I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

"Lorde maintained her distance from organised activism: unlike Smith or Jordan, she never had to persuade her comrades... or undergo any of the tricky experiences that make politics the complicated business that it is." Review essay by @keeanga.bsky.social. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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i appreciate everyone who took the time to explain why that bad tweet from homeland security doesn't even get the halo lore right. those of us who weren't on the losing side of the console wars are grateful for the info

South Side. S14th Street. Caller said a guy is outside on the sidewalk shredding guitar way too hard for a Monday afternoon.

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for. Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

alyssa battistoni hit the nail on the head in her "spadework" article for n+1:

My gut feeling is that "people overworked and tired" accounts for 90% of what appears to be apathy.

yea ok gimme that shit

a game of chess is like a sword fight. you must think first, before you move.

Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair. What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

one cool site i like to push occasionally is Evan Collins' project of cataloguing and annotating aesthetic movements of the late 20th century, really excellent stuff here for artists or pop culture/nostalgia browsing www.are.na/evan-collins...

Graham Platner looked disgusting--nipples protruding--with his Nazi tattoo during his Senate campaign. Very very disrespectful.

Okay, THIS one hurts: if Sam Mendes’ World War I epic “1917” were made today, it would actually be set in 1923

this is so ripe for feminist analysis. a man who can't tell the difference between his human wife with her own subjectivity and an object

I reread this every so often and I'm struck every time by how great it is unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

what do youse all use to play mp3s on your android device (NOT streaming)

The Austin police department shot me in the chest with a less lethal round for trying to help a person off the ground during a protest. They fired tear gas at anti ICE protesters a few months ago. Do not be foolish enough to embrace them.

MICROSOFT: We'll keep providing Windows 10 security & service updates but you gotta fork over 70USD for the first year, 140USD for the second year, and 210USD for the third year. You bitch. You fucking piece of shit MUSCLEFUR VTUBER: Open Powershell and hit three keys to do it completely free

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

the only thing that makes sense is that leto has epstein level material on high level executives in the industry. i mean come on. we know

Idk

we're understanding Joe Rogan Brain more and more every day

we all got that one sullen homie whose leitmotif shares a chord progression and instrumention with an enemy whose identity is yet revealed

tl;dr

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

pocket americano

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces. all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News. Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios. www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

(posts a chart showing prices on groceries are at the highest point in history) you fool. You rube! How dare you say grocery prices are high! You can clearly see the second derivative... bsky.app/profile/kevi...

In Final Fantasy Tactics if a unit gains too much faith they leave your party to go find God. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you had Beast Tongue and got a monster unit to maximum faith? Of course you haven't. No one has.

This whole section really.

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

The liberal abandonment of Greta Thunberg is no shock. Her mortal sin? Acting against genocide rather than waiting for a people’s elimination to issue an apology. She resisted the militarized racism essential to colonialism. This is why her former champions are silent about her kidnapping by Israel.

That $1.50 glizzy really softens the blow of a $279 trip to Costco

A concert tour for mega-hit videogame soundtracks aspiring to be Movie Scores bombing because that's exactly the opposite kind of music you need to attract the Event Otaku crowd is a great summary of the cultural struggle of The PlayStation Brand