I do my best to keep up with the local youth slang words and phrases so when I use them around the youngs, they have to scurry off and come up with more new ones. ... it helps keep them off the streets

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Dr. Who", or "Transformers."

Important 🧵

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

This was one of the bosses' explicit goals in getting Trump elected - crush the strong Biden era labor market in order to discipline workers and make them submit to abuse and exploitation. That, not burrito taxi prices, was the actual economic stakes of the 2024 election

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

you know what? fine. yep. the libertarians always hated trump. sure they have a lot of incoherent and often bad beliefs and I don't align with them politically but, welcome to hating trump. if your boss calls i'll say you were here the whole time. i don't care. just get in the boat and shut up.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

ok. does anyone know if it's twice per athlon or every two athlons

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

Food Not Bombs was downtown handing out soup on a stick.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

y'all they got the Air Force patrolling the subway. This is literally the opposite of where they should be

"in an inconspicuous location making them not readily discernible" --> "hard to find" #AmEditing

"Mr. Feldman has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes." new AI lawyer submission disaster just dropped and it's a doozy

I recommend you watch the #WinterOlympics opening ceremony tomorrow. It's all downhill after that.

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That time I found a pile of old NASA research documents in a skip and took them home for a lark.

in reactionary centrism, “everything is always backlash, never a self-generated political project. As a result, it takes a while to wake up to the reality that, for instance, Stephen Miller’s ethnic cleansing project is self-generated…”

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

It's Monday AGAIN.

Seems like Delta—or at least this Delta first officer—is trying to make up for flying Liam and his dad to the ICE detention center two weeks ago. Cc @ottergoose.net 🧐

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that. This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one. I will post them one at a time. Ready?

This.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.

The "ban whistles" stuff is how you know whistles are working incredibly well

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

R/onlyfansadvice poster is all of us. www.reddit.com/r/onlyfansad... “Alright, idk where else to talk about this because not everyone wants to listen, especially because it has to do with 2 uncomfortable topics: the political climate and my desire to make OF content.”

The work those little parallelograms are doing on the ceiling is very beautiful and important to me

I don't think he meant 3,000 miles, I think he meant 2 weeks.

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

"It's too dark, and it has too much plants," Brian Wilson said. The other Forest Boys nodded. They'd have to find a new name.

They're lucky they don't live about 200 miles farther north or they'd be having one of those awful Canadian winters.

I'm only just now realizing that Bovino and Bongino are two different people.

I don’t make a habit of listening to speeches out of Davos, but this is genuinely one for the history books: a clear-eyed acknowledgment that the old international order was partly a fiction and is now a lie, and a call to act collectively to build resilience and sovereignty in the face of hegemony.

"The lies this administration is telling about Renee Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything." That's @radleybalko.bsky.social, quoted in this piece. I say this opens door to deeper understanding of this moment:

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Today’s newsletter is about a natural experiment that happened on Bluesky yesterday. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/on-trump-a...

Need at least 534 years.

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

Sending this to all these European officials can't happen by itself, people on the NSC staff were involved. Either they think this is a good thing to do, or they want it exposed. I'm sure a few of them are in the first category, but I'm betting not enough. So I wonder what their thinking really is.

Post a car picture you took.

To add to this, almost all of the U.S.’s problems are linked to its hatred of Black people and that it hates Black people more than it loves anyone else. Our laws and policies are largely based on making sure Black people (and sometimes other groups) don’t benefit even at the expense of others.