International embarrassment.
Beckstle
@beckstle.bsky.social
162 Followers
114 Following
Writer of TV & movie reviews, pop cultural & history analysis. Anti-MAGA, pro democracy, cat owner, and queer. Current Guilty pleasures: RuPaul's Drag Race (in most of its forms) & rewatching the X-Files.
-
-
First day in office the Traitor Tot pardoned these criminals, so now they are ICE Gestapo.
-
Exactly. So why is Jefferies going after the winner of the Democratic primary for Mayor of NYC? It makes no damn sense. It's in the same vein as the progressives who didn't back Harris. You don't gain progress by giving up seats of power to Republicans.
-
Jeffries isn't the one. He proves it again. The Democratic leadership needs to go. The party has its lowest rating in modern history because of these cowards who bend the knee to corporate donors
Mamdani is going to win & they're all gonna look weak. Also he lives in a rent stabilized apartment.
Hakeem Jeffries Throws Zohran Mamdani Under the Bus for Living in a Rent-Controlled Apartment
Hakeem Jeffries Throws Zohran Mamdani Under the Bus for Living in a Rent-Controlled Apartment
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) threw Zohran Mamdani under the bus over his continued enjoyment of a rent-controlled apartment. The post Hakeem Jeffries Throws Zohran Mamdani Under the Bus for Living in a Rent-Controlled Apartment first appeared on Mediaite.
-
there’s a popular digital guide written and used by police that recommends sharing links with URL tracking elements to capture people’s IPs.
Linkumori is a browser extension that purifies URLs before trackers can log you.
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
-
guidelines for its chatbots allowed the AI to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual”, generate false medical information, and assist users in arguing that Black people are “dumber than white people”.
Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children
US senator Josh Hawley opened investigation into the tech giant, which said it had removed the policy guidelines
-
thx to oomf for putting this in my feed bc I never heard of it and am giggling at this real Black-Black Mirror rn
Demascus is 6-episode (2023) series not to miss on Tubi. Starring Okieriete Onaodowan & Janet Hubert, it's a brilliant show about futuristic psychology, selfhood, desire, grieving, Blackness & more. It’s really well done. I hope someone picks it up for a Season 2. decider.com/2025/08/07/d...
Stream It Or Skip It: 'Demascus' on Tubi, a sci-fi comedy where a man tries to find himself by experiencing parallel lives via a device hooked to his brain
Tubi rescued the series after AMC preemptively canceled it in 2023. Okieriete Onaodowan, Janet Hubert, Martin Lawrence, Caleb Eberhardt and Sasha Hutchings star.
-
US troops rolling down the red carpet for Putin, basically bowing down to Russia.
-
The billionaires already see the working class as mere objects for them to control and exploit— “human capital stock.” www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hum...
Trump adviser says America's "human capital stock" ready to return to work, sparking anger
Bloodless technical term provokes backlash on social media, although it's standard among economists.
