As Neville Chamberlain said, “peace in I’s time”

Ooh ooh let’s build a tower to the heavens. I feel like that definitely worked.

you can't restore a thing that never existed

The word “firebrand” is such a giant journalistic red flag If your copy includes the word “firebrand” you’re almost certainly misreporting / obfuscating / casting a false light

i wonder how they settled on "brash"

my god, how many NBA deaths are we going to have today? RIP to an absolute king

if I had a million dollars for every online community that splintered and moved no matter what "they" did I would be Jeff Bezos. the whole fucking point of the internet was to make friends with people who liked shit you liked vs based on proximity.

hell yeah, time to pass & sign this shit, then it’s time for some class-action suits baaaaaaby

and your dogs. please also remember to post pictures of your dogs. even if your dogs are cats.

literally can't be.

Was that so hard?

some folks are clearly afraid of a dummymander during a wave election

Somewhat unexpected news from South Carolina: Enough Republican senators *opposed* a vote to add redistricting to the ongoing legislative session, so the measure was DEFEATED. This prevents the GOP from taking up a new congressional map and eliminate the majority-Black district held by Clyburn.

there aren't any good posts and there are too many of them to read

Some really good posts today and also some just terrible dogshit awful posts and both sides of this equation need to keep at it!

old enough to remember when macaca was enough to sink George Allen.

I straight up refuse to believe that any politician in Virginia doesn’t mean it when they say “cotton-picking hands”

Cool economic indicator, NPR telling their core audience not to be ashamed for *checks story* shopping for groceries at Aldi and Costco

Don't let NPR find out about Asian grocery stores– they'll have a fucking panic attack.

Reminder to all white people with outdoor jobs and hobbies that sunscreen season actually starts this month

Oops seeing Mincemest again tonight.

Seriously why should VA Dems listen to the state Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Unblocks Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Map, Showing That Alito Was Lying talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

Twitter in its heyday always had one impact - despite always being smaller than Meta et al the people who work in DC media were power users who used it to talk at each other about what was "important" to tell normies offline.

A post like this goes around every week and one thing I would say is that people who blog or post for a living are always gonna think posting is extremely important, what is the point in posting on a Nazis website where he tells you he’s throttling you and banning people like you?

Cc @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social

My shrink is very proud of me. I am winning at therapy, a thing that is totally normal to want and achieve.

I'm not completely unsympathetic to this view but I don't think it holds up when you consider that any truly effective means of confronting the right on X would have been made either impossible or bannable by its owner

“What is wrong with Gen X?” Well, for every alterna-geek that became the face of my generation, there were thirty wannabe Alex P. Keatons, Steff McKees, and Heather Chandlers who used “f*g” or “r****d” freely and with venomous conviction.

Literally it was called "alternative culture" bc mainstream culture was an absolutely awful dystopian Reganeque hellscape. Those of us who couldn't stand it fled and found &/or made art / music / community /activism that in part told us it wasn't just us, but that wasn't what was served on main.

Only if our media lets him... so... yeah we're fucked.

Big part of what happened here is common decency towards people without social power was framed as political correctness.

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

This made me miss Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23.

turns out that you can drive up the birthrate with a baby bonus, you just need to crank it up to twice the per capita income www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/o...

The actual data point that squares the circle for why right wingers think ivermectin is a miracle drug that makes all of them feel better is quite obvious if implicit

this is absolutely BONKERS behavior from the director of the FBI. it's a disgrace to his position and the entire US government.

this is such a great test case for A) there are no perfect politicians and B) even after you have elected the closest thing to one we’ve seen in years, your job’s not done. we can’t just elect someone who seems rad and then clock out

Good job everyone for holding him accountable!

The smartest thing Hochul ever did was realize "why don't I let this generationally talented politician be my hype man?"

The trick to successful personality politics is in constantly giving up the spotlight, while remaining present. Mamdani uses "I" precisely twice in this entire video. He uses "we" or "our" 22 times. He mentions multiple other politicians by name, giving them credit. This is mastery of the form.

I still don't have Siri set up on my phone.

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

it is 2026 how do people still think website design works like drawing a picture.

i am completely willing to believe that this guy is dead and they are covering it up

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

You misspelled pipe bomb.

Passage I screenshat while I was offline last week to remind myself to share it here with this emoji 🫤