Putin: 73 years old Trump: 79 years old Netanyahu: 76 years old Narendra Modi: 75 years old Xi Jinping: 72 years old Khamenei: 86 years old The planet is run by elderly narcissists who think the world can't go on without them and have started a world war to prove themselves right.

I'm asking you politely: Please don't litter on the internet? AI generated art and music smells.

MINNEAPOLIS, United States -- Paramilitary forces under the command of President Trump expanded their campaign of terrorism to a new major American city, attacking a school and killing an unarmed civilian attempting to flee the violence.

The kind of person who will tell you to bomb a bus will also gleefully throw you under the next one.

Wrote about Epstein, the misogynistic culture that protected him, and the banality of evil when it comes to harming women and children. He was not a unique man. open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

I love that JD Vance is IRL Starscream, just a conniving jackass hated by everyone including his own boss. The one vestigial piece of bipartisanship left in this country

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

This is brilliant

This is the way.

Happy Please End the Day With the Same Number of Fingers You Started It With Day

Trump released a $250 fragrance (one for women, one for men). Sometimes a fragrance can be expensive because it contains certain ingredients or involve artisanal, small-batch production. But with no note breakdown or even a description of the scent, what justifies this price?

Wisconsin Republicans want to eliminate Spring elections "because Republicans don't show up". #Wisconsin www.wisn.com/article/rep-...

Idk if this is insane behavior or not but I really liked this one post-election @hankgreen.bsky.social video and put all (but one) of the books in the bibliography into a spotify audiobook playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/64t...

About seven years ago, Nick and I wrote a Black Mirror spec where people had a personal AI device called ChooseU that helped you make the best decisions for yourself, gradually transforming you into a complete narcissistic sociopath who’d do anything to get what you want. Anyway, they’ve made that.

Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:

"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.."

Viking metal cover of Gangnam Style. Good, but still doesn't beat the Big Trouble in Little China version youtu.be/j0U769v6acU?...

Louder for the folx in back

like every religious system, Christianity has regularly been mobilized and interpreted in the service of unconscionable ends but to my mind what we are seeing on the right in the United States is something else -- the emergence of an almost Nietzschean, if not outright nihilist, ... 1/

A (small) bright spot amid the chaos: The FSIS (Food Safety Inspectors, part of the USDA) posted their employee onboarding handbook on their public-facing website yesterday - 'for new employees and a reminder for current ones'. The first ten pages are Mission / ethics statements, passages about

I saw a few people describe Curtis Yarvin as "dumb," despite his reputation as the far-seeing philosopher-king who's inspired Peter Thiel, JD Vance, & many on the New Right. So I did some reading and, well, yikes, "dumb" is an understatement. He's just Lou Dobbs w/ bigger words. For example...

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

The first thing that came to my mind upon hearing this; Where’s the hotline for kids, teachers & classroom ‘executives’ for real or threatened mass shootings? CEO’s? Give me a break!

HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio. Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.

The issue I tend to have with articles like this is that there's no 1 reason why straight men have fewer friends. Yes (say it with me now) toxic masculinity is part of the problem, without question. But there're also issues like how work increasingly takes over every moment of free time...

It's Shirley Jackson's birthday today, and so it's a perfect opportunity to recommend my favourite story of hers, THE SUMMER PEOPLE. It's a subtle horror, quietly creeping up behind you until it lays a cold hand on your shoulder. I love it very much. It's only 13 pages and you can read it here:

Have you ever had a dream so vivid you'd swear you were peeking into another reality?

Once again: DST doesn’t solve the problem of going to/from work in the dark. Instead, when days get shorter in the fall, we should just shorten the workday by an hour. Then in spring, when we start getting more daylight again, we can shorten the workday by another hour.

We don't talk enough about how the underfunding and stigmatization of anti-poverty programs has undermined trust in government--and trust in the Democratic politicians who champion those programs--among the very people those programs are designed to support. (🧵 1/)

the city in glass - nghi vo a dark and drowning tide - allison saft metal from heaven - august clarke and just picked up a new one which is hitting real hard will tell yall about it later

I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

This was cathartic ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Google's AI-Generated Search Results Keep Citing The Onion www.readtpa.com/p/googles-ai...

Please watch #DeadBoyDetectives so we get a second season. Because [redacted] is [redacted]. And I need to know if [redacted] and [redacted] end up [redacted].

Someone recently described AI as “the world’s greatest bullshitter” & I think that b/c the people promoting it have only ever bullshit their way through life they think that IS what human intelligence is.