JL
@jlwastooshort.bsky.social
Doggo. He/him. Religious, but not the sort you're probably thinking of. Not the other sort either. On the side of non-evil people everywhere.
Alt where fewer of my posts will be angry about politics and society: @jlwastoopolitical.bsky.social
Alt where fewer of my posts will be angry about politics and society: @jlwastoopolitical.bsky.social
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"I didn't vote for this," say the people who voted for this.
"Acceptable collateral damage in the Revolution," say the people who claimed to be too "pure" to vote for a Black woman.
"Acceptable collateral damage in the Revolution," say the people who claimed to be too "pure" to vote for a Black woman.
Unlike most vaccine-preventable diseases, hepatitis B is asymptomatic and spreads silently until infected people develop liver cancer or cirrhosis in their midlife. It’s one of the cancers with the highest mortality in the U.S with a 6 month life expectancy.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
CDC committee drops hep B vaccine for all newborns over objections from health officials
A CDC advisory panel voted Friday to stop recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, potentially putting the preventative measure out of reach for millions of poor families.
www.latimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
"I didn't vote for this," say the people who voted for this.
"Acceptable collateral damage in the Revolution," say the people who claimed to be too "pure" to vote for a Black woman.
"Acceptable collateral damage in the Revolution," say the people who claimed to be too "pure" to vote for a Black woman.
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Just because I don’t want you to touch the hot stove, because I don’t want anyone to, doesn’t mean I don’t think you kind of deserve what you get if I warn you “don’t touch that, it’s hot” and you call me a genocide loving shitlib and do it anyway.
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Just because I don’t want you to touch the hot stove, because I don’t want anyone to, doesn’t mean I don’t think you kind of deserve what you get if I warn you “don’t touch that, it’s hot” and you call me a genocide loving shitlib and do it anyway.
the thing is that nascar drivers, for instance, try to wring every tiny little edge out of their cars and I think most of them could avoid being taken by a suggestion that they remove their car's engine and replace it with a power plant based on pyramid energy
the unfortunate thing about professional athletes is that they have spent their lives trying to wring every tiny little edge out of their bodies and this makes them extremely susceptible to medical quackery, which is currently having a renaissance
I don't even know how to joke about this
December 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
the thing is that nascar drivers, for instance, try to wring every tiny little edge out of their cars and I think most of them could avoid being taken by a suggestion that they remove their car's engine and replace it with a power plant based on pyramid energy
Looking at this up close it seems like some sort of illusion or failure of perspective, like the left side of his face is being seen at a slightly different angle to the right
I could easily withstand the power of the Dark Crystal, I would simply not allow it to drain my living essence
*looks at the Dark Crystal one time*
*looks at the Dark Crystal one time*
December 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Looking at this up close it seems like some sort of illusion or failure of perspective, like the left side of his face is being seen at a slightly different angle to the right
I can muster up contempt as well as the next person, I daresay better than many, but I find it hard to really perceive/articulate what I intuit must be the degree of wrongness of these people, if that makes any sense?
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I can muster up contempt as well as the next person, I daresay better than many, but I find it hard to really perceive/articulate what I intuit must be the degree of wrongness of these people, if that makes any sense?
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THESE PEOPLE ARE FILTH
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
THESE PEOPLE ARE FILTH
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every time I think about the Trump administration, my only reaction is rage and desire for justice against the leaders of this despicable movement
a house held by the democratic party may not be able to legally order people to go to prison, but they can sure run wall to wall hearings every day of 2027 demonstrating why these people *should* go to prison
December 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
every time I think about the Trump administration, my only reaction is rage and desire for justice against the leaders of this despicable movement
I'm well aware that intellectual consistency has never been a thing that most human beings were putting a lot of stat points in, but it really does feel like this is one facet of the overall epistemic collapse project we've got going on, or at least adjacent/a symptom thereof
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I'm well aware that intellectual consistency has never been a thing that most human beings were putting a lot of stat points in, but it really does feel like this is one facet of the overall epistemic collapse project we've got going on, or at least adjacent/a symptom thereof
somehow david hogg got my email and I am not sure I have hit report spam more emphatically at any point in the past half-decade
December 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
somehow david hogg got my email and I am not sure I have hit report spam more emphatically at any point in the past half-decade
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just an fyi if you use ai i'm better than you and i think less of you <3
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
just an fyi if you use ai i'm better than you and i think less of you <3
individual Somali immigrants who voted for Trump should burn in the same furnace of Hell as the whitest-ass coal miner out of West Virginia, no one should deny that, but I think it's incumbent on someone making that point to be clear about it, and this post is derelict in that duty, imo
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
individual Somali immigrants who voted for Trump should burn in the same furnace of Hell as the whitest-ass coal miner out of West Virginia, no one should deny that, but I think it's incumbent on someone making that point to be clear about it, and this post is derelict in that duty, imo
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I will take David Hogg seriously when he shows more anger at Republicans than Democrats.
At WIRED’s Big Interview event, the activist and organizer said he doesn’t “think the Chuck Schumers of the world understand” what’s coming for the party. www.wired.com/story/big-in...
David Hogg to Democratic Establishment: Get the Message or Get Voted Out
At WIRED’s Big Interview event, the activist and organizer said he doesn’t “think the Chuck Schumers of the world understand” what’s coming for the party.
www.wired.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I will take David Hogg seriously when he shows more anger at Republicans than Democrats.
this from the article is an interesting counter to the oft-made complaint (which I don't philosophically disagree with entirely; see below) that Democrats who talk about economic issues are monsters for not bemoaning the much more morally abhorrent boat strikes, ICE raids, DOGE deaths, etc.
December 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
this from the article is an interesting counter to the oft-made complaint (which I don't philosophically disagree with entirely; see below) that Democrats who talk about economic issues are monsters for not bemoaning the much more morally abhorrent boat strikes, ICE raids, DOGE deaths, etc.
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My extremely lukewarm take is that the Avatar films are likely perfectly fine and they are exceedingly good examples of the use of technology, I have no desire or motivation to watch them
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
My extremely lukewarm take is that the Avatar films are likely perfectly fine and they are exceedingly good examples of the use of technology, I have no desire or motivation to watch them
I see defenses of genAI use, by people who ostensibly realize genAI itself is bad, in the form of "well it's really tempting if you're in such-and-such situation"
and increasingly I'm like... yeah, it's good at offering you what you want! that's how it reveals character! literally storybook stuff!
and increasingly I'm like... yeah, it's good at offering you what you want! that's how it reveals character! literally storybook stuff!
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I see defenses of genAI use, by people who ostensibly realize genAI itself is bad, in the form of "well it's really tempting if you're in such-and-such situation"
and increasingly I'm like... yeah, it's good at offering you what you want! that's how it reveals character! literally storybook stuff!
and increasingly I'm like... yeah, it's good at offering you what you want! that's how it reveals character! literally storybook stuff!
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Trump should burn in hell for many things, but especially for this www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
After 50 years, is the future of special education in jeopardy? : Consider This from NPR
Fifty years ago, special education in America was born.In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the landmark law known today as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA.It guaranteed all ...
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Trump should burn in hell for many things, but especially for this www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
I didn't used to really dislike those sorts of chain-skeet trends, but it feels to me like they've become less interesting, thoughtful stuff and more engagementslop
December 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I didn't used to really dislike those sorts of chain-skeet trends, but it feels to me like they've become less interesting, thoughtful stuff and more engagementslop
fwiw the current US admin is also a state bad actor at this point, though there is still reason to hope it will be less enduring than the current Russian state
This can be taken in two ways, and imo needs to be both:
1) good guys need to articulate more clearly that the goal is real, enduring peace, via brutal consequences for state-level bad actors
2) non-state bad actors (i.e. these) must also be furnished with de jure or de facto consequences
1) good guys need to articulate more clearly that the goal is real, enduring peace, via brutal consequences for state-level bad actors
2) non-state bad actors (i.e. these) must also be furnished with de jure or de facto consequences
December 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
fwiw the current US admin is also a state bad actor at this point, though there is still reason to hope it will be less enduring than the current Russian state
imo, it's sort of a big issue for dreams of obtaining permanent geopolitical peace if every ostensible agitation for it in any significant conflict (so, not the USA just unilaterally raining bombs on innocent people, abhorrent as that is in vacuo) turns out to just be three tankies in a trenchcoat
I wonder if there is some South American version of Madea Benjamin that is throwing a stop the war rally where the crowd is decked out in American gear yelling at like Petro or whatever to give the US part of Venezuela. The ethnically American oil.
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
imo, it's sort of a big issue for dreams of obtaining permanent geopolitical peace if every ostensible agitation for it in any significant conflict (so, not the USA just unilaterally raining bombs on innocent people, abhorrent as that is in vacuo) turns out to just be three tankies in a trenchcoat
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"Birth of a God" should count as Christmas music based on the title, change my mind
December 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"Birth of a God" should count as Christmas music based on the title, change my mind
this should be on the motherfucker's tombstone
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), to reporters, after viewing video footage of the U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean on Sept. 2:
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
this should be on the motherfucker's tombstone
ngl if there's one thing we should RETVRN to about the 80s/90s it's actually being able to look at something that was fucking horrible to public safety and go "no, actually, we're changing this, we're not asking"
Public smoking bans just got in under the wire, too. Younger folks might not realize how rare they used to be and how hard they were to enact.
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
ngl if there's one thing we should RETVRN to about the 80s/90s it's actually being able to look at something that was fucking horrible to public safety and go "no, actually, we're changing this, we're not asking"
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Maybe you could build an “anti-war movement” which said, for example, that arming Ukraine to the teeth is the only way to truly end that war with justice; this would be correct but also entail kicking out virtually everyone who uses the label of “anti-war” right now
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Maybe you could build an “anti-war movement” which said, for example, that arming Ukraine to the teeth is the only way to truly end that war with justice; this would be correct but also entail kicking out virtually everyone who uses the label of “anti-war” right now
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Pretty sure the reason we don’t have a Democratic Party “interested in an anti-war movement” is that being “anti-war” is not actually a meaningful or useful principle, as seen by virtually all the people who self-define as such being adamantly in favour of wars conducted by states like Russia
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Pretty sure the reason we don’t have a Democratic Party “interested in an anti-war movement” is that being “anti-war” is not actually a meaningful or useful principle, as seen by virtually all the people who self-define as such being adamantly in favour of wars conducted by states like Russia