James ThomsonComputers didn’t pass the Turing Test, humans failed it.
Richard W H Bray
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George Takei 
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Periodic reminder: Hate takes effort to maintain.
If it weren't for constant effort by fashy people to lie about Black folk, Brown folk, women, immigrants, trans folk, etc, that most people would choose *not* to support fashy people.
Fascism requires an ongoing cost. Kindness is free!
And kindness is not weakness.
If you see fashy people attacking Black people, or immigrants, or trans folk, it's not kindness to say, "We should all get along!"🤡
That's weakness.
It's kindness to put yourself between the people with less power than yourself, and the people that want to hurt them.
Salt & Old Vines was harvested for AI training without purchase or permission. I’d be flattered but… no.
https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/115105862107138339
https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/115105862107138339
Steven RosenthalBoston Mayor Michelle Wu responding to Pam Bondi's threats.
This. This is how it's done.
https://content.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2025/08/Response%20AG%20Bondi.pdf
And sometimes they’re all the above.
https://www.threads.com/@covie_93/post/DKSEuD9OYke
https://www.threads.com/@covie_93/post/DKSEuD9OYke
Peter Cohen"The hurrier I go the behinder I get."
Saw that apocryphal Alice in Wonderland quote a lot as a kid (hanging on a plaque in the kitchen iirc), and it didn't mean much to me then.
But it's on my mind CONSTANTLY as I've gotten older.
I wrote about my cat https://www.ishouldbewritingsomethingelse.net/home/2025/4/7/fifteen-years-and-eleven-months
Fifteen years and eleven months — I should be writing something else
I picked Pedey up from a small cottage on a small farm just outside Linlithgow in the summer of 2009. I was unprepared, and instead of using a proper pet carrier, transported him back to St Andrews, meowing woefully all the way, in an old box that once held an inkjet printer. That was in my old Rena
Happy confederate surrender day to all who celebrate! 🎉🎇🍾
The entire confederacy lasted around 4 years. That's half of an Obama administration! Obama was president for twice as long as that little racist tantrum, so I don't want to hear any talk about how it's your "heritage."
Abraham Lincoln called himself a "Moderate Republican." That means he didn't believe in slavery, but by his own words, was a proud white supremacist.
He called Ulysses S. Grant a "Radical Republican." Radical Republicans rejected white supremacy, and told Lincoln to his face that he was wrong.♥️👍🏿
Some people are racists. Some people are losers. Some people are both.
The racist confederates lost and surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9th.
But Lincoln refused to listen to Grant and the Radical Republicans pleas to reject white supremacy after the civil war.
A painful mistake.
You have tariffs today, and are crying about the bond market, and are hoping you don't die of measles or polio, because too many Americans believe that they can control just enough racism.
It's 2025. "Radical leftists" is still the insult hurled at anti-racists. "Moderate" still means racism lite™️.