"my kids are defective!" is the battlecry of nearly every reactionary movement

Oooooh, this is my jam; can't wait to read it. The internet is not a visual medium so much as it's an audio-tactile medium: totally enveloping. It's not much of an exaggeration to say that screens are essentially Narcissus's pool.

Being online creates a sensorial split between the body and the mind, and attention must be paid!

Robert Redford got U2 drunk on Bushmills before an interview.

He has hobbies (mostly going in sinks), sets clear boundaries instead of throwing tantrums or other drama, gets outside every day, uses his words when he wants something. It's inspiring, tbh.

Check your local buy-nothing groups!

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

man he’s still got it

This thread echoes my own thoughts but is much more articulated!

This is one of the biggest misconceptions about the Fairness Doctrine: That it applied to *shows*, not *stations* Anyone running Limbaugh could comply by giving the local liberals an hour at 3am.

People are dragging them for this, but isn't it what Charlie would have wanted

What a great fucking metaphor they didn't mean to employ

elite centrist/lib transphobia is one of those classic contrarian things where they’ve built up a huge pile of facially convincing “evidence” that collapses immediately if you put it under serious scrutiny

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

I'm unreasonably fond of "box o' rocks" heat storage. Get a bunch of bricks/gravel/whatever, wrap 'em in resistive heating elements, heat 'em up when it's sunny or windy, use the heat when it's not. Stupid-simple and robust. I've seen 50-year-old "box o' rocks" apartment heaters still going strong.

We should all post a bunch of “have you seen…?” posts that day.

Longtime followers know.

Thread. These are pretty important details, given that they undermine the transphobic framing of the Economist article linked here!

I'm not sure that "step" porn was ever about step-relations (that's a fig leaf for producers and distributors), and I think it's less about constant availability and more about a sublimated but intense desire for intimacy.

What men want is to be able to tap the picture of any woman they see on the internet and then magically have sex with her, and the sex is whatever the man enjoys, and then when they're done, he can tap again and she disappears.

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

I don't really know anything about Bagram, but it would be cool if, as a country, we could try, like, UBI or single-payer healthcare sometime instead of just doing "run moderate Democrats" and "invade the Middle East" over and over again.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Darkly funny that the robots will not kill us because they hate us but because they just want to make us happy.

Literacy and more importantly the mindset of book culture was the whole scaffolding underpinning democracy, and it would be a good idea to figure out how we can resuscitate it before it vanishes entirely.

I would have gone to the doctor, but kudos to the Teen Vogue Summit for having that on hand

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

imo the idea (shared among both Helen Lewis and Shadi Hamid) is the idea that social media is a genuine public sphere when it's mostly just a place for Content. which is why so much of contemporary politics is basically fandom culture

I like to put on the U2 channel on SiriusXM and then say to the kids "Oh, this is a good one" almost every time a new song comes on.

Pass it on: a basic income costs less than poverty.

U2 support Jimmy Kimmel: "In support of the right to speak freely, from left to right, from good to bad to worse From the not so great to the inspirational…and above all to laughter Which is the evidence of freedom…."

Thread, and also the thread quoted in this first post.

Reminder that Blusky, like Twitter before it, by the very nature of how it functions - fosters digestible & simplified posts that are easy to generate anger & antagonist stances over - even with people you mostly agree with. Remember to try to not make enemies here - unless someone is a clear POS.

I‘d actually very much love to live in a world where I didn’t feel obligated to Vote Blue No Matter Who because there are multiple things I’d change about the Democratic Party if I could, but every presidential election for the rest our lives is a referendum on whether Groypers should have nukes.

If this really was intended as a DM, the wildest thing to me is that he really writes this way. It's not a persona or a performance. He actually writes out "Adam 'Shifty' Schiff" and recounts his impeachments and indictments to his AG, as if she weren't aware. 🤯

this is the second impeachable offense worse than watergate that we have read about *today*

Taco Bell Party Pack but half of it is still tacos

Trump coulda come back and just cruised and enjoyed not going to prison, but he's managing to fuck up so bad that he's turning Disney influencers into revolutionaries

Do you realize how crazy it sounds to complain that comedians are making fun of the president more than they make fun of other people? Yes, the most powerful, most famous person is a more common target of mockery than some legislator in the opposition party. Why would you possibly find that odd?

lmao bsky.app/profile/syns...

sinclair pulled its kirk tribute six minutes before it was set to air on its abc affiliates

The onus is always on Democrats to run more moderate, centrist candidates. I never hear the pundit class demanding the Republican run pro abortion or anti gun or pro LGBTQ candidates.

One of far too many opportunities these days to use the word "kowtowing."

Checking up on a pro-life Democrat in a red state.

If it was possible to pick up Republican voters at scale by being more moderate and representing the center of politics, we would've won 2016 & 2024, and 2020 would've been a massive blowout creating a Congressional supermajority. It doesn't work in a polarized electorate!

I immediately got banned from tumblr back in the day for posting Courbet's L'origine du monde in response to the porn ban. Labeling art as degenerate is anti-intellectual and anti-human - fuck you for capitulating in advance, Capital dick suckers.