People wonder why so few in the system are speaking out and this is basically why. Their objections aren't that Trump is evil. It's that he ruined the game they used to play.

It's rare when the most generous interpretation is that someone is a big dumbass, but the only other reason she could have is that she's a dumbass AND an evil cynic who erroneously thought hugging this evil creep would be a beneficial tactical decision in service of ????

This is either going to have the most boring justification in the universe (money) or a one-line explanation so obtuse a writers room could only maybe get it half right.

I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests

I mean, as a transsexual, I'm really not enjoying "immense casualties within the peer group that contains almost all my friends and loved ones." It's nice that you have a reasonable expectation of being comfortably whole after all the ablative armor is expended.

we have an epidemic of trolls trying to start a civil war

Contractor: so how'd you want the tits? Perky? Big ole cans? Iowa state legislature: the what Contractor: me and the boys was thinking perky Iowa state legislature: this is for the war dead? Contractor: okay writin' that down as perky

PSA: if you ever brag to me about spending 70k on entertainment my boot will meet your balls with such force that they will knock your eyes straight out their sockets

It seems ICE has deleted the video! Don't worry, I've got it so Theo Von can remember his role in our great administration's new gestapo.

Theo Von being publicly upset that ICE is using him joking about people being deported in their content is like, what did you expect? You promoted the big guy on your own podcast, and you made the joke. Enjoy the limelight buddy, you earned being the face of kidnapping random people!

just remember i had a dream i saw a flyer with CHARLIE PERC on the dj lineup and laughed so hard i woke up

It's a term communists used to talk about another very specific kind of communist and you doofuses saw it on Twitter and assumed what it meant, often inverting its intended meaning

Every Laika and Laika-adjacent production ends up being visually stunning but they so often feel lacking in some other way. Like the use of color in Corpse Bride is immaculate but most of the musical numbers are kind of mid and the rest is basically just a halloween fairy tale.

This was more or less how I """resolved""" my anxiety issues for like 20 years.

Gonna load up one of these bad boys and invert myself for an hour so that I may outshine God himself, brb

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

US intelligence and law enforcement agencies have removed the "T" from "LGBT," as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared w/ @kenklippenstein.bsky.social. #FOIA www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-disap...

It was a slow work week but I still need to get the fuck offline lmao.

This is really the core misunderstanding a lot of people have about LLMs: these are not programs in the conventional sense, they are MODELS. Each one is a preconfigured virtual pachinko machine, you can maybe make a heuristic and CALL that "confidence" but it won't have a built in metric.

the problem is that LLMs can't say "i don't know" because they don't even know what they *do* know. they don't know anything. they're an elaborate form of autocomplete. for it to have the self-awareness to say "i don't know" to a query, it would have to be a completely different technology

Trump has stopped pretending that his attack on Jimmy Kimmel has anything to do with Charlie Kirk

And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.

Genuinely shocking levels of institutional rot going on in the US. The push to 'both sides' every question has left fucking National Public Radio to say "hey maybe tylenol really does cause autism, many people are asking questions"

This is such horrendous science communication from the Guardian I almost don’t know where to start. The appropriate takeaway from this is that the SRY gene is a poor proxy variable in isolation. It isn’t that there were 50-60 people who were secretly “biologically male”

"type of person who is Different isn't allowed because they're Unpleasant" is a fucking kids' cartoon plotline, it cannot get more on-the-nose than this

Imagine if a journalist who wasn't absolute dogshit at their job asked trump about Charlie Kirk in a question that put the name just a little bit out of context and hints that he's talking about one of trump's enemies. Guaranteed "Charlie who? Listen, I always hated that guy, big loser" moment

Hoping that was just my first Adderall and not an unintended second

Kamala ya dumb as rocks moron, if Trump was a communist your benefactors would've given him a hot shot to the throat by now

Liberal voters talk this way because they've offloaded the labor of being a good person onto the politicians they vote for and they take it personally if you criticize them. If the actual politicians are talking this way it means they've internalized the same learned helplessness lib voters have.

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

The Memphis City Council just debated a resolution calling on Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to oppose the activation of National Guard troops in the "Memphis Safe Task Force." The vote failed on a 4-4 tie, with two abstentions and three members not present. I'm gobsmacked. They're asking for it.

one thing I keep coming back to is that the current fascists are, overall, Pretty Stupid and bad at their jobs, and the biggest reason they were able to take power so swiftly and effectively is because they has negative friction from the opposition party

Reading through the cursor forums to figure out why they don't use Deepseek's code-specific model and immediately found a guy who is convinced an open source AI model is a Chinese honeypot operation that will hack your system despite acknowledging he has no idea how LLMs are developed.

Call your senators and your house rep. Make a stink by being clear that abandoning trans adults and children is a no-go. Cis people, call and be loud for us. We are tired.

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family

This is excellent evidence in support of the theory that the right hates trans women largely because they view women's bodies as a valuable commodity and consider trans women to be committing fraud in that vein.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

showing up at the pearly gates and finding out access to heaven is exclusive to Bored Ape Yacht Club members

So in short, yes people are justified in their concern surrounding AI Data Centers and the impact they are having on the environment. My strongest suggestion to that? Don’t be a scab in this movement because its going to be a BATTLE for the people

2. AI will eventually be regulated but not before it pollutes the current markets where these data centers exist and you all will NOT get any help from the Feds so it will be up to each state to regulate over the next 5 years.

It means 1. We are DRASTICALLY FALLING BEHIND ON REGULATION AND HARM MITIGATION. Data centers are popping up across the country faster than the states can pass these regulatory laws so unfortunately there will be people negatively impacted by their operations (IE: Meta in Louisiana and Memphis)

Also hi actual Black renewable energy expert here in the space of electric grid management and what we in the industry call EDR or DR (Demand Response). If you want to know the impact AI Data centers are making on the power grid in various ISO’s across the country follow this thread.

the reason regular people care if senior dems endorse mamdani is that they are not quietly sitting this one out because it's a local race, they are constantly crying about his existence to the press, and making incredibly stupid bad-faith demands while they do it hope this helps!

A TYRANT HAS SEIZED LUOYANG BANDITS ROAM THROUGHOUT THE LAND REBELS IN THE OUTER PROVINCES PLAGUE AND FAMINE

I happen to know that Mamdani was mystified by AOC's outspoken support for Biden staying in the race after his terrible debate performance, but that had nothing to do with the Uncommitted movement. It was just about Biden's unwillingness to step down to make way for another candidate.

The idea that the Uncommitted movement called for people to withhold votes from Biden/Harris in the *general* election rather than the primary is one of those load-bearing falsehoods that it seems impossible to disabuse people of. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...