Highest praises to her autobiography, absolute must read. Rest in power Assata ✊🏾

I think they’re alluding to the idea that xi’s picture with the uyghurs is a fabrication, like the blonde lady is a paid extra to make putin appear friendlier to women or something

I’m not certain the first is the same as the others either… they just cherry picked images that had a blonde middle aged slavic woman standing in putin’s vicinity

If he’s within physical jurisdiction and Mamdani directs the NYPD to honor the ICC arrest warrant… I don’t have the legal credentials to say whether or not that would fly

That said, hasn’t Mamdani promised to arrest Netanjahu if he wins the Mayoral race?

You could have just said that, it was more your language than anything.

Some kids genuinely need it until they’ve formed the ability to self-regulate. My little brother wouldn’t have been allowed to stay at school if he’d been unmedicated. Impulsive, distracted, having meltdowns where he’d literally bang his head against hard tile floors, generally making his teacher’s job impossible and alienating him from the other kids. At age 10 him and my mom are giving it a shot without meds. Hard to say if it changed him in any way other than giving him the space to develop the tools he needed to take on school like the other kids in his class.

I don’t know your cousin, but I do know most parents don’t go around getting their young children diagnosed with learning disabilies just for the fun of it.

First, Adderall isn’t meth. Stop calling it that.

Second, if you don’t have ADHD then this doesn’t apply to you. Misdiagnosis does happen, and I’m sorry you had to live through that in order to realize you were misdiagnosed.

I’m glad you’re doing better and found a way to manage your mental health that works for you. Please don’t use your experience to erase ours.

For anyone else reading,

Everyone reacts to medications differently, especially when it comes to brain chemistry. There are a number of treatment options for ADHD besides Adderall. Other stimulants, non-stimulants, even non-medication options like behavioral therapy and exercise. Most people will mix and match to eventually figure out what works for them specifically.

Adderall didn’t work for me either, and I spent a long time trying to make it work before I switched to a non-stimulant that was great, until it eventually stopped having any effect on me aside from intense nausea. After losing my job, I went off meds entirely; it was too much hassle to get on another controlled substance, and what was the point anyways if I wasn’t working.

Long story short, I’m working again and taking a different stimulant now that I pretty much owe my life to. Trying to keep up with basic life stuff; not just work but chores, bills, projects, getting up in the morning, etc; is hard enough for me even on medication. Doing it with only talk therapy as treatment was a living nightmare, like seriously put me in a dark place.

Also lumping in deaths from Israeli bombs in that figure (re: Hannibal directive)

As long as you use 90% iso and leave it unplugged for a few hours (which might honestly be overkill if you’re conservative with the iso) you don’t have to worry about damaging the electronics.

They accuse you of their bogeyman trigger words whether or not you advertise it or are even actually doing the bogeyman thing in the first place. I fail to see how this would address that. The words need to be rehabilitated, not avoided, so they lose the knee jerk reaction that the right wing counts on.

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My take on it is that it’s just a tool, and as with most tools you can use it in a sensible way that’s positive, although many people choose not to.

I mean sure a screwdriver is “just a tool”, and you can use a screwdriver to pick ice; but it’s not the most efficient tool for the job. It was designed for something else entirely, which makes it awkward and finicky to use as an ice pick. This is why so many people use screwdrivers for their intended purpose, rather than manipulating them to fit into a different workflow.

(The intended purpose here is disrupting creative professions, making creative labor cheaper and more efficient in order to maximize capitalists’ profit from it. Not to make artists’ lives easier or increase their effectiveness as laborers and business owners, although yes it can be used that way and, yes, that is arguably a limited side effect of the original intention.)

This isn’t a concept vehicle, it’s the Cadillac Celestiq. Got to test drive one once; feels great, handles great. Emphasis on “rich” Shadowrun villain though. Lucky for you, if you have a spare 350K lying around, it can be yours today!

(obligatory fuck GM, they as a company are personally responsible for this car-dependent hellscape we live in, for the destruction of many communities, and of course they are happy to provide luxury vehicles for the wealthy to navigate it as painlessly as possible. This is not an ad and my knowledge of this vehicle was acquired involuntarily. The least I could get out of it was a turn at the wheel.)

Also, consider this an official petition to bring back (affordable) station wagons (yes, that is what this is) in the EV age instead of bending over backwards to get any sort of useful range out of trucks (including the ones masquerading as SUVs.)

Musk got involved

Most pickups are far larger than their use cases call for

Maybe post it wherever you’re going to post it with the first line as the title? Wouldn’t want anyone to seek out the original tweet and bring traffic to this guy’s ableism, best to pretend it doesn’t exist.

Edit: or do that thing that meme reposters do and just put the text over a white background with the original tweet (see below for an example)

“The Department’s seizure of 32 internet domains secretly deployed to spread foreign malign influence demonstrates once again that Russia remains a predominant foreign threat to our elections,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. “At Putin’s direction, Russian companies SDA, Structura, and ANO Dialog used cybersquatting, fabricated influencers, and fake profiles to covertly promote AI-generated false narratives on social media. Those narratives targeted specific American demographics and regions in a calculated effort to subvert our election. Our republic depends on elections that are free from foreign interference, and we will not rest in our efforts to expose foreign malign influence operations and protect our democracy, without fear or favor.”

The propaganda did not identify, and in fact purposefully obfuscated, the Russian government or its agents as the source of the content. The perpetrators extensively utilized “cybersquatted” domains, a method of registering a domain intended to mimic another person or company’s website (e.g., registering washingtonpost.pm to mimic washingtonpost.com), to publish Russian government messaging falsely presented as content from legitimate news media organizations. In other instances, the perpetrators sought to create their own unique media brands to promote Doppelganger content (e.g., Recent Reliable News). Among the methods Doppelganger used to drive viewership to the cybersquatted and unique media domains was the deployment of “influencers” worldwide, paid social media advertisements (in some cases created using artificial intelligence tools), and the creation of social media profiles posing as U.S. (or other non-Russian) citizens to post comments on social media platforms with links to the cybersquatted domains, all of which attempted to trick viewers into believing they were being directed to a legitimate news media outlet’s website.

As far as I can tell this has diddly squat to do with Kirk? He’s been around long enough that I’m gonna need you to clear a pretty high bar of evidence to call him an entirely Russian fabrication (in fact this would suggest that he is entirely AI generated).

Another thing, why would you absolve American media organizations of their interests in a guy like Kirk? Like you said, our media has parroted the types of things that Kirk did since long before the internet age, but there’s a good number of folks like him in the modern day. Are you saying they are all built from the ground up by russian crypto? Are we ignoring the interests of American corporations, billionaires, religious zealots, and their related super PACs in election meddling and dark money?