I don’t think I’ve ever seen the left so unified on an internal Democratic Party issue. Like every single elected leader from Kathy Hochul, Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg, to Bernie Sanders and AOC, to the rank-and-file left writ large. These senators are essentially pariahs.

Now that a democratic socialist has been elected we get to have the conversation all over again. MAGA: You know his policies aren’t free. You pay for all of that. Me: I know. I want my taxes to help others. MAGA: Even junkies, and homeless people? Even criminals? Me: Yes, even them. Especially them

Fortunately, I was able to verify my son’s safety after receiving this not-suspicious text message by walking upstairs and asking him how he could lose his phone in his own room and why he called me dad.

Yesterday my dissertation advisor casually mentioned during the weekly doctoral support meeting that she doesn’t put anything in folders on her PC and just relies on search. This is insane to me. How could you find anything? I have like 20 years of files saved. Does anyone else do this?

Hey guys, can we all just do a little pledge here that no matter what Marjorie Taylor Greene says or does between now and the election for whatever higher office she’s clearly gunning for, we won’t pull a Liz Cheney on her and start pretending none of her past actions matter?

The day care kids came to my house on Halloween! I didn’t get a pic of them (because they’re not my kids) but it was a magical moment. I dressed up in a white bunny suit and brought out my own actual bunny when I handed out the candy. Today, they dropped off this card. My heart is absolutely full.

Lol. Mamdani won by more than Cuomo and Sliwa’s vote totals combined. So even if Sliwa had dropped out and 100% of his votes went to Cuomo (which wouldn’t have happened, anyway) Cuomo still would have lost.

Middle-aged guy taking a long, hard look at his shirtless upper body in the locker room mirror:

Former VP and Architect of the Iraq War Dick Cheney has died. In his honor, every American citizen gets to shoot 1 millionaire in the face. We outnumber them by about 15:1, so some of us will have to double up and shoot the same millionaire. Hope that’s ok.

I would like to have one day, just one single day, where the most powerful men on the planet don’t say the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard.

According to a Holocaust researcher, most LGBTQ+ people were reported by their own communities. Up to 1/3 were reported by friends and family. Most damningly, “I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person during this history”

I live in an SF neighborhood that doesn’t get much Halloween traffic. But every day the daycare sees me walking my dog and the kids love him. So the lady asked me if they could come visit tomorrow around 10:15 am. I’m so excited!! I can’t wait to see all the little costumes. House and dog for ref

Amazing stuff.

Hey quick question: Don’t all these national guard troops have, like, real jobs? Isn’t that the whole point of a reserve force? Don’t those jobs need them to do stuff?

I pick up one prescription from CVS and get 3 emails asking me to ‘Please tell us how we did.’ Have some self-respect, CVS, you filled a prescription. It was fine. This is unseemly.

Honest question: There was a confirmation hearing scheduled today for one of RFK’s grifters. If things are still happening in government that Trump wants, why can’t dems refuse to go along until they get concessions on reopening the govt? Trump mostly WANTS the govt shut down. It’s not hurting him.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst

As an AI researcher, I have a very important message to this CEO: 🙄

100 former top prosecutors isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? 100 current top prosecutors.

Biscuit ran outside to bark at the neighbor’s dog who had the gall to be out of doors in the next yard over. I called him back and when I looked down, blood was all over the floor. The vet said he’d split his nail (yikes!). $1400 later he’s stoned out of his gourd in a soft cone showing blep.

Every day my father - 81 yrs old with declining faculties, sends me bat-sh*t crazy medical advice just like this. He confidently comments on everyone’s health and nutrition. He is a retired salesman and none of it is good advice, but he’s convinced it is because of ppl like RFK.

The reliable thing about Bill Maher is that whenever you think he can’t get worse, he does.

Republicans have a problem with elevating past leaders to sainthood. Previous hero, Ronald Reagan, felt differently about tariffs than their current hero and they literally can’t reconcile the difference, so they cry foul or claim it’s AI.

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

Eventually the hair will consume me. It will be a good death.

A thought I, a San Franciscan, just had. I’m tired of these warm fall temps. I’m ready for cooler winter weather to be here. It is currently 63 degrees.

Is it Elon Musk?

When every day there’s a new scandal, maybe… maybe you’re not the guy?

One of the more affirming things on here is when an account you follow calls someone out for harassing them or doing something shitty and you’ve already blocked that account.

I have to admit, I’d never heard of a totenkopf before yesterday. I’m not saying this excuses someone getting one, Platner should bow out, because I’ve also never gotten that extremely specific tattoo on my body.

This is hilarious. This woman’s solution to awkward small talk is to get weird and, uh, j can tell you from experience that does not work for me.

Lol. Have not seen this in the wild until now. This is for a radical left agenda of *checks notes* looking up data on soil composition.

While Aziz Ansari, Bill Burr, Louis CK, et al showed their asses by performing in Riyadh, two different comedians - Ilana Glaser and Kumail Nanjiani showed how it’s done by walking away from performing at Dreamforce after Marc Benioff praised Trump and called for the National Guard in SF.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

7 weeks into the semester teaching Data Analysis to MBA students. I asked them to compute the square root. 1 student didn’t know how to do it at all. He left 1/2way through and sent an email telling me I was going too fast and the subject wasn’t relevant and didn’t think he should have to learn it.

I kind of like this idea of the loss of passport power, most of which is due to Trump, as a sign of America’s declining global power, most of which is due to Trump.

Absolutely love that this is what the guy looks like.

I’ve come up with a solution to the bathroom debate. We have one set of bathrooms for trans women and the vast majority of cis women who are totally fine using bathrooms with them, and another set exclusively for the small minority of cis women who have problems with trans women.

Now do the US.

I like how people on this site will post a link to a video and it’s like 37 minutes long.

The giant accounts here lecturing me about how I’m letting democracy die if I don’t go to the No Kings Rally: Get one single grip, please. I don’t need this hectoring, superior tone telling me how to resist. I’m glad you’re marching but this is not the way to gather support.

The govt shutdown is on track to be at least the 5th longest in US history. Wanna know the longest? 34 days during Trump’s 1st term. That shutdown was over $5.7B Trump wanted for the border wall. He got $1.7B. A reminder that President Deals has always been bad and cruel at making actual deals.

My best guess about the future of AI is there is some sort of bursting bubble - AI is clearly over-hyped. That doesn’t mean it goes away (sorry). AI doesn’t make money, but it can and does help businesses make money. Plus efficiencies, small language models, and other trends will make it more stable

In the past 3 wks my 2018 Kia Optima had the engine completely stop working and my son’s 2012 Honda Civic was totaled (the car was parked and empty at the time). This may be contributing to my sense of dread at the world right now. That or, you know, troops in the streets, anti-trans sentiment, …

Finding it increasingly difficult to be on social media as the world falls apart around us. I love you all but having the same bad news endlessly shoved in my feed is a lot.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

My son’s parked, unoccupied car was hit last night. No one was hurt, but the car is undriveable. We have a witness who got a partial plate and a description of the vehicle. But, the cops are completely unwilling to help because it’s not a full plate. So frustrating. Why do we have cops again?

Tempting, but I’m all up on my Truck Smog.

Everyone wants an end to the war in Gaza, but I don’t understand why so many people are reacting to the current proposal as a done deal. To me, it seems very unlikely Hamas will fully accept the final deal. I’m not an expert but listen to their language. It seems very far away from acceptance to me.