When even the WeRateDogs guy is compelled to speak out about your product’s dangerous normalization of surveillance that may be subverted by the state, you’ve clearly crossed the line.

cc: @dicknixon.bsky.social

One hell of a metaphor

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Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

We invaded France and no one will sell us a croissant. It’s very hard on the men.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

These monsters are sick.

the lede in FT (best paper in english these days?) is perfect

You’re a US senator, sir. Do better than this.

Wait, Mr. President, are you telling me that a politician can act like a normal human being and not simply air grievances and perceived slights?

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

I have no idea what this is but I think @barneygrubbs.bsky.social will like it

It's pretty sad to get owned by Patty Murray. But their ship sailed long ago.

Controversial take but I agree that if you have even center left politics you should be barefoot wearing a barrel with suspenders. You should have a wallet with a single moth and nothing else in it. You should be slicing up a single bean paper thin and eating it slowly on a trash can lid

The whole thing looks tacky, but I'm guessing most people don't particularly want or need to be reminded of slavery on New Year's Eve.

Does he think people won’t notice the first part describes himself? bsky.app/profile/bill...

I’ve lost the plot. America First is bombing Nigeria now?

Searched back through Blue Sky for this. Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.

Really feel that Sylvia Plath or Virginia Woolf should chime in here

Dick Crenna? Man in a silly hat. Richard Crenna? Serious actor.

When I lived in LA 97-99 (and you may recall this @davidjroth.bsky.social), Rob Reiner led the smoking ban in bars. I couldn’t believe bars could exist without cigs. And I don’t even smoke. He kickstarted all of it. I still go to bars. I never have to Febreez my clothes. So, also that.

This entire weekend

via JBFlint/X

I don’t understand why Hemingway got to drink himself to death while writing a manifesto in a house full of cats but when I do it it’s “a maladaptive coping mechanism” and I “need to talk to someone”

“That sounds illegal”

This is a video I watch probably every three months and have for many years. There is so much beauty and thought and human capability in the shape of our world. Even in its immense flaws. youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw Where you can forget, and call a plane an aluminum can, as if insult. It's all miracles.

having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition

Good thread. 👇

That's a pretty precise estimate

Samuel Johnson wrote "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." I'm curious what the balance of these are is as a function of age, and what it was historically when information was not as widely or quickly available.

Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon

What kind of artist?

We need more juice. But ackshually, there are oranges everywhere. I can buy juice by the gallon at the grocery store. Checkmate!

It also makes such people nearly waterproof, which is obviously an advantage

Welcome (Shaking Hands), by Bruce Nauman, 1985, 📸 by William Vasta

Maybe I'll understand this discourse someday (but it might take an extraordinarily long time).

"I can't take a raving lunatic's call every day." Pot. Kettle. Black.

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I think we all know the answer to this

This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms: ✅He personally directs criminal investigations. ✅He is targeting opponents. ✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents. Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀

Doubt truth to be a liar

Yes, it's the "toothbrush" mustache.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov tell @durbin.senate.gov to retire now. He’s worse than useless. It’s time he’s put out to pasture. Same goes for @duckworth.senate.gov if she doesn’t vote to remove Dick and Schumer from leadership.

Amazing how the concept of "service with a smile" is triggering people.