As a millennial I absolutely hate the new Windows system of taking away file like interfaces from the UI and turning everything into apps. I've specifically downloaded mods that restore the old Windows file functionality

we’ll lose because we’re more obsessed with discourse than solving our own problems. that’s why

Again, the illegality of firing on shipwrecked mariners is so absurdly well established that it is used in the manual training material as the example of an order *so obviously illegal* that no further information would be required for a servicemember to be obligated to refuse it.

once again: real Costco has never been tried

going to war with venezuela would be stupid and evil and also i think allying with russian stooges and weird cults is not a good way to make that point

the thing cyberpunk got wrong is that it imagined the fun kind of degeneracy fluorishing instead of the "betting on which murder suspect did the hatecrime, game show style" kind (its usually both in those depictions but yknow what i mean)

LMAO god it would be so funny if Dems retake the House before midterms.

Oh to be a goose shitting everywhere honking at anything that comes near me

Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."

Anyways this is a distraction from the real solution, everything is Paraguay

You can reason with people who are curious but un- or ill-informed: I gave an A to a student in a medieval history class who asked me on the first day when Game of Thrones took place, because she read the material, worked hard, and produced well-argued essays. You can't work with bull-headed morons.

also, please stop saying she 'cited the Bible.' She didn't. There's no citation. She couldn't even be bothered to quote scripture. What she did was talk about what she recalls the Bible says.

No, winning a Grammy in 2022 absolutely does not count as cancelled.

it’s fun watching people see what trans folks have been warning of for years. the media has no capacity to inform about the politicization of health care

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Look I'm aware that there's a problematic history comparing Jewish people to lizard people or aliens in disguise or whatever but ummmmm eating only mayonnaise isn’t helping your case here Stephen.

At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit. You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'? There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.

Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

We stan a Democrat with a long memory and steadfast grudges

Stay alert.

This is indicative of civilizational decline. @radiofreetom.bsky.social please come hate this with me

Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.” Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.

if you're looking for some weekend reading...

DOGE was extremely bad at cutting overall spending, but managed to eliminate a bunch of stuff that saved large numbers of lives cheaply

I guess the other thing about the JFK assassination is there are other conspiracy theories that have a lot more meat on their bones, but they're never as specifically weird. Operation Condor is real but boring. The KGB throwing money at terrorists and claiming the US invented AIDS is real but boring

The declassified files are fascinating for other reasons though. The Mexico City cables are probably the best publicly available window into the day-to-day function of a CIA Station, excepting perhaps the reconstructed Iranian Embassy files.

I guess, having waded into the JFK assassination mire, I should produce some Discourse on it. The event was excruciatingly investigated and the answer is the boring answer that a random nut shot people. Which is disconcerting because everything leading to the boring answer is very weird

I am once again asking people to stop uncritically accepting IP-based geolocation in the year of our lord 2025. We know foreign malign influence operators love MAGA, yes, but we also know X features are flaming AI horse shit.

We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

Sometimes I imagine trying to tell my younger self about that time the Pope hosted a birthday rave outside of the St. Elizabeth Cathedral and they had a bishop drop the beat with a benediction, and I realize I wouldn't have believed this timeline either.

here's why I like Mamdani it's not because the left (who I'm often antagonistic to) loves him. it's because the right hates him. he causes them pain and suffering and anxiety and consternation, and the way I know the good guys are winning is that the bad guys are losing

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The Mamdani thing makes sense now. Trump got into politics calling Obama a fake. It turns out all he wanted was a genuine Muslim socialist

The most important thing to remember about all this fantasy-engineering of the Constitution is Madison's warning: If we suck as a people, no clever constitutional schemes will save us.

Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out

Ditto

"Copies the opinion of last person he meets" theory still undefeated.

I think Mamdani is doing what he has to for his voters by charming the pants off Donald Trump, and I'm glad he's got the natural charisma to do it, but I do want to point out that people would absolutely savage Whitmer or Shapiro for doing the same

Holy shit lol

The lowest rung on the nerd ladder is the guy who's stuck putting up with abuse from other, slightly more functional nerds because they're the only people willing to engage with them socially and abuse is better than nothing. Elon had to pay obscene month for this

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To put it bluntly, you never see people suggest that the civil rights movement was tainted by Obama’s drone strikes but you do see people say feminism is tainted by Hillary’s participation in them or the LGBT rights movement by “white gays.”

Come on, cowards. Earn your place in the camps.