I've only recently learned that ACAB means "all cops are bastards". I thought it meant "assigned 'cunt' at birth".

I am enjoying My signing session at Metropolcon @metropolconbrln

My minion @cstross is handling pens on My behalf

Heard the phrase "moral de-skilling" to describe what happens to people who use AI for decision making, and yeah, this sounds exactly right

A look at the globally averaged sea surface temperature over the last three months relative to each other March-April-May period since 1854. This warming trend has far-reaching impacts.

Data from NOAA ERSSTv5: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/extended-reconstructed-sst

My country is not completely destroyed, but it *is* deeply damaged, and the trajectory is bad.

Fuuuuuu I was wrong.
The SCOTUS decision was 5-4 upholding birthright citizenship. One vote away from making Trump a king who could unperson anyone he liked.

6-3 for birthright citizenship, honoring the plain language of the Constitution.

It's badly damaged, perhaps terminally, but there is still a Union.

Open season on trans children.

Money isn't just protected as speech, it's the only protected speech.

It's not going well.

Supreme Court saved gratuitous meanness to trans kids for the last day, presumably because they wanted to savor the cruelty.

BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS holds in West Virginia v. B. P. J. to ban trans kids in girls sports.

It's weird to just be waiting to find out how destroyed my country is on a scale of 1-6.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@distractal/116835742939276188

Somehow they're less charismatic than trump.

Also this is just dumb bullshit

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116832554693146959

*spit take*

I didn't add alt text. What would it say? Shouldn't someone be able to live their life without ever having to have that picture exist in their mind?

This belongs in the Louvre.

I’m optimistic that the bugs who inherit our ravaged planet will be fine

US becomes the first country in the world to host a team at the FIFA #WorldCup and bomb that team's country on the same day

How the FIFA Peace Prize has fallen

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/world-news-fqv71h77z/-/a-URKLA52WSO6Oz0Rmky3dsg%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0

Word make pretty noises, but they don't mean anything, you silly goose.