Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 04/05/2026"Humans are naturally selfish" - some right winger trying to justify capitalism, when talking about the most cooperative mammal to ever exist, by far. 17743204
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialPBS News @pbsnews.org · 03/05/2026Artificial intelligence-generated content is everywhere these days, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, particularly when it comes to breaking news. Here are some tips for distinguishing AI-generated content from reality. to.pbs.org/47FCvVPpbs.orgTripped up by misinformation? Here's a refresher on identifying AIHere are some tips for distinguishing AI-generated content from reality in an online world where that continues to get harder. 119680
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/03/2026National Review accuses me of lying about the rise in maternal mortality since the end of Roe: "It turns out that maternal mortality rates declined in 2024 according to the CDC." You absolute fucking tools, that's *national data*—take a look at what's happening in states where abortion is banned 221916474
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialZito @zeets.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Genuinely have no faith in this country nor do I care for any opinion from American journalists and a lot of dickheads online who love posturing to be be moral and liberal when it comes to Trump, because I’ve seen them accept and support Israel’s mission to erase and dehumanize a people. 07310
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialThe Verge @theverge.com · 20/01/2026We’ve decided to make this story free for all readers, forever. We hope you’ll support this reporting by sharing it. 121305803
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialRyan Rosenblatt @ryanrosenblatt.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Not only should the US not be allowed to host the World Cup - we shouldn’t be allowed to compete in it. We should be banned from international competition. 4378
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 03/01/2026the american century of humiliation 339040
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 11/09/2025The right wing is really struggle to understand why more people want to kill guys whose ideology is "we need a race war to purge the country" than guys whose ideology is "we should have free healthcare". 931759
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialJerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11. 1101633355
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data. 15896658614554
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialAnna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake 504437549481
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 21/05/2025In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings. 1029585
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I took the trouble to correct (some of) Stephen Miller's errors. 32513168
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 15/04/2025“Just calm down and let people enjoy chatgpt.” Sorry, no. I find it creepy that folks are treating a machine that mimics human speech as their friend / therapist. It is feeding you lies. It is destroying your thinking abilities. Shut it off. Talk to other humans. Go outside. 139106193517
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 06/04/2025You know, all they really need to do is start listing the tariff on products and making people pay it separately like sales tax, and they'd be gone in a day. Ideally they'd wait until you got the register to tack it on too, just to really rub it in. 1266099
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialRick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Do not look away. 441189570
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialKim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Rubin said last week there was little resistance when press rights began to disappear in Russia. “We did not resist for the small things." Everyone was waiting for the worst to occur before resisting, but when it finally did they had already lost ability to resist 17985444
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22/03/2025If you've never heard Marcy pull together all the threads about the fuckery behind the dossier, it's well worth your time.youtube.comThe Dossier That Broke Us | How Disinformation Kneecapped the Russia Investigation | Ball of ThreadYouTube video by L O L G O P 325070
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Teen Vogue: remains braver than almost any other news outlet at this time.teenvogue.comVivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans YouthElon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own. 155136312709
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 18/03/2025When you read this it becomes apparent that Elon Musk is a showman, nothing more. He's not an engineer. The whole thing is an act.planetearthandbeyond.coStarship Was Doomed From The BeginningThe fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome. 791554580
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Alternatively, fascism was the logical endpoint for a political party which decided years ago that appealing to racists and homophobes was beneficial to its political project of funneling money to powerful corporate interests and disempowering labor. …and those who called them fascists were right. 21613128
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 15/03/2025Aristotle was actually right, there is such a thing as "natural slaves". Today we call them "conservatives", and they will do anything they can to turn themselves into docile servants to anyone with wealth and power. 1143584
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialSean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 12/03/2025It’s only “authoritarian censorship of free speech” if it’s from the Algorithmic region of Facebook. Otherwise it’s merely a “purging of the lexicon” 17217
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Reading about the insane numbers of books that ordinary working people used to read a hundred years ago feels like seeing pictures of the Pacific Ocean back when it teemed with whales. Hard to comprehend what we’ve lost. 1043967529
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 09/03/2025Not sure I've ever seen a more obvious picture to remind us that police exist to protect the property of the ruling class, not the rights of the people. 6347661871
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Not very long ago we believed we were the smartest generation in history, and it feels like overnight we just accepted that people are getting dumber and there’s nothing we can do about it. But it doesn’t have to be like this. We have to return reading to the center of culture. 317520
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 04/03/2025We went from “what good are the humanities?” to “suddenly, no one can read” in about a year, and the answer to the first question is the disinformation and lack of critical thinking you see all around you. *That* is why you need the humanities. This is what they prevent. 4453134
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The overall ethos of Silicon Valley has become anti-human, I fear. There’s a character in Brave New World who raves ecstatically about how people have been freed from the burden of having to create. These tech boosters don’t read, so they can’t see the parallels. 115212
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 26/02/2025“With AI you never have to draw, paint or write again!” Why does that prospect excite you? We were put on this earth to think and create. Some people are so eager to be liberated from joy. 12671220
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 20/02/2025Nihilism: nothing matters Absurdism: nothing matters, but in a cool way. Existentialism: freely choose among all the various things that don't matter! 1031953
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 17/02/2025It’s crazy in retrospect how confident and hopeful my generation (millennials) were fifteen years ago. We were making ground-breaking music. We were going to end racism forever. The internet was making everyone kinder and smarter. We had such dreams of a better world. 845359
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 15/02/2025What makes it worse is that our tech overlords are now coming for the last vestiges of the good internet. The Internet Archive has been gutted. They are trying to dismantle Wikipedia. What was once a repository of knowledge has become a conduit of disinformation and distraction. 415521
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I can’t stress enough how much AI is ruining the internet. Pinterest is un-usable, Google image searches are overrun with misleading slop. It’s estimated that there are now more bots on the web than there are people. We have seen a wonderful thing destroyed in our lifetimes. 1143774
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialDr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Democracy dies in darkness. christinapagel.substack.com/p/so-this-is...christinapagel.substack.com"So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeksWhere I categorise 69 Trump administration actions from the last 3 weeks and show how they align with the authoritarian playbook 12344150
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 06/02/2025None of us are free until all of us are free. If trans people aren’t safe, neither am I. I know who these people are because they are who they have always been. 162187629
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialTuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Imagine designing a post-War international system that stacked the deck in your favor, becoming the richest country in the world and then deciding to blow it up. 1126653
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialKarly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Someone finally put it into words 511307462
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 03/02/2025Resident Philosopher for AI Ethics existentialcomics.com/comic/588 23459140
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country 220912614324430
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025the unitary executive principle allows for people to act within government as informal agents of the executive with no formal role in government it's a big hole in our constitutional apparatus created by the conservative legal movement and there's a ketamine addict driving a bulldozer through it 27413
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialPaul @paulrenner.bsky.social · 28/01/2025A letter from Charles Schulz to a young person who asked him what it means to be a good citizen. 210644
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors 424120693441
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 19/01/2025the internet was better when it was on a computer in your house and didn't consume our whole lives. time passed more slowly before there were endless distractions. you had space to read, space to think, space to grow bored and create something. 838255
Reposted by @danieljali.bsky.socialFlaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 17/12/2024TODAY: @zeets.bsky.social considers the death of Brian Thompson against the backdrop of a violent country. "Modern life in the U.S. means closeness to death and violence everywhere you go." flaminghydra.com/r/6071c20e?m...flaminghydra.comUnequal sympathies / Daily delightsZito Madu has questions about the decline of civilization, and Jennie Rose Halperin makes space for pleasures 26320
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![A Stephen Miller Tweet I've annotated. *s mark my deletions, []s mark my additions.
100 Days of unparalleled success. 100 days of *fearless leadership* [Vladimir Putin's cuck]. 100 days of *defeating communism* [destroying US jobs] and *corruption* [crypto bribery]. 100 days of dismantling woke, CRT, DEI, racist equity and transgender madness. 100 days of restoring sanity and *merit* hiring unqualified Fox News hosts]. 100 days of sealing the border shut. 100 days of sending illegal aliens *home* [to Nayib Bukele's concentration camp]. 100 days of *fighting violent crime* [freeing cop assailants]. 100 days of making America safe. 100 days of lowering inflation and *unleashing domestic energy* [shutting down cheap renewable energy]. 100 days of *accountability* [Signal app excuses] and *transparency* [eliminating valuable govt data]. 100 days of *restoring military might* [building the SecDef a makeup room]. 100 days of reforming the bureaucracy and draining the Washington swamp. 100 days of *slashing government fraud* [fraudulent DOGE claims], graft and waste. 100 days of determination and strength. 100 days of bringing our industries back to our shores. 100 days of putting America First. 100 days of the new Golden Age [because investors are fleeing US Treasuries].
The single best and boldest 100 days of a new presidential term in America History.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreicamuzp6kfsjigtj6hhg2cnuav36az3jpltwcwnrpqp2ovvx3f3je)
