One of the most painful things to watch is people on the left coming up with social justicey reasons why fast fashion is fine, actually. Like that poor/disabled people need to have access to 45 new outfits a month and nothing consumers do matters because "no ethical consumption under capitalism".

Hmmmm. feel like batter viscosity and size are correlated in ways that make this an unreliable testbed for full-size pancakes. how do you intend to scale up following initial screening?

The religion of the Christian ministers who are being pepper sprayed and slammed to the ground for protesting the kidnapping and torture of migrants is no less "real" than JD Vance's tradcath conversion. I'd very strongly argue that it's more real, in fact; it is more moral and more deeply rooted.

and Luke is also played as being checked out due to depression, but his depiction is such a contrast -- he gets an adventure out of it with a probably-hot lady!

I was resigned to the likelihood and perfectly prepared to take him out with the trash. But I'm happy he's not! It's great for there to be one fewer pedophile in the world than I expected!

also I think it’s good actually that Bluesky isn’t really treating celebrities or high profile people differently from anyone else with regards to moderation, even if you don’t agree with those decisions

Please also remember that when a T&S team is extremely overworked and under-resourced, a massive write-in protest based on that one-sided presentation of the facts will do absolutely nothing but slow down the work even further, because now there's an extra 20,000 emails they have to weed out.

We are going Super Social Justice Blue Hair and Pronouns. We are calling things "gay" and "queer" as compliments and honorifics. We are proudly being buzzkills and harpies and feminine and vegan and giving a sincere fucking shit about the environment and climate and well-being of the community.

i did't rejoin the church the church rejoined me

What he did with Lewinsky was very gross (on his end!) and bad but she could have walked into a bar and bought herself an alcoholic drink at the time