i do think this is actually the perfect response insofar as it illustrates how these dorks actually just fantasize about getting to be the bullies in high school

I’m an English teacher and my boyfriend is a writer and we’ve both been very “fuck this, fuck this, fuck this” about LLMs, but we both very successfully used Claude Code for tasks and yeah, it makes it hard to take the extremist “AI is 100% useless” people seriously.

It is very odd that people feel compelled to come on here and libel Stancil all the time This one doesn’t even make sense conceptually, the statement “You may be in danger from X” is not an expression of support for X

Its so still weird how Vance was in group chats with Nazis but it’s been a total non story

There are self-serving political reasons for this too, but ideologically, this flows directly from getting housing issues wrong. Left-NIMBYism is a serious conceptual error that will lead them into a political dead end, or cause them to abandon left politics entirely

I find her disability posting so off putting in a way I can’t really explain. I am disabled. I know disabled people. Every one of her posts on the subject reads like an HR Diversity training where one character has 5 different groups they’re representing and it’s all extreme

oh yeah, and she knows she's punching down too but is like a dog with a bone; she will follow you across all your social platforms, when got mad at me like a year ago she was posting screencaps of me on both her twitter and bsky account (I had ~3k followers at the time) to sic her followers on me

i think that it is something which is more or less unrelated to either good-faith belief or lying: in order to stay in politics, they have been forced to engage in increasingly hysterical demonstrations of loyalty, which they have no fixed epistemic orientation towards.

The Republican Party has abandoned the American project and are laser-focused on waging war against the American people, the only sovereign that our Law recognizes

Now, the ironic thing is that these people feel this way as the inevitable result of late stage capitalism and income inequality, but saying that makes you a socialist apparently, rather than "a guy who read Adam Smith and he warned about all this, actually", but that's neither here nor there. 9/x

Lunacy. Here's Emmer 10 years ago.

I think it's correct that the extreme ends of dirtbagism should be totally avoided, but the boundaries are also fuzzy enough that any one person's lines look more like "I'll know it when I see it" than a political program; e.g. I found the Jay Jones moment heartening even if it was bad politics

Imagine asking someone unfamiliar with the cases to read this side-by-side with Masterpiece Cakeshop & predict in which case the statements by official decisionmakers were sufficient to make the govt action invalid because of animus.

“I don’t know anything about this topic but I do know the exact set of keywords that will make my thought go viral, which makes me kind of qualified to weigh in” Stop. You’re good at going viral and knowing what people want to hear, that’s a skill, I respect that. But it’s how we got in this mess.

ESG bros, I think we need to topple the Supreme Court

Ah, using "AI enhancement" for engagement, with no concerns of the risks it might create for innocent people.

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

I do find it very funny that in the fill scope of the 2026 GCB the trend line is clearly going Dems way, but a dash of noise and boredom makes people freak tf out over what’s essentially a rounding error

I'm sorry, but the Democratic establishment doesn't get to say "these are low turnout primaries, they don't mean anything." Ritchie Torres, who unlike Espaillat and Goldman, *trounced* his primary challenger got a *total* of 24k votes. Chevalier got 33k Valdez got 38k Lander got 55k

TikTok's latest illegal 'life hack' seems to be 'dispute credit card transactions for free stuff' and legality aside I am here to beg you: Do not do this to small businesses. It really fucks them over in ways you may not be aware of beyond stealing from them (which is, to be clear, what this is).🧵

most empathetic and caring campist

It’s like if @nextdoorsv.bsky.social had a paper

Local neighborhood NIMBY rag (Larchmont Chronicle) brags about its affluent readership and having 77K readers They deliver three copies to my building that no one reads Front page has an article complaining about bikes and another that’s like “a salute to car culture for America’s 250th”

Legitimately wild how long this scam has persisted in western Europe

See? Moderates ARE freaking out!

Also this should put to bed the "San Francisco has always been more expensive. Yes, some periods (look at that quake and fire spike!) show it out of step, but it really started to diverge as we stopped building homes, making it impossible to absorb booms and causing people to hope for busts

A lot of ppl on bluesky not actually familiar with NY politics think that the grousing since Tuesday from some NY (and BK specifically) Dems was just about the 3 House races when in fact it was way more about this

Quite a chart. SF’s massive downzone was in 1978.

Find the difference at this point.

Incredibly revealing of the media's biases that Darializa's win in NY-13 has resulted in a raft of negative stories about *her* and basically zero "how did Espailliat fuck up so badly?" stories.

you can’t call for people to be murdered, this is basic stuff. i tap my toe across the line here and there but you can’t call for murder. he fucked up.

I do love a California Moorish building

DeLAURO: Do not interrupt! MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Don't you point your finger at me DeLAURO: I will point my finger at you! Mr chairman, could you put him in his place? MULLIN: You should be put in your place

Here again we see the ways that Islamophobia is structurally pretty much the same sort of bigotry as anti-semitism: it does not admit the possibility that Islam a legitimate faith tradition when it can position it as an insidious conspiracy of domination instead

So this is Jonathan Majors' comeback role -- a Daily Wire film about radical Islamic terrorists hijacking "a liberal college’s pro-Palestine encampment to enforce barbaric Sharia law on students and execute infidels," and the "red-blooded students" who fight back. pagesix.com/2026/06/25/h...

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3/ Another outlet put it bluntly: Palantir suing London's mayor after being told no on a surveillance deal. That is the posture of a company that treats rejection as something to punish. They are the tech bully futurism.com/future-socie...

There are people using AIPAC as a slur to do rank antisemitism, but AIPAC is also a real actual thing doing real actual bad stuff and it can’t be the case that criticizing them harshly for it is equivalent to antisemitism.

genuinely crazy to watch these people freak out over what is essentially 21st century new dealism

I don’t care that she posted F Kamala Harris. I do care that she has parroted Russian propaganda and promoted antisemitism

I had a cancer that had a 5% survival rate in the 70s and has a 95% survival rate today, but do go on...

Among other things, this chart also suggests something really interesting, which is that to hold the Brexit referendum was a world historic mistake for the simple reason that it happened at the very tail end of the generational viability of British euroscepticism.

now, to check on the LA mayor’s race

“um cant we all just get along? please ignore the reality of the situation I wore a sweater vest and aren’t outright lynching the queers”

You can be as communist as you want in New York and nobody cares, but you can't upset the patronage and sinecure networks without causing a civil war.

Bad example because the kids were props for a dumb and pointless Sunrise Movement stunt here? Embarrassing to look back on that particular viral bit now like it’s a fist raising inspirational thing instead of asking yourself “Hey none of these people talk about climate change anymore. Why is that?”

These corporate Democrats who are freaking out truly believe that voters should not have the right to disrupt this good thing they and their friends have going. They’ve now bitterly denounced every single path challenging their continuing power as disastrous and disloyal. It ain’t subtle.

Three people ousted incumbents in the NYC election (some only winning by very small margins and all with complexities). THREE. ONLY THREEEEEE PEOPLEEEE And the Dem establishment has lost its entire fucking mind. OVER THREE PEOPLE

(I’m spartacus voice) I am the leftist who put algae in the Lincoln memorial reflecting pool. This plan was months in the making. I introduced spores into the paint used by the contractors who repainted the pool. It was me the whole time.

I wrote about the continued appeal of dirtbag politics, from the left to liberals, and how only a politics of grace and edification can save our liberal democracy Dirtbagism delenda est www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...