Imagine being a decent, normal, everyday guy named Markwayne. You're just going about your life, trying to be a good husband to your wife Pfluanna and a good dad to your kids Brandoug and Kirkaneezer, and then along comes this piece of shit

"Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment in the asset manager’s Defense Industrials Active ETF, the people said, shortly before the US launched military action against Tehran."

Let's just say that I'm the type of guy who's delighted to see an "Andy Weir sucks" discourse gaining traction on BlueSky (I'm the type of guy who thinks Andy Weir sucks)

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

This is going to light such a fire under the massive population of 25-year-olds who could afford a yacht but didn't want one until they saw two-time U.S. Open champion Carlos Alcaraz sailing the seven seas

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

me pulling a dissatisfying wad of paper towels out of some weak-ass ULINE dispenser: ☹️ me yankin p-tows ever so smoothly from the gracious mouth of a quality TORK: 🤩

This is my Liberty Leading the People

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

"A camel is a horse designed by a committee" is such an incredible compliment to committees

Open the schools!

I'm gonna be real, I wasn't very excited for altman v musk until literally... reading this from musk's deposition

It's crazy how the media loves to profile writers who use AI but never wants to profile me for not being a fucking hack

Oh, come ON

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

NGL, I'm captivated by these new shirts at temu

every man in Boston looks like a different type of thumb

Attention universities:

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Handwriting was destroyed in two generations by a series of terrible policy decisions and this has helped make everything in America stupider. There are way worse things we could be doing than bringing back cursive, no offense to your unreadable clawlike scrawl

kids should be able to read cursive because it enables them to read old documents among other things. When done consistently it’s also a more economical form of writing. I don’t know why people are so mad about this.

I saw the best minds of my generation make a comfortable living writing celebrity profiles amid broader industry collapse

Dreams DO come true: my photo of the ICE teens spread so far divorced of context or credit that Snopes dot com had to write a whole story confirming that I didn't make it with AI. 🥲

Activist who pushed 2020 election fraud claims convicted of election fraud www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

You think all the news is bad, and then you find out "fumblerooski" made the OED

Tag yourself I'm Our Beauty

This entire thread is very accurate and worth reading but this point in particular stands out to me. The utter bafflement by the American media complex at why the public isn't culturally realigning in favor of Trump as predicted. The answer is because of Twitter! They think Twitter is real life!

there's gonna be a punt in this game

There's a German word for the molten fury I feel reading announcements like this, but future Syracuse grads won't know what it is

r/conservative commenter on Trump. Setting a new record for being so close to getting it. You physically can't be any closer to getting it

I love this book so much. Every Penelope Fitzgerald novel seems so casual and straightforward, and about halfway through you realize she's taken you someplace completely astonishing and you don't understand how she's doing it. And they're funny! Great pick

My son Saxon is so based that he ate three full pounds of Kraft singles at a Branford Marsalis concert

Maybe if you just get one more dunk off on a transparently asinine Trump post whose sole purpose is to make you share it, you'll finally bring down this no-good regime once and for all

Also, if folks aren't familiar with Emily Tucker's previous work, you should read her post from 2022 on why the Center on Democracy & Technology stopped using "AI" and "machine learning" in order "to expose and mitigate the harms of digital technologies in the lives of individuals and communities."

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

"USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025." did the US Navy post a profit last year?

I just looked at Twitter for the first time in ages and...what

I wrote about oil

hear em out

I got curious about how oil markets actually work, so I wrote a little guide for the perplexed. It's all so, so much stranger than you imagine

The good news about our current situation is that if we consign our bodies to shallow, warm seas with periods of low oxygenation, we too could someday turn into oil

I wrote about oil

Every single bullet point makes me more excited to order the Calming Carrot

The man who decided to do it is now the fifth richest person on earth

Oh yeah? You think you’re a pretty easygoing person? Pretty calm? What if I told you a **transparently specious** argument had prevailed at a public meeting? How calm are you now, tough guy

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/