“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social

A test with a binary result that can’t distinguish between someone who just snorted street amphetamines and someone who took a prescribed dose of Vyvanse that morning is just disability discrimination wrapped in the thinnest possible layer of pseudoscience.

if I were elected mayor of a city I too would insist that every ceremony took place in an abandoned tunnel or secret passage of some kind

How stochastic terrorism works - Trump leverages the threats he induces against even Marjorie Taylor Greene's family www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m... One important reason that so many Rs are scared to challenge him.

“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”

by the end of the year you will realize it’s not say Star Trek (important: that’s an eg. I have nothing against Star Trek) that’s rich and dense and incredible. It’s your own engagement that creates the incredible thing. Have fun with texts don’t ascribe god powers to them

in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake

I say this bc it's good to remember. In a world of gen-AI "art" and anything creative, where everyone is told the end result/product is what matters most --- skipping the steps of actually making it is what robs it of any meaning. The process is where you put parts of yourself into it

Marx had many things to say about this, but it boils down to this: pushing AI onto the general populace is intentional, the GOAL is alienation - to unhook that link in your brains between labour and product. It's why fast fashion is made where you can't see it.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

The sudden zeal on the right for revoking citizenship is very alarming, and exactly why I was concerned about the Begum case. If you can have your citizenship removed because theoretically you COULD be eligible for citizenship elsewhere (even if you are not) that puts a lot of people in danger.

NY is having a bad flu season. More hospitalizations last week than any week on record. Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late). Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

Goat down! I repeat: Goat down! www.dn.se/sverige/stor...

just got back from the lesbian bar what's goin on bluesky

In June, Cincinnati Imam Ayman Soliman was arrested, held in a freezing cold jail cell for months. He had no criminal record and is beloved by countless patients he served at the local children's hospital. Yet, ICE tried to deport him to Egypt, an effective death sentence. Read more below. 👇

History, as they say, might not repeat exactly, but it certainly does rhyme

My dog and two cats love to throw up on the floor and they represent 60% of the household. As a leader I can't just ignore public opinion so I also throw up on the floor sometimes to stay popular

in 2026 we are NOT hustling, we are NOT grinding, we are doing just enough Job to have money for Video Game

You will feel incredibly virtuous and smug when you finish.

Pro tip: shovel the sidewalk for the old lady who lives next door.

obvious but still significant that one of the primary and most socially tractable ways some people experience their own “whiteness” is when they decide they’ve been personally deprived something they’re owed, whereas when they get or have things, it’s what they’ve personally earned as an individual

The only "Heritage" Americans are Native people. Everyone else is an immigrant, voluntary or involuntary, or the descendant of one. Showing up a few years earlier and yelling "Dibs!" Carries no moral weight.

Given Ed Dept asks they are clearly looking for paperwork violations they can hit Brown for, not real safety issues, eg full audit trails of every underage drinking disciplinary case the last five years. The 1990 Clery Act theoretically imposes huge fines for recordkeeping lapses

Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.

unironically a good idea

My favorite factoid is that the average Brit outside of London makes less than the average West Virginian but has to deal with a housing market comparable to California. America is a country of extreme wealth and extreme inequality, both things can be true at once

more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

There is a crazy passivity to the common conception of the dream of “becoming a writer”, where you find the right entry point and you are accelerated, bobsled run-like, to fame and fortune. No one wants to hear it’s just writing all the time and not taking a lot of negative things to heart.

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

Sinatra hated racists and would have punched Miller in the mouth. Or as Phil Hartman's impression of Sinatra put it, "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."

It’s nearly that time

I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.

The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word? "I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"

SELL IT TO WHO, BEN?? FUCKING PUMAMAN??

I have often found, actually, that I can tell everything I need to know about whether or not a cis man is a real one by whether he maintains a juvenile mockery towards menstruation well into adulthood or whether he takes the many, many aspects of menstrual justice seriously

And a lot of New Deal art and architecture isn't homogenous; particularly in the American West it very much attempts to interpret local customs and traditions.

sure you can think you had a good christmas but did you have a “r/dragonsfuckingcars poster getting more dragons and cars” Christmas

The Week Between Christmas and New Years

☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone

Here's the deal, says USDOJ to states: we're going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you're going to take them off the rolls. That "would hand the federal govt a major role in election admin, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution." [Stateline]

“How did our society create such monsters?” is a good question that can in fact be answered while the monsters are being punished.