so much god damn money if you gave me access to a government twitter account and kalshi for five minutes and I think it’s a real problem

Hot dog man meme pasted over free speech man meme

"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages

this is the most Not Fucking Around anything has ever been. I can’t wait to see it, but I ALREADY agree that crypto is a massive scam, so I also can’t wait until the people this movie is trying to convince also see it and at least some of them hopefully rethink everything about themselves

This sounds like somebody who grew up rich trying to imagine what poor people sound like.

We know how cash money works FAR BETTER than you do. You might know systems like stocks & IRAs & bonds & trust funds, but we do know cash money. We know SNAP doesn’t buy EVERYTHING at the grocery store.

Possibly the first and last time I'll ever say this: but I'm going to call Kay Ivey and thank her for doing this.

you draw up that ad for amtrak?
sure did boss, diarrhea money shot just like you asked

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

New grad students often adopt a stance of hypercriticism as a shortcut to seeming savvy.

When I was one, Nick Salvatore told us he didn't like "shit-on-the-book seminars" so we would instead spend our time talking about what *worked* in various texts to see what we could learn from other authors.

This might be the greatest lede I've ever seen

So uh, Spider-Man’s boss at the newspaper, nowadays he’s probably saying “bring me PODCASTS of Spiderman!”

I put the joke into an envelope, I send it off to Bill Maher, c/o every strip club in the greater Los Angeles area, I hope the simple message finds its way