good thread parsing how what’s presented as “wow these people are clueless” is actually “these people are trying to get you to react to their holocaust joke”

follow creators you actually like, and if possible just use shortform apps to discover them and then go actually consume their content through something like Patreon if they offer that option feed the algorithm as little of your attention as possible and take an adversarial position towards it

JUST IN: It appears Democrats will win the mayor's office in Miami. This would be a flip from GOP. It's not final yet, but Democrat Eileen Higgins is up 61% to 39% as the first 23K ballots are counted. That's *the majority of votes cast*, & Election Day is no less Democratic today. More soon!

I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*

Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups. This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.

Are you sitting down? My friend Kenn shares this excellent photo of two Desirees and two Mme. A's with birthday cake! (This is either before the national tour started or after it had been playing a few months.)

Hassan didn’t really know how to promote a link and had raised only $10 before today

“‘You want some chicken? You ain’t getting it here, bro,’ Wayne Davis can be heard taunting the agents through the door.” “‘Go somewhere else,’ he can be heard saying through the door.” www.wwltv.com/article/news...

SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery. My story:

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

huh so not two weeks then

Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.

when you're a size 8 but the 10 was on sale

my glass wreath ornament from nora arrived yesterday and it is just the most charming possible thing, i love it

"he protec he attac"

Honestly it’s real useful to understand that centrists are eager to meet fascists in the middle but not anybody else lol

Thanks, #ColumboTV friends! And thanks to @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social for hosting (and for the frequent reminders). Happy holidays, and see you next time.

If any of you #ColumboTV fans are interested, tomorrow at 6PM ET we're watching HARRY O, the 1970s detective show starring David Janssen, over on Mastodon. Hashtag is #HarryOrwell and there's a link to the episode on the hashtag.

This is my first watch party on Bluesky and I find the interface kind of cumbersome, but I had fun with all of you! #ColumboTV

jack cassidy is the ian ogilvy of christopher lees #ColumboTV

never trust anyone who's played by jack cassidy, i'm just saying #ColumboTV

Sadly, the brilliant Barbara Colby was murdered in real life. She was so talented, and a very popular acting teacher. #ColumboTV

Hi friends! Glad for an excuse to watch my favorite episode of #ColumboTV with you all. I'm in the middle of a bunch of things and also running late so I may not be very chatty.

NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out. Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court. MPD: Yea we figured that.

these people aren’t “visionaries” they’re drunken blackjack players with a self-replenishing pile of chips and a bunch of sycophantic dopes saying shit like “splitting 10s is genius sir”

Bill Kristol is one of the few anti-Trump public figures I sincerely think looked at how his ideology led to Trump, said to himself "if what I believed led to this, what I believed is wrong" and acted on it.

This fall, Hawaii's supreme court rejected an argument that recording interrogations is burdensome for police: “If children can record everyday events with ease, law enforcement cannot claim hardship to record perhaps its most consequential investigative act.”

Yes.

Pirro said the pipe bombing suspect had "not a lot of social media". She should call me, because I have now found his: Twitter, Tumblr, Soundcloud, YouTube channel, songs he made on YouTube, Steam, and about five fanfic and gaming forum accounts.

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A window into our budget: Our default rate for an article by a freelancer is $800. Our follower count has increased by roughly 200 since @russ41.bsky.social made that offer... I wonder if we can grow it by another 600 followers for this offer to fund one article!

Bolts is my go-to for coverage of state electoral politics and the injustice system. Check out this story from literally this week about wild commissary markups and profiteering off incarcerated people in NC!

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

I like how the hands are dessicated. Like, no one could mistake them for hands that are meant to be attached to humans just out of view. No, they are severed, rotting, dead hands, holding up a tiny, tiny world.

The inevitable timeline of Netflix buying WB is that everyone will claim they'll retain their own branding and niches, then in a year they'll combine all their content under a stupid name like Nuxly or Warnflix, then they'll split up again, then Disney will buy the entire thing.

Calling it now that she'll eventually end up at CBS www.wsj.com/business/med...

This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.

people like Sabrina Carpenter saying essentially "decent people don't want the stench of ICE or this White House anywhere near them" to an audience of millions that includes a lot of young people helps empower them against ICE while reminding ICE agents that everyone hates them, both big wins

If you're in the UK and would like a first edition Everything Will Swallow You hardback direct from me, I'll send you one of these beautiful hare linocuts by my mum, Jo, with it for free while stocks last (I have 5). Book RRP is £16.99. Drop me an email at [email protected] to nab one.

The ways the world accepts and normalizes African suffering and death is so enraging

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

They only go after soft targets. They fold so fast otherwise

These people make a big show of how they can't be shamed or embarrassed or pressured so you won't notice that if you actually make an effort they do exactly that all the time

Biden shows a bit of cognitive decline: @jaketapper.bsky.social writes a whole ass book. Trump falls asleep at his own cabinet meetings and daily acts like the most demented psychopath on Earth: @jaketapper.bsky.social says "that's just Trump being Trump." That's why Jake Tapper is a damn clown.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

“[Eurovision] cannot be used to whitewash Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.” The Green Party in the UK has urged the British gov't to “follow in the footsteps of Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands” in boycotting Eurovision. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/aatkt4

Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

I think this was always true but is especially true as the era of films premiering on closed platforms subsumes the relatively (and certainly imperfectly) open era of theatrical distribution and cable tv

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?