there is a way for him to restore his honor

“Skepticism” implies that ICE’s statements on the matter might have some probative value. I think either ignoring them—or assuming they’re lying about everything—will get you closer to the truth, faster.

View from my window

Brush fire on the tracks near Stratford Station in East London

America's constant grappling with our troubled past (and present) is akin to someone posting a link to a major newspaper article and saying "why is no one reporting on this?"

Trump: It's not working! Why don't they love the fair? How do I make the crowds cheer? Oracle of DC: If you test your strength against the heat with a very long speech, the nation will celebrate harder than they ever have. They will party in the streets. No one will ever forget the night.

If It Happened at the President’s Castroesque speech in 107° heat, I would not complain.

> But I believe that returning after a suspension carries with it an implicit promise that I won’t post that, or something like it, again. I won’t make that promise, so I won’t return to Bluesky. I don’t think it carries that promise at all. You take your penalty and you get back in the game.

🐓🐓🐓

Took my shoes to the shoeshine guy and he said they need inpatient care.

Cleanup time

voted for Brad Lander and only Brad Lander (there’s nothing else on my ballot)

I think the whole city is in lower Manhattan, and I’m just trying to get to work on the other side of Broadway

Trying to get blocked iykyk

Canadian independence

If Donald Trump called me a “dumb person”, I’d wear it as a badge of honor for the rest of my life. Like you would never hear the end of it.

"I will never believe that mine could do wrong" leads directly to "yours" doing wrong knowing you have their backs, and eventually you will get used to it, going from covering for evil to making excuses for evil to defending evil to encouraging evil.

Cynical accusations of bigotry are the last resort of the chartless

Noted Liberal Ryan Grim says we should let MTG into our tent.

Duels, settled by coin flip

Duels, settled by poll, loser gets banned

When It Happens we should cryogenically freeze his head so that someday, maybe, we can thaw him and send him to prison.

yeah, and like the thing that is happening to him actively kills us on a regular basis and yet people refuse to think "maybe we should destroy the transfem mulching torture nexus instead of keeping it around for power games"

I'm increasingly of the opinion that the most dangerous thing to believe is "I am the victim and therefore whatever I do is righteous and justified" This mindset is most obvious in fascists but it's most dangerous when one's grievances and claims of victimhood are very real!

This dude sucks

When I get something wrong, I’d like a way to disavow it without hiding that I got it wrong or disrupting the reply chain, which might demonstrate why it’s wrong. So I’d really like a retract button. I think it presents a lot fewer problems than an edit button would.

The Hungry One in her natural habitat

The Hungry One got another hoodie. I knew I left it where she could get to it, but I didn’t know there was a treat in the pocket. Just noticed this out on the street. It’s still damp.

Ideology or no, we need a name for them

It kinda sucks for Will Stancil to have a love interest ask him why people online want him dead quoted is the right answer but implicit: every public figure has deranged haters who wish them dead

people on this website will threaten to kill you for talking about graphs of economics data, while putting the symbol for the "graphs of economic data coercively run the entire country" ideology in their user name.

I worry a lot about communities formed around the commitment: anyone who ever tries to tell you anything short of the maximally emotionally satisfying thing to you right now is a liar who wants you to suffer.

no, sister was a baby and brother has a funnier sense of mischief. during long car ride a while ago our sis asked him for ETA and he said two hours though we were like 45 min away. when she expressed panicked disbelief he turned around and yelled “time prank!!” we still say this to each other lol

I'm a Taurus so when Mercury's in Gatorade it doesn't really impact my chart

In the end the emploids lost, but not for the reasons the brokies would have you believe. Instead the oligrapists destroyed the emploids before everyone was destroyed by the clankers.

Odd: www.justice.gov/epstein/file... (safe for work btw)

Guys. It’s time for some game theory (derogatory)

Some are thinking of politics as an iterated game. They have two opponents: “the Dem Establishment” (reality: Dem primary voters) and MAGA fascism. I emphasize *iterated* because they don’t appear to believe their choices could deprive them of future iterations.

Not sure I can reliably distinguish 99% Hitler from 98% Hitler

“No analysis but class analysis!”

After Hitler, Megahitler’s turn.

Should the Dem nominee accept an endorsement from notable ex-GOP Never-Trump conservative Beelzebub?

Fortunately the Prince of Darkness is not real, but also that’s a great nickname for Gavin Newsom.

this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis

I don’t know who is pushing the Newsom discourse, who really wants it to happen, but I have no more reason to believe it’s coming from some pro-Newsom faction (who I’ve never encountered on here!) than from some anti-Dem wrecker faction.

It’s bait! It’s all bait! Stop biting down so hard.

Three ways the MAGA era has changed me: • I believe evil is real, in the sense that I actually feel it in my life rather than just reading about it. • I’m no longer categorically opposed to capital punishment. • I swear now.