every accusation is a confession, part MDLVXIII.

it’s rather astonishing how a news event that to a first, second, and third approximation has nothing at all to do with trans people has nevertheless been dominated by controversializing about trans people.

@jorgeo.bsky.social great to see you!

totally a good idea to trust US tech cos with your confessions.

it’s remarkable how prominent Korean reporting of the experience of their workers in ICE detention is in my timeline here, while on my Twitter timeline it is completely eclipsed by US culture wars and Elon’s ragebaiting. i’m sorry if people are mean to you but i score this a big win for #blueskyism

political movements that center martyrdom tend not to be great political movements.

#twitterism

some of the most horrible ways to murder people are to starve them, or to take away their lifesaving medication abruptly, leaving no plausible path to find a replacement source in time.

one can just consistently disapprove of murder. one will find one has a great deal to disapprove of.

when a person tells you they are very confident—“100%”, “95% sure”—of a conclusion on a disputed matter about which they’ve no special information, the rational response is to downgrade your estimate of the reliability of the source, not upgrade your estimate of the reliability of the conclusion.

Trump doesn't understand that this guy he admires, this person Trump wants desperately to pretend is his friend, hopes with a burning passion to see the country Trump leads (and therefore Trump himself) in crisis and humiliated. Putin, very much like Trump, takes an interest in vengeance.

you don’t have representation in a world where you don’t meet with your representative. (most of us don’t have meaningful representation. this doesn’t help.)

i’m detecting a bit of blueskyism on this website.

i did not follow Charlie Kirk while he was alive, and the videos and excerpts i see are provided tendentiously to encourage me to take one polarized view or another about him. has anyone written a fair precis or profile (ideally before his murder rendered that a very difficult exercise)?

saturate the world with weapons. train thousands of kids to be snipers. some tiny fraction of those kids will predictably be deranged, murder public figures. ignore murders of public figures you dislike. when someone “on your side” is killed, it’s proof of “their” violence, why they must be crushed.

like subsidizing creative work with very long copyright terms.

if you advocate incivility civilly, do you get points for civility?

they’re just going to will him despite all evidence into the pretext they’ve been itching for.

pretty convenient how quickly The Left has forgotten sandwich guy.

“The politics of insurance, Rebecca Elliot has argued, is ultimately about ‘what is fair and valuable, what needs protecting and what should be let go, who deserves assistance and on what terms, and whose expectations of future losses are used to govern the present.’”