“fuck ice” chant at AEW obviously great, we love brodie king, but it feels very retro that ppl are like “wow the right even lost the dumb wrestling hicks!!” when every wrestling fan i know is a gay anarchist who fucking hates the government lmao

This is an incredible website

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

CHICKEN, MCFLY

Never before has there been a candidate so exclusively liked by journalists and consultants but absolutely no-one else as Wes Streeting.

My latest for @theintercept.com, explaining why Gavin Newson is not, despite what you may have heard, a wild-eyed leftist radical.

outsold by Nuzzi, a thing that’s nearly mathematically impossible

The Labour Together thinktank paid a PR firm at least £30,000 to investigate journalists from The Sunday Times, The Guardian and other outlets that were looking into its funding, Democracy for Sale has revealed democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

You guys this is what they do. They drive around in circles in parking lot. Ice has to be the most dip shit inefficient organization on the planet.

people who think the count of monte cristo is just a straightforward tale of a dude escaping a prison and revenging himself miss out on quality subplots like "the count is foiled by the power of lesbianism," "the case of the serial domestic poisoner" and "let's talk shit about italian food"

Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.

chat if it takes two Serious Legal Scholars to refute a statement from a pop star are you winning or losing

There are more hardcore communists in each individual tendency in America than there are Douthatians. There are more Bob Avakian followers. There are more LaRouchites. There are probably more people still alive who voted for John Anderson in 1980 and don't regret it

Found myself thinking again about why the NYT employs Douthat at all and the arguments that their op-ed page is trying to represent a wide range of viewpoints. They're not, but also, are there even ten people in America who believe Ross' weird mix of Catholicism, Francoism, and monarchism?

I’ve spent years believing public debates were a waste of time but if you body your opponent so badly that their employer has to pretend it never happened that’s actually cool as hell

Wonder if I should send this back

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

yeah no guys we are in fact not

For those who didn't know that there's a 90s romance movie where Vincent D'Onofrio plays Robert E. Howard... there's a 90s romance movie where Vincent D'Onofrio plays Robert E. Howard. youtu.be/bHvOeMRgPuw?...

horrified at what jeff bezos has done to my piece of shit hometown newspaper, but glad to have at least forced him to pay for maura judkis to take me to a strip club in her style section profile of me first

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

Reggie’s job is being a dipshit who’s always trying to pick a fight with god

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

you have to understand post 2014 all the people with more money then god where being told there's actually a button that makes everyone love you but the SWJs won't let us press it

JUSTIFIED “FUCK ICE” CHANTS #AEWDynamite

patient : doctor i am depressed . doctor : solution is simple , watch the muppet show special with sabrina carpenter patient : ohh good idea !! i actually perform as a clown named pagliacci so im big into comedy

My latest for @theintercept.com, explaining why Gavin Newson is not, despite what you may have heard, a wild-eyed leftist radical.

As Newsom gears up for 2028, his record will be a problem — but only because he’s stood for nothing.

bezos and the post is yet another reminder that it's impossible to have billions of dollars and operate in the public interest at the same time. nobody with that kind of money got it by looking out for other people or putting the common good first. that's why it's so antithetical to journalism

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

Bezos:

Wuthering Heights is a novel about how living in Yorkshire will kill you

#OtD 4 Feb 1924 175 @IWW members took on the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville, Maine, after KKK tried to threaten union organisers: "We are going to stick, and if the Klan wants to start something, the IWW are going to finish it". More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww/

I would just reiterate, that it seems unlikely that I, Just A Guy, A Regular Guy, knew more in-depth detail about Peter Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein than the Prime Minister off the United Kingdom who was at the time considering appointing him as Ambassador to the United States.

what else can you possibly say but

King: boy those Epstein emails King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate Neil Gaiman: hello everyone Gaiman: i'm back Barker: oh boy Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time

Worthwhile thread from a labor reporter I respect.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has made clear in the Daily Record that he will roll back trans rights if elected First Minister - the spineless little coward he is.

this invoice could have been a podcast

It's kind of an open secret that AI companies are hiring creatives to produce new material to train their models since they've basically run out of data to mine. They're trying to make it so the only job you can still get is training your replacement

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they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

drop his ass again, bill

Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall

death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...