It also is worth observing that frankly, you aren’t going to get much of anything as a Democrat by reaching out to Marjorie Taylor Greene fans.

Though not a teenager at the time, Kafka observed one day in 1914 that Germany was at war with Russia & he had swimming lessons in the afternoon.

WNGMI.

*openly*

A manifestation of what I am tentatively calling The Onion Rot. bsky.app/profile/lips...

this is the sort of comic you draw when you lose an argument online and you’re still mad about it but don’t really understand why you lost

Hmm

this was my favorite part [interviewer, being a completely normal interviewer]: can you explain how your thing makes X more important than Y?' [agnes, being agnes]: you're so stupid you don't even know what Y is and i have to explain it to you. and that says a lot about society actually...

12/ Canada's response is already visible. Exports to non-US markets rose 17% year-over-year, even as exports to the US fell. Ottawa now targets doubling non-US exports by 2035. That's what the leverage is buying — a trading partner rebuilding its economy around not needing you.

8/ Trump's leverage theory rests on market size alone forcing concessions. A year of data on the broader tariff strategy shows a record $1.24T goods deficit in 2025, trade rerouted through Vietnam and Mexico rather than reduced, and manufacturing jobs still declining.

You could say that the next six days will be crucial, even.

I don’t know how this is supposed to be edgy or transgressive within the context of a Donald Trump presidency.

Going through books I own but haven’t read, I found & started reading this one, which is fascinating & horrifying.

To me, being a Sea Person was better than being King of Mycenae. Even before I first wandered down to the shores for a job I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was there that I knew that I belonged. To me, it meant being somebody in the Mediterranean basin that was full of nobodies.

there's a pretty good tweet that's something like "people think that under communism they'll be given a luxiourus stipend to make art no one likes, instead of being forcibly retrained as a dental hygienist and deployed to Bangor Maine to care for the elderly population there"

ok I'm more pro national service than most on here but I get that there are valid concerns etc etc. but I'm sorry 'pro-communism but also furious at prospect of govt controlling my employment choices' is just a very funny type of guy. you think a command economy is gonna let you follow your dreams?

relating to this guy especially hard as I prepare for a move with…quite a few books.

lot of film noir classics.

There is definitely a risk that this becomes another one of the many problems where the only solution is “beating Republicans indefinitely,” which is of course not really a solution.

Exclusive: Outdoor workers losing up to 9% of income as weather becomes ‘poverty multiplier’, research says

Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth

Hi, quick question, which of these categories do evangelical Hispanics fall into

I am not pro-YA, but it has never been easier for young people to gain unsupervised exposure to the ranting of depraved communists & libertarian sex-weirdos.

And yet Denmark also continues to participate in joint exercises with the US. Does that mean they're not taking it seriously, or does it mean that dealing with a mad king is complicated? www.forsvaret.dk/en/news/2026...

lmao.

Many people are fond of this person’s opinions for reasons that continue to elude me. This is plainly false & either staggeringly stupid or deliberately misleading.

well, probably not money.

Millions of American parents will sacrifice untold time, money, & peace for their children’s athletic careers, most of which are not going anywhere.

No European could ever match the passion of the average Philadelphian when the Eagles are playing. You people think you like sports? We love our teams so much that we hate them with every fiber of our beings.

Does he have no one who can tell him that, substance aside, the costume is incredibly corny...

An account with this avatar was just blocked.

To me, being a Sea Person was better than being King of Mycenae. Even before I first wandered down to the shores for a job I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was there that I knew that I belonged. To me, it meant being somebody in the Mediterranean basin that was full of nobodies.

TOTALLY EXONERATED, NO WRONGDOING. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...

His show continues to exist only on the fumes of support from Bush-era progressives & the newfound support of Republicans.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a Sea Person.

the jibonacci sequence

Karen Green, contemporary UK coppersmith and metal sculptor #womensart

A red flag that shows up increasingly often these days is jamming Israel into completely unrelated topics.

why would you admit that you believe this specifically because of your media consumption, that's like the cognitive equivalent of admitting to driving at night without headlights on

drag shows were integral to US military success in the midcentury.

they’re cooking.

wait they named their horse “Journalism”? so he could take the lede? win by a hed?

insane story discovered in the course of trawling Wikipedia tonight:

True progressives believe that it is better for the very wealthy to spend lavishly on goods & services than accumulate more wealth or corrupt our politics.

Fathers behaved worse for centuries, so it’s impossible to say if this is bad or not.

One of the best cinematic approaches to representing a foreign language & its dialects & accents in English is that of The Death of Stalin.

Spare a thought today for the Deputy Head of Mission in the British Embassy in Guatemala.

I mean, literally anyone can start a newsletter there.

the perfect Bluesky sequence of sentences does not exist—