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DM's cause me anxiety. I can, and do, hold entire conversations in gif. WoW, DA, ME, BG3 & pronoun gremlin. Old af
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[Random Autistic 🌙 @RandomQuiet]

I live here now

And also here.

Don't send help.

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[Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @RepJasmine]

How about starting with the man in the Oval Office who's been spending taxpayer dollars on:

- A Ballroom
- A Reflecting Pool
- A Wrestling Match
- Golf Trips

But I guess it's hard to go after the man who gave you your job.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Every veteran in this country was promised that if you serve, you earn your retirement. And if you’re injured serving, you earn your disability. But that’s not the reality today.

Veterans medically retired for combat injuries before serving 20 years are forced to forfeit part of their earned military retirement pay just to receive their VA disability compensation. Two separate promises, and we’re keeping only one. The Major Richard Star Act ends that offset and pays both in full.

This isn’t a partisan bill. It has 334 cosponsors in the House and 79 in the Senate. I recently signed a discharge petition to force a floor vote and finally get it done.

Now Mike Johnson and House Republicans have taken a bill that should unite us and ruined it. Their “Take Care of America’s Veterans” package, which includes the Star Act, pays for it by cutting future benefits for other veterans. It’s a change the Disabled American Veterans estimates would cost 1.5 million veterans roughly $57 billion over the next decade.

Robbing one wounded warrior to pay another is a lousy deal. Bring the clean bill to the floor. Keep the promises we made to our veterans.
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[RevolutionAri (NSPM-7 certified trainer) @pickleslutte]

this was always their goal, trans women tortured to death in prison for the crime of existing

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A century ago, one in every four big trees in the eastern forests of America was a chestnut, and every autumn the country under them ate for free.

The American chestnut was a giant, a hundred feet tall, and there were close to four billion of them from Maine to the Deep South. Each autumn they dropped a carpet of sweet nuts so thick you raked it up by the sackful. Families roasted them all winter. Hogs and cattle were turned loose in the woods to fatten on them for nothing. Turkey, deer and bear lived off the same mast. The timber, straight and rot-proof, built the barns, the fence posts and the furniture. One tree fed the people, fattened the livestock, carried the wildlife through winter, then built the house.

Then in 1904 a blight arrived on imported Asian chestnut stock, spotted first on the trees at the Bronx Zoo. It moved through the forest at fifty miles a year, and by the 1940s it had killed close to four billion trees, nearly every mature chestnut on the continent. One of the worst ecological catastrophes in the country's history.

Here is the part that should stop you. The tree is not quite dead. The old roots still send up shoots, year after year, that the blight cuts down before they grow tall enough to fruit. A century on, the stumps are still trying, and still failing.

A free harvest that fed a continent every autumn for thousands of years, gone in forty, and still reaching for a sky it will never reach again.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Getty Images might be the biggest legal scam operating in plain sight and almost nobody talks about it.

Here is how it works. They take photos they do NOT own. Public domain images. Work that legally belongs to every single one of us. They slap their watermark on it, throw it in their catalog, and charge you hundreds of dollars to use a picture they had no right to sell in the first place.

It gets worse.

A photographer named Carol Highsmith spent years documenting America and then GAVE over 18,000 of her photos to the Library of Congress. For free. For everyone. No strings attached. Her gift to the public.

Getty took those free photos, watermarked them, and started selling licenses. Then they had the nerve to send Highsmith a bill for $120 for using HER OWN photograph on HER OWN website.

Read that again. They charged the artist for her own work that she gave away for free.

She sued them for $1 billion.

And here is the part that should make your blood boil. This is not a one time mistake. This is the business model. Take what is free, claim it as yours, intimidate people with legal threats, and cash the check. They are betting that you will be too scared or too confused to fight back.

How is this legal? How have we let a company get rich selling things that belong to all of us? How many small creators got threatening letters and just paid up because they did not know any better?

We put up with it because they count on us not paying attention.

Start paying attention.

[Laurence (Larry) Boorstein @LarryBoorstein]

Donald Trump and Doug Burgum are fencing of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool which Trump destroyed in time for July 4, our nation's 250th anniversary, with his disastrous effort to paint it "American flag blue."
Trump handpicked a pool guy whose experience was a 25 m lap pool at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling Virginia. The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool is 2,030 ft x 167 ft.
The contractor applied a polyurea coating to concrete which was made watertight with an admixture when installed in 2010-12. The coating could not adhere and delaminated days after the pool was filled. Instead of taking ownership of his mistake in handpicking a no bid contractor who didn't have experience, Trump is scapegoating nonexistent knife-wielding attackers. Only morons take Trump seriously.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

This is not a normal statement from a normal cabinet member of a major nation. 

This statement from Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir is the statement of a war criminal. 

The racist, extremist Israeli government does not deserve one nickel of U.S. support.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Agencies knew the citizenship data was unreliable. Built the prohibited database anyway. Shared it with Texas and Louisiana. Eligible voters got purged. Judge Sooknanan: the government "knowingly trampled" privacy rights in a way that "threatens the sacred right to vote." She also found falsely labeling a citizen a non-citizen is defamation. 75 pages. In writing.

[ُ sushi ibushi 𖣂 @svhibe]

so they stole the company from its owners and stole the ingredients from Palestinians. It is indeed the most israeli ice cream yet.

[Doctor @DipshikhaGhosh]

When I was in my first year of medical training, a guy in my class wanted to ask me out but I made it clear I wasn’t interested. He put my face on a nude woman’s body and circulated it with my name, phone number and “rate” on it. I used to get 70-80 calls from guys - either his friends harassing me or random men who had received that image on WhatsApp. I changed my mobile number five times that month. I started therapy. I needed sedatives to be able to relax and sleep. Men who do this deserve death. Because no amount of repentance takes away anything women go through because of their actions. I still can’t take pictures of myself freely, forget about posting them anywhere. There should be no re-entry into society for men like these. Ever.

[Paul Sharp @Petersbrooking]

My dad's generation talked about cold winters: 1948, 1963, 1979, 1990. They didn't talk about hot summers apart from 1976.

We don't have cold winters anymore. All the talk is about hot summers.

Our climate has changed and no amount of denial will alter that fact.

[Patrick Hedger @pat_hedger]

Texas SB 2420 would require digital ID to access all apps.

Google and Apple do not allow pornographic apps in their app stores.

It's not about pornography.

[Zeluvy 🐍🎩 @SnakeHoppe]

A sheep dies if not shreared btw

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The detector said she cheated. She is autistic.

Her name is Moira Olmsted. Adelphi University. February 2026. Turnitin flagged her essay as 100% AI-generated. She was disciplined.

Two other AI detectors classified the same essay as human-written.

She sued. She won. The court called the school's decision "arbitrary and capricious."

She is not the only one.

In May 2026, a high school student in Palo Alto was expelled after an AI detector flagged his work. He faced visa revocation. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

A researcher at Griffith University just proved mathematically why this keeps happening. The paper is on arXiv. The finding is one sentence.

AI text detectors have a structural flaw that no amount of better engineering can fix.

Here is what the math says.

If a university wants its detector to catch 80% of cheaters, at least 750 out of every 10,000 innocent students will be wrongly accused. That is not a software problem. It is a theorem.

If the university tries to limit false accusations to 1%, detection power collapses to 6%. It catches 6 out of every 100 AI-written papers. The other 94 get through.

There is no setting where the detector is both fair and effective.

The reason is diversity. Every student writes differently. Non-native English speakers use simpler vocabulary. Shorter sentences. Clearer structures. So does AI. A Stanford study found that 61.3% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers were misclassified as AI-generated. A separate analysis tested 14 commercial detection tools. Zero out of 14 reached 80% accuracy.

The students most likely to be wrongly accused are non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and anyone who writes with clarity and precision. The qualities that make their writing effective are the same qualities the detector mistakes for a machine.

Vanderbilt University understood this. They disabled Turnitin's AI detection in 2023 after calculating that even a 1% error rate across 75,000 submissions would produce 750 wrongful accusations per year.

750 students accused of cheating for writing like themselves.

The paper's conclusion is not that we need better detectors. It is that the diversity of human writing itself makes accurate detection mathematically impossible.

The same thing that makes your writing yours is the thing that gets you accused.

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[Rep. Summer Lee @RepSummerLee]

The Pentagon is the only place in America where you can fail 8 audits in a row, admit you’ll fail the next few & still get handed more money than you asked for.

But let a family need help buying groceries and suddenly it’s a lecture about hard work, responsibility & bootstraps.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trickle down economics was the lie the 1% told so you would let them take all of the money.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Both of these men attacked a police officer. Both faced very different consequences based on their political beliefs.

Benjamin Song, an anti-fascist protester, shot and wounded one officer at a Texas ICE detention center on July 4, 2025. Today, he was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison. Trump’s DOJ labeled him a “terrorist.” The injury was non-life threatening, and the defense argued that the bullet ricocheted off the pavement before striking the officer.

The judge struck down Song’s attorney’s attempt to present evidence that Song fired at the ground as suppressive fire.

D.J. Rodriguez, a Trump supporter, attacked Officer Michael Fanone on January 6, 2021 — dragging him into the mob while he was face-down on the ground and shooting him twice with a stun gun held to his neck. Fanone suffered a heart attack and nearly died. Rodriguez also deployed a fire extinguisher and attacked other officers with a wooden pole. He was sentenced to just 12.5 years — a slap on the wrist for what could have easily been prosecuted as attempted murder.

Trump called Rodriguez and the other January 6 attackers “hostages.” On day one of his second term, he pardoned him — along with nearly 1,600 other insurrectionists, including more than 600 convicted of assaulting law enforcement and 170 convicted of using a deadly weapon.

Nearly 1 in 16 pardoned insurrectionists have picked up new charges since their Trump pardon — including half a dozen for child s*x crimes.

Five officers ending up dying from the psychological trauma of January 6. One hundred forty were injured. 

One justice system for the left. One for the right. This is what fascism looks like.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income.

A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income.

Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Women:
Nurses – 88% women..
Elementary teachers – 89% women
Childcare workers – 94% women
Home health aides – 88% women
Social workers – 82% women
Speech therapists – 96% women
Occupational therapists – 90% women
Dietitians – 92% women

Women make the world go round as well...

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

The kid’s name was Peter Donde, a 10 year old African with AIDS. And he was one of the hundreds of thousands of children who have already died.