love this story. also "Epic Mickey" translates to "Giant Penis" for any Irish person. thought I should mention that.

One of the wildest parts of the Luigi story is that he didn’t actually do it lol We’ve been saying that since day one

Lawmakers and bible thumpers don't want you to understand the people they're demonizing are doing more good for society than they ever would

every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

in short, this is such incompetent & unclear comms that it could be interpreted as a political endorsement from Bluesky PBLLC in favor of ICE’s unconstitutional racist raids against Americans. when you’re the bouncer at a dive bar, you need to clearly delineate when you’re on or off the clock.

even in a scenario like this where you might need to take down a post that doesn’t align with ToS, responding sarcastically does nothing but propagate negative sentiment across the social graph & raise further questions about whether Bluesky has a conservative political bias.

Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior. that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky “I am no’ deid! I’m trying to have a moment o’ existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it’s a puir lookout if a man cannae feel the chilly winds o’ Fate lashing aroound his nethers wi’out folks telling him he’s deid, eh?”

The Youtube algorithm's ongoing struggle to figure out what the fuck my advertising demographic is is going great.

Remember when we did not have a government where the President personally intervened in regulatory decisions to demand political favors?

This is still far less than the percentage of cops who admit they've beaten their spouse and kids

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent. It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

i just wanted to learn more about a guy from Crusader Kings 3 and now i have no choice but to learn about every notable person who has ever died on a toilet

new policy: when you are elected to public office you are banned from social media and especially from twitter an intern may post campaign videos on your behalf but you personally may not open the app, not once, not until you are out of office

It so weird how entire generations just memory hole things. "'Six seven'" is pure brain rot, generation alpha is cooked" Did... did you all just forget about "Wazzaaaaaap 😝"?

Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government. Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Paul, thank you..,

we live in this bizarre time where “being racist” is, by the rules of discourse, Bad but the act of being racist is now acceptable, apparently, and so the press bends into a pretzel to avoid calling open racism racist because describing it accurately would be “picking a side”

A lot of Best Of lists are now out or on their way. Congrats to you all. It’s an accomplishment I hope every writer gets to experience at one time or another. Not everyone will, though, and to those writers, know I see you too. Keep telling your stories. Regardless of lists, the world needs them.

Olivia Nuzzi: yes, she helped endanger every child in America, but at least she isn't sorry about it

At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs. There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

Real nice dystopia you got here. Be a shame if somethin’ happened to it…

they are all just utterly, completely incapable of normal human behavior for five minutes, even banal small talk about the weather is beyond them

it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes

they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything

part of it is that they hate women, part of it is that they hate her specifically because they think she should want to fuck them, part of it is that all this shit is for the benefit of like 10K people on twitter who've all been legally prohibited from having unsupervised time with their children

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

In a post corporate merger world the idea of crossovers and different IPs interacting brings me absolutely no joy. And I'm the schmo who drew Hank Hill as Sailor Moon.

The Internet is good sometimes.

When the AI bubble finally bursts, I'm going to raise my editing and writing rates to triple digits per hour out of pure spite. Coulda hired me before, but you wanted to be a water-poisoning plagiarist instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

NPR crying and begging for donations after being defunded by Republicans so they can continue to inform the public and then calls a Constitutional guarantee a "longstanding principle" in the finest of Both Sides Journalism.

Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.

Literally a participation trophy.

Calling it now that she'll eventually end up at CBS www.wsj.com/business/med...

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.