One of his senior engineers was a gay man, married to another man. He fired the guy without telling him, and then he tweeted that the guy is a pedophile. His fans then started stalking the guy at his home, so the couple had to move to a new address (even though they had only just moved into that home).

Something like ~5% of internet-users have an X account, and most of them don’t use it often. It’s fair to assume that the vast majority of us at Jezebel aren’t spending time over there. And these new, weird changes are driving the sporadic users away anyway.

I think you’re mostly right, but I’m tired of the way people use autism as an excuse. His obsessions aren’t merely genetic. He’s power-hungry, arrogant, etc., and those are all just personality traits that are not literal disabilities.

I am beyond tired of phrase, “Nobody ever talks about.... (XYZ).” Especially when said by people who obviously never read, like Chet Hanks.

Elon Musk has told his staff that, internally, they are now supposed to call a “tweet” an “x” instead. But I really can’t see how the whole user base will start using it as a verb too. (“I exed earlier this morning, and I think I will ex later today. I need to ex back to the person who exed me.”) Sometimes it seems…

After his takeover, there was a measurable increase in child pornography.

They do the same thing with water use violations. When a landlord refuses to fix leaky pipes in a huge apartment building, every tenant gets slapped with a fine that can be harsh enough that they have to move out. When a billionaire waters their giant green lawn every day, they receive the exact same fine, which is…

We’re already there, and we’ve been there a long time. Anita Bryant said that no schools should hire gay and lesbian people — way back in the 1970s. There’s also currently a court case making its way toward SCOTUS that would legalize employment discrimination nationwide.

I used to have a coworker who constantly whined about “Irish slavery” in the USA. He also genuinely believed that some people are actually lizard-like aliens, and he thinks that all of the videos of the planes hitting the twin towers on 9/11 are fake (he was only a little kid when it happened, so he has no first-hand…

Oh my god, no, this person does not support rape.  Use your fucking brain.

The podcast “Code Switch” has an interesting episode on this topic. They also try to disentangle American-born vs. immigrants, and other issues. (Kamala Harris is partially black, but her parents are immigrants. Does the USA owe her reparations, and if so, does it get somehow pro-rated?) There’s really no good answer.

The Massachusetts state government has pledged to be net zero carbon emissions in their own operations, and one way they’re going about it is to require their workers to stop driving government-plated vehicles and instead drive their personal vehicles. The miles driven won’t change. The carbon dioxide emitted won’t…

I’m glad that children will (supposedly) benefit to the tune of $80 million, but this still seems like a dystopian hell. We really can’t figure out a better way to buy desks and books?

Only one thing matters? There’s currently genocide in the Amazon, China, West Papua, and elsewhere. Why don’t you care about concentration camps and total cultural erasure?

I know someone who does this.  She’s a friend of my mom’s, and they know each other from their Catholic church.  This woman will purchase multiple tickets to Christian-related shows, and then just not go.  She considers it a form of voting.  (Side note: She calls abortion murder, and she thinks it should be outlawed…

This is just fancy garbage. We’re talking about garbage. Stuff that requires mining, tailings, processing, and so many resources... that’s going to go to a landfill. (They’ll start with 3,000 satellites, but then keep replacing them over time. It’s going to be many tens of thousands.)

Check out the social media accounts of NASA.  Almost every post has a few dozen (sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands) of comments claiming that no one has ever walked on the moon.  For some bizarre reason, there are swells of comments from Turkey.  Turkish people claim that NASA is lying about its astronaut…

These are two giant unions. Only a very small fraction of their members are zoomers (who are mostly still in middle school and high school).

The United Nations visited our country several years back, and they remarked that parts of Alabama should be considered a “developing nation,” like on par with rural Bangladesh or rural Burundi. You know, the places that Republicans call “shithole countries.” But here’s the thing...

Does Alabama state law allow cities/towns to “hand down” political offices? (Does any state do that?)