Male to male transition is very funny

i just think it is very obvious how many prominent "thinkers" only read tweets

The guy who called my assumption that the Industrial Revolution may have changed some things “Marxist” thinks “theory of victory” mattered more than the north’s industrial muscle, huh Quelle surprise

“Calling the government’s authoritarian attacks on free speech ‘authoritarian’ isn’t allowed,” explained the authoritarian government official. “In the name of free speech, the government will employ state power to silence its critics,” he continued. “So watch what you say.”

I would like the child sacrificed to stop, either by we stop doing them, or we acquire an orb with some kind of enchantment, I don't want to be too prescriptive about it, but an orb or other artifact with magical properties that causes them to stop.

Not at all, frankly I think that’s a pretty disgusting remark that you’ve made and you’re fortunate that I’m in a good mood today. Do try to reflect upon what you’re posting given you are accusing me of being adjacent to someone who is antisemitic.

My dog typically curls up on one side of the beanbag, but today I moved her over to the middle, and now she’s just recalibrating in real time her understanding of how comfortable it’s possible to be. Hasn’t moved in an hour.

Now, he must try to escape from our building alive.

Every time I think I have a good handle on what a racist piece of shit William Rehnquist was, I remember something like “he would call Black college football players ‘jungle bunnies’” and I have to start over again

I’m not crying, you’re crying, goddammit

The last time this happened, I had just started my freshman year in high school. I’m now 38 years old.

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

I feel like the recent push to sanitize and censor the internet is part of an effort by the state to control what kind of unreality we will exist in, rather than address the root cause, because they believe they have more to gain that way.

Not to take anything away from a smart, effective interviewer, but: the reason Isaac Chotiner is so feared is because he prepares for the interview and asks follow-up questions, techniques that make him like unto a cat on an island of flightless birds

When Obama put boygenius on his summer playlist in 2023, Lucy Dacus quote tweeted him with the caption "war criminal :("

"put in the louvre" is a good joke but seriously, if this was blown up to like 3 feet by 4 feet and framed and put on a wall, I would absolutely sit on a bench and stare it for 15-20 minutes and contemplate many things

nobody’s ever done it quite like him and i doubt we will live to see another come close

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

loling at the idea of the rapture people quietly cleaning up the notes they wrote for the people left behind and putting them in the recycle bin

"It's gauche and uncivil to accurately describe me" is a core view of today's fascists

it would be very good for the left if these evangelical weirdos had a resurgence

just found some tiktokers who think the rapture is tomorrow, hell yeah

also worth noting that his explanation for his friendship with Kissinger is that he wrote a book about Star Wars and Kissinger was kind of rude about it but then later came to the book party.

chotiner’s real gift is very quickly revealing how many powerful and influential people are complete morons. Sunstein is asked about his friendship with Kissinger and it’s pretty clear that he’s never really thought about it.

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

CHOTINER: You take the specifications from the customer and bring them down to the software engineers? TOM: Yes, yes that's right. CHOTINER: Why can't the customers take them directly to the software people? TOM: Well, I'll tell you why, because, engineers are not good at dealing with customers.

CHOTINER: So you post stuff like “getting chomp cheese from orc”? ME: Yeah CHOTINER: Ok that’s really fucking funny man. I fw you heavy bro. ME: thanks

Chotiner interviews a Harper's Letter signatory

CHOTINER: So it's Wednesday. JERRY: Ha ha, yeah. CHOTINER: But you posted "ladies and gentlemen, the weekend"? JERRY: Well, it's a reference to Saturday Ni— CHOTINER: And yet, it's Wednesday. JERRY: yes—yeah.

CHOTINER: You seem stressed. SOME OTHER GUY NAMED CHOTINER: Everyone's scared of me. It's weird. Like I email people and NOTHING. CHOTINER: I have to go now.

CHOTINER: Just once I wanted someone to interview *me* DOCTOR: Oh I know just the person, the interviewer Issac Chotiner is in town, I have his phone number right here CHOTINER: (sobbing) but doctor, I *am* Chotiner

CHOTINER: Remember when you went to Japan and at the airport they arrested you ’cause you had some pot, and it made all the papers and everything? SIR PAUL: Well, to be honest, Isaac, I’d kind of like to forget all of that. CHOTINER: [smacks self] IDIOT!! That’s so stupid! What a dumb question!!

CHOTINER: And you’ve said you’re a lesbian. ME: That’s right, Isaac. CHOTINER: So you’re a woman and you, what, you kiss other women? Have sex with other women? ME: I do both of those things yeah. CHOTINER: That’s so cool. ME: Thanks Isaac

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

In making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick.

it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore

Favorite part of this is the very confused pastor's quote. “My best understanding is that the New Testament writers focus very little, if at all, on pointing followers of Jesus towards spending their energy on accurately identifying the Antichrist,”

The science is absolutely clear— there is no link. Full stop.

First, the thalidomide case from 1957–61 West Germany (and a some cases in Australia) resulted in developed countries implementing a monitoring system Second, the U.S. never had thalidomide because the FDA rejected the new drug application for insufficient safety data, so stronger regs worked

My mom is ignoring me.

the biden administration spent nearly four years refusing to take any victory laps. they allowed the right to dominate the storyline and bs filled the vacuum. their biggest accomplishments they added dumb "bipartisan" language to. so the public was left w the impression biden wasnt doing anything.

what's that? is that Leo's music?

Jokes give cover for political violence.

(And to add a component on salience, by talking about bread all the time and how Paul has some great points about baking bread, all you're doing is letting the conversation be dominated by your relative weakness and making people think about bread all the time.)

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths? Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

Bess gets me every time

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

Robert Redford’s final onscreen appearance was a cameo in the excellent series Dark Winds, which he produced, as an old man playing chess with his co-producer, George RR Martin. His single line is “the world’s waiting, George.”