Obviously I would love to see someone who talks like this be president but seeing her force Schumer into retirement would be *very* satisfying

I need more liberal and “moderate” Christians to recognize these nuts for what they are. They aren’t your misguided brethren. They are your enemy. If they ever get what they really want in the US (and elsewhere) you’re going to be on the wall with the rest of us.

You’ll be hard pressed to find a democratizing movement in the US that *didn’t* play constitutional hardball & *didn’t* break unjust laws. That’s literally what democratization is, though it makes some people uncomfortable. If you want a democracy, you have to break the undemocratic system.

Another one; getting closer to the sort of things I want to do mixing color and texture

Zelensky understands that above all else fascists cannot abide ridicule; this is brilliant

Honestly, at this point, fuck the courts

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

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earlier this morning at the gym i was on a beastie boys kick and i was reflecting on how their music — which i discovered at like 10 — is a constitutive part of my personality, from my sensibilities to my politics and general demeanor towards the world

The US is rebooting Jim Crow and there are lunatics in Alberta that want to follow them. As an American who loves and lives in Canada I am begging you to worry about bigger problems than “decorum”

Enjoyed listening to and meeting @drtdufresne.bsky.social at @mcnallyrobinson.com tonight. His book, The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight, is a clear, urgent read that doesn’t flinch from hard truths but also charts a hopeful path forward. Highly recommended! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Well, at least the university administrators who forced this learning management hooey on their instructors will finally face some accountability for their decisions, right?

Genres of AI slop on social media --This celebrity (?) looks different --Happy birthday to this celebrity (?) --Weird thirst trap (?) using superfluous euphemisms for sex stuff --This is a building in the city in which we have geolocated you --Any moron can make a Star Wars fan film now, apparently

Do not do this. Airports are a public good.

Some (more) recent paintings

Well at least he isn't sending letters to civil rights leaders encouraging them to commit suicide

I have to admit I didn’t realize Ted Turner was still alive, which is especially weird having grown up a Braves fan and a viewer of TBS when it was still just channel 17 in Atlanta

Speak ill of the dead, pour encourager les autres

Gotta start moving that Overton window somewhere

I don’t recall consenting to snow

I've now explained, at length, multiple times, that farmers were neither lied to, nor did they "forget" anything. US farmers made a deliberate choice to vote GOP, to get specific financial & legal benefits. -Tax breaks -Fewer regulations -Easier to hold immigrants captive & do forced labor.

BTW I am observing by working on my Andor-inspired fan fic. May watch Empire later, we'll see

This is a great illustration of the point--I'm pretty sure made by W. Kamau Bell--that if you're a white family, you probably shouldn't adopt a Black child if your first Black friend is going to be that child

My 15yo recently had her first job interview and I was giving her sample interview questions like “why do you want this job?” And when I told her she couldn’t say “for money, obviously.” She was like, “So, I just have to lie about why I’m working for the rest of my life?” Yes, that’s right.

May the Fourth/Force is a good day to appreciate richly built fictional worlds worth being passionate about, arguing about, joking about, theorizing about, etc. Fill your boots! Just don’t, you know, make it your whole personality.

This is a crime against humanity

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”

“Republicans ended slavery” is the “Nicholas Cage won an Oscar” of American history

This is a good post that basically confirms everything I raised except it’s even worse than I thought taranis.ie/datacenters-...

You're not longing for the 90s, you just want to solve mysteries while having sexual tension with Gillian Andersen. It's a universal feeling.

Rode for the first time in *months* this time, still recommend!

100% this. I really miss playing with the Scene of the Crime Rovers

Watching Nuremberg, or as I like to think of it, accountability porn

My dude looks like Pizza the Hutt

“The question presents itself everywhere — when you come home from your dead end job to your unfulfilling family, when you listen to your ineffectual so-called political leaders, when you bite into every other fast food hamburger. The question [drags deeply on cigarette] is, ‘Where’s the beef?’”

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

So the last update to this app was allegedly meant to enhance the photo sharing feature, which in my case appears to mean making it completely inaccessible. You could have just said you don’t like my photos.

Charles' visit to DC was a smashing success because the British public needed to hear him tell Trump to shove it; the British govt needed Trump to hear that Charles thinks the world of him; and Charles managed to say the former in such an impeccably British manner that Trump heard the latter.

Indeed

Might fuck around and see if I can start a consultancy specializing in helping (some) Bluesky posters recognize joke accounts

I’d seriously consider ending my moratorium on political donations for a PAC that had this mission

Can't wait to pitch my updated version of Homage to Catalonia to Disney

the funniest thing about rod dreher is that his entire career has been this way. he has always been the private project of a single reactionary ghoul who can afford to subject the entire world to what should’ve been the inner monologue of a very cruel, stupid man.

Narrator: The auto plants were not coming back.

Wingnut welfare

Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh (surely someone beat me to this, I’m not checking)

Not gonna lie; I really didn’t think they had it in them. Now they’re going to need to do the same thing dozens of times for the next several decades.

The blogosphere was great! I had several, and contributed to a few group ones. I think I once tallied up that I had written a very respectable novel’s worth of text. Like tears in rain…

Alan Moore on now.