Alexandra is a national treasure, and also a thing I learned here that is not satire: Bezos threw a Gatsby-themed wedding party, which proves that Bezos may sell books but he certainly does not read them.

I know you can stick “Jack” next to pretty much any noun and get a plausible folkloric entity, but just came across a giant in this book called “Jack O’Legs” and had to stop for a moment.

Best case scenario is they all go off to their little underground hideaways and we just carry on without them and don't think about them until we dig them up decades later like a Blue Peter Garden time capsule

yesterday I got a text from the pharmacy that my meds were ready so I went there and there was a line of like 50 ppl being told that the meds were in fact not ready and the AI they were using to text customers lied to everyone and those ppl were taking it out on the pharmacists, its a literal fraud

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1. that “Byzantium” and “Byzantine Empire” are both anachronistic terms to avoid the fact that the Roman empire kept going until 1453. 2. that they weren't the first terms people came up with to do this. 3. that this terminology actually creates *more* confusion, not less. A thread!

Not gonna lie, I’m kind of turned on right now

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Miss Marple in the retirement community solving the mystery of who's spreading chlamydia around

Funny how so called "cosy crime" novels are always about murder rather than raffle fraud.

There's another part too imho. Tacky matters because it means no one in your orbit feels comfortable telling you no. And someone with that much money who expects to always be told yes, is dangerous.

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Also the entire news media. There's really not that many Democrats on the anti-Mamdani beat but curiously virtually all of them are getting prime slots on cable news shows as if they speak for all Democrats. It makes you think!

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Hoarding wealth is a sickness

Bezos has supervillain levels of money and I'm actually kind of surprised his wedding didn't involve supervillain levels of excess Like buying a few Van Gogh's and having a bonfire with them and then infusing their ashes into the blood of the Amazon workers he served his guests or something

This is true EXCEPT part of the far right evangelical concept of the AntiChrist is that he'll be a "foreigner". So they will never connect the fact that Trump connects all if their dots This is also why they were so insistent that Obama was Kenyan, though being Black was enough for many of them

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Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,

Setting up at the ALA Conference, always happy to see upfront and center on the Ingram/Consortium table/banner!

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The criticism of Democratic leadership boils down to this - they look like they're sitting on their hands even if they're doing things we don't see (like getting the parliamentarian to kill things left and right from the budget bill) As the poet said - "With great power comes great responsibility"

She'd be far better off pretending like she was really, really drunk It would actually be less embarrassing for a professional political talking person than "misspoke"

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Jem is a fashion cartoon, and I believe its Costume Designer, Debra Pugh, deserves more credit for the thousands of costumes she designed over 3 seasons and 65 episodes, pulling extensively from fashion magazines, trade journals, and advertisements to tell characters’ stories through fashion.

This is the argument about Substack I disagree with — it is *different in kind* than the “all platforms have something bad on them* internet. It is a political project aimed at normalizing hate speech, and it is working. Writers having their work there helps amplify the hateful content on the site.

This is part of a long-time strategy from the right that I call "Jefferson Davis's Revenge"

Creating a Time Machine to send this post back to myself in 2007 as part of an explanation of the exact flavor of Days of Future Past that's coming up

One sign of how dominant privileged white people are in left discourse: I have yet to see anyone draw the most effective existing comparison to Mamdani's proposed government grocery stores: The VA's canteens. Working class kid here! My grandma drove across town to shop at the one in El Paso.

Two more overnight wins: my team successfully removed a scheme from the Republican bill to end background checks and registrations for easily-concealed guns and silencers. There’s no limit to the awful stuff they crammed into this bill.

This entire thread is correct and it underscores the complete capture of American media by the rich that these things are controversial for Democrats at all Papers like the NYT work to set the leftmost bound of discourse and have done a great job of marching it rightward

I always know an @systemmastery.bsky.social episode is going to be good when they start the episode with "get ready to be really mad at us folks"

"Zohran such a radical islamist he's going to give trans ppl healthcare and you a bus pass" is a hell of a bar

This is THE tweet of all time

our dude offering some basic Walter Mondale policies to help folks out got people acting like he's a Voltron made out of Mao, Lenin, Stalin & Che

My theory is that pop culture has given us invincible super-Nazis as villains because the tougher the Nazis were the more impressive the victory over them was Meanwhile the folks who actually fought the Nazis made shit like Hogan's Heroes where the Nazis were portrayed accurately as putzes

A lot of it is people straight up buying nazi propaganda from the time as truth

Would it surprise anybody to find out that actual communists don't like Mamdani?

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Oh god - I could totally see Ackman's ego getting stroked to the point that he decides to make an independent run at it -he still has time to file IIRC (with alt text)

Lois Lane : What's the 'S' stand for? Superman : The ... S? (looks down at chest. Flashback to earlier. Zuperman stands before a full-length mirror, adjusting his chest emblem. "Now they'll all know I'm ... ZUPER!" he proclaims, with heartbreaking earnestness)

The redbaiting Communism in the USA was very rich people using the threats of authoritarianism to try to stop people from trying to get the benefits of socialism by organizing The very rich in the US have never been against authoritarianism - they think its the best model to run their own companies

I’m not saying it can’t get worse either, but it seems pretty clear now that an oppressive state arbitrarily exercising power was not the part of communism they didn’t like

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