ngl, the space x IPO being largely successful immediately after elon musk spent a week fomenting racist pogroms in northern ireland is one of the more blackpilling events of the year for me

I've only seen slight clips, but the UFC farrago seemed as bad or worse than I'd thought. There's a big difference between the president going to one of these bum fights and the president *hosting* one of them, at the people's house. Drafting the military to provide a dollop of sanction. Disgusting.

Waiting for lots of apologies from people who got enraged when you suggested abundance was what it obviously was

Great day

/4 Put another way, Jesse Singal wouldn’t WRITE Camp of the Saints, but he would absolutely do a full podcast episode on “Look At All These Hysterical Leftists Who Are Disgusted By Camp Of The Saints, How Lame.”

Elon really running the Ted Faro playbook

"A United-States-involved kinetic intervention"

Everything is gender Everything is religious regularity Everything is performance

Your annual reminder that elderly people are the most vulnerable demographic to death and severe injury during heat waves - and many of them, especially those raised in cooler times, struggle or outright refuse to believe heat can kill them. Keep close tabs on them on hot days.

This is why Flock cameras are a bad idea in your community.

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

I’m sure some people use “Epstein Class” in good faith, to describe unaccountable elites who abuse their position and are protected illegitimately by a corrupt system, but, I gotta say, some people clearly mean “Jews,” and other people are at least reckless about whether it sounds like “Jews.”

Sometimes I draw things

macOS Mystery House

picked up a copy of this poster (image found online) from my local shop since they are moving to a new location ... now i just need to find a location for it. Not that my office at home isn't overwhelmed with artwork to begin with...

I draw things sometimes

Maps like this are so toxic to our understanding of politics.

Tough choice between months of rent or three hours of the Knicks

This is correct and very scary. youtu.be/HwtkYllhp5o?...

Felt pretty clever calling Trump’s Oval Office love fests he falls asleep during “tiny desk rallies” but I’m sure I read it somewhere.

Today in California

At this point, I'm more furious at the White House press for standing for this than I am at him for being such an inappropriate insulting creep.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

re: Scott Pelley

Gotta say sometimes I get sick of the whole did you know lynchings are ok if you’re afraid of a kid who’s running away thing

It was my faculty advisor who, after the end of previous year where both my grandmothers died within a month, which caused some delay in work to her, said, “let’s not have any more grandmothers die on us this year” at convocation. Also (informally) accused me of plagiarism. Harumph.

This is ridiculous

Two for one

The thing I like best is the mixing of digital and physical control surfaces. There’s a lot there for other car manufacturers to learn from. I have a loaner for my BMW and I already miss the iDrive controller. I can’t believe they’re phasing it out in new EVs. It’s better than touchscreens.

Just in case you thought anti-trans rhetoric was just about women’s toilets and competition in sports.

This is truly disgusting, Radio Rwanda style filth. There isn’t a hell hot enough for these absolutely demonic people who are trying to wink past the camps and guffaw their way into genocide.

It took me a long time to really internalize this fact, but the truth is that almost no one, across the entire spectrum of US politics, really cares about climate change as such. Almost everyone, on every side, from every angle, is using it as a canvas upon which to project their priors.

Californians, today is a good day to complain to your elected officials about our state emergency alert system still forcing people to open links from X/Twitter - a site run by a genocidal madman that often forces you to log in just to see content.

Good demonstration of an important truth about AI, which is that the tech goblins are not doing it because it’s cheaper, they’re doing it because they are ideologically opposed to the whole concept of paid labor

“The OpenAI IPO will lead to massive influx of gauze bandages hoarded by ten people, please ignore the sucking chest wound”

Zohran got more votes than 50 sitting U.S. Senators did.

And then the most powerful and influential venture capital firm in the country hired the murderer who killed my neighbor solely and specifically because he was a Black man, which means every person in tech who wants to work in the startup ecosystem has to be complicit with this kind of depravity.

The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

just remembered trump's tax returns got leaked and he said in a debate that he'd close the loopholes because he knows how rich people game the system, then he cut taxes for the rich and is now exempting his family from tax audits. lol.

Just imagining à la Carpenter “Michael Showalter’s GHOSTS OF CAMP FIREWOOD”

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Moved pretty quickly from “banning abortion is a state prerogative” to “the federal government must help the banning states ban”. Just hurtling into a judicially imposed Fugitive Slave Act

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

This is the vast imbalance in our media ecosystem: Democrats are held accountable for what they *might* do based on the words of their fringe voters and policies they are considering but never happen. Republicans aren’t even accountable for what they *are* doing.

If you're not well versed in California property taxes, you might think that communist voters passed some inheritance or estate tax - when this is about the ability to inherit property tax *assessments*: something that doesn’t exist in any other state!