if you respond like this to people 6 years later expressing that the social isolation of peak Covid was hard for them, congratulations: you are a huge asshole

American Nuremberg Trials for every single one of these depraved brownshirts and the depraved individuals giving them their orders. There will be a fucking reckoning of some form or fashion. Bet.

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Translation: This deal is about to be exactly like the JCPOA, minus Obama’s signature

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I am very happy to say that I just finished reading: • #TheSubtleArtofFoldingSpace by @johnchu.bsky.social / #JohnChu and it was absolutely brilliant.

Celebrating 4/20 in your 20’s vs celebrating 4/20 in your 30’s

As a candidate for U.S. Senate, I support the legalization of marijuana use. #mepolitics

When Trump is out of office, we're changing all the federal building names back, right? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

As foretold by prophecy, LAPD used their "first responder" drones to spy on No Kings protests and anti-ICE protests: theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

(Er sorry just to be clear, I'm not the amateur fencer, I'm quoting someone I know)

From an amateur fencer: look how the dominant fighter barely does any flourishes--it's all to the point flow

The original questions raised by my t-shirt also answered by my t-shirt t-shirt

Same. My job is very stationary. I stay home and make comics. But then from time to time I get to go out, do cons or a tour of schools or whatever, and connect myself and my job to the rest of humanity. And it was REALLY hard having that taken away from me for so long.

SO happy for everyone who spent like 2-12 months in the house and had some major self discovery, realized working from home was the shit, or who just got to not interact with people. I had an essential job so had to deal with people stuck at home looking for excuses to be indoors publicly.

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The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

This is so much worse than just honorably disbanding the organization

Has anyone done a proper deep study of what reading a book actually involves, psychologically, neurologically and so on? Because it occurs to me that quite a lot of AI/creative initiatives are premised on a rather limited understanding of what that interaction actually looks like.

it’s self-promotion in the guise of a lifehack, a way of saying my time is very valuable, shaving a bit of lead time to the airport is worth the occasional hundreds of dollars in change fees.

I'm starting to get the sense that referendums in Alberta are performative exercises instead of ways to resolve policy disputes.

I, personally, am here for discovery

Kash Patel's lawsuit against The Atlantic has been filed. All else aside, it confirms this: Kash Patel was locked out of the FBI system on Friday, April 10. The lockout set off a flurry of inquires to the FBI/DOJ/WH about whether Patel had been fired. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

To expand: Emotions are neither right nor wrong, but they can be informative If being around someone always makes you feel good, that's something to pay attention to. If doing a certain thing makes you tighten up, that tells you something else.

Emotions are a type of information

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Over the course of the two million years that the homo genus has been evolving, human language has become highly optimized for these mediums, just as humans themselves have become highly optimized for using language, in a coevolutionary feedback loop."

“Human language is very much shaped by its mediums—the physiology of the human vocal tract, the properties of sound propagating through air, our ability to perceive and process those sounds, the processing capabilities of the human brain, and even the medium of time. ...

Why would so many Democratic voters be turning away from Israel rn, a nation openly run by trump loving far right psychos who keep saying you’re a bad person if you let them keep doing orgies of bombings on civilians, and who keep insisting the U.S. plunge itself into expensive regional bloodbaths…

❝ the risk extends to “dementia-level decline”, sometimes months or even years after the initial infection ❞

In case people need it this week, I had a story come out in January about living through times when you don't think things can get better. (Spoiler: They can.) "The Doorkeepers" over at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

My big thing for this year is to try to get people to understand what Elon did in 2024 before he does even worse in 2026.

Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

(Bill Hicks voice) "Looks like we got ourselves a *reader*"

Keep banging the Brexit = MAGA drum & the Trump = Farage / Gove / Johnson drum

The European far right can try to run from Trumpism, but they can't hide. In the end, their methods of (mis)governing, their bad policy ideas & their sick ideology is no different. Everything they touch turns to shit, as Portugal is learning now with its do-nothing-but-make-life-worse government.

What you have to understand is that the United States started a war, almost immediately lost it, then began the laborious process of negotiating against itself, and is now settling into the secondary denial phase …

This is concise.

Ed is correct. In fact Davy at first suggested "alumium" before switching to "aluminum". Anyway, nice to meet you too.

Maybe the Republican Party can’t deal with its Nick Fuentes problem because this message is more or less the same as theirs so the criticism comes off as disingenuous www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Lot of people discussing this with the idea of failing faster. I would put it to you that failure doesn’t actually have to exist at all in this conception. One of the great mistakes of the AI brouhaha is the belief that art is good because of its craft or content. It is good because it connects us.

Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.

And at least I had my partner to interact with - I can’t imagine how horrible it was for even minimally-social people who lived alone.

But whatcha gonna do, we did what we had to do and stayed home, masked up, and got vaccinated (and still get all our boosters). But it fucking sucked!

But yeah, while I understand that quite a few people did rather like the social isolation aspects of Covid, I found it to be absolutely horrible and I basically just disassociated for a year and change. Also I don’t like to think about the damage it did to my career at a pretty pivotal time too much

For rather understandable reasons, social media perspectives on peak Covid tend to get skewed towards people who don’t like leaving the house all that much, so figure I should represent the “leaving the house and having parties is my favorite thing to do” perspective

my edgy Covid take is that I while I did socially isolate until vaccines came online for the good of society, I absolutely loathed being unable to see people in person, throw a party, or travel for over a year, and I enjoyed absolutely nothing whatsoever about any of it

To paraphrase my PT: "I know you think you're too good for wall sits but do the fucking wall sits"