They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

When will we see the day when "the algorithm" is seen in the same light as the rest of A/I? Both of them are someone's attempt to replace something meaningful with something soulless and calculated.

Happy Dictator-Stabbin’ Day!!

Listen, I liked Firefly as a kid. I cosplayed Simon & loved River. I don’t want this. Nobody wants this. The show didn’t age well. It’s a relic of its time Think about how many new shows could be made for the money going into this Beating a dead horse & inviting a gamer/gater to join you isn’t it

#tabletop #gaming #hottake : If you repeatedly play the same competitive game, and you never lose, then either you're playing the game wrong, or you're playing the wrong game. Discuss.

For anyone outside Minnesota who saw this man up on television giving interviews to pitch himself for a national stage in politics… listen to what locals were telling you when this man is a monster who takes pleasure in harming others while he dines with rich Republican donors. Do not trust Frey.

My entire adult life

Rich alludes here to the wisdom of the judges at the Nuremburg trial: “To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

Here’s the thing: a President openly contemptuous of Congress & willing, unilaterally, to recklessly and illegally commit the US to wars of aggression is an existential threat to the Republic, *regardless* of whether he can ultimately explain his acts to Congress. The demand must be impeachment.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

every zoomer bro who told me how based Dubai was should be drafted into the UAE armed forces

No word of the death toll? No word of the Constitution? No word of impeachment? Come TF on bsky.app/profile/audr...

Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance

the point of a billionaire tax is not to raise money on an ongoing basis. it is to make being a billionaire illegal

An industry boom that decimated the creative potential of the medium by making every mf a D&D designer. Also, he didn't "kill" past tense: continues to kill. I cannot market my game because 98% of the outreach channels I should reach won't cover a game that ain't about killing people in a dungeon.

I'm all in favor of celebrating (eventually) but not like this. Local organizing efforts were grassroots and localized and tailored to specific communities, and biz leaders don't get to just swoop in and slap their sponsorship logos on the hard work *they didn't do* We'll plan our own parties

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

Gee, Universal Basic Income recoups more than it costs AND the recipients are happier and healthier. Hmmm. Where have I seen those results before? Oh yes, in every other goddam pilot study of UBI for more than a decade. Ireland joins Finland in at least making a start.

Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov let me quote you back to you: DON’T TAKE THE BAIT!

Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.

Just realized that the Little Mermaid's two best friends are named Flounder and Scuttle, which are also two bad things that can happen to a person at sea. Someone at Disney had some unauthorized fun.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

“The state keeps killing us to instill a warning & then shows us videos of its agents doing it.” Police killings are warnings that say, “You will be next if you don’t stay in your place,” wrote @williamcson.bsky.social. To disrupt the state's monopoly on violence, we must abolish the police.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

ice is killing americans and democrats are still voting for trump's nominees

Schumer said this TODAY. 🚮

Doesn't seem like this should be his job

No business includes donations to the democrats, pass it on

My entire social existence is summed up in these two flags

“Abolish” or “defund” aren't within grasp in 2026. But where are: - End qualified immunity - Rewrite use-of-force so this crap isn't ruled “within policy” - Overturn July 8 mandatory detention memo - Reinstate TPS - Open up detention centers, enforce humane conditions He doesn’t even *ask* for it.

Multiple centrist Dems have publicly stated they will not fund the government unless Miller and Noem are gone AND that we should get rid of ICE!! And then Schumer pulls *this* bullshit!!!! Stop fucking being afraid to fight

We had eradicated this disease. And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.

Go to your congressperson's office and stick this on their forehead.

It's weird how after every good thing/gain (even if we don't call it a victory) people circle up to insist we shouldn't celebrate. Celebrating is not how people give up, in my experience; believing we can't win, never win, and have no power is (with a side of joylessness).

One way they do this is with a caution that sounds like "yes the dragon was slain BUT DO YOU KNOW THERE ARE OTHER DRAGONS?" We do. Or they jump ahead to anticipate the next problem: "yeah but have you ever disposed of dragon remains?"

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.” Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity. So pathetic and weak.

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

gee whiz it would be really great if the opposition party smelled blood in the water right now and went on a full offensive to harness this spark of momentum

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

OK. Now that this is as confirmed as it’s gonna get - Has anyone thought to contact Call of Duty to ask them what they think about their players perpetrating things like this & name dropping their game? Are they OK with it? Will they publicly condemn this shooter?

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

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Kat managed to fit the entirety of what the Democratic party's messaging should be right now in a single, :15 ad

Hey y’all remember on Jan 6th when women got on Tinder in DC and honeypotted all those rioters and sent a good clutch of ‘em to jail based on shit they admitted to in the DMs? Look I’m just saying they got Tinder in MN.