Every once in a while I remember how fucking old Jericho is and it makes me want to lie down.

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

One of the silent pain points of the moment is that so few people are who they think they are.

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

*cough*

כן מלאכים לא מלכים

Sam Altman, crawling right up to the edge of saying "AI will never do anything that can really be considered actual productive work" and staring at it with perpetually wet, unseeing eyes. And then mumbling "all the poors *might* have to die" before shedding his skin and swallowing it like a toad.

This is a great thread that you should read. But it also reminded me of a Hershel of Ostropol joke: Hershel and a friend get bread from a restaurant. Hershel tears the bread in half, keeps the larger half, and gives his friend the smaller. His friend says, "that was very rude, what you just did."

sometimes I think about this

In this house we believe: JFK wasn't shot, his head just did that by itself.

Shake a hormone at God

They look both very silly and also very wise. Tell me your knowledge, strange not-rabbit.

like I said yesterday when hundreds of people shared the “Israeli gumbo” screenshot with outraged commentary about “them” colonizing Louisiana, these are fake screenshots, no such articles exist, you are all getting righteously angry at something made-up b/c it aligns with your existing opinions.

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

“Dr. Frankenstein warns ‘stitched-together revenants’ terrorizing local community”

It isn't about what some "we" needs or wants. It's about whether capital can work out a way to put a rent on something that's currently free.

i think we should rotate literally everything & anyone who's had power for my whole lifetime should be cycled out & forced to live penniless in their cars while normal folks who react to "we want you to pay us to beam concentrated sunlight into your home " get to make decisions for a generation.

Man it really sucks that people heard “Jews and Israelis aren’t synonymous” and interpreted that to mean “you can be as antisemitic as you want if you just say Israeli instead of Jewish”

You know how a lot of people think it's ok to be misogynistic as long as they specify they're talking about white women?

The reason Nazis make memes like this is to get leftist crossover and inspire others to make their own copies. People fall for it

US "democracy" is where you get to argue about who operates the orphan grinder but you don't get to argue about whether such a thing should continue to exist

I'm going to reiterate people call Israeli culture at large and cuisine in particular appropriation because they don't want Israeli culture to exist and their project is the genocidal act of unmaking it.

Stock market! Do not crash! I was joking!

"If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." -- Justice Kavanaugh

It’s not great that there are a bunch of people taking this at face value and continuing to push Jews have to steal culture ideas.

If I die in the Portland Wars, I want y'all to make sure "Esther Jean would have Saved Her" goes on my tombstone.

fun fact for goyish leftists: saying "the eternal Jew is a culture parasite, he has no culture which he calls his own, all that he has he steals from his betters" does not stop being Nazi shit when you find-and-replace "Jew" with "Israeli"

Yeah this is fake, and the people sharing it unironically are useful idiots for Jew-haters.

Juniper: (steals Melanie Cagle's photograph, writes outrage-bait text in distinctly My Jewish Learning-style font and color formats) Also Juniper: What did *I* do??

The food image is from Melanie Cagle's blog The Cagle Diaries ("Authentic Louisiana Seafood Gumbo Recipe"). Her recipe post does not say gumbo is Israeli; she's not an antisemitic troll Did YOU steal Cagle's photograph and write text in a distinct My Jewish Learning-style format to foment hatred?

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Very funny considering this was about six months ago bsky.app/profile/edzi...

While providing tech support for my FIL: FIL: What's that screen? ME: The terminal. You should never use it. FIL: Never? ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself? FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

oh my god concept: a Sora video of Trump announcing his own death that ends with a plug for a new series of Trump Memorial Watches

the day that it finally happens is gonna be surreal because the way they report it will be fucking deranged

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

It's like throwing a military parade for yourself but all the soldiers are carrying signs that say they suck at fighting

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

I will die on the hill of "the maximum age for holding office should be pegged to the age of eligibility for Medicare."

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

"Caustic soda"

I still can't believe a person who is responsible for healthcare in this country said out loud and meant it that a cause of autism is children getting circumcised. I still cannot believe that this is the country, the world, that I fucking live in

And let me highlight the DISCIPLINE at play here and across the country, too. They are trying to goad protestors into lighting a Reichstag fire and those efforts are being met with suggestive hip thrusts from a giant inflatable frog. This is movement not taking the bait.

Thinking ahead to dinner...

Every time Judaism becomes a national topic -- which seems to be every day -- it's like a free-for-all of gentiles confidently being publicly wrong about us.