*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

I am constantly annoyed that the most correct cyberpunk movie seems to be Runaway, based on a book by Michael Chriton and starring Tom Selleck, Kirsty Alley, and Gene Simmons (yes that Gene Simmons)

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

The US constitution does not allow US citizens to be rounded up on the basis of apparent race or ethnicity and require them to carry papers to prove their citizenship. Any supreme court that claims it does is illegitimate.

this is the most useful short-form video i've ever seen www.youtube.com/shorts/aALT9...

how i would describe the fall 2025 flu and covid shots on friday morning: hay why have i been asleep for 7 hours i need to hay why have i been asleep for another 6 hours i don’t have time for god im starving let’s order something for what the hell how is it saturday

i’m a lifelong learner if we include trying to get past the first boss in elden ring

referring to metroidvanias as "hollowslop" to simultaneously piss off people who like metroidvanias, people who like hollow knight, people who want a better genre name for "metroidvania", people who are sick of the word slop being misused, and gradius fans who want to see more checkpoint recoveries

I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation. "There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."

This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.

I think we're definitely past the point where this reflects much more poorly on Jeffries than it does on Mamdani. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/26/m...

something something the reason americans aren't furious about the troops occupying our cities is that they've been long inured to the insult by their local police acting like a hostile, occupying force

I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:

i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea

he would be a bad president and would only delay the fascist takeover and we need someone who will wipe it out

Everything above is taken directly from statements by Trump, Vought, Miller, P2025 and other sources I have had to watch and think about far too closely for both of my jobs for way too long now

We have known for at least a yr that Trump would send troops into sanctuary cities to boost ICE enforcement and inflame everything to the point that he has an excuse to declare them in rebellion & invoke the Insurrection Act, which will justify more troops & more permanent occupation by midterms

a very good thread on this industry

I'm surprised how few articles on this point out that the more you gerrymander the more you're vulnerable to a real wave completely flipping the map.

otoh they think lincoln is history's most notorious criminal

matt yglesias follower label never misses

It is a good thing when cynically ambitious politicians start doing the right thing because they think it's popular and will help their future electoral prospects. That's the point, it's how democracy is supposed to work at its theoretical ideal.

“Abolish ICE” is the floor

And with the new funding they are building an army of poorly trained, yet armed loyalists who will follow orders because they think they’re saving America. I hope we’re all looking at this very clear eyed.

I am seeing people praising gavin newsom. please do not encourage him. if you don't hit him with a rolled-up newspaper he's going to pee on the carpet

i have all these great sandwich jokes in my head but i’m afraid if i post them blue sky will bahn mi

"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army. I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

watching people rubberducking themselves into writing longer and longer specs, repeating themselves to eliminate any global context, using formal words to avoid ambiguity, and finding the right tokens to recreate the training set and telling me that the machine is doing all the work and thinking

we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid

A central tenet of the conservative movement is going on TV to tell the world you’re an giant baby.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

like whole swathes of my memories are incredibly damaged by learning that one edie brickel song isn't about random nonsense but is instead her complaining about people in her philosophy class

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SKINNER: We’re closing down the X-files again. MULDER: Because I’m too close to truth! SKINNER: No, a DOGE guy named “Big Balls” got pounded into hamburger by a pack of rowdy teens, so the president is turning you into a traffic cop.

Hey, my partner and I saw you across the bar, and your vibes are just bad. Bringing the entire place down. You should go somewhere else, maybe see the great clown Pagliacci

They're rapidly realizing they can now straight up steal money for any blue state/blue voter thing and the courts will back them up.

Wednesday having Sisters of Mercy playing in the background is representation for my people.

had a pretty good day but I've concluded I can just never tell when my vizier is being polite or scheming against me

New blog post, explaining Streamplace's signing and segmentation flow! TLDR: You slice it up into one-second MP4 files and C2PA them.

Whether it's conservatives assassinating State Senators in Minnesota or liberals refusing to sell Alan Dershowitz pierogis in Martha's Vineyard, both sides have taken incivility to an extreme.

the way you actually fight fascism is by locking up as many of their leaders as you can as quickly as you can, and identifying all their sources of power and influence and breaking those. they control the courts? break their control of the courts. crush fox news. destroy the federalist society. etc

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them

Hey they don’t have to do secret dog whistle fascism stuff in ads or in how celebrities dress or whatever anymore that only savvy posters can decode. They just do the real violent shit now. It’s the next part of it. Thank you.

obergefell might survive but my prior on this is that conservatives on the court are all part of the same fascist, theocratic movement seeking to drive all non conformity from society and will continue to do so until sometime stops them. feel like that has pretty good explanatory power.