“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” - Albert Einstein

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This movie understood America so fucking well it’s insane

Tom Homan is doing corruption the right way By Ezra Klein

And, as ever with the transphobic @thetimes.com, they fail to mention what Boyne had actually said that upset people: He compared women who support trans rights to the wives in the Handmaid’s Tale who hold down young women for their husbands to rape. They unethically hide that from their readers.

It's important to note that Ezra Klein and his merry band of centrist clowns very often are just plain MISINFORMED. They don't understand the history and politics behind the garbage ideas they push. Vibes-based fascism support from the "left" is not only morally abhorrent, it's deeply ignorant.

Three days after the UN inquiry declares "genocide" in Gaza the Carney government says they are still waiting for "all the evidence" before taking a stand. What an epic moral failure.

Every day I think about how 10 years ago, the go-to internet comment to shame perceived SJWs was variations of "your grandfather's generation went to kill nazis, look at you softies now" It took LESS THAN 10YRS to go from that to blatant not-sly nazism being fully mainstream.

there it is every new social media platform that thrives does so because they rely on sex workers, furries and freaks building an audience on their platform and the moment they start to attract normies, instead of protecting the sex workers, furries and freaks, they choose to ban them.

Tried listening to a podcast about Superman (2025), and the host felt the themes were confused because "so the solution is superheroes flipping over tanks? Violence IS the answer?" A man famous for film analysis, still completely shackled by a vague feelgood centrist worldview.

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

Much like politicians banning porn and then classifying trans or gay people's existence as pornographic, what is stopping bluesky admin from redefining what counts as consent? If being gay is a mental disorder, could you argue that gay people can't consent?

I genuinely think channel-surfing was better for my brain development. Like yes the amount of TV I watched was brain-rotting, but the breadth of my exposure to media meant for other demographics (that I'd never see if I could just put on my fave show) expanded my understanding of story & culture.

Streaming has let us control what we watch and when we watch it but the fact that young people nowadays will never channel surf and find Godzilla vs Monster Zero at 1 AM is a tangible loss to the human experience.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Any time a centrist politician uses the phrase "common sense" they mean "whatever appeases the far-right."

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

Toby Huss is to Denis O'Hare as Ray McKinnon is to Matthew Modine. Thank you.

If you are a white person who subscribes to the Washington Post, your solidarity should not be expressed in "feeling badly" but in cancelling your subscription today if you have one. Otherwise no one wants to hear anything from you.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

I love making these medieval stickers so freaking much. Inspired by true events (my dog eating something in the alley the other night and my fingers desperately trying to scoop it out the back of his throat before he could swallow. I was not victorious.)

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

<Democrat HQ cricket noises>

Every pundit article: BLUESKY IS A HOTBED OF RADICALIZATION Majority of posts in my feed: Check out this cool bug/bird/random historical personage I found! Small but vivid minority of posts: Do you think Gritty and Alf are in a polycule or nah?

Challenging myself to do work that doesn't come naturally this Inktober, so I'm fully studying Mike Mignola (greatest living illustrator) to prep-- omnibuses full of post-it flags, taking notes. Surprise surprise, it's wildly hard to draw even remotely like a genius who's been doing this for 45yrs.

This makes me so angry. The fu**ing damage this does. The WSJ walked back its report that cited sources claiming bullets recovered in the Kirk shooting had been "engraved with transgender and antifascist ideology."

Zoë's thread is a great example of how liberals (like Pakman) are rightwing and fascism wouldn't happen without their help.

David Pakman going from GamerGate “it’s about ethics in games journalism” moron to accepting dark money to spew DNC-approved talking points in his “journalism” is SO FUCKING FUNNY www.wired.com/story/dark-m...

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Silver has always been a poseur who accidentally hit the lottery with two election calls, parlayed that into a bestselling primer to Bayesian Theory for Dummies that fed his gambling addiction, and has basically gotten nothing right since. He's mad that this is obvious.

Ooooof the list of actors who signed on for the new Audible harry potter audiobooks is devastating. Convenient list of actors who are kind of dead to me now, I suppose. (Not boycotting the actors, but it'll make seeing them in anything suck shit). Matt Berry really fucking stung.

Doug Ford tells young job seekers “try inheriting your daddy’s sticker factory”

The liberals who say “we must listen to all sides” only ever mean far-right ones. Communists or anarchists or even socialists are never invited on the panels. Brendel’s right 👇🏼

It turns out I CAN still read, and I'm 80 pages into Youngmi Mayer's memoir and it's so profound and moving that I'm starting to underline passages. Like goddamn, what a combo of goofy and devastating.

This is a neat thread! HUMAN artists, use only one #art piece to convince people to follow you.

Requote with your most popular artwork of 2025! My medieval stickers have been the belle of the shop this year (the MOST popular one went up end of Dec 2024, but this one has really gained some funny traction in the couple of months it's been available).

Archaeologists have found a real treasure; a medieval toy production site! Quite touching and another reminder that the old idea of medieval children being treated as adults and not having a childhood is nonsense. www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...

- Hey, what's the show Justified about? - Men who hate their bad dads and they sometimes shoot guns about it. And it rips.

What do we think, is this the year I get further than one week into Inktober?

"The burden of making live music safer under COVID falls overwhelmingly on the shoulders of the disabled and immunocompromised, who are actively building community and resisting their abandonment by public and industry policy that wants to plow ahead without them." PHENOMENAL article.

"A machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle" is a banger line. (My favourite of my recent sticker and button designs below 🤖)

It's insane how people forget how online harassment campaigns work when the target is someone they find annoying.

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

Perhaps you are unmoved by Gov Gav’s shittiness toward trans people? Well, fear not! There are so many other ways he’s terrible!

Always been vaguely aware of Taylor Lorenz as an "edgelord" This week I casually researched every past controversy as they were mentioned, only to find they are all either: -a batshit smear interpretation of a normal thing -mildly tactless -a based thing that any of my commie friends say constantly

When people say this, they don’t just mean mental health They also strongly desire to fit in & not be left out They saw everyone following the gov’t & mainstream media & thought “everyone’s moving on, I want to do the same” “Everyone’s abandoning immunocompromised people, I want to do the same”

I went into the new ep of Peacemaker bummed there'd be no Robert Patrick this season, but I should have have faith in Our Patron Saint Of Daddy Issues, James Gunn (complimentary)

Really in my Lorax feelings since they chopped down my special tree across the street last week (just a real big tree that I like watching when it's windy, but i cried about it), but it still makes me physically queasy thinking of those 865 trees being destroyed to make an empty construction lot.