“A second campaign manager for Graham Platner has quit.”

but don’t take away from that the idea that food banks are useless. they’re going to feed people- not going to feed them enough, and not going to feed enough people, but food in mouths. anything you can do for food banks right now isn’t at all wasted, it is more sure to be useful than ever

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Achilles: Rage? Of course he was full of rage. He’s a victim of the male loneliness epidemic

i have friends everywhere :)

Anyway, instead of engaging with the trolls, I am going to tell you all I have gotten back to reading Monstress, and if you all need distraction, I can recommend it. Beautiful art, interesting characters, and some good mysteries. Everything a comic needs

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They hate you and want to hurt you. The most effective tactic you can use against them is to block them and deprive them the ability to interact with you.

they don't want power, they want to be loved

You best start believing in trade wars with China Ms. Turner. You’re in one.

It’s been 100 days since Elon Musk launched his new political party: The American Party, and what a ride it’s been! Its coalition is expanding, its clear policy aims are drawing support from left, right and center. And best of all? It’s real and it exists.

I was considering watching Allie Beth Stuckey debate liberal Christians on Jubilee until I saw it last 100 minutes. I struggle with self-loathing, but even I don’t dislike myself that much

if you never get a taste for the money they're paying you, they won't be able to pay you for anything you don't want to do

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

“A tax influencer said”

Seeing one of mutuals do this has inspired me. One like for one hot take

My basic orientation towards this story is that someone who comes here and turns around struggling schools is more worthy of being an American than any of Stephen Miller’s goons, no matter what a piece of paper says. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

The Boomerification of Millennials continues apace. I must rise above this nonsense.

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

I’m so glad this line reading is living rent free in other people’s heads. I would never have considered delivering it that way. Absolutely brilliant

People on here still can’t separate their feelings about how ai is being implemented and how vcs want to use it from conversations about the mathematics behind it and scientific questions about it.

*grits teeth as a sigh escapes through them* Newsom is right, and other Dem governors should promise the same

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

For my followers who pray, I could use prayers for a private matter.

🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦇🐈‍⬛🐸"The Moonlit March" Art by Annie Stegg

These guys want to do the 1619 Project and add “but that’s good, actually,” at the end of every sentence.

If you watch Jaws backwards, it is a heartwarming story about a shark who gives arms and legs to people who need them.

Taking Tylenol while pregnant so in 10 years I'll have someone who can help me with computer. Take that, Geek Squad

This is my sentiment exactly. It's a really intriguing development in *computer science* as a field. As a product, though? Still very iffy, and Big Tech pushing it hard is gonna blow up in their face.

I think you can and should separate stuff he physically/logistically can't do (send secret police after each liberal group and individual in the country) from stuff he actually can (bully media orgs who think they need to appease him to stay in business).

Yes! Yes!

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Murder is wrong. Pogroms are wrong. Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong. (If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)

imo "violence aimed at elites from non-elites" is the category of violence most disfavored in elite discourse. and violence that flows from elites to non-elites is not conceived of as violence at all. and these ideas frame the entire elite conception of who charlie kirk was and what his murder means

What rules about Mario is that if you'd asked a marketing team if a chubby middle-aged Italian plumber sounds like a character that'd become iconic, there's no universe where they'd say yes. It's the ultimate proof to me that inspiration & creativity trumps conventional wisdom.

the sci-fi cliche of having an avatar in Virtual Reality that gives you IRL pain if it gets hurt is really what reputation amounts to, Origgi argues

this is a genuine problem and it basically defines why so many centrist/conservative group chats freaked out in 2020 (Floyd) ->2024 (Palestine)

I wish the Mario 40th anniversary was being celebrated with a game instead of a movie. Oh well

The takeaway here is that performative debate in front of an adoring audience is a more desirable trait in a political figure than not being a racist bigot who spreads conspiracies, undermines trust in vaccines, and promotes authoritarianism.

if you want to rejoice with us, please refrain from saying things like "even Brazil could do it". Brazil was under a 20-year dictatorship sponsored by the US. we managed to defeat them, we've been rebuilding ever since, and to this day the US still wants to interfere. respect our democracy.

I hope this blights the team worse than the Curse of the Bambino did to the Red Sox.

The big reason I'm trying to hammer "civil conflict/political violence" here is because I've spent a substantial chunk of the last five years looking at mass graves. I want a society where people aren't plotting to kill their neighbors and throw them into one. That's where all this can lead.

I commend him to God’s mercy. Even as I do not mourn him. I pray divine grace prevents us from yet more cruelty and violence, and that God help me resist lowering myself to hatred because Kirk was himself so hateful.

be careful and be kind

Timeline cleanse

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

Reading about that Epstein book was a mistake. It gave me nightmares, and I normally don’t have nightmares about things I only read about. It’s got to be the most evil book in existence.

Appreciating just how quickly and shamelessly they switched from “you can’t protect college students from ideas!” to “can you believe college students are exposed to ideas?!?!”

I’ve been listening to the LotR audiobook narrated by Andy Serkis, and what a delightful way to revisit one of my favorite books. Tolkien’s prose is so pleasing to the ear.