Joseph Rooks
@josephrooks.com
Ruthless optimist. Former comms #1 at Ultra Safe Nuclear, regrettably.
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the mcbride letter got nearly all dems on the record against misgendering trans people and putting us forcibly into camps and will also force johnson to come out as ok with discriminating against our population. sunlight
There's a lot I don't understand about this.
On the one hand, it feels very good to get Dems to publicly denounce anti-trans hatred after so much of the party had been cowed into silence about trans rights.
On the other, this letter has no practical effect. GOP will continue to cruelly misgender.
On the one hand, it feels very good to get Dems to publicly denounce anti-trans hatred after so much of the party had been cowed into silence about trans rights.
On the other, this letter has no practical effect. GOP will continue to cruelly misgender.
November 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
the mcbride letter got nearly all dems on the record against misgendering trans people and putting us forcibly into camps and will also force johnson to come out as ok with discriminating against our population. sunlight
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your movement has to be like 8 levels removed from reality to think that some of the starving kids in gaza also having serious medical conditions makes Israel look better. it's completely insane. they just think because it's an additional fact it's somehow exonerating.
Jewish Federations applauds Olivia Reingold, a staff writer at Bari Weiss's Free Press, as she victory laps her (ghoulish and erroneous) reporting that some of the children Israel was starving to death and denying medical aid to in Gaza had pre-existing conditions.
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
your movement has to be like 8 levels removed from reality to think that some of the starving kids in gaza also having serious medical conditions makes Israel look better. it's completely insane. they just think because it's an additional fact it's somehow exonerating.
Damn I guess the CEO of a certain former employer of mine stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.K. government wasn't the most compelling argument that they could do it huh
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Damn I guess the CEO of a certain former employer of mine stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.K. government wasn't the most compelling argument that they could do it huh
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I remember those days and when the web came around it was my naive belief that the fast information system would be used to shame evildoers into inaction. Instead it has only seemed to embolden them into publicizing their evil and grooming communities into cheering for more.
It's my understanding that before the internet, many people could perhaps go days or even weeks without being apprised of what the worst men in the world were doing — let alone thinking — just living their lives concerned mostly with local events.
I envy that prelapsarian condition.
I envy that prelapsarian condition.
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I remember those days and when the web came around it was my naive belief that the fast information system would be used to shame evildoers into inaction. Instead it has only seemed to embolden them into publicizing their evil and grooming communities into cheering for more.
"Got turned down on a piece about the Gestapo in Amsterdam for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess."
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Got turned down on a piece about the Gestapo in Amsterdam for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess."
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who knew that playing NES games and learning to jump from bubble to exploding bubble would have prepared me for the US economy lol
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
who knew that playing NES games and learning to jump from bubble to exploding bubble would have prepared me for the US economy lol
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"Labor is going to be valueless"
- bro who would have absolutely no practical skills or value and be the purest of dead weight in an actual crisis
- bro who would have absolutely no practical skills or value and be the purest of dead weight in an actual crisis
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"Labor is going to be valueless"
- bro who would have absolutely no practical skills or value and be the purest of dead weight in an actual crisis
- bro who would have absolutely no practical skills or value and be the purest of dead weight in an actual crisis
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Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more
The idea that individuals will have any leverage whatsoever to "negotiate" with health care companies is laughably stupid and I can't wait to meet someone who actually believes this so I can tell them so.
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The idea that individuals will have any leverage whatsoever to "negotiate" with health care companies is laughably stupid and I can't wait to meet someone who actually believes this so I can tell them so.
It's fine. They'll just not buy healthcare and then die. Then you won't hear them complaining. Survivorship bias!
Trump: I will personally send you a check for $2000!
Idiots: 🎉
Insurance premiums: go up $4000
Idiots: 🎉
Insurance premiums: go up $4000
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
It's fine. They'll just not buy healthcare and then die. Then you won't hear them complaining. Survivorship bias!
As an entrepreneur, this is one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard in my fucking life.
I don’t want to post a ton of identical looking screenshots and this isn’t worth it’s own thread but
Gosh yay everyone’s an entrepreneur of their own health care lucky us
Gosh yay everyone’s an entrepreneur of their own health care lucky us
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
As an entrepreneur, this is one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard in my fucking life.
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Don't Build the Torment Nexus! zine — MULE BOOKS
It’s a wee 3×5 zine with an essay inside and some fun collages. You want it. You want more than one, that’s why there’s also a 10-pack available.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My favorite comment on the FT story
Damn it's pretty crazy that nobody wants to play in Trump's sandbox unless he's allowed to put a gun to their heads
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Damn it's pretty crazy that nobody wants to play in Trump's sandbox unless he's allowed to put a gun to their heads
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I use this panel in talks a lot.
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I use this panel in talks a lot.
It’s honestly never been a better time to be the last living member of my family.
My mom gave the eulogy at my grandma's burial today and used ChatGPT to write it. I can't stop thinking about it. Thinking with my human brain that I use for processing feelings. It made me so sad and mad and disgusted.
October 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
It’s honestly never been a better time to be the last living member of my family.
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My mom gave the eulogy at my grandma's burial today and used ChatGPT to write it. I can't stop thinking about it. Thinking with my human brain that I use for processing feelings. It made me so sad and mad and disgusted.
October 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
My mom gave the eulogy at my grandma's burial today and used ChatGPT to write it. I can't stop thinking about it. Thinking with my human brain that I use for processing feelings. It made me so sad and mad and disgusted.
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@swilua.bsky.social Tells her students "I'm not gonna be checking for AI use, if you use it you're going to get an F anyway because AI sucks"
October 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
@swilua.bsky.social Tells her students "I'm not gonna be checking for AI use, if you use it you're going to get an F anyway because AI sucks"
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Ah, yes. Music products. I think everyone can relate to that feeling of driving down the road, windows down, listening to music product.
Spotify to Develop AI Music Products in Partnership With Major Record Labels
UMG, Sony, WMG, Merlin and Believe have all signed on to the endeavor, with Spotify touting artist-friendly policies: "If the music industry doesn’t lead in this moment, AI-powered innovation will hap...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Ah, yes. Music products. I think everyone can relate to that feeling of driving down the road, windows down, listening to music product.
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Torba is a piece of shit, but this idea that men talk like racist assholes by default and it’s somehow anti-masculine to criticize it is fucking untrue and men should push back against it. No, “male communication” is not racist and sexist and hateful when the conversation is being had by good men.
No, this is how Nazis talk in their own spaces. I don’t know abut this dude, but I never talked about gassing people and raping women when I was hanging out with my pals.
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Torba is a piece of shit, but this idea that men talk like racist assholes by default and it’s somehow anti-masculine to criticize it is fucking untrue and men should push back against it. No, “male communication” is not racist and sexist and hateful when the conversation is being had by good men.
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"This had less to do with tariffs in a practical way, and more the decision that the uncertainty in the US market, for the foreseeable future, will be chaotic enough that the work of planning for a series of ‘worst case scenarios’ outweighs the existing business."
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Bohnanza, 6 Nimmt publisher Amigo Spiele shutters US operation after eight years, saying tariff uncertainty was the ‘final impetus’ -
The decision comes despite Amigo Games being one of the few hobby board game publishers that managed to diversify some of its manufacturing away from China - the country which has been hit the heavies...
boardgamewire.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"This had less to do with tariffs in a practical way, and more the decision that the uncertainty in the US market, for the foreseeable future, will be chaotic enough that the work of planning for a series of ‘worst case scenarios’ outweighs the existing business."
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
