If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.

Pete Hegseth proudly announced that flu vaccines were no longer required for the military. Predictably, a flu outbreak has descended upon the Air Force’s boot camp. Flu vaccines are again required for all new recruits.

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“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice … in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York.” —Félix Guattari, 1989

I've made the mistake of listening to a lot of Peter Thiel interviews recently to try to understand his worldview. The guy is an absolute third-rate thinker who contradicts himself every 30 seconds and nobody pushes him on it.

Been watching UK press through this and the headlines i've seen have been (paraphrasing) "Don't worry about the heat here's how to have fun in it" and "we asked a bunch of celebrities what their heatwave outfits are" and PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY DYING. This is how the media pushes climate denial.

I resent the video-fication of podcasting. That's just a TV show. Podcasts aren't supposed to be for hot people. They have everything else

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Welp, I am on one of the activists that Madison Square Garden's owners were keeping a file on. To me, this shows exactly why giant corporations should not be allowed to use dangerous surveillance technologies like facial recognition. They can and will use it to silence critics and consolidate power

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@bencollins.bsky.social can we get some more cooking content please? youtu.be/ioH53m2cod4?...

I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.

I will not accept an argument that art and creativity have been uniquely democratised in the last few years since the invention of genAI. What a disservice to human history. How little regard you must have for the billions of souls that struggled through unimaginable suffering to express themselves.

Like the US, the UK should be having a debate about why moving to the right didn’t work. Also like the US, they are pretending the move right didn’t happen and are still telling the center-left party to move right.

what to announce when you first enter the Acela quiet car

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

AlgaeBTQIA. Is this anything?

The Guard is permanently sullied by this shit and these pussy-ass motherfuckers should be shunned and utterly unemployable for the rest of their miserable lives

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

The enraged bellow of the 21st century Polyphemus:

Someone should create an economic system that incentivizes the production of useful goods and services instead of scams and swindles

i don't really know how you can look at a situation like this after what happened in lebanon and come to any conclusion other than israel being the single biggest destabilizing force in the world right now

If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

the key to being a successful socialist politician is being mesmerically charming and having a beautiful, terrifying wife

Christ on a cracker (the last supper, oil on saltine)

Hegseth proudly ended the flu vaccine requirement for the military. Following this idiocy, only 40% of new trainees got vaccinated. There’s now a flu outbreak at an AF facility. A new recruit has died, though it is not clear if it was from flu. Now, the flu vaccine is again required there.

these mfers stay having to re-learn basic shit from first principles only after wrecking something being like.....oh is that why that was there?

Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me?

A coupla people passing by ripped off little pieces to keep for posterity 😂

I made a joke about James Bond on Instagram the other day, and this is what AI has generated since then. Obviously, there’s literally nothing true about this, and it is fucking hilarious. As a certified AI hater, I LOVE when it gets it things so incredibly wrong.

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According to a test I took on genius dot com I'm too smart to ever fall for confirmation bias

1. Great response by Ossoff. 2. Trump's really losing his fastball when it comes to nicknames. He's trying too hard to work in parts of names into them. "OssJerkoff?" Just call him Senator Jerkoff.

i have this one yoga teacher she’s great but whenever we’re doing plank pose she says ‘you are long…and strong…’ and well you’re all 38 you know where i’m going with this

So do you all remember Lynne Freeman who sued Tracy Wolff because Freeman wrote a YA paranormal set in Alaska where the hero was hot and the heroine only learned about her paranormal heritage as a teenager, and so did Tracy?

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

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If you want this to be factually accurate, add “men’s” or include Marta.

Troubling reports out of England of 30 year-olds being socially transitioned into same-sex attraction without parental consent! One can only hope that the UK bans coming out as gay until a child is at least 35!

the filibuster is one of many American Institutions that is so incomprehensibly stupid that future generations will struggle to understand why it ever existed

What has turned people into psychopaths who don't know how to use headphones

Getting rid of the headphone jack is up there with legalized gambling, re: the dissolution of society