Nowhere near the main point here, but ... presumably he had to get "leg extensions" (?!?) etc. precisely because it *isn't* in his DNA to "obtain Gigachad" (?!?!?!?!)

if I were elected mayor of a city I too would insist that every ceremony took place in an abandoned tunnel or secret passage of some kind

This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it

I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

car dealership should go straight to jail

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Even right down to the name: it's called Euclidean zoning purely because because the Supreme Court case that sanctioned zoning started in a Cleveland suburb called Euclid, yet it makes the whole arbitrary framework sound like an extension of geometry, so early land-use planners promoted it!

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Bob Rodriguez, Cat-Band-Do, 1983

I don’t know why but this makes me laugh so hard.

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

My new subscription to @theonion.com just arrived and includes a pullout section of wrapping paper

Hello from Milan, where Marco d’Agrate’s Saint Bartholomew never fails to stun.

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

I don't think Trump should get access to standard medical care, he should have to let RFK Jr treat him

i’ll just say that this isn’t the behavior of people who think their allies are on the verge of establishing a thousand year reich, much less holding control of the national legislature next year

Greenwich by Martin Barré, 1957 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137932

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

No, SARS-CoV-2 is not reducing our intelligence Why this myth refuses to die The idea that SARS-CoV-2 infections, or worse, reinfections, are collectively reducing human intelligence does not hold. open.substack.com/pu...

mmy neighbor said their company's christmas gift to employees was that someone used ai to make a vid of everyone morphing into each other like the Black or White video

wow the guys who made the machine that tries to trick me into thinking it's alive said once it gets a bit better at tricks it'll come to life for real!! like how when you see a REALLY good mime perform they get legit stuck in an actual invisible box

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.

They came to me and they said "Sir it's time for your weekly cognitive test, something we make all healthy presidents do" and I said thank you. That's very nice

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Ho, Ho, Ho! I Started Dating Mrs. Claus When She Was 14!

I was frankly a lot more comfortable with the idea that the CCP would have my data than these people

For the record, he is a traitor, thus ineligible for the presidency, and his entire reign is illegitimate on a legal level. This seems worth stating from time to time.

Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

i was reading this at the bus stop and having complicated feelings about it, and the bus came and i got on and sat down and i noticed the guy next to me was watching tiktok (you know, like everyone on the bus), and i glanced over, and it was a jamelle bouie video so ok universe you win this time

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."