i dont think i actually like ffxiv monk that much

holy fuck im dooming

“they were not in a shipwreck state” THEIR SHIP. WAS LITERALLY. WRECKED. They were standing on a PIECE of their blown-in-half boat that was UPSIDE DOWN. There is no possible definition of “shipwrecked” that excludes this state.

One of the many reasons for concern about the killing spree at sea is that the administration is effectively asserting a license for POTUS to kill outside the law those he labels “terrorists.” A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.

just a reminder as you read this very lovely thread of Charles Sumner-posting: Casten’s reputation is that of a business-friendly moderate. the caucus may or may not be able to do anything about this, which may or may not be a real threat. but they are *pissed*

this is one of the weirdest things about living here yeah. i always have to warn people visiting that all the restaurants are going to be closed if they dont make a decision soon lol

something I think is underdiscussed about employment/capitalism discourse is that abusive/bad labor/management practices are probably more common in nonprofits and trendy organizations that people on the left are likely to work for than big boring office companies

Every interview with a right-wing politician is like: "Mr. Hitler is adamant: If we sacrifice enough children, Santa Claus will come back and deliver 5% GDP growth. But I have to ask him: Do you ever worry that your relentless advocacy for working folks offends the rootless cosmopolitan parasites?"

do u ever think about the mortifying ordeal of being known

ten thousand hounds, baying at the past

the young groyper republican is, like, excluding for income, the *textbook* example of a target for radicalization by basically every extremist group in human history, just a self-hating human-shaped vessel waiting to be filled up by the darkest thing that comes along

part of it is that they hate women, part of it is that they hate her specifically because they think she should want to fuck them, part of it is that all this shit is for the benefit of like 10K people on twitter who've all been legally prohibited from having unsupervised time with their children

collect, not too often, mostly garbage

...lmao?

im still hyped for the poe2 0.4.0 patch next week but it definitely looks weaker than 0.3.0, much fewer sweeping system or balance changes and fewer new things. i dont really care that much about druid itself...

insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites. Well UH

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

gmail showing a pop up for their fucking banana image ai thing every fucking day when ive already exited out of it is going to turn me into the joker

There is absolutely nothing preventing a new D president from dropping a NSS and NDS on Inauguration Day. (Well, “nothing” is loadbearing and if a new D president hires old D talent it’ll take 18 months of briefcase carrier struggle sessions to produce a draft)

DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power

“We had to kill the survivors in the water with a missile because they might flip the shards of the boat, continue to the US, and sell drugs” is not really any different than “We had to kill the entire village because the children might grow up and join the Vietcong,” except much less plausible

Right wingers huffing so much racism paint that they don't even get that there's a non-European NATO member already and also that non-European is a meaningless term

finally listened to that roblox ceo interview podcast

Public smoking bans just got in under the wire, too. Younger folks might not realize how rare they used to be and how hard they were to enact.

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its so fucking over

damn thats crazy its almost like he should be arrested over it

The Inspector General says some of the Signal messages on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's personal phone about strikes in Yemen had been deleted, so "we had to rely in part on the transcript of the chat The Atlantic posted publicly."

also we really slashed teen pregnancy and now the right is mad that we did.

it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools

The problem with these sticker shock theories of the vibecession is that the problem seems to be getting worse the further we get from the brief, moderate period of falling affordability in 2022. What we're seeing is more akin to how the public perceives crime: a problem that always gets worse.

Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.

Sure sounds like a no-quarter order that everyone understood to be a no-quarter order without calling it that. Which is a war crime.

what?? the consequences of my own actions!?!!

as your occasional correspondent, currently on twitter sabrina carpenter is at a 1.3 million like ratio versus the white house and swifties are suggesting that sabrina stop because she's just platforming the government and introducing ppl to the president

github.com/vercel/next.... lmao

MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report. Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.

a fun thing from a class I'm guest teaching tomorrow: which of these will turn out OK for you, and which will be a disaster? (they're all from a single Chinese city between 2010 and 2022)

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

its so funny how bad normal people are about badge opsec

new destiny 2 expansion literally just looks like temu starwars great job everybody. exactly like everyone had been worried about

I've occasionally contemplated joining a waning secret society just in order to be in on the ground when the final financial decisions have to be made.

just breathtaking racism

This is happening en masse and if the Trump regime is a permanent fixture America will fall out of the top science and research country

so whats a normal amount of panic attacks to have because of work per week. like 2?

New post: a defense of lock poisoning in Rust. Followup to recent discussion: decided to write about lock poisoning, looking at the arguments on each side, and informed by our experience at @oxide.computer dealing with the parallel problem of unexpected async cancellations Please give it a read!

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

if i were there the chunin exams wouldnt have went down like that