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Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

This is a complaint borne sheerly from privilege, but I hate how understanding anything about American politics and the intricacies of its media requires me to pay attention to the biggest losers in the world.

オアァー！

It's wild how Zohran embodies every ginned-up night terror and jealousy of Trump/the GOP. Not only is he an ACTUAL Muslim socialist born in Africa, everything they claimed Obama was, but he's been accepted, if not fawned over by Hollywood Cool Kids from the jump, something Trump has always craved.

there's a crippling inability for some commentators to understand the difference between poverty and *precarity*

Worst app ever. As if the Torment Nexus wasn’t enough, you’ve got people bitching about how their neighbors aren’t suffering enough on it.

Trump's master plan of proving his complete and total innocence by behaving as guilty as humanly possible might not be working.

The “problem” with nuclear waste vs coal waste is primarily that coal waste automatically becomes everyone’s problem so it seems like no one’s problem

I made ai shit my pants earlier. Jokes on you ai! (Wrote that myself. Very proud.)

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

When this is all over, I want an animatronic depiction of Stephen Miller getting stuffed into a high school locker over and over and over again, and I want it sealed in plexiglass and displayed prominently in Washington, DC, for the rest of eternity under a plaque that reads: “Get fucked, dork.”

this image is maybe the single greatest joke in TRADING PLACES. and also a pretty apt description of the trump/vance/national conservative vision of america

i just realized this whole thing is a "when you seek revenge, dig two graves" writ large the whole conservative project is resentment, revenge, and rematches for lost social conflicts, and in their vengeance spree, they've damned themselves

People are bootlegging 60 Minutes like it's a Led Zeppelin concert, sending copies to friends, having watch parties on Friday night before hitting the club. Might have to rename the Streisand Effect.

and if you really wanna get funky, the New York Times has no right to paywall itself like it’s a journalism publication. The New York Times is Fox News for people who can read.

I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today

James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people

Debate also treats meaning, principles, positions, topics, etc as empty and interchangeable and essentially unimportant. Winning is the ONLY thing that matters, and you should switch up your positions to whatever achieves it. It's a deeply, deeply creepy thing to teach kids.

I wonder how many people wouldn’t be so easily corrupted if we had a UBI

worth watching a movie set in the 1970s, like THE NICE GUYS, and comparing to a movie made in the 1970s, like DIRTY HARRY

here’s an Elon Musk Christmas Tale. Merry Xmas everyone ❤️

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

grown adults in charge of people's lives frequently sounding like when ur in 2nd grade and a classmate w diabetes has to go to the nurse to get a snack and another one of ur classmates is like "um. how come *I* don't get to go to the nurse to get a snack 🤨" except it's like. 50 yr old men.

"Has feminism hurt women?" is just a mildly more socially respectable form of the same kind of opinion-laundering that gave us "did slavery have pros and cons?" The purpose behind it is that naked!

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

That’s what these ‘debates’ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for women’s happiness. You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.

It's such a tell on all these people that they saw Epstein as the perfect embodiment of urbane decadence. He couldn't spell, he had little sex competitions with gutter misogynists, his interior design sense was awful, there is no evidence whatsoever that he was smart or funny

What a pathetic bunch of people. For all of it. All of them.

🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor

It was always so funny in Looney Tunes when something exploded in Daffy Duck's face and sent his bill spinning around and around his head, and it was even funnier when that happened to Jake Paul last night

Consider making 2026 the Year of the Personal Website. Even a little thing on Neocities works. It’s just nice to have a home base on the internet that you don’t have to deal with bsky mods are random popping into every post and if something goes wrong with your host, you just move it elsewhere

I keep wanting to say something, and I keep not knowing what to say. The trans community does not harm cis people by existing. They are just trying to live their lives, same as anyone else. That life doesn't look exactly like mine; my life doesn't match anyone else's. That's okay.

my grandfather was an extremely avid reader and English teacher who prided himself on almost always finishing any book he started he fought in WWII and once tried to read Mein Kampf once to better understand the context of what he went through, gave up less than halfway

The thing I resent most about the tech billionaires (besides their cartoonishly shitty politics and personalities) is that in most cases the thing they’re getting rich from is useless nonsense. At least they he robber barons built trains and shit.

This country is being run by a deplorable gang of frustrated incels. And we're all the worse for it. Fuck every single American who voted for this. I hate having to share this country with them.

All of modern conservative thinking can be distilled down to a tantrum. They’re children throwing their toys out of their pram because their parents want them to eat their vegetables.

He’s running the presidency like it’s a poorly written high drama tv show, and way too many people haven’t yet realized that you don’t actually want to live in a poorly written high drama tv show.

"WOOHOO, LETS DEMOLISH THE WHITE HOUSE 4 DA LULZ" is not something an even minimally responsible adult writes, but it is something you'd write if you'd rotted your brain to the point that blowing up national monuments for shit and giggles sounds like a way to liven up your meaningless existence.

But if we say, "You know you can't trust big tech. Maybe you should use AI that isn't so bad for the planet, or your job, and doesn't tell kids to kill themselves, and isn't owned by the worst people in the world. And it's coming soon." *They will listen.* The proof? You're here. On an alternative.

Never in American political history has there been a party so focussed on other people’s genitalia.

greg bovino is doing tough guy drag when he's really just a little bitch

Your kids do not have to fight in this illegal war, get them checked for bone spurs. Why should they have to fight or die for a draft dodging narcissist?

we really need to figure out how to appeal to the large swaths of people who want cool shit to be built, apolitical techno optimists. dems managed to completely fucking lose that group to elon musk of all people and we don't seem interested in getting it back. they're an important type of "normies"

It’s well past time we stop thinking lots of money means someone is smart or moral.

Wiping out Oracle's IP--all of it--with a quick Congressional bill at the start of a new admin--would more than suffice to make everyone realize that liberals, when sufficiently angry, are scarier than reactionaries. And it would destroy a parasitic copyright troll of negative economic value.

As an accidental software engineer, I'd like the freedom to make stuff that genuinely benefits people rather than exploiting them. I wonder how many people would change career if UBI became a reality? So much work is needless, if not actively harmful.

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true