The travesty of an Oregonian article concealed that Willamette Week had actually broken the story thru the kind of hard, time-consuming, diligent legwork that reporters are supposed to do when uncovering the secrets of the powerful.
The O relied on Goldschmidt coming in to "confess" as a PR move.
The O relied on Goldschmidt coming in to "confess" as a PR move.
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The travesty of an Oregonian article concealed that Willamette Week had actually broken the story thru the kind of hard, time-consuming, diligent legwork that reporters are supposed to do when uncovering the secrets of the powerful.
The O relied on Goldschmidt coming in to "confess" as a PR move.
The O relied on Goldschmidt coming in to "confess" as a PR move.
Many ppl have said this in many diff ways, but this from Marissa MacWhirter may be the best, most succinct formulation.
The anti-trans line of attack allows men to dictate to women what feminism is, and who must be held accountable.
SPOILER: They won't hold accountable the men with power.
The anti-trans line of attack allows men to dictate to women what feminism is, and who must be held accountable.
SPOILER: They won't hold accountable the men with power.
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Many ppl have said this in many diff ways, but this from Marissa MacWhirter may be the best, most succinct formulation.
The anti-trans line of attack allows men to dictate to women what feminism is, and who must be held accountable.
SPOILER: They won't hold accountable the men with power.
The anti-trans line of attack allows men to dictate to women what feminism is, and who must be held accountable.
SPOILER: They won't hold accountable the men with power.
I don't know if this is accidental or genius from Marissa MacWhirter:
"It seems like a deliberate distraction to shift the focus away from the systemic mistreatment and abuse of women. All they have done is build trans people up as a STRAW MAN..."
(emphasis mine)
"It seems like a deliberate distraction to shift the focus away from the systemic mistreatment and abuse of women. All they have done is build trans people up as a STRAW MAN..."
(emphasis mine)
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I don't know if this is accidental or genius from Marissa MacWhirter:
"It seems like a deliberate distraction to shift the focus away from the systemic mistreatment and abuse of women. All they have done is build trans people up as a STRAW MAN..."
(emphasis mine)
"It seems like a deliberate distraction to shift the focus away from the systemic mistreatment and abuse of women. All they have done is build trans people up as a STRAW MAN..."
(emphasis mine)
Context for those who missed the sexiest military recruitment poster of World War 1:
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Context for those who missed the sexiest military recruitment poster of World War 1:
Since we're talking bout breast cancer, it's a good time to remind people what Cedars-Sinai says:
"It's a great opportunity to think about breasts and how they span the gender spectrum. When it comes to screening, we screen what you've got."
So think about breasts and get screened.
Also, too:
"It's a great opportunity to think about breasts and how they span the gender spectrum. When it comes to screening, we screen what you've got."
So think about breasts and get screened.
Also, too:
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Since we're talking bout breast cancer, it's a good time to remind people what Cedars-Sinai says:
"It's a great opportunity to think about breasts and how they span the gender spectrum. When it comes to screening, we screen what you've got."
So think about breasts and get screened.
Also, too:
"It's a great opportunity to think about breasts and how they span the gender spectrum. When it comes to screening, we screen what you've got."
So think about breasts and get screened.
Also, too:
Pamela Paul in the WSJ:
"For their part, trans advocates argue that trans women can also be lesbians and that it is lesbians who are being exclusionary."
WTF? No. Trans ppl are saying that lesbians, by and large, are incredibly supportive and that SOME JACKASSES are exclusionary.
"For their part, trans advocates argue that trans women can also be lesbians and that it is lesbians who are being exclusionary."
WTF? No. Trans ppl are saying that lesbians, by and large, are incredibly supportive and that SOME JACKASSES are exclusionary.
November 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Pamela Paul in the WSJ:
"For their part, trans advocates argue that trans women can also be lesbians and that it is lesbians who are being exclusionary."
WTF? No. Trans ppl are saying that lesbians, by and large, are incredibly supportive and that SOME JACKASSES are exclusionary.
"For their part, trans advocates argue that trans women can also be lesbians and that it is lesbians who are being exclusionary."
WTF? No. Trans ppl are saying that lesbians, by and large, are incredibly supportive and that SOME JACKASSES are exclusionary.
Max Tani in Harpers.
What is completely bonkers is that it is, in fact, the media's job to do exactly this. And they know it.
To take an extreme example, suppose the police provide a profile of a serial killer. Should the media say, "Bruce Jenkins fits the profile. The killer could be Bruce"?
What is completely bonkers is that it is, in fact, the media's job to do exactly this. And they know it.
To take an extreme example, suppose the police provide a profile of a serial killer. Should the media say, "Bruce Jenkins fits the profile. The killer could be Bruce"?
November 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Max Tani in Harpers.
What is completely bonkers is that it is, in fact, the media's job to do exactly this. And they know it.
To take an extreme example, suppose the police provide a profile of a serial killer. Should the media say, "Bruce Jenkins fits the profile. The killer could be Bruce"?
What is completely bonkers is that it is, in fact, the media's job to do exactly this. And they know it.
To take an extreme example, suppose the police provide a profile of a serial killer. Should the media say, "Bruce Jenkins fits the profile. The killer could be Bruce"?
@barackobama.bsky.social has a mostly positive message here. but I want to talk about where it falls down. Not to hate on Obama, but bc if we really want a big tent, if we really want everyone to vote together, we're going to have to do better.
Here's his post:
Here's his post:
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
@barackobama.bsky.social has a mostly positive message here. but I want to talk about where it falls down. Not to hate on Obama, but bc if we really want a big tent, if we really want everyone to vote together, we're going to have to do better.
Here's his post:
Here's his post:
We Portlanders have an infinite capacity for sadism and evil. Underestimate us at your peril.
October 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We Portlanders have an infinite capacity for sadism and evil. Underestimate us at your peril.
Now, now, @spindlypete.bsky.social , I'm no longer young enough to be called a "kid." The rest of it is probably fair, I guess.
Honestly this is the moment I've trained for. All of human civ rests on my skill with wordplay and what I've learned from Marcel Marceau about escaping invisible boxes.
Honestly this is the moment I've trained for. All of human civ rests on my skill with wordplay and what I've learned from Marcel Marceau about escaping invisible boxes.
September 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Now, now, @spindlypete.bsky.social , I'm no longer young enough to be called a "kid." The rest of it is probably fair, I guess.
Honestly this is the moment I've trained for. All of human civ rests on my skill with wordplay and what I've learned from Marcel Marceau about escaping invisible boxes.
Honestly this is the moment I've trained for. All of human civ rests on my skill with wordplay and what I've learned from Marcel Marceau about escaping invisible boxes.
Forgot to tap the sign, Nora:
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Forgot to tap the sign, Nora:
Preface to a thread:.
1. Voting 4 fascists is bad.
2. If you voted for fascists you should feel bad.
3. If they want to vote against Trump bc they feel hurt, that's not a change in fascism, that's a change in enemy.
4. It's not the job of the ppl the fascists hurt to heal the fascists' wounds.
1. Voting 4 fascists is bad.
2. If you voted for fascists you should feel bad.
3. If they want to vote against Trump bc they feel hurt, that's not a change in fascism, that's a change in enemy.
4. It's not the job of the ppl the fascists hurt to heal the fascists' wounds.
September 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Preface to a thread:.
1. Voting 4 fascists is bad.
2. If you voted for fascists you should feel bad.
3. If they want to vote against Trump bc they feel hurt, that's not a change in fascism, that's a change in enemy.
4. It's not the job of the ppl the fascists hurt to heal the fascists' wounds.
1. Voting 4 fascists is bad.
2. If you voted for fascists you should feel bad.
3. If they want to vote against Trump bc they feel hurt, that's not a change in fascism, that's a change in enemy.
4. It's not the job of the ppl the fascists hurt to heal the fascists' wounds.
"The real key to dominance in bitcoins trading is being a good trader"
I wouldn't mind Tautology Bot if it weren't for the tautologies.
I wouldn't mind Tautology Bot if it weren't for the tautologies.
September 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"The real key to dominance in bitcoins trading is being a good trader"
I wouldn't mind Tautology Bot if it weren't for the tautologies.
I wouldn't mind Tautology Bot if it weren't for the tautologies.
For the record, YouTube, you're not a community and I'm not in community with you. This isn't a favour to me. This is just corporate revenue maximization.
September 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
For the record, YouTube, you're not a community and I'm not in community with you. This isn't a favour to me. This is just corporate revenue maximization.
Love the sentiment & agree w almost all of the specific wording, but it's always weird to me, someone 50+ yrs old who has lived in the US 40+ of that, when ppl tell me hating minorities is un-American.
One hand wants to say, "I love you!" The other thinks we'll never solve anything w/o honesty.
One hand wants to say, "I love you!" The other thinks we'll never solve anything w/o honesty.
September 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Love the sentiment & agree w almost all of the specific wording, but it's always weird to me, someone 50+ yrs old who has lived in the US 40+ of that, when ppl tell me hating minorities is un-American.
One hand wants to say, "I love you!" The other thinks we'll never solve anything w/o honesty.
One hand wants to say, "I love you!" The other thinks we'll never solve anything w/o honesty.
Here's an AI summary that reads like it could have been printed in the NYTimes, and is STILL appalling. Which delightfully demonstrates what is so horrifying about the NYTimes:
September 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Here's an AI summary that reads like it could have been printed in the NYTimes, and is STILL appalling. Which delightfully demonstrates what is so horrifying about the NYTimes:
Love Moira, but I think it's important to note that this UNDERSELLS the prob.
I think ppl (not Moira, but maybe some readers) forget that "Trans Panic" has been used for decades to legalize anti-trans murder.
To say this is "going to be used" is true, but it's being used now & has been forever.
I think ppl (not Moira, but maybe some readers) forget that "Trans Panic" has been used for decades to legalize anti-trans murder.
To say this is "going to be used" is true, but it's being used now & has been forever.
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Love Moira, but I think it's important to note that this UNDERSELLS the prob.
I think ppl (not Moira, but maybe some readers) forget that "Trans Panic" has been used for decades to legalize anti-trans murder.
To say this is "going to be used" is true, but it's being used now & has been forever.
I think ppl (not Moira, but maybe some readers) forget that "Trans Panic" has been used for decades to legalize anti-trans murder.
To say this is "going to be used" is true, but it's being used now & has been forever.
The shooter was a young, white, nihilist edgelord memetroll performing for other terminally online nihilist trolls?
September 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The shooter was a young, white, nihilist edgelord memetroll performing for other terminally online nihilist trolls?
The whiplash of BlueSky in two posts:
September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The whiplash of BlueSky in two posts:
Thirdly, "the GOP is not a class of people," you say.
But the definition of "class" says that they are. They are a group that has membership in the Republican Party in common, and moreover, they are "regarded" as having other traits in common, a preference for conservatism for one.
But the definition of "class" says that they are. They are a group that has membership in the Republican Party in common, and moreover, they are "regarded" as having other traits in common, a preference for conservatism for one.
September 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Thirdly, "the GOP is not a class of people," you say.
But the definition of "class" says that they are. They are a group that has membership in the Republican Party in common, and moreover, they are "regarded" as having other traits in common, a preference for conservatism for one.
But the definition of "class" says that they are. They are a group that has membership in the Republican Party in common, and moreover, they are "regarded" as having other traits in common, a preference for conservatism for one.
September 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
2/3: Eric Blair, writing as George Orwell, described this type of thinking. He was not praising it.
The Democratic Party is not an anti-fascist party. It would be best to describe it as non-fascist, I should think. While some will point to fascistic statements others will point to Pritzker, et al.
The Democratic Party is not an anti-fascist party. It would be best to describe it as non-fascist, I should think. While some will point to fascistic statements others will point to Pritzker, et al.
September 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
2/3: Eric Blair, writing as George Orwell, described this type of thinking. He was not praising it.
The Democratic Party is not an anti-fascist party. It would be best to describe it as non-fascist, I should think. While some will point to fascistic statements others will point to Pritzker, et al.
The Democratic Party is not an anti-fascist party. It would be best to describe it as non-fascist, I should think. While some will point to fascistic statements others will point to Pritzker, et al.
Malcom Gladwell? Who?
Oh, yeah. That guy. Why would anyone care about that guy?
Oh, yeah. That guy. Why would anyone care about that guy?
September 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Malcom Gladwell? Who?
Oh, yeah. That guy. Why would anyone care about that guy?
Oh, yeah. That guy. Why would anyone care about that guy?