A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

This is because administration officials didn't get to see the "the First Amendment is OK actually" pocket squares.

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Or, even when an act is a performance, the audience is entitled to do anything except select themselves.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

LLM Fans LLM Detractors 🤝 lol sucks to suck Altman futurism.com/artificial-i...

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

okay, fine, here's an emoji for you

You laugh, but A/B testing is best practice in effective messaging,

I'm about to say something I haven't said in 8 years: I'm looking for a full-time job. I'm looking for the right role with the right people and the right mission, all of which I've laid out in this blog post. I'm mostly interested in something new, so if this sounds like your team I'd love to talk.

So it's going to cost 4x as much as estimated and we have to pay 100% of that instead of the 0% that was promised, good job everyone, hit the showers.

EVERYONE LOOK AT MY NEW GADGET! Backed the designrules.co kickstarter way back when and it’s finally here.

$1.2MM to live north of 635 and no where near a light rail stop, surrounded by toll roads? Just kill me and be done with it

Stop trying to be president, son, and start trying to be PRESENT for your SON

I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

Today is Indie Bookstore Day! It's cool and rainy but the N is miraculously running into Queens from Manhattan so if you're venturing around NYC, take it to 36th Ave. astoriabookshop.com/events/50291...

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Exactly one year ago today:

My immediate thought was “ @edzitron.com is going to be insufferable today” and you know what, completely fair.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries currently on the phone to Magyar warning him that his victory is a distraction.

JD Vance touch of death confirmed.

Good example of how the truth or falsity of a statement is just irrelevant in Trump’s mind. He says whatever he thinks he needs to say at a particular time to accomplish whatever goal he has at that particular time. That’s what his brain thinks words are for.

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Signal gives you a way to stop this in Settings > Notifications > Notification Content

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

off leash boyfriend owners are extremely irresponsible. what if he bites someone or shits on the sidewalk

Economy so bad they literally closed the dick-sucking factory

This is so, so well-articulated.

I had an idea. Was it a good idea? Probably not.

once I find my art critic it’s over for you kitsches

You aren’t being asked to rub gravel in your hair and whip yourself in atonement for liking it before it was explicitly and intrinsically linked to people who use the fame and money to give them to hurt people. If “stop willingly giving a bigot money” is too much of an ask for you, you suck.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

This is probably the least surprising piece of news ever.

As the former creative director on Wizards' Harry Potter tabletop games, I feel it's useful to analyze the new HBO series trailer in depth. Here are my conclusions: Trans rights are human rights.

I am not participating in a collaboration with @michaelianblack.bsky.social’s art when I watch him on HIGNFY. I am doing my small part in making sure he gets paid to do more content, though.

picture, thousan words, etc etc

Gonna use this one a lot

This is completely unbearable. But also like… why are his insane ramblings never summarized like this in the media? We gotta wait for a substack guy to put it together like this?

I read this assuming Saxon was the baby he drags around the White House. This is Saxon. He's 20 years old.

Mueller absolutely saved Trump’s ass. He’s just too stupid to realize it. That’s the irony that’s screwing us all. The institutionalists keep institutionalizing while Trump sets about destroying them.

Fixed ENG-311: Restore color of my energy to amber

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

I have officially been threatened with a good time

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

Oh My Fucking God. I manually created the quoted meme, but translate.kagi.com can do it for real.