“donald trump makes everyone, including his supporters, angry and miserable” has been true for a full decade and yet people try to find alternate explanations for why so many people are angry and miserable

i must not die. death is the me killer. death is the big death that brings actual obliteration. i avoid my death. i don't want it to come anywhere near me. when it has gone past, i will say "phew". for where death has gone, there will be nothing, only a skeleton will remain.

hearing this in obama’s voice makes it 10x funnier

being forty rocks actually

“He’ll never pull the trigger on this stuff. Because if he did, that would be really bad. We’d have to do something really crazy to stop him. And look around, no one is acting crazy. So clearly it won’t happen. YOU don’t want to look crazy by reacting like that, do you? Everyone will judge you.”

Everyone sitting around, watching everyone else fail to react to Trump, and deciding this proves Trump isn’t worth reacting strongly to.

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

Ultimately you feel like you weren't built for this world, and you're right. You were built for a world where the skys were black with birds, and the herds of auroch stretched to the horizon, and the seas glimmered silver with fish; and you live instead in a deserted world.

"the singularity is real and it happened two hundred years ago" is really a key thing to understanding how i think about the world

saw this and thought about your “stupid mental health walks” @danhon.com

@theophite.bsky.social this feels like your kind of thing

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

absolutely. the first republican national convention post-trump’s death is going to have an AI Trump hologram blessing the nominee

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

I’m an originalist, and the constitution is clear: Trump is not eligible to be president and therefore his pardons are null and void

Sooner or later, everyone will agree with me that this presidency was void ab initio.

The problem is that if enough people defect on the social contract it ceases to exist. At some point there's a threshold, which we may have already reached, where "defection" is normal and attempts at enforcement are radical disruptions of the status quo, i.e. counterrevolution.

Rules and norms about war crimes are a global public good. If you or anyone in your family is between 16 & 60, male, & walks, you have a direct personal interest in it not being legitimate for them to be assinated for walking within any undeclared 3km radius around any combatant.

OK, I logged into my grocery store website where I usually order delivery and told Claude to find stuff for school lunches for the kids and dinners for the week. I’ll be back to see what it came up with. It feels like the future in case you haven’t tried it yet.

bluesky is and has always been a posting retirement home for elder millennials

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: Office365 in spaceship nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Someone please pay me to produce this documentary and for me to present it on a premium streaming platform, unironically

The key to understanding Trump II is that it’s an administration predicated on doing a national murder-suicide for the crime of embarrassing Trump in 2020

it's so beautiful. it's like what Dracula drives in a cyberpunk movie

This feels weird. A lot of reporting is sounding very much like "how long will this take to get back to normal" when there's no sign in the short term that normality will return at all It's like 2020 Covid reporting

This is why after "punish the villains" we are doing "toddler new deal." National policies like treat people the way you want to be treated, clean up after yourself, share your toys

art gallery: You finish that painting of Frodo and Gollum? Artist: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

Not joking. A dino-killer asteroid can strike the earth, bathing the planet in a firestorm and then a century of deep winter with no sun, and Earth would still be more habitable, through that apocalypse, than any other planet in the solar system Climate change is *nothing* compared to other planets

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

The average dem voter wants to see firing squads and charred mansions, and these dipshits are out here asking $500,000 a year McKinsey consultants to prompt a chatbot for the meanest homophobic roasts.

I get so mad when people try to pull "ADHD is just different, not worse" shit. No, ADHD has made my life dramatically harder & worse and caused me to hurt or let down people in my life so many times. It fucking sucks constantly struggling to meet my obligations to the people around me

We’ve basically given up on the idea of war crimes, but this post is literally a war crime. I don’t mean that it‘s threatening a war crime, I mean the post in of itself is a war crime.

"how did you end up making this" just. it's hard to explain

it's hard not to keep coming back to the fact that they could simply have Not Done This they could have not bombed Iran! the strait would be open! we wouldn't be staring down a massive global economic crisis! none of this had to happen!

boy I sure wish I had started planting chestnuts when @buildsoil.bsky.social told me to.

i always have to repost this again when i see it

oh hell yes, had kalshi getting charged before april on polymarket at +2500

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

This is closer to the situation inside the major labs

asked Claude to read my resume and job interests, and suggest companies to apply to. it basically came out with what I'd already considered or applied to, but a few interesting surprises but the actual tokens streaming by were it writing a python program to generate that spreadsheet. wild

Paraphasia, you're hearing it more and more

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

If you want better things, elect Democrats, keep electing Democrats, elect better Democrats, & reward them when they come through.

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