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Reichstag Fyre Festival

I read a piece earlier that said “imagine how MAGA would react if seatbelt laws were introduced today,” to which I reply: We don’t need to imagine

Stop disappearing people with no criminal record, stop threatening their children to lure them into being captured, stop encouraging citizens to rat each other out, stop censoring comedians and academics, stop weaponizing the law, stop whipping up hate at the most vulnerable. Then maybe.

They've lost the 9yos

Wow @utaustin.bsky.social maybe @utaustinihs.bsky.social maybe there are other ways to shout out to the department of East Asia Studies and the Department of History, but however that may be, they are doing some amazing stuff with in house games for their JapanLab! Just found even more stuff here.

When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?

These are the facts.

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback. When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

Fraudulent chocolate chip imitating fruit bastards

As someone who's worked in and around startup since the early 2000s, I've always said you only become a billionaire in one of three ways (listed in order): 1) luck; 2) starting with a base of generational wealth; and 3) the cycle of VCs throwing good money after bad. Also, sociopathy helps all 3.

With the exception of LeBron James, I cannot think of a single billionaire who would end up where they are now if we just rolled it back and had them do it again

So they stole it

Nah. Imma fight.

Why the push on acetaminophen? The @wsj.com editorial board answer: "The Occam’s razor answer is the influence of RFK Jr., who is carrying water for his friends in the plaintiffs bar. A who’s-who of lawsuit shops are pushing the Tylenol-autism link in federal court. The litigants include...

"The median Kimmel video gets ~240k views." - @cnn.com

RFK Jr. Promotes Natural Immunity With Invitation To Touch His Festering Sore https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-promotes-natural-immunity-with-invitation-to-touch-his-festering-sore/

Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.

This morning's bop: youtu.be/1RPqycqglXA?... #王菲 #挣脱

Good morning, all who were left behind and un-raptured.

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

Kimmel's show put together a montage of Trump insisting dozens of times yesterday to "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL." Complete insanity.

Henry James: The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt—no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries. Dickens: this guy is named “M'Choakumchild” James: Dickens: he be chokin them childs!

This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism -- because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up

The fox needs access to the hen coop ASAP, to prevent disaster

For the ‘boycotts don’t work’ crowd… “Target Corp.'s (TGT) stock has plummeted 33% since the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, wiping out over $20 billion in shareholder value by mid-September 2025.”

I don’t think Eric Adams should be the mayor anymore but I’m really going to miss Eric Adams the character

Here's a thought for next time: Figure out if there's a reason to fire someone BEFORE you fire them.

“But you know, we have a border, strong, and we have a shape and the shape doesn't just go straight up. That shape is amorphous when it comes to the atmosphere.” -President of the United States

“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.” This must be the Rapture because I am dyingggg

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

this really does succinctly explain every single pathetic, boot-suckling behavior we’ve been seeing from the pampered pundit class

Having been fortunate enough to see a lot of renaissance / early modern religious art in various European museums and cathedrals, I don’t think your average American is prepared for how horny so much of it is.

"In March, the authorities in Haiti hired foreign military contractors to operate armed drones to target gangs that terrorize the capital, Port-au-Prince. The contractors work for a company owned by Erik Prince, a prominent supporter of President Trump." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

I learned more about physics from a man named Julius Sumner Miller than any other source — and it's because his show is one of the funniest, most memeable things you've ever seen. I cut up the best episode . If you have 2m50s, watch it all. You won't regret it.

I just know there is someone in the upper executive suite who fought hard to keep that last line.

Fact-checkers working hard to keep up…

This is really astounding. Editing can be so much more subtle and insidious.

One comment: “If they just deleted scenes, we could work it out by watching BluRay or streaming versions, and even alterations like cropping, dimming, or photoshopping-in skirts could be fairly readily identified. But the evolution of alteration methods like this AI face-swapping is terrifying …”

Sim Farm was okay, and of course Sim City gets all the press, but the real overlooked one was Sim Ant.

Isaac Chotiner interviews Cass Sunstein. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

new Big Apple Archbishop Daniel Flores here. seems like a significant upgrade: