Thorne 🌸

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

I weighed about 240 lbs this time last year and about 180 lbs now

A quarter of me is gone

Went to go see Project Hail Mary. Wow. Just wow. I laughed a lot. I teared up a lot. A film that is both powerful and uplifting while also being fun and exciting. Interstellar with a sense of humor. An instant sci-fi classic.

I saw a Cybertruck with a very well done custom paint job in purple, my favorite color.

That thing still looked like ass.

I have immense respect for indigenous cultures. However, it is deeply impractical to feed 8+ billion people sustainably and reliably without high-tech industrial agriculture.

Ultimately, this is just reactionary, conservative pastoralism wrapped in leftist framing.

Never expected this to become literally true

you don't have to like it, but this is what peak progressivism looks like

the left will go so much farther if it embraces patriotism and joy as a rallying cry to aspire for the country to be better

It's absurd how much people take modern medicine for granted

For much of human history, cancer was largely just a death sentence.

By the 1970s, overall, it was about a coinflip, roughly 50/50 chance of surviving it.

Now, about 80% of people who get cancer survive at least 5 years. That's amazing!

I need to get up, but one of my cats has tucked herself super adorably in the crook of my elbow, so I guess I'm stuck here

Trump is the ultimate display of why populism doesn't work. You need leaders who know what the fuck they're doing.

The Trump administration is evil too, of course. But it's stunning how deeply incompetent they are and yet rule the most powerful country in the world.

QED

I'm literally a trans woman sexual assault survivor

what the actual fuck is going on over at xAI?!

Time is a flat circle

The DoD refused to pay for lodging expenses for the national guard, and this is the result

We could save soooo many lives but people are so caught up in their reactionary moral panic nonsense

one of the least sympathetic microgenres of post is, "I financed an extremely expensive truck at fairly normal APRs and am paying HOW MUCH in interest?!"

my uncle is broke as shit in his 60s in large part from making this exact sort of decision multiple times

YIMBYism in blue states is inherently pro-trans because it makes it more practical for trans people fleeing Draconian laws in red states to move there

lmao

People hate Will Stancil because, despite being a lib, he’s done more direct action against fascism than 99% of leftist posters on this site, which makes people feel insecure about not doing enough

Trump: so if I recite this 'shahada' and implement a bunch of social programs, I get into heaven?

Mamdani: that's right, Mr. President

Trump: and when do I get one of those cool rugs? I always thought those looked neat. like rolling out a little red carpet for yourself every few hours

to put it in the gentlest possible terms, this is not someone whose financial safety advice you should be taking, even if she may genuinely have the best of intentions

Short write-up about how I got xAI to briefly add "white genocide" stuff back into Grok's system prompt.
smol.news/p/the-utter-...

The Utter Flimsiness of xAI’s Processes

xAI's was happy to put "white genocide" stuff back into Grok's system prompt without second thought.

So there were concerns about the fact that the Trump White House was spending unprecedented sums on prescription medications, so redacted White House pharmacy records were released, and just... holy fucking shit