ah man. that can’t be good

the thing that strikes me is it cost only $3.2 million to acquire these publications. this would be a drop in the bucket for, say, a political party that wanted to seriously play the media game. theeditorial.news/culture/the-...

hell yeah

[turning on NFL game] I just can’t support people selling their bodies for others’ entertainment

Look, she asked

This guy should get traded to the vacuum of space

DevCom is short for Devolutionary Communist Party.

2:30 am Going back to the fridge for more olives

Two types of people will see this. The first type is the emotionally shallow person who just sees AI and that's it for them. Everyone else will think about the emotions it created

I must post my favorite LOTR meme because of this

Reminds me of this classic parody from (the sorely missed) MAD Magazine.

Here's a version with the artist's name

i fully endorse the "SWEATY TRYHARD" "NORMAL JOE" and "COOLGUY CASUAL" difficulty select system

Shit I’ll do it, hang on let me look this thing up

Former ____ zealots are always bad but “former Marxist” may be the worst.

“Trust fund kid at CUNY” is so ridiculous I’m ruling out the account being run by anyone from New York

This stupid account thinks this is a dunk. Whereas, I go to Albany regularly as a CUNY union rep demanding that CUNY be free for everyone. And before you ask, yes, this includes the 1 time in its 65 year history that a trust fund kid attended the CUNY Graduate Center to get a Sociology degree.

So did Electric Wizard but ok??

ok this one got me

this was their first post back after three months of nothing. bizarre.

people are only talking about the "shrimp" one but "kat eats ice cream" was one of their FIRST posts bsky.app/profile/elit...

All social media professionals employed by the DNC deserve a strong staff union and that includes @elitegrifters.bsky.social

yeah it's for sure a failed op. they're trying to sew doubt within the left (they're here and not on twitter, which speaks volumes to that end I think) but it's crashing and burning lol. a lot of the tweets are things a layman wouldn't do, digging into campaign finance records, so it's definitely $$

this is a good catch. I wonder what AIPAC front group is funding and staffing this. it's been combing through campaign finance research to find anything to expose. this all takes time and effort so it's really making me thing this is a small (pathetic, unsuccessful) op

If the shrimp post was in isolation I’d think it was a genuinely funny parody but as Mr. Pussy says this seems like a paid operation

Watching Widow’s Bay. This episode has two plots. Wonder if they’re related in some way

I found out that the sea drone the Houthis used is called the Blowfish. Come on. Houthis and the Blowfish

The rise of AI-generated animal videos and images is such a travesty. Animal content has always been one of the best things about the internet and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell what’s real

This chart is now 7 years old, and it used data from 2009. Since then, the rich have gotten way better at stealing and at convincing people that it's not theft.

Someone should livetweet it every year minute by minute the way Ari Fleischer used to reenact 9/11 on Twitter

It's the second anniversary of the moment when millions of people said in unison, "Oh no. We're fucked."

we saw this with video games where the Blizzard, Bungie, or Bethesda fans get very attached after a run of success and then keep scrambling to rationalize failures after the original management sells out or otherwise doesn't keep up the standards they were accustomed to.

Well done @uaw.org! Can EVERONE else do the same! ASAP!

You cannot say you support creatives while stealing their work. And maybe its time to cut these fuckers out and forge a way forward that doesn’t rely on essentially blood money to get projects off the ground.

i understand that A24 has put out a lot of great movies, but the idea that people could be "A24 fans" instead of fans of certain directors, writers, actors, cinematographers, art directors etc. is weird to me. you're basically cheering on a certain executive suite, of course they're morons.

Hollywood has *always* run on the exploitation of unpaid labour and misery (casting couches, child/animal abuse, interns working 20 hour shifts) The use of genAI is theft. It’s theft from the creatives that CEOs want to replace because it pads their bottom lines. kotaku.com/a24s-bad-exc...

the scary thing for the self-styled moderate establishment is that a lot of their bedrock constituencies aren't as ideologically committed to "the west" and "israel" as they are to "i am so sick of seeing pedophile rapists ruining the world," and they *will* back a socialist if that gets them there

Kinda weird when people come to a revelation about needing to win elections after losing a couple primary contests to the left and not when the courts and both houses of Congress and the Presidency are controlled by the other party

almost every time i have to drive on I5, on one bridge or another there's a group of (probably retired) people standing there waving at cars with No Kings type signs about abolishing ICE, stopping trump, protecting democracy, etc. those seem like the low-hanging-fruit of people to recruit to DSA

we need to call up the members of van jones’ old maoist reading group like we’re assembling the goddamn avengers so they can hold the struggle session of the century

Happy "lottery" day to those who celebrate. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny..."

[knock knock] Hello I'm with the Democratic Party. Just wanted to mark you down on whether or not you love the West and cops and rich people? Oh and Israel too.

yo I need everyone to notice this this guy just did a Zohran-style video that’s low-budget but super authentic, credible, and watchable. Proof it doesn’t take Zohran-level charisma! Sincere belief in what you talk about helps though.

I go over this in more depth in my essay about working for the Dems in Nevada: post-goldfish.ghost.io/i-became-an-... The dem party “organizes” by flying in some kids who just graduated college with a poli sci degree, and they talk to voters for a few months; DSA organizes all the time