They realized Joel Kinneman was simply too attractive and they couldn’t let that stand, so they’ve been working to undo it for years now

I love how this show started out as a somewhat-grounded alternate history and turned into “let’s do KSR’s mars trilogy but with extremely confused politics” and to be honest I’ve loved every season

I been through the desert on a

My wife woke up and chose violence this morning by reminding me of the fact that my favorite tuxedo makes me look identical to the guy from Disco Elysium

Any democrat who wants to be a candidate for ANY office in the next 4 years has to be clear about what their plans are to get our money back and to dismantle these false institutions

“why do you hate technology” as though “technology” were some discrete entity divorced entirely from the context of what it does and what it creates, rather than a category so broad as to constitute reality itself

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

Seattle gonna Seattle 😅

My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.

Two happy hikers

RIP Trotsky, you would’ve been such a good Poaster

i often think about this review

No field of study has had more predictive power for our current moment, and this of course is why they want to shutter it

This image is such a rich text of patriarchy and fascism

this is incredibly frustrating. By framing this as a policy demand Dems are aiding a disinformation campaign that is intended to confuse the public about what is constitutionally required.

Even if ICE was abolished, there should be a full reckoning (ie never elected again) who didn't call for its abolition. Anyone short of the full-dismantling the gestapo should never hold elected office again. Call em, tell em. They are scared of us, terrified even, if enough say the same thing

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but all drones of any size should require an operator license and do not belong anywhere near any kind of park or private residence

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

If you think that social signaling is “cringe* (and therefore useless), I invite you to ask yourself *why.* Does public sincerity make you uncomfortable? Or are you afraid of standing out/looking silly in front of your disapproving peers? Because if so, I have terrible news about me being right.

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

What if we just refuse to die? Just say no thanks, I'm going to be a Literary Writer and live forever. I didn't want to be happy. I wanted to write books.

Oh look, exactly what we said was going to happen when Schumer caved on the shutdown

Veblen only called it "Theory of the Leisure Class" because he predated Wallace Stegner. If he had the benefit of another eighty years, he could have called his book "Anglo of Repose."

People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience

*record scratch* You may be wondering how I got here.

A human writer uses a dash to set off a relatively abrupt jump in thought. But the machines are constantly calculating the most predictable next thing to say, plodding around the same area. So the machine dash looks like it's gesturing toward something new, only to always land on something obvious.

This is how I do the dishes when I throw out my back

Tear gas and needs to be banned. There is actually zero appropriate use case for it.

This is how much I make to teach high schoolers how to row boats good

Another day, another 8 straight hours of listening to the baby Einstein piano

Help me replace MGP. I'm running to save this seat for the Dems. I will vote to #DismantleICE! I'm not taking a cent from AIPAC. I will vote for human and civil rights.

Me in the afterlife: Ghost in the shell? More like ghost in this hell! Satan: this is why you’re here, I hope you understand that

Any politician voting to give ICE more money is a failure to humanity. I don't care what you've done before. You've failed.

I’ll second this! I’ve boycotted Amazon since 2014 and my life has not been meaningfully made any less convenient!

Bovino's demotion + backtracking on the "domestic terrorist" line + Noem's sudden vulnerability = BLOOD IN THE WATER. What we need now are sharks. The moment calls for SHARKS. What we're getting instead is "I'm gonna give 'em the benefit of the doubt." I am Losing. My. Patience. with my party. 😡

You’re probably wondering why the board called you in today

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

Politicians gotta start calling for Miller to go. Right now.

Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans. Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror. Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.

Yoinks

Truly stoked to see MGP be a one-and-done and then never have to hear from her ever again

A thing is about to happen that has not happened since the Elder Days: the workers will wake up and find that they are strong

Dear #BookSky Minneapolis has an absolutely incredible literary culture. In fact, three of the most important small presses call the city home; Coffeehouse Press, Graywolf, and Milkweed. There are also a ton of great bookstores in the Twin Cities. So here's the assignment...

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day). What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance