Tbh to me there are very few Dems who sound like college professors. What Obama is so close to getting here though is that many Dems could sound more “regular” by sounding less focus-grouped to death, less afraid of pissing off literally anyone. But that’s not about being professorial.

[Take a Dive] [Netrunner] h/t to @hbarsquared.bsky.social

do think one of the big problems of the era is that a lot of mainstream politicians have forgotten that you just can't convince everyone; the point of successful electoral politics is to convince the people you can convince and to *defeat the rest*

📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

"confidently wrong" is one of the worst things to have on any team

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[Ob Superheavy Logistics] [Netrunner] h/t to @hbarsquared.bsky.social

Trump is in Vegas. It's Wrestlemania weekend, also in Vegas. There's no way Trump dies in the ring at Wrestlemania. But we can't rule it out.

i was trying to be brave and not drink milk while eating buldak noodles and just walked around the house going "ooh. ah. ow." like i was taking poison damage in a video game

“God has a plan for all of us” is such a crazy thing to say in the context of your mistress committing suicide in your office

when the traxus free kits encounter a rook on their way to extract

EU accuses US carmakers of manufacturing absurdly huge tonka trucks that don't fit reality.

Welp, time for bed. I sure hope a megalomaniacal idiot doesn't immolate the world while I sleep

The oil painting in Bison's private quarters showing him as a clown with balloons is actually a reference to the "Pogo the Clown" paintings done by serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

If VCs lack the ability to engage in introspection how do we know they experience consciousness?

"You should smile more" as a service. This is vile.

[0012003] Dwarf children won't age, mostly happy thoughts and memories but both go on mass killing sprees

🎲✂️ I'm working on an idea for a game centered around street-level protesting, focusing on the use of and countering of shady police tactics like kettling, snatch squads, secret agitators, etc etc. I'm looking for book/resource recommendations documenting these tactics around the world. Any recs?

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

*unlocs your zip*

Trump: yeah gas is expensive. Go fuck yourself that’s why. Americans are gonna die. I could not give half a shit. Democrats: well it was tough but we found a bunch of candidates that will definitely lose to that guy, somehow

I taught the Chinese equivalent of NIST the proper way to calibrate their integrating sphere.

Gabe Newell has a fleet of mega-yachts, but he doesn't patrol our shores.

i think ive paid gabe newell more from the proceeds of my games than i've paid the government, but gabe doesn't pave my roads or fund my schools or feed the kids in my community probably a few overdue conversations to be had about maybe paying less gabes before we pay less taxes or something

Sergius Hruby ‘Sündflut’, from Die Muskete, Jan. 9, 1928

Caves of Qud will not be for everyone, and in my first few hours I thought it might not be for me either. But for players who love weird and wonderful games where every mistake becomes a story, Caves of Qud is waiting for you. www.whatsitlike.com.au/caves-of-qud...

One strange side effect of this cold I'm recovering from - I've been having just the dumbest, most vivid dreams.

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Churchill: Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted. Me: Not like being nazis though right? Churchill: well

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps

[0011815] Adventurer Who Never Becomes Angry Exhales Sharply When Becoming Angry

hello yes I installed a CK3 mod that removed the need for Casus Belli, I didn't want to bother and now everyone's just invading each other, kidnapping each others' leaders, nobody will marry my children, nobody even trades anymore, the game basically stopped working, uninstall uninstall uninstall

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I wish I could like this a billion times. Every single billionaire is a failure of policy.

"The age of human creativity is over!" the least interesting men in the world gleefully decree, while wondering why no one wants to buy their plagiarism machine.

I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill

What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...

Gonna condemn grandma to the torment nexus because I never wanna grow up.

Just got back from Stockholm's Nobel Lights exhibit and this year was phenomenal!

Every time I get mad at some bullshit random grammar rule in my Swedish learning journey, I have to stop myself and ask if it's the same or worse in English, and let me tell you it almost always is.

They said "We're too big to fail". We said "If you don't lose you'll never learn". "Oh we'll learn," they said. "Trust us."

YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

If you see this, post a random photo or meme from your photo gallery without explaining it.

If you make and show me a Sora 2 video I want you to know I think of you as infinitely less important than a worm, whose movements and excrement nuture the soil, whereas a Sora 2 user is a creature that asks robots to despoil the world out of boredom.

Ope this is going off Ok folks! My Congressman is a MAGA clown who's on multiple ag committees. As a farmer, I need ag policymakers who tell Trump no. So for every donation to Kim Hardy, who's running against my Congressman, I will post one (1) ag fact. secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07s...