two things can be true: when the algorithm feeds me a bunch of low effort recycled clip compilations of cute dogs, that's on me, because I watched a bunch of those when the algorithm starts feeding me right wing murder fantasies because I watched a build guide for a video game, that's on them

history and gender studies sure, those seem helpful but nothing reminds me more of the trump admin than true crime deep dives on family annihilators

trump declaring the military will be used against the "enemy within" feels like an ironic hubris prophecy out of some greek myth "if you launch this war, you will bring down a great empire..." kind of shit. the enemy within was standing in front of all those generals, ranting and raving.

really need to emphasize the small cities part. i have mentioned this before, but you'll see people on facebook talk about charlottesville like its ridley scott's mogadishu

was there really a sesame street where big bird confronts the egyptian god of death on behalf of a mummy ghost or is this a fake memory i have

i'm built different, i'd never mix up memories of a lost youth with nostalgia for an imaginary ideal past you see back when i was growing up we were educated to not do that and the economy was so much stronger then so we could afford to understand the past

“Hey you know that thing on LEVERAGE where you whip up a media frenzy with bots, is that real?”

junk science and authoritarians, a classic combo

I really feel like he had a stroke two weeks ago and something genuinely broke

tired: my irrational nerd grudge against Alien 3 wired: my irrational nerd grudge against Prometheus inspired: my irrational nerd grudge against Alien: Earth

One of the most frustrating things is how much our political system acts like he isn't self-evidently non compos mentis.

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

the reason they think that everyone on the left is only left-wing because some shadowy organization is paying them is because that is how the right actually operates, it's all, top to bottom, dirty patronage networks

"We will become an even more extreme version of a totalitarian slave state that produced basically nothing of note and demographically collapsed before being easily conquered."

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly." They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

not a true autobot unless you're from cybertron, otherwise, you're a sparkling robot in disguise

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

If you're a right-winger you're never going to win over gender studies professors, so raging at them is all you can do. But the persuadable academic groups (like econ/business/comp sci/physics) are all D+60 or whatever now because you've constructed a political party with no room for Jerome Powell!

the right wing zero sum mindset, of only winner and loser, ignores that there can be mutual benefit (both win) AND mutual detriment (both lose). Society can improve for everyone and get much worse for everyone. They seek to “win” and for only others to “lose” and will not get either result.

I watched a really great YouTube essay about this which argued that what the “where are the booth babes” brigade wants is not the opportunity to satisfy any particular aesthetic or sexual desire, but rather to receive the message that their hobby is exclusively for them.

if you did not have at least four completely inscrutable technical problems that were your own fault your exposure to computers was too gentle

not a great 2 days for the standards of american journalism, huh

i am probably fortunate i spent my vulnerable young man internet cookable brain on an obnoxious purple website that just left me with very strong opinions about different editions of Dungeons & Dragons and not like, a fascination with obscure flavors of fascism from the 1920s

“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.” From the archives:

kirk's murder violated the ultimate rule of America's punditocracy; nothing they say or do should ever result in negative consequences for them. (the bitterest irony here is that there's every chance his shooter was just a meme-poisoned fascist who picked him for convenience.)

they just keep digging us all deeper. we’re gonna be lucky to live through this at all, unlucky we have to

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

Just like anti-vaxers, people who dislike immigrants are a weird terrible fringe group and we should treat them like the weird terrible fringe group they are.

i think the 8th deadly sin should be consciously making yourself immune to reason not like, just making a mistake, but the active choice to simply...refuse flat earth, conspiracy stuff, etc, file it under "Deceit" or something, I dunno, get Aquinas on the speaker Ouija

just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense

wow we changed the name of the department can't fail now, the name was really holding it back thank god we live in a reality where magic is real and to Name a thing is to Command the thing (finger to earpiece...)

every so often one of the conservative pundits writes something so stupid i have trouble articulating the counter-argument (george will "trains make people communists!") because it's hard to figure out where to start and how to put what should be an instinctive realization into words

There is something unspeakably terrible but also hilarious that in the future historians are going to have to teach people about the time the government used a kid named Big Balls as an excuse to invade an American city with feds and national guardsmen

remember how much it sucked when a covid vaccine was like 9 to 36 months away and then felt like a fucking miracle when it arrived

Linz was right and America should be a westminister system

i'm pretty sure pulling carl sagan's "a demon haunted world" off my parent's bookshelf at like age 9 and reading it voraciously (as I read everything in those days, before the internet killed my attention span) has meant i dodged a lot of conspiracy belief bullshit in my adult life

"In fact, the extent to which a society has low poverty seems to be almost inversely related to how much of their welfare state is specifically focused on “the poor” through means-tested benefits." www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/08/29/t...

Congress has constructively dissolved itself

you're referencing weekend at bernies when it comes to the President of the United States. I've discarded more than one draft post trying to construct a reference to Weekend at Bernies 2 instead. We are not the same. you've made the better decision

can the president complete a crossword puzzle. has he ever said "ooh, big stretch" to a dog. could he find germany on a map. if you explained the second law of thermodynamics to him, would he understand you. does he think stealth fighters are invisible to the human eye. is he still alive.

just once in my life it'd be nice if a little + appeared next to my head and I could level up

Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

Also, I’m just so angry that I’ve heard no less than three pseudoscientists TODAY refer to the “cell of mitochondria” and I want to shew through leather. MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OFFFFFF THE CELL it is a part OF a cell you grifting nincompooping vacuoles!!

uh, if the President had a stroke and is visibly unable to complete a sentence, but they just keep him from public interviews and use AI to generate Truth Social posts for him, how would we know the difference?

Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.

i wonder if the "the public really hates visible disorder" theory could explain the COVID freakout, given how completely chaotically COVID 'lockdowns' were handled. business type by business type, county to county, school district by school district, the president suggesting bleach injections, etc..

I think also of all the companies that have leeched off of scientific credibility to market their (often dubious) products. From Theranos to homeopathy to health foods. And the media, who milked every preliminary development for attention, and blamed scientists when their own hype wasn't realized.