I don't know much about Digimon, but I think the Time Stranger is when you send your hand through a time machine so you don't even know WHEN it's happening. The ol' time stranger works in mysterious w- Ack!

Does anybody understand waffles discourse? I missed an hour of social media, so I'm a day behind on whatever waffles is about.

TikTok AI: Do You Remember 2025? Do you remember the feeling of companies being purchased by private equity? Do you miss the government child-snatcher squads? Remember the taste of Dubai chocolates? Do you miss labubus? How about the media and corporations policing dissent?

For some reason today, I'm imagining the movie Yesterday, but for Will Smith's whole career. Imagine being the lone crazy person who's the only one who knows about Will Smith and tries to recreate it all from scratch.

Every clip and quote I see from the military gym assembly makes me go, "These are generals. Does he know what generals are? Do they think they're talking to children about a fantasy career in the military?"

Out of curiosity, is anyone ranking the worst-ever military speeches?

What makes the wealthy activate against a candidate really highlights how threatened they are by not being able to starve and destroy people at will, both here and abroad. They despise any state amelioration. Taking bullets out of their gun.

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Climbs into the APC and hands Tania a Labubu "Let's see what the Ziel Server has to say."

#bds #boycott #coca-cola

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Trans rights are human rights.

Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist. The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

It seems every murder is seen by politicians and press as a fresh opportunity to try to start a purge of trans people. It's only a matter of time b/f they stop even waiting for anything to happen at all. For the RW press, they never waited for anything in the first place.

My biggest takeaway from the Direct was that Hades 2 should get a movie or TV show. #blutoid

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

One less-highlighted reason that criticism of Charlie Kirk is taken by conservatives as clear desire for/intention to enact political violence is that when conservatives criticize their targets, it is usually with the desire for and intent of enacting violence. So we see: they know words can kill.

As we talk a/b political violence and toning down rhetoric, it's really noticeable how nobody in media is connecting it to the fact that people are being rounded up into concentration camps, with more being built, by a President and ruling party who worship and covet violence and despise compassion.

Well, the mainstream media sure showed its ass this week.

it’s so cool when right wingers are like “you pushed us too far, we’re done being nice!” when were you nice?

Update on Hell is Us: turning the combat difficulty from normal to Brutal is like a whole new game. Unfortunately, the whole new game will make you very mad, as you get stomped by demons you did not previously respect.

Given the Supreme Court ruling I think it's even more important that we refer to what is happening in Los Angeles and elsewhere with ICE as ethnic cleansing. The US government is engaged in a violent campaign of ethnic cleansing that has already cost at least two lives.

The kind of people who write op-eds disparaging a social media platform for incivility were never going to do anything else. Being outraged at new trends is an old profession.

The problem is, what Starfield actually needs is a skills overhaul on the level of Cyberpunk, and I don't think they're willing to do that kind of radical surgery.

IDK if he's literally said it yet, but RFK Jr. is absolutely the kind of guy who thinks cavemen were super-healthy buff guys who ate only meat and had no diseases. Not sure exactly when Conan the Barbarian is going to become relevant, but women are already lamenting...

There are some incredibly vital issues at this moment in time that go beyond like, oh we disagree on marginal tax rates but we can still be friendly. Trans rights are one of those issues. Trans rights are human rights and those are not negotiable. (see also: genocide; fascism. not unrelated!)

For several months, I was on both Twitter and Bluesky as I transitioned over, as did most of us. When somebody tries to pretend Bluesky is dying or that Twitter is far superior, everybody on here knows they're far-right. Imagine hating the left so much you'd run back to that shitshow.

They should make a National Guard landscaping DC t-shirt with a Bart Simpson going, "I was there dude. And it sucked!!!"

Everyone make sure to have the Keith David welcome to hell clip handy, just in case you need it

The reason so many find the term "purity test" in politics so repellent is b/c morality, the purity test in question, is the only actual test. Marketing, PR, and debates don't test anything. They are deceptions and entertainments. But real tests of character do exist.

A Trump voter imprisons your neighbor it’s law and order. Kicks their gay kid out its religious conviction. Shoots you dead it’s self defense. Kidnaps you, it’s border security. Invades your town, it’s fighting crime. Tell them you don’t like them anymore, it was all just “political views.”

Once upon a time, Pod Save America had a golden opportunity to endorse Sanders and get free Sketchers shoes from Chapo. But alas, the shoes were sadly not procured and a darker path was chosen, perhaps for us all. Sometimes I wonder how that universe is doing.

I saw somebody complain Alien Earth was full people making foolish decisions. But after 3 episodes of setting up a rickety towers of bad choices, that's what I'm here for. I'm just rubbing my hands together watching the dummies cook.

When Trump does something he has no authority to do, I don't understand why people need to go to court instead of just ignoring the old man saying things he doesn't understand.

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

We all understand that it’s not the words these awful idiots have a problem with, it is the concepts themselves? It’s not like they’re suggesting better terms they like. When they tell you they want to remove the words, they mean “here is a list of things we do not care about and will not address”.

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

This may be a hot take, but democrats should be defending language to humanize people who are marginalized or need help. It's a cultural battle they want to immediately forfeit, and I don't like that.

Antigone (440 BC)

I spent the 2010's arguing with my white colleagues that we were facing a crisis in newsroom diversity. The smart, dedicated, talented cis white journalists I thought of as my friends didn't want to hear it. Most of them ignored me. At least one of them told me to go to hell.

i think the next bullshit tech bubble will be the one. going all in on the next piece of shit thing

"but crime is a real issue, people are worried about crime and you have to take that seriously" No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time

I once had a client a local prosecutor called a "career criminal." Tbh, client had multiple arrests. For stealing food. Because otherwise they wouldn't eat at all. Because they couldn't get a job because of previously being arrested for stealing food. A society has the criminals it creates.

We can't talk about what's going on without talking about the deplorable state of law enforcement in this country and Democrats can't do that until they discard reflexive rhetoric like "Of course we have to respect the police." No we don't! Not when they act like this! And you should say it!