Whether they pull off the upset or not, I hope Santa Clara is damn proud of this game. It’s better than I’ve seen from the Blazers all season. Now this is basketball!

The @nba.com really missing the opportunity to do a March Madness style playoff. Give me a whole-league single-elimination tournament. Fuck the current playoff structure—it’s too many games and there’s not enough drama or chaos.

These Ram commercials look like they could give you a contact-DUI

This one made me want to kms. These absolute shit-for-brains losers think they are Renaissance men for listening to other shit-brained losers talk about stuff that none of them understand for 4 straight hours.

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

The single most important skill in the very unlikely event of a societal collapse is being able to build community. Practice empathy, be a good neighbor, and maintain friendships and alliances.

All this speculation about the potential horrid things the airspace closure around El Paso could signifiy, and all I can think of is the logistics managers having the *worst* day and week of their lives.

People who may want to have children in the future should bear this in mind: tear gas can have serious consequences for female reproductive health. The data on this isn't great but I would at least recommend ensuring you have a quality respirator or mask on at all times.

my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter. name a fucking high school after him.

I hope their parents are ashamed and thinking about where they went wrong.

they’ll blame you for being in their way even when they’re the ones who invaded the neighborhood where your baby was sleeping inside your home

It’s actually really liberating from the grip of paranoia to assume you’re being read or listened to and act accordingly. If you assume what you say is public, if you don’t want someone to see it or hear it, don’t say it or do it. But if you do say it, say it with your whole chest

I think about how online audiences have been trained to look for reasons that victims are actually the villains, to recast them as the perpetrators, and how these are the same narratives the state uses to ensure the mechanism of patriarchy—violence, abuse, and murder—continue with impunity.

Blade Runner isn’t actually a good movie

Frankly, if I can be honest for a brief moment on main, I think almost everybody is out of their ever loving mind.

DEATH TO THE CONSULTANT, GLORY TO THE IN-HOUSE SME

This is terrifying. "[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them." ... "We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]

Trump is dismantling so much. We shouldn’t waste political capital on “undoing.” When the time comes, we should create a new, better, & more resilient federal democracy.

this should be one of defining images of his second term, because its impossible to tell from looking at it whether he is too indifferent to care or too senile to notice

I guess my regular chants of “fire Chauncey” at Blazers games finally manifested something.

The Timberwolves’ uniforms look like little sailor suits. They just need the hats.

Oh for fuck's fucking sake he got it covered with a Norse Ragnarok tattoo of Fenrisulfr devouring the world

In fairness, I do cherish the memory of renting a LOTR “satire” at Blockbuster, it turning out to be hardcore porn (labeled as PG-13!), and explaining that to the kid from my Spanish class who was working there the next day when I returned it and suggested they remove it from circulation.

This whole thread needs to be read, understood, and internalized by lots more folks.

People are selling out to authoritarians for shockingly small sums.

Here’s my theory on people like this, as well as constitutional originalists and biblical literalists. It’s projection and/or a lack of theory-of-mind. They don’t actually mean what they say, so they assume that’s true of others as well.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

This a federally-monitored website. The regime is on highest alert. Anyone posting advocacy for violence right now is a fedposter or a fool. This has nothing to do with what is right or wrong or what you have a right to say. It's simply a fact.

I taught myself to knit as an adult from library books before YouTube existed.

I casually took the bus downtown today and everything seemed safe and fine. The only thing out of the ordinary was there wasn’t a dog on TriMet. Perhaps Portland, Maine has been destroyed?

I actually really love finding out so getting to fuck around beforehand is just a bonus

Thei wante us talkinge on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

if you’re a politician and thinking about using some variation of the word “bipartisan,” i recommend reading the sentence aloud while adding “with nazis” right after “bipartisan” and see if it still scans as something as you want to say.

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

“In defense of” articles usually work better when they aren’t authored by the person being defended. What a fucking turnip.

"got caught in the crossfire". The video is literally attached! You can see that they're lying!!! But there's such a rigid and disciplined commitment to making it seem like the cops were "provoked" somehow that it's impossible to actually get people to understand Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The problem with civil disobedience as a strategy is that the media adapted to it by fully committing to just straight up lying about what cops do at protests. You all saw that video of a cop just shooting a journalist point blank and then her news outlet saying she Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Hear me out. @sheaserrano.bsky.social and @netw3rk.bsky.social are great examples of emotionally intelligent, kind, healthy masculinity. Get more young people listening to them and they’ll learn more than a buncha cool basketball shit.

there are 400 million guns in this country Every adult and child above adolescence in this country should have stop the bleed training

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

If the U.S. cared about privacy we'd pass a real privacy law. If the U.S. cared about propaganda we'd take an aim at the biggest one ever built: the GOP right wing pseudo-news industry. If we cared about national security we'd regulate data brokers and wouldn't be firing cybersecurity experts

Honest to god I think the @trailblazers.bsky.social forgot they’re bad and have been playing out of their goddamn minds