i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him. Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...

Okay, let's try this. One like, one good tax reform idea. Popular or not, but one I think will improve our country and strengthen our democracy.

White House aggressively posting “trump is straight” content amid the blow job e-mail

I asked him if he could kindly move out of the way so we could get the tree up. He declined my request.

Whoever designed Christmas light plugs and fuses is a sadist.

"Ghislaine Maxwell said in a sworn deposition to Trump's friend that Trump always acted like a gentleman. And—a little thing about me—I believe women." — SNL

This is #SNL video that is being removed from sites It aired last night, went viral and #NBC was subject of #Trumps rant to fire #SethMeyer. Several 🔗 are now unavailable but this is a clip I’d saved. “Trump running out of excuses” #SaturdayNightLive #cdnpoli #USApoli

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

WATCH: After Zohran's election, some asked us why the ADL — founded to keep Jews safe — is trying to keep Jews afraid with a “Mamdani Monitor. We made a video about how the same group that excused Elon Musk’s Nazi salute is helping Trump and capitulating to authoritarianism.

Operation Change The Topic From Epstein

The easiest way to get limelight chasers like Ol***a N***i to go away is to just not give them oxygen. Bluesky isn't helping.

nothing says you’re kicking ass at Buddhism quite like having an insatiable desire for something

When he's not claiming not to know something, he's lying.

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Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.

The way I would never stop laughing if Trump blowing one of the evil, baby blood-drinking, commielib Pizzagate CLINTONS is the thing that triggers his ultimate downfall with MAGA.

What we all knew: Only one candidate in the 2016 election had blown a former president. What we didn't: It wasn't who we thought.

I don't think we're ready for the psychic damage the Epstein files are going to cause us. Not the horrors we fully expect, but the kind that attack without warning. Like learning that DONALD TRUMP GAVE BILL CLINTON A BLOWJOB JESUS FUCKING CHRIST MY EYES. MY SOUL.

"Well ACTUALLY he's an ephebophile, not a pedophile - game, set, MATCH, libs!" - Megyn Kelly somewhere

As a current weekend bartender who has bartended everywhere from swanky clubs to Irish pubs, my advice to young women in bars & clubs is this: Treat it like you're in the faerie realm: Never accept drinks from strange men and never give them anything in return, especially your true name.

It might not be that surprising if you consider that a.) He's done a LOT of shrooms in the desert and b.) All the data is pointing to the vast majority of people hating AI and the AI bubble bursting soon. It's not altruistic; it's seeing an opportunity.

I've been on the internet long enough to remember the "celebrity 18th birthday" countdown sites...ugh

In my experience, it wasn't framed as a compliment, but a wink-wink, nudge-nudge "Yeah she's too young but she's SO hot so...😉😉" Which, I guess, was always a compliment between men. Ugh.

Their size difference never fails to make me laugh

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Jeffries when the topic of Chuck Schumer comes up this week

From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"

Enjoy the inevitable lawsuits, you bigoted ghoul.

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isn't just Trump allies using those words in particular

Random thought: There's been significant growth in people, particularly women, embracing paganism or spirituality in the past 10-15 years (I myself am a practicing druid). And while there are SO many valid, studied reasons for that – rejecting patriarchy, wanting to reconnect with nature, etc...

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

Sometimes I think about the fact that billionaires are destroying the planet to push a technology whose entire purpose is to be a shoddy imitation of everything *that human beings already do* and I feel like I might start screaming and never stop.

Not gamedev, but *stares in digital media freelancer*

Couple of things: 1. Boy, I'm tired of the people who rant against "socialism" not even understanding what it is and thinking it's the same thing as communism.

late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates

i've said it before and i'll say it again: joyce carol oates is the main boss of twitter. our finest posters have done some of their best work going after elon, but it's never rattled him like this. she got to him on a molecular level.

*starts shrieking while clawing at my eyeballs*

When the ear rubs are so good you fart a little

Chill out and maybe accept the best interpretation of a typo and keep it moving 🤷🏾‍♀️

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

"You're not smart and you don't make good decisions" I say to my dumbest cat as he decides he wants to walk into the living room where he knows the giant, territorial Labrador retriever is sitting.

A Russian blogger shared that many Russians do not realize how many Russian soldiers are dying in the war against Ukraine. "For these two small cities [Pokrovsk and Bakhmut], Russia has already killed 80-100 thousand of its own soldiers. It wasn't Ukraine that killed them, it was Russia," he says.

"What radicalized you?" Knowing some corporate media consultant was paid an insane amount of money for this.