one of the literal Temptations of Christ, from Satan, is a kingdom on earth, and I believe our failure as Christians to reject that temptation was the first and greatest of our failures as a faith, one that every further atrocity came from

this one! @skywatch.blue

In every Boomer's kitchen is either a can opener that no longer works or a needlessly elaborate can opener that is "more convenient" but incredibly opaque to understand. There will be no other can opener.

Pro tip: use the sky watch labeller and pay attention to the “platform manipulation” tag because anyone labeled with it is being sketchy on purpose

Every culture with weapons has lots of rules about when and how you should carry and display them because carrying a weapon is a threat and part of being in a civilization is not making everyone around you needlessly uncomfortable. But then there’s these antisocial assholes

low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like. we forget these things at our peril

And Tiny Tim, WHO COULD NOT DIE, crawled on under the glare of the dying sun

the only three countries in Europe with a higher rate of tertiary education are Ireland, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom.

Marco found Jr’s stash

for the new year, you must understand that charlie brown actually had hoes.

Trump was able to be Trump not just because of a series of decisions in 2015 and 2016 but because of a toadying media culture and real estate regulatory capture in NYC in the 70s and 80s and the boom in reality television in the early 2000s and and and.

People on here will be like “our system will keep churning out Trumps” and like ok if that’s true then 1) why is Trump the first Trump (please don’t give me some shit about how Bush or Reagan or Nixon was Trump before Trump) and 2) Trump took decades to become who he is, who’s in the wings?

it’s really hard to get past the insight that a ton of people on this website sincerely believe that the power to bully is precisely the same as the power to determine the truth. i studied foucault in graduate school, ive never been anywhere more foucaldian than here

Remember when Dershowitz, out of the blue, unprompted, posted on Twitter that while he’d been on epsteins jet there were no videos of him molesting anyone?

Thing is, you can say “I’m just against the state of Israel,” and you might even earnestly believe that, but once the action you take to express that opposition involves attacking random Jews worldwide, you’ve crossed the line into antisemitism. The actual motive is irrelevant here.

ICYMI during the shutdown, here’s the announcement for the governors public health alliance (GPHA?)

🔭 Mystery: Little Red Dots in the Early Universe Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JWST; Dale Kocevski (Colby College) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...

gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr

Can someone show this to the guy who’s been dooming on here about youth polling numbers

is he legit trying to claim he’s 5’9

Jones Act for drones will surely help build an domestic commercial industry right? Just like shipbuilding?

Bears repeating: the new U.S. ban on all foreign drones and components is literally the *exact opposite* of the wildly successful Ukrainian “we will try and use literally anything to win, and we’ll do it cheap” drone strategy that Hegseth and his defense boot-lickers have such huge boners for.

the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation. hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity

One fun thing is that FDR really liked that he and King could just chill on the porch without any formality and theres something so spiritually north american about that its heartbreaking

The powerful "creeping boomeritis" vibe of BlueSky is on full display in the comments.

I’m confident that “Since they are Canadian I would not rule out treachery” is a sentence which has never before been written

Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges

Captain America: The

Fun fact: Katharine Brighs, one of the creators of the Myers-Briggs personality test, wrote gay RPF about Carl Jung Source: The Personality Brokers by Merve Emre

SCROOGE: you there, boy! what day is it? BOY: i don't know, i'm like six SCROOGE: well fuckin – can you ask someone

I think the phrase "Kavanaugh Stop" has both reached and bothered the Justice

IMO the best way to think about a mortgage on the house you live in is a form of rent control. Your housing costs excluding maintenance and taxes are now fixed regardless of inflation. It’s still debt though

"80-90% of households have debt" sounds really scary until and unless you remember that a mortgage is debt

BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

It’s got a full chapter explain what jokes are and how to recognize one

The thing about Trump is that everything with him is exactly what it looks like. We've been through this before, with anxious liberals fretting that something or other is a clever double-fakeout. It never is. It's always just the thing in itself.

keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is

the Bundys put up snipers overlooking the feds when the feds told them to stop running their unvaccinated, dying cattle on other peoples' leases

Epstein sending a letter to another pedophile explaining that he’s going to kill himself and reflecting on how nice it is to see a pedophile president before he dies really does tie up a bunch of things doesn’t it

I live close to Langston golf course, which is accessible via a free streetcar and charges $34 for 18 holes and $20 to rent clubs. I don’t play golf but it’s a cool thing

The DC public golf courses are what golf *should* be in America and *is* in Scotland, Ireland, and England. They are communal treasures and the opposite of the kind of golf elitism that makes most of Bluesky hate golf. You do not want these courses to get ransacked unless you're just performing

i did something like that in middle school because i thought the assignment was bullshit, got an F, went "not sure what i was expecting" ate the F and moved on with my life.

As an American I don’t actually want to end up in a military conflict with nato what the fuck. Nobody wants this. If you wrote a poll question that explained it like 90% of the country would agree with me

if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now

52% disapproval among white people seems like a notable problem for a party with a one-issue platform of white supremacy.

Yall have got to calm your tits. The fact that this leaked out within 24 hours is, in fact, a sign of how little control the regime has lol

These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.