The tech losers want you to think that their slop can replace human creativity so they can sell you slop, and so that you stop thinking about the hours of learning and practice that may have gone into creating a piece you admire. Notably capitalism has no intention of charging you less for the slop

The median American has $8,000 in savings in the bank. In other words, this is like giving the median American an opportunity to make a massive, scandalous crime go away for a fine of $240.

A parks and rec style show but it's about the town governance of Sunnydale

This is about people who are being held pretrial, without a conviction, and yet are blocked from accessing ballots… until Colorado required polling places in jails.

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

Yes, this forever!

The temperature is going to drop at least 40 degrees(F) between today's high and tomorrow's, so that's going to be fun

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

Amassing billions of dollars should be seen as a treatable mental illness.

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

I'm still using an iPod on a daily basis.

Immigration is incredible because it's one of the few policy areas where people are willing to suffer real, concrete consequences in order to solve completely imaginary problems.

ce post est tellement @mitildide.bsky.social coded

• Superman II: The people of Metropolis deciding to kill Zod because he killed Superman. • I, Claudius: Livia explaining to Augustus how and why she killed him, as he dies. • The Hunt For Red October: Jack Ryan realizes that Ramius is defecting.

How far back depends on exactly how you reckon it, but it’s beyond serious dispute that Trump has raised taxes more than any president in decades.

Area People Amazed At Discovery That Watching TV While Driving Is Distracting

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

I don’t understand how legal obligations do not apply to the president, any executive branch officials, or the Kennedy Center, but the strictest reading applies to performing artists.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

This whole fucking thread, man...

The #MissionImpossible people people ought to know how to lock in a bayonet fitting, surely? Leaving it lose like this is the kind of carelessness they're usually so careful to avoid.

You would be surprised how rarely you fall for AI slop if you simply do not engage at all with images that lack alt text.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40. www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...

Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.

Steak, tater tots (or croquettes), curly.

I love starting a great book. You can tell how good it is like 6 paragraphs in because of how good the sentences are.

It says something about my media habits that I have a second-favorite Lego Master Model Builder video influencer guy.

Thread.

I think After Life might be the best thing Ricky Gervaise has ever done, mostly because he's not constantly mugging for the camera saying "look how funny I am".

even if the Supreme Court says we can never touch Trump for any of this shit, the next admin should go after everyone involved in buying and selling pardons and they should do it loudly and aggressively

This is when robots learned comedic timing, and humanity's days were numbered.

OK, having finished the book now, I can confirm that it's part of the bit.

10,000 Maniacs

Cannibal Corpse.

This is a great expression of the thing I keep saying about text-generating algorithms: “Hallucination” isn’t some kind of glitch. ALL their responses are hallucinations. Sometimes they align with reality, sometimes they don’t.

My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail

They always say this, and the newspapers (which are owned by billionaires) always pretend to believe them, even though they've already proven they *want* to live in New York and California, and no tax incentives are going to convince them to move to Arkansas.

A wealth tax is the timid, moderate compromise measure. Which is to say it’s the one that avoids torches and pitchforks.

I've had Potatoes Anna like twice in my life in fancy restaurants, and I've thought about them every day since.

The Lives Of Others youtu.be/YsShZNHmpGE?...

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

vance is a genuine lunatic

I can handle people advocating for a totalitarian society with outcomes precisely like their idiosyncratic prejudices. I just can’t handle people who are so insufferably pretentious about how they get there.

Make a Bond movie casual The Man With The Golden Girls

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