yeah I think influencer culture *inherently* is just poisonous, even more so than the regular cult of celebrity was because it's so purely self-centered and pervasive.

baller

Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.

god, bari weiss is such a comically odious, clumsy toad who has no idea of all the ways this will blow up in her face

Being even baseline literate in the 2020s is like never working out but slowly becoming the strongest person on earth as everyone around you eats shredded newspaper and chugs poison

*insert joke edgy enough to get engagement but not so edgy as to get me cancelled about Dungeons and Dragons 5.5 and/or Pathfinder 2e here*

Consider that for scroll addicts who spend 12 hours per day on social media, “lived” and “experience” may have a slightly different meanings

Bari gets a heavily promoted 60 Minutes story that would be bad for the Trump administration killed:

[Just to painfully spell it out for those not paying attention...What they're "sometimes disagreeing" on that Jew-controlled drones have no tolerance for is e.g. whether the Holocaust happened]

Your 2025 incognito window wrapped is HERE!

I’m afraid that “discourse” at this speed is just Like This inherently. Nobody is going to have productive conversation firing off their thoughts as fast as they can think them. We must return to 18th century pamphleting as the dominant discourse medium.

State your thesis and then explicitly disavow every possible misinterpretation in 300 characters or less, then pray that a big account doesn’t get mad at you anyway

What this really is, is “I came to this angry because of the Big Account that wanted me to be angry about it, and then I looked at it and the reason I was angry was wrong, but I’m still angry so there has to be some way to justify it.” Very common on here.

“Kale chip eating freaks”

Nate Silver knows the political price of everything and the policy value of nothing. And policy value matters a lot for building trust, maintaining coalitions, and getting *anything* valuable whatsoever out of your electoral wins.

the eternal struggle is that when [policy guy at institute] and [popular user “bongwater joon ho”] get into a fight online about an issue, the former is obviously more correct on the merits but the latter knows how to game the environment

WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer. Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump. Now, it’s gone.

Going onto one of those art platforms with oddly specific rules about degrees of erectness and genders of nipples and whatnot and doing specbio shit to invent characters who can be actively fucking while remaining technically SFW by the exact letter of the content guidelines.

i do think it’s really important to note here, contrary to upthread, that JK Rowling’s transphobia has bought her nothing with these evangelicals. The witchcraft is real to them, and trans stuff is just (in their mind) another pathway to what Rowling is still promoting and profiting from

in other words i’m saying being a charismatic preacher can be a coping strategy learned from what people call narcisssitic abuse

Crazy how evangelical preachers all have the same backstory. “My father was a renowned holy man yet I fell into sin in my youth until I was personally saved by god“ is such a pattern, it suggests that prominent preachers must be terrible parents. Which, well…

Men who can’t admit to having submissive fantasies, exhibit 1:

This is a government that worships death

Drop Rowling, drop Fortnight. No money for monsters.

Underage wasn't accidental: underage was *the entire point*.

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

I’ve received an email almost exactly like this from a website called “GainRep” asking me to vouch for an ex-friend who stopped texting me after I stopped bringing snacks every time we hung out

𐑗𐑧𐑒 𐑬𐑑 𐑞 𐑯𐑿 𐑢𐑧𐑚 𐑓𐑮𐑳𐑯𐑑-𐑧𐑯𐑛 𐑓 ·𐑖𐑷-𐑕𐑐𐑧𐑤! 𐑕𐑻𐑗 𐑢𐑻𐑒𐑕 𐑦𐑯 𐑚𐑴𐑔 𐑛𐑲𐑮𐑧𐑒𐑖𐑩𐑯𐑟, 𐑯 𐑞𐑺𐑟 𐑰𐑝𐑩𐑯 𐑩 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯-𐑴𐑯𐑤𐑦 𐑥𐑴𐑛. joro.io/2025/12/19/s...

The interns redacting Trump out of the last batch of Epstein files before the deadline

Labor market satisfaction found to be correlated with Calories of Lunch consumed with R ≈ 0.85

Left this website for a few months and forgot that everything you post on here is a rhetorical jab on which you stake all your pride. My apologies, will resume tryharding.

Amusingly you could have these weapons work the same as plasma in 40K, with a much more mundane explanation: shoot too fast, get an ammunition cook off in the magazine and die

There's going to be a "De-Trumpification" program when he's gone like Germany had to de-nazify all the buildings

Firelock 198X: The great thing about retrofuturism is sometimes you’re reminded of something you forgot was cool

Firelock 198X

Essential dungeon crawl monsters: 1. Big and dumb 2. Small but there's lots 3. Tentacles don't go there 4. Evil horse 5. Fun facts about mushrooms 6. Eye 7. Punchable child 8. Dude that looks like another dude 9. Hostile architecture 10. Capitalism allegory 11. Uncomfortable implications 12. Steve

Got into Firelock 198x a little bit. Made this.

the guy making firelock 198x needs to move to bluesky so i can more easily keep up w the game introducing huge brain shit like "char 2c with a CIWS mount"

Man, and I thought *I* struggled with the math portions of my econ degree

1. Birth control is estrogen-progesterone 2. Presumably the male mice would also eat the cannoli 3. So they almost put chemicals in the ricotta that turn the friggin rats trans?

Everyone should take a couple of minutes and watch this, because it's a perfect illustration of how ICE disappears people by making it almost impossible to communicate with family, friends, and lawyers.

It needs to be said more often that the world is a better, more beautiful and more enriching place BECAUSE trans people are a part of it.

the grinch has died at age 23

why are we stuck with the annoying parts of medieval life, like “usurper king feuds with pope over sanctuary-seekers” and “king’s ministers believe plague would be good”, and not the fun parts like “local lord invites tenants to his manor for a christmas feast”?

"liberalism has no aesthetics" is a fish complaining it doesn't know what water is.

Anyway, it’s time to make molasses cookies