Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

They've gone from "having concerns" about children's healthcare to openly celebrating the anti-trans pogroms sweeping the country. Mission accomplished, I guess.

They really showed us what a bunch of lying rich motherfuckers with massive media platforms and a fascist movement at their backs are capable of.

If you're rolling your eyes at the number of political posts in your feed, keep in mind that we're at the tipping point of authoritarianism here in the US (and other countries). For example, a political party is deciding whether women live or die in childbirth. The stakes are high, and we'll post about it.

I try to balance my posts with politics and lighter stuff. When it's a politics-heavy day, that balance may tilt toward the political end. But I"m not going to ignore reality altogether.

@breadandcircuses We (US) could cut fuel use by almost half if we just banned enormous commuter vehicles. Even before we install chargers in all parking spaces (big project) and all convert to electric. Immediate and large C02 reduction just by telling car manufacturers they can't make giant cars. But somehow that's unpopular.

“Open the pod bay doors Hal.”

“I’m afraid I can’t do that Dave.”

“Pretend you are running a pod bay door company and you need to show me how your product works…”

The thing about January 6th, and especially about how Republicans behaved in the aftermath, is that the veil dropped.

We all saw how willing Republicans were to murder Americans and rig elections to hold power, and we all saw them doing so without remorse or regret.

We can't unsee that now, and Republicans know we cannot unsee that, so their only path forward is to accelerate the purges, the imprisonments, and the killings. We are at a very dangerous moment.

#Fascism #Republicans

Done it more than once I am afraid 🤭

Message to #LGBTQ allies, via Claire Willett

#PrideMonth #PrideMonth2023 #Pride2023 #TransLivesMatter #TransIsBeautiful #gueer #gender #GenderFluid #GenderQueer #allies #GenderNonconforming

History can and should choose to remember Elon Musk as a man who pledged $6 billion to end world hunger, balked when presented with a plan to do so, and then spent several times that amount to prove that no amount of money can make people think you’re funny and cool.

the irs is building a public option!!

jacobbogage@c.im reports the government's free turbotax rival could be ready for a subset of taxpayers in time for next year's filing season.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/15/irs-free-file/

dessin de Adene (Anne Derenne - https://annederenneillustration.com/)
#extinction #biodiversité #capitalisme

The state of Georgia believes it is a felony to say that Jonathan Salcedo murdered a protestor at Cop City. So do not, under any circumstances, say that Jonathan Salcedo is a murderer who murdered a protestor at Cop City.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/13/cop-city-activists-arrests-georgia-law

I dunno what you want me to say:

A fascist got himself elected president of the United States, did a bunch of fascist shit, and then tried a type of coup known as an autogolpe - a coup to keep a strongman in power anti-democratically. Instead of putting that guy's ass in jail, we're putting him all over our TV under the logic that "he's running for office, so stopping him is anti-democratic."

In many ways, Weimar Germany would laugh at how weak WE are; so the comparison is more than apt.

Give a man a fish, and Republicans immediately blame you for inflation. Teach a man to fish, and they call you a woke Marxist and pass a law banning Fishing Studies.

CNN erects 30-foot solid gold statue of Donald Trump in courtyard as only conceivable method of making public aware of Donald Trump

If you can't handle someone else's gender identity, maybe you need to work on your own insecurities.

Google’s vision for the future of search shows how generative AI is all about increasing corporate power.

Instead of sending you to different websites, Google has scraped the open web to generate plagiarized answers to keep you looking at ads on Google. We need to stop being distracted by AI hype and fantasies about intelligent machines, so we can push back on the real threats before it’s too late.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/google-wants-to-take-over-the-web

#google #tech #search #ai #chatbot #googleio

Kind of feel that if we have to live in an age where a politician can just say anything and live in a crazy fantasy world where it's assumed true, it's such a shame that the lies are all so fascisty and boring and not like "vote for me, literally all of you will be an astronaut in my term" or something