Rmcgrudiva
@rmcgrudiva.bsky.social
VOTER. Respect my existence or expect my resistance. Intrepid eater. All things sparkly, syllabic, tuneful, funny, and joyous. Pretty goddamn horrified. 🤘🏾
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
Love the implication that people were still exploited and worked beyond reasonable limits while using the Slop Machine 5000. Nothing ever gets better for workers, only for executives!! I love the future!!
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Love the implication that people were still exploited and worked beyond reasonable limits while using the Slop Machine 5000. Nothing ever gets better for workers, only for executives!! I love the future!!
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
It says a lot that AI “artists” are so creatively bankrupt they think writing prompts is a difficult, arduous task.
You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right?
It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.
You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right?
It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It says a lot that AI “artists” are so creatively bankrupt they think writing prompts is a difficult, arduous task.
You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right?
It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.
You realize coming up with a prompt is what a real artist would call “having an idea,” right?
It took them weeks of sleepless nights to have some basic thoughts.
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
Think they purposely did this near the defrib area
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Think they purposely did this near the defrib area
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
Only ten minutes into the new @ifbookspod.bsky.social and have laughed out loud several times already.
Spoiler alert: Elon Musk is a compulsive liar with a sketchy background.
podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/i...
Spoiler alert: Elon Musk is a compulsive liar with a sketchy background.
podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/i...
Elon Musk
Poddavsnitt · If Books Could Kill · 2025-12-09 · 1 tim 28 min
podcasts.apple.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Only ten minutes into the new @ifbookspod.bsky.social and have laughed out loud several times already.
Spoiler alert: Elon Musk is a compulsive liar with a sketchy background.
podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/i...
Spoiler alert: Elon Musk is a compulsive liar with a sketchy background.
podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/i...
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
“When they come to power for the second time, they feel more ruthless, and they behave as if there are no boundaries any more. I think especially in the leader’s head, that association of ‘me and the country’ [being] the same thing becomes very prominent.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“When they come to power for the second time, they feel more ruthless, and they behave as if there are no boundaries any more. I think especially in the leader’s head, that association of ‘me and the country’ [being] the same thing becomes very prominent.”
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
What if you were part of a country of 365 million people who paid taxes, unlike corporations, and you just gave those people healthcare instead of being a bunch of greedy warmongering bitches who stole all our fucking money and used it to buy bombs and fighter jets
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
What if you were part of a country of 365 million people who paid taxes, unlike corporations, and you just gave those people healthcare instead of being a bunch of greedy warmongering bitches who stole all our fucking money and used it to buy bombs and fighter jets
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
This is what an economy set up for extraction rather than for people looks like. What are the places and spaces that make for a #GoodLife? And how do we write rules that incentivize markets to create them, rather than extract from all of us? That's the work.
Corporations now own 1 in 11 residential parcels in urban areas—and more than 20% in some communities. That consolidation is leaving lower-income families at the mercy of absentee landlords with little stake in local well-being.
New from @annielowrey.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
New from @annielowrey.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
How Private Equity Is Changing Housing
In some communities, corporations control more than 20 percent of properties.
www.theatlantic.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is what an economy set up for extraction rather than for people looks like. What are the places and spaces that make for a #GoodLife? And how do we write rules that incentivize markets to create them, rather than extract from all of us? That's the work.
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments. n.pr/4a4N3zD
After NIH grant cuts, breast cancer research at Harvard slowed, and lab workers left
Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments.
n.pr
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments. n.pr/4a4N3zD
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
I don’t write the headlines but I do like this one (post-Slaughter argument roundtable for @nytimes.com with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I don’t write the headlines but I do like this one (post-Slaughter argument roundtable for @nytimes.com with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
would you like some underskin nerve rash
I had residual neuralgia for months afterward where I had a burning itch but it was all under the skin along my ribcage. got it during the summertime and those blisters I will never forget lol
people gotta talk about their shingles experiences. no one is going to enjoy this
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
would you like some underskin nerve rash
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
yup that’ll work
Shingles on my scalp turned into a skin infection so painful I went to the ER and they did a CAT scan and showed me my whole head was swelling up to fight the infection. They gave me such powerful antibiotics my gut wasn’t right for six months.
Am I doing this right PMEP?
Am I doing this right PMEP?
people gotta talk about their shingles experiences. no one is going to enjoy this
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
yup that’ll work
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
people gotta talk about their shingles experiences. no one is going to enjoy this
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
people gotta talk about their shingles experiences. no one is going to enjoy this
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
My grandmother got shingles in 1990. By the time she was finally prescribed steroids it was too late. They were permanent. She spent 10 years in constant excruciating pain. It destroyed her QoL entirely. My grandfather was destroyed by her care. He killed himself 2 wks after she died. Get the vax.
people gotta talk about their shingles experiences. no one is going to enjoy this
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My grandmother got shingles in 1990. By the time she was finally prescribed steroids it was too late. They were permanent. She spent 10 years in constant excruciating pain. It destroyed her QoL entirely. My grandfather was destroyed by her care. He killed himself 2 wks after she died. Get the vax.
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
Steve Stockman, the twice-over former congressman, convicted criminal, and proto-MAGA crank, has announced his newest comeback. Stockman, who represented Texas from 1995-1997 and 2013-2015, is seeking "re-election" in the new and dark red 9th District.
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Steve Stockman, the twice-over former congressman, convicted criminal, and proto-MAGA crank, has announced his newest comeback. Stockman, who represented Texas from 1995-1997 and 2013-2015, is seeking "re-election" in the new and dark red 9th District.
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
Anything Hanif offers is worth the price of admission
I had the good fortune of being in the room for this conversation between the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and my equally brilliant colleague Prof Matthew D. Morrison.
Could not recommend it more highly. Just a stunning conversation. Watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
Could not recommend it more highly. Just a stunning conversation. Watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
Hanif Abdurraqib at Stanford | On Art, Survival, and the Heart’s Work
YouTube video by Stanford Arts
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Anything Hanif offers is worth the price of admission
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
the fascion of the christ
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
the fascion of the christ
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
🎯 @monacharen.bsky.social on Bannon’s cozy relationship with Epstein: “Where is TP USA, the White House, Speaker Johnson? MAGA faithful who claim to believe in a conspiracy among elites to abuse kids? Where’s Bannon’s acknowledgment of wrongdoing? his shame?” www.thebulwark.com/p/steve-bann...
December 8, 2025 at 5:09 AM
🎯 @monacharen.bsky.social on Bannon’s cozy relationship with Epstein: “Where is TP USA, the White House, Speaker Johnson? MAGA faithful who claim to believe in a conspiracy among elites to abuse kids? Where’s Bannon’s acknowledgment of wrongdoing? his shame?” www.thebulwark.com/p/steve-bann...
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
marmaladebleue (IG) gives us a #CupOfJoe with some #ArtAsActivism.
“The American people deserve a reliable narrator, not some half baked press princess.”
“The American people deserve a reliable narrator, not some half baked press princess.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
marmaladebleue (IG) gives us a #CupOfJoe with some #ArtAsActivism.
“The American people deserve a reliable narrator, not some half baked press princess.”
“The American people deserve a reliable narrator, not some half baked press princess.”
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
Never forget that Trump called the troops who lost their lives that day, along with the veterans who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, "suckers & losers."
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Never forget that Trump called the troops who lost their lives that day, along with the veterans who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, "suckers & losers."
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Reposted by Rmcgrudiva
Hegseth’s own “fog of war” excuse fully contradicts this new excuse, which they have clearly just come up with to try to keep him out of the Hague
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Hegseth’s own “fog of war” excuse fully contradicts this new excuse, which they have clearly just come up with to try to keep him out of the Hague