Mass illiteracy is a problem in the era of social media

Extremely not subtle but James Gunn hit this point with a sledgehammer by explicitly making Kent’s birth parents’ mission that he conquer and subjugate earth, and his experiences as an adopted undocumented American making him a fierce opponent of his nominal “birthright.”

for me it’s (a little) less about sartorial choices and more about how they conduct themselves just generally; how you behave matters, and a lot of popular politics streamers behave in juvenile ways

I feel like the discourse that we must defend every utterance by Hasan Piker and if we don't we'll get Rahm Emanuel as the Democratic nominee feels like there's giant excluded middle here that actually comprises most decent people

Yeah like I'm not being funny but interest in politics correlates nearly completely inversely with how much you are affected by it.

I find this notion /the most/ hateful, actually

As long as you all are posting funny tweets, remember that this one originated with me and not that Emma Manzini account or Reddit.

Remember when I said that I hated books with the movie related covers? Well, I make an exception for this one.

Incredible.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

Thinking about making this account just live-posting my reading the Autobiography of Malcolm X

Love a map where you can see the Death Shroud of the British World

Completely agree with Stephen on this and I think the problem fundamentally is that a lot of people have convinced themselves that blocking people is some kind of moral failure. But we're on this site for free because its meant to be fun and/or useful! Do what you need to do to have a good time here

there do seem to be like 200 misanthropic people on here who have a discord or something where they occasionally collectively decide that they're going to make their personality disorders one specific person's problem that day.

Reading the response to @mjsdc.bsky.social and it's literally the exact same set of abusive freaks who make my life hell every three or four days. Like, the exact same accounts. You can solve this problem! Just ban this contingent! Delete their accounts!

East Germany apologists have to be the funniest. Lads they had to literally build a wall to keep the population in

“Nice post, but useless to me as a discursive object to exploit for likes and shares. What if I pretend you said something else that people would have strong negative feelings about? That cool with you?”

I was just at a meeting of all the Cool People and they said the only way to join is if you buy these books:

I think this is, unfortunately, the skeleton key for our modern age

WFH is back too. Lol

i dont disagree that people are allowed to enjoy things. but i balk at the idea that i should feel apologetic or guilty about not sharing their enjoyment. i dont begrudge people enjoying mcdonald's. but i don't demand it be recognized as peak cuisine either.

So an anti-Semite is headlining one of the UK's biggest music festivals, a few months after the world's richest person does a Nazi salute in public. What a grim and unserious time we are in. hiphopdx.com/news/kanye-w...

My book preview (not AI generated)

Look, the thing is, what Israel is doing is so far beyond the pale that it has to have sanctions imposed on it quite simply because it's a mode of operation unacceptable when done by /any/ country. It's not personal. If anything, it would be easier if it was.

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

I hate this thing people do (turbocharged by front-facing video imo) where they try to make what is essentially a self-interested argument sound collective-minded. No! You're annoyed at having to think about other people! Multiple people being self-interested doesn't add up to a community!

You may not like hearing this but actually free on-street car parking is objectively a ridiculous idea when you think about it for a second. Imagine if I plonked literally any other bulky item of personal property in front of my house and expected it to not require permission or payment!

“What a pisser!”

really striking how race science freaks seem to spend their every moment crowing about how superior they are versus actually doing anything socially useful that would demonstrate it.

If you're against Canadian bilingualism, you're literally siding with Elon Musk

It's kind of funny to me how this is get interpreted entirely as a critique of left-wing fiction, when anybody who reads a lot of hard sci-fi knows that "books where the protagonist turns to the reader and complains about the protests against the Iraq War" are a sizable portion of the market.

we talk a lot about the information diet of the median american voter, but if this is even close to accurate, our median american voter looks like a model informed citizen by comparison

The strategic mistake by the Knesset is here that Israel's supporters can only applaud and defend extrajudicial death penalties but not judicial ones. Their cognitive dissonance will short circuit if they can't blame the victims for their own murder anymore.

Without dismissing of course that Syria's government these days is far from democratic in the proper sense, it is probably a positive mood signal that they're engaging in the sort of thing you expect from John Swinney rather than Aliaksandr Lukashenka.

Publishing in the 21st century has simultaneously become more democratic and much more exclusive, so writers are extremely vulnerable to the consequences of a viral TikTok or getting review-bombed on Goodreads if just one or two readers decide the politics of a book is Bad

I kind of agree with this as both a reader and writer, but the former being better is also reliant on good faith audiences understanding what you are inferring about your plot which is... lacking

Seriously basically no one talked about this: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The Liberal Party of Quebec are going to win. I’ve always said this.

the right thinks that theory of mind is for pussies. (the hard left also thinks this.) liberals try to understand our enemies and they hate us even more for it, not because it makes us better at fighting them (although it may) but because it reminds them of how gay and effete we are

People come up with complicated reasons why art/music scenes are less vibrant now but it is like 90% just this

It will always be my favourite manifestation of “our brains can’t immediately grasp how big a billion compared to a million is” is DC accidentally making Bruce Wayne far too rich for the plot by accident.

If someone is willing to pay you millions of dollars on the condition you take a language class once a week, and you say no thanks, then I am not sure you have the business sense to run a multibillion corporation well.

i was a teenager in a town of around 35K people in the 90s, and any teenager with any ambition or creativity at all wanted nothing more than to move to The City, so i have a particular contempt for people from The City who wants to keep new people out. these are the people who built The City.

The good news is that he’s also a largely irrelevant loser and the people shrieking about his twitch views and pretending he’s one of the great media figures of our time are much, much more out of touch with reality than the 70 year olds who have never even heard of him.

Hasan is a racist piece of shit who openly stans some of the world’s most brutal authoritarians, and I have literally zero respect for the people who pretend otherwise for their own pathetic factional reasons

there are very few circumstances under which I will use the word kapo but describing the massacre of Jews on October 7 as 'miraculous' is one of them.

There is a a particularly fucked up kind of thinking in America wherein your morality, your ideology, your identity, etc, have nothing to do with the things you say and do. So in this case, "sinner" has nothing to do with the action of sinning, but is rather a distinct personality trait.

outrageous, the lack of civil liberties was only supposed to apply to the *poor* migrants.