It’s okay. It’s not the insanity that gets to you, it’s the cognitive dissonance of trying to be perfectly sane in an insane world.

Official data is in today, and US solar power generation continues to grow rapidly, up 22% compared to this time last year!

"America was occasionally evil in a different and less intense way, but right now is very evil all the time." shouldn't really be a hard concept.

I would argue his dark and open evil was seen as proof by certain Americans he would be an economic boon for them, because Americans believe evil men have money powers.

I'm paying $1/dozen like I did 10 years ago. America is finally Great Again. The big guy can retire now.

holy shit

You know what's great? Books.

People got really angry at me when I wrote this on Mastodon a few years ago, but it's true: post-consumer plastic recycling is functionally a myth, not just in the U.S. but globally. Odds are vanishingly close to zero that your plastic, faithfully put in the recycling bin, will ever be recycled.

I mean the reality right now is that a coalition that was "Biden numbers in the suburbs" with "Obama numbers in the rurals" is probably enough to completely lock the GOP out of power. Durability would be a question, obviously, but the pathway to a massive coalition isn't some weird fantasy.

I haven't done any actual data analysis here, but my gut feeling in 2022 was that it was gas prices and it's the same today.

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

/r/NBA is getting serious today.

"Can Mamdani turn New York City into a place people want to live, like Nashville, Tennessee?" is one of those "look at the scoreboard" moments, lol.

Often overlooked in the "fertility crisis" hullabaloo is that men's online media is basically a conspiracy to make them unfuckable.

One time when I was in college and very poor and young, I crumbled up a slice of bread, covered another slice of bread in mayo, and battered the slice of bread with the bread crumbs and ate breaded fried bread. This post brought back that memory.

A true fact about Trump's stock trading- I ran the numbers and Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026. All 535 Members of Congress made a total of ~$635 million worth of trades in 2025. So Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did last year

the GREAT LAKES!!! THERE ARE NO LAKES GREATER!!!! this is my basin. this is my flora & my fauna. this is my sun & her angles of light beams.

Far too many people have completely lost their minds.

I'm always saying that SGA is the Netanyahu of basketball.

If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.

now THAT's causal identification! theyre gonna run out of oil somewhere else therefore the strait will become open

White ppl felt empowered by Kamala Harris losing her election and that’s a problem on both sides.

This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.

People who would happily vote for Tucker Carlson are on the right. They are right-wingers. "I would happily vote for Tucker Carlson..." is something that is only said by right-wingers. If they say "I am on the left but I would happily vote for Tucker Carlson..." then they are still right-wingers.

As always, I only see cool fish on their absolute worst days

Seen in Logan Square

Me reacting to Tony Brothers during game 5.

I love basketball. NBA officiating is broken.

"It [the Constitution] is intended to be the charter of a self-governing and free people, not a secret code that can only be interpreted by those who have been read into the proper mystery cult. The Constitution belongs to us, more than it does the faculty of Yale Law School."

This seems very obviously true when you realize that one of the defining features of most millennials is that their 20s overlapped with the Great Financial Crisis

Younger daughter & I found these fossilised crinoid rock stars (segments of the ‘stem’ of Jurassic feather stars/sea lilies, related to starfish & sea urchins) in the gravel on the edge of a lake nr Peterborough UK. She used them to make an ammonite:

So, I assume that Jared Polis needs to be pardoned for something that we don't know about.

I love things like this.

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

Japan is one of the most R&D intensive non-US countries, and RIKEN is its most prestigious (non-university) research institute. If you isekai’d it into the US, it only has the fourth biggest R&D budget in the state of North Carolina, which is like the twelfth biggest state bsky.app/profile/awma...

When the Great Defunding started in 2025, the European Union introduced a "bold" program to attract top scientists from the US, funded at the tune of about ~$500 million spread over 3-5 years. In 2024, the NIH allocated almost twice as that per week.

It happened at the end of August and September saw COVID come back and we started getting awful inflation numbers. You can see the emergence of anti-incumbent sentiment in Britain and Canada for example.

this is a good example of what I’m talking about when I say that people like stoller are completely irrelevant on the platforms that actually reach people. he thinks that if you’re not on X, you’re not anywhere. meanwhile, half of americans get their news and politics from youtube and tiktok

Alan really gets at it here:

I'd argue that if the students had not encamped, Andrew Cuomo would be mayor of New York. And certainly, support for Israel among Democratic voters wouldn't have flipped from 67-33 to 33-67.

Not that it matters but I’ve changed my mind. Virginia should retire its Supreme Court. No maneuver too dishonorable in the war against the Confederacy of Jimbobs

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

hot damn we got jeffries reconstructionposting

Holy cow, "This guy has a PhD from Oxford and a MD from Columbia, but is he *really* a doctor?" is not the line of attack that I would have taken.

Invert, always invert! "What Drove Juan David Ortiz, a Serial Killer, to Become a Respected Border Patrol Agent?"

I think this is true. When the GOP breaks the rules, it’s (obviously wrongly) seen as a Dirty Harry antiheroes who break the rules but get stuff done type thing whereas Democrats breaking the rules is seen as a hypocritical hall monitor and/or women and minorities not knowing their place thing.

heads up to any keto pals this is about erythritol