danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

hey guys, your favorite manosphere podcaster here and for todays episode we’re gonna spend 2 hours looking at pics of dudes and breaking down how masculine they are, but first we answer the age old question: how gay is it to buy flowers for a woman youre in a committed relationship with?

If you don’t know who the low-value human capital is, you are the low value human capital

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

The cum flowers were in bloom and the president had non-union guys he wasn't going to pay excavate a pit to hell on the lawn. The first of the cicadas landed on his chin and got stuck in the pancake bronzer. 35 shots rang out. Some dipshit they tricked into thinking he was a hero was already dead.

Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.

I bet those J6 fascists only get pennies on the dollar from the Trump $1.8 billion slush fund. Just another grift

The 2026 Ryan Lochte is Stevie from Eastbound & Down incarnate

Are we in hell? www.wired.com/story/i-work...

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

Webcam at the observatory: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR7Y...

at risk?

This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

Tech companies’ plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure depend on a one-of-a-kind Dutch equipment maker most Americans have never heard of. on.wsj.com/4mPLlXl

Storm chaser Aaron Rigsby captures the terrifying moment a tornado strikes a building in Rockton, Illinois.

Goodnight, Jane. Oregon Softball defeats Washington 8-4. #GoDucks Via: GoDucks

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

BERNIE: “The time is long overdue for members of Congress to listen to the American people and end US military aid to the extremist Netanyahu government.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’ll never understand MAGA. Why is Trump as AI Jesus the straw that broke the camel’s back? Really? That’s the red line?!?

If Melania wants to come out and give us the dirt on Epstein and her husband, I promise to watch her movie.

I didn't know anything about the Artemis II astronauts a week ago and now I would fight my way into Hell for any of them.

Univesity of Oregon anthropologists help repatriate 1,000 stolen artifacts from Thailand and Cambodia - btw I saw Prof. Alison Carter on PBS regarding a documentary about Angkor Wat and it's a must visit now for me #GoDucks cas.uoregon.edu/news/lesson-...

Pretty cool that the new owner of the Blazers wears a Whalers hat to threaten the fan base on day 1. Very cool! I love how he is endearing himself to fans 🙄

Awesome. The new Blazers owner is a sociopath. Just great…

No Kings is worth attending for the entertaining signs.

on the jim crow travesty that is the SAVE act (gift link)

This is thorough and merciless and more applicable to American domestic affairs than you might expect. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This week the Senate is going to vote on Joshua Rudd to be Director of the NSA. He's a dangerous nominee to lead an agency with a history of abusing domestic surveillance capabilities. Here's why:

holy shit

Presidents don’t control oil prices, but the delicious irony about the “I did this” Biden stickers at gas stations is that oil prices would be about $60-$65 a barrel if Trump didn’t start a war with Iran. Today they are around $80 per barrel and climbing. So yeah, Trump “did this” 😂

I guess we are just paying these people to fly around making workout videos and attending sporting events.

Are we great again yet?!? www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Kash Patel thinks he's on the team: defector.com/kash-patel-t...

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

This is… well… f%ked.

Slayer

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Lake Oswego movie theatre responds to controversy over the Melania marquee message. Good stuff! laketheatercafe.com/melanie-sp/

Quick round up: - the government is covering up evidence the president is a pedophile - he’s openly taking bribes from foreign governments - his masked agents are shooting citizens in the streets - the FBI is helping him steal the election - he’s threatening war against multiple allies 👍👍👍

The idea that the Court should operate entirely in secret is a modern phenomenon. The idea that the Court should be separated from the public is a modern phenomenon. Earlier generations did not accept a powerful, isolated & secretive Court and we shouldn't either 1/6 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

"The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police. 2005-2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and agents have been arrested"

If you’ve ever wondered what you’d do when the Nazis started taking over, guess what: It’s what you’re doing right now.

"Political appointees in the clicktatorship are not just using online platforms as a mode of communication. Their judgment and decision making are hyper-responsive to what’s happening on the far-right internet. They view everything as content."

Independent probe sought in fatal shooting of Los Angeles man by off-duty ICE agent reut.rs/4qa8wvj

GOP is just a bunch of pathetic racists