J Gerber
@sailorboyj.bsky.social
Retail Concierge, Actor Gone Civilian,Progressive.
Don't worry about the bear... they're a friend from work.
Don't worry about the bear... they're a friend from work.
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Ever notice how oligarchs and techbros don't get why people are overwhelmingly against AI taking jobs, poisoning the environment, making social control easier, and sucking the soul out of arts and culture?
What's with that?
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What's with that?
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What A Day: Pass the AI Slop
The idea of putting limits on AI could bring the whole family together this holiday season.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Ever notice how oligarchs and techbros don't get why people are overwhelmingly against AI taking jobs, poisoning the environment, making social control easier, and sucking the soul out of arts and culture?
What's with that?
open.substack.com/pub/crookedm...
What's with that?
open.substack.com/pub/crookedm...
Look! More people who should be barred from practicing medicine in positions of authority in the Trump Administration!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Look! More people who should be barred from practicing medicine in positions of authority in the Trump Administration!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
I got my call in just now!
Join @bkforge.bsky.social and @nyclu.org on 11/19 for a Day of Action to Protect Abortion & Gender-Affirming Care! We’ll call on Gov Hochul to sign three bills to safeguard our personal health care decisions & access to care. Sign-up here: bit.ly/nov19-action
Join @bkforge.bsky.social and @nyclu.org on 11/19 for a Day of Action to Protect Abortion & Gender-Affirming Care! We’ll call on Gov Hochul to sign three bills to safeguard our personal health care decisions & access to care. Sign-up here: bit.ly/nov19-action
NYCLU/BKForge Call-In Day of Action to Protect Abortion & Gender-Affirming Care
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November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I got my call in just now!
Join @bkforge.bsky.social and @nyclu.org on 11/19 for a Day of Action to Protect Abortion & Gender-Affirming Care! We’ll call on Gov Hochul to sign three bills to safeguard our personal health care decisions & access to care. Sign-up here: bit.ly/nov19-action
Join @bkforge.bsky.social and @nyclu.org on 11/19 for a Day of Action to Protect Abortion & Gender-Affirming Care! We’ll call on Gov Hochul to sign three bills to safeguard our personal health care decisions & access to care. Sign-up here: bit.ly/nov19-action
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Yes, she *should* resign and be criminally charged, but instead she’s getting two private jets to fly her around for her sadistic photo ops.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Yes, she *should* resign and be criminally charged, but instead she’s getting two private jets to fly her around for her sadistic photo ops.
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(throwing open my window) you there, boy, what day is this?
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
(throwing open my window) you there, boy, what day is this?
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Finished ‘Dispatch,’ & without being spoilery… was tons of fun, story & characters connected, & season 2, PLEASE!!
The game’s not easy, and the fixed save points means you will be quitting, redoing animation and play sequences multiple times until you get the results you want.
#dispatchvideogame
The game’s not easy, and the fixed save points means you will be quitting, redoing animation and play sequences multiple times until you get the results you want.
#dispatchvideogame
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Finished ‘Dispatch,’ & without being spoilery… was tons of fun, story & characters connected, & season 2, PLEASE!!
The game’s not easy, and the fixed save points means you will be quitting, redoing animation and play sequences multiple times until you get the results you want.
#dispatchvideogame
The game’s not easy, and the fixed save points means you will be quitting, redoing animation and play sequences multiple times until you get the results you want.
#dispatchvideogame
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theyre just redoing the UK doctrine here. if you're gonna build something, get to it now so you live to see the death of legacy media
NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community.
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Corporate Media’s Queer Purge — Assigned
It’s no coincidence that historic assaults on trans and queer people’s rights have been accompanied by the mainstream media’s widespread dismissal of LGBTQ+ journalists and the elimination of beats de...
www.assignedmedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
theyre just redoing the UK doctrine here. if you're gonna build something, get to it now so you live to see the death of legacy media
So... CBS News is not only firing people of color, but also selectively editing news to favor Trump.
Way to tarnish the Tiffany network.
www.thedailybeast.com/cbs-cuts-don...
Way to tarnish the Tiffany network.
www.thedailybeast.com/cbs-cuts-don...
CBS Cuts Trump’s Corruption Tantrum From ‘60 Minutes’ Edit
The moment Trump got testy was missing from Sunday night’s interview.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
So... CBS News is not only firing people of color, but also selectively editing news to favor Trump.
Way to tarnish the Tiffany network.
www.thedailybeast.com/cbs-cuts-don...
Way to tarnish the Tiffany network.
www.thedailybeast.com/cbs-cuts-don...
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“Humans can just go get manual labor jobs if desk jobs are repaired with AI” is both not going to suffice to provide enough jobs and is also going to result in massive societal anger because manual labor jobs often *are terrible*, which is why people have worked hard to avoid them for generations.
Even if society provided the food/shelter level needs for everyone, humans also need to perform useful work just for basic fulfillment. The vast majority of people cannot sit around all day letting AI and robots do everything.
(The definition of “useful work” here is malleable but still essential)
(The definition of “useful work” here is malleable but still essential)
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Humans can just go get manual labor jobs if desk jobs are repaired with AI” is both not going to suffice to provide enough jobs and is also going to result in massive societal anger because manual labor jobs often *are terrible*, which is why people have worked hard to avoid them for generations.
“Recontextualization is not enough,” it wrote in its pitch. “Even taken from its pedestal … the social codes engendered by the Lee statue will allow it to remain an icon of violent white supremacy wherever it is placed.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/m...
How to Make Art Out of Confederate Monuments
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Recontextualization is not enough,” it wrote in its pitch. “Even taken from its pedestal … the social codes engendered by the Lee statue will allow it to remain an icon of violent white supremacy wherever it is placed.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/m...
Dude… Daylight Savings Ended, and no one talked about it.
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Dude… Daylight Savings Ended, and no one talked about it.
'The arrangement, while well within the law, makes it almost impossible for voters or watchdog groups to understand ...financial & business connections of someone who could ... sway over billions of dollars in public contracts, realestate developments & city policy.'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
Cuomo Earned Almost $5 Million Consulting. He Won’t Name His Clients.
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
'The arrangement, while well within the law, makes it almost impossible for voters or watchdog groups to understand ...financial & business connections of someone who could ... sway over billions of dollars in public contracts, realestate developments & city policy.'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
My Dad's favorite cousin and his wife have always 'uncle and aunt' to me.
This is not that big a deal.
This is not that big a deal.
“Zohran Mamdani referred to his first cousin once removed as his aunt” is a new low for the muckrakers
October 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
My Dad's favorite cousin and his wife have always 'uncle and aunt' to me.
This is not that big a deal.
This is not that big a deal.
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I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
Seriously, folks... Thiel's dangerous in so many ways.
And yes... of such questionable mental heath he makes Musk.. well, also mentally unstable, and also a man who should not have security clearances.
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And yes... of such questionable mental heath he makes Musk.. well, also mentally unstable, and also a man who should not have security clearances.
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Peter Thiel Explainer Time!
It has come to our attention not everyone knows who this putz is.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Seriously, folks... Thiel's dangerous in so many ways.
And yes... of such questionable mental heath he makes Musk.. well, also mentally unstable, and also a man who should not have security clearances.
open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...
And yes... of such questionable mental heath he makes Musk.. well, also mentally unstable, and also a man who should not have security clearances.
open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...
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"I disagree with all the vitriol," says Newsom, before asserting that we must find a more polite way to exclude trans ppl from public life.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
October 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"I disagree with all the vitriol," says Newsom, before asserting that we must find a more polite way to exclude trans ppl from public life.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
1) All the stupid.
2) Paxton again is wasting Texas taxpayer money while supporting nationally destructive policies.
3) Stop messing with the rest of us, Texas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/h...
2) Paxton again is wasting Texas taxpayer money while supporting nationally destructive policies.
3) Stop messing with the rest of us, Texas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/h...
Texas Sues Tylenol Makers, Claiming They Hid Autism Risks
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
1) All the stupid.
2) Paxton again is wasting Texas taxpayer money while supporting nationally destructive policies.
3) Stop messing with the rest of us, Texas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/h...
2) Paxton again is wasting Texas taxpayer money while supporting nationally destructive policies.
3) Stop messing with the rest of us, Texas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/h...
Every act of cultural degradation Trump and the American Right engages in deserves recognition as the individual crimes against our nation and history they are.
www.jezebel.com/trump-bulldo...
www.jezebel.com/trump-bulldo...
Trump Bulldozes Away a Century's Worth of Women’s Contributions to the White House
“It’s sort of like, my worst fears realized, to be frank," a women's studies scholar at Ohio University told Jezebel of the East Wing demolition.
www.jezebel.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Every act of cultural degradation Trump and the American Right engages in deserves recognition as the individual crimes against our nation and history they are.
www.jezebel.com/trump-bulldo...
www.jezebel.com/trump-bulldo...
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Academics, sign the pledge, if for no other reason than this petty one: now you can hate on other academics who publish in the Times even more than you already will anyway
1/ Was proud to be among 300 former NYT opinion contributors who pledge to boycott writing for the New York Times opinion section until our demands about Palestine are met www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Academics, sign the pledge, if for no other reason than this petty one: now you can hate on other academics who publish in the Times even more than you already will anyway
'Trump turning his focus on transgender people raises the temperature that when an eventual deal is brokered, Americans could see the inclusion of some of those anti-trans riders as a major policy priority of the President for compromise legislation. '
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USDA Website Blames SNAP Benefits Expiring On Trans People And Immigrants During Shutdown
The benefits, which are set to expire on November 1st due to the government shutdown, will lead to millions of people struggling to secure access to food.
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
'Trump turning his focus on transgender people raises the temperature that when an eventual deal is brokered, Americans could see the inclusion of some of those anti-trans riders as a major policy priority of the President for compromise legislation. '
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
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“Our public and democracy needs constructive questioning,” she said, speaking in Irish & English. “Together, we can shape a new republic that values everybody, that values and champions diversity and that takes confidence in our own identity.”
Well done, Ireland!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Well done, Ireland!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Leftwinger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide
Independent pledges to be ‘president for all’ after taking 63% of vote in upset for political establishment
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Our public and democracy needs constructive questioning,” she said, speaking in Irish & English. “Together, we can shape a new republic that values everybody, that values and champions diversity and that takes confidence in our own identity.”
Well done, Ireland!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Well done, Ireland!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...