Another gem from CD: "An app is a website wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to install an ad blocker or any other modification that makes the product work better for you at the expense of the company’s shareholders"

The rest of the family has forsaken the thanksgiving leftovers. Still, I soldier on.

I spent most of today cooking the leftover turkey into turkey noodle soup. Since I didn't get a chance to bake a cake for my girlfriend last week, we also had one tonight. I'm very happy with how both turned out!

the fry wanter

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

frustrating that this piracy discourse is the same goddamn thing every time, has been for years, while discussion of exploitation of writers by publishers tends to remain very faint. it feels like this is a frequent steam valve for frustration, a group that can be yelled at without risking jobs.

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

One day I woke up and decided I wanted to do a stop motion animation. So I animated a simple run cycle, printed each frame and stuck them around my city ✨️ (Which btw, I felt super guilty about)

It’s almost like we can’t trust corporations, and “representation” is not an ethical position but one based on trends and expected monetary returns and the rug can instantly be pulled back on decades of “progress.”

the reality is that the economy is held up far more by confidence fairies than lots of graph-obsessed dudes want to let on and so far the capital class that ushered in trump is still, mostly, clapping so the confidence fairies continue to exist and chug on there are limits to how long this lasts

never forget how they reported on us

Well well well if it isn't the blowjob brothers

So these aren't the files the house was trying to release, just some odds and ends the oversight committee was just sitting on? Why are we just now seeing them? If they're this bad, what's still locked away?

hmmmm

This anthropological distance from which you choose to view moderation issues is just a rhetorical construct built for justifying cynical actions you felt like taking anyway. It's not cute, nor is it an effective obfuscation.

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

If they aren’t willing to even talk about defunding ICE then why would you think they would ever prosecute them?

"did you even read the article???? the headline is bad but the article is good!!!" buddy if I see a restaurant called Dan's Fecal Stew i am not gonna go in there to see if maybe they printed the sign wrong

I’m coining the phrase “the centrist two-step.” Step 1 is declaring that the left needs to focus on kitchen table issues instead of social issues to win back voters and step 2 is insisting that all left-wing approaches to kitchen table issues are impossible to deliver on.

If I ask for your opinion, it is because I want to know how you feel about a topic. I can ask the shitty hallucination machine questions myself if I want to (I don't).

The man pours his heart out over the islamophobia in NYC and this country more generally and how it's affected his family, and the response is to scrutinize his exact familial connections? What a disgusting angle to take.

I realized my pfp hasn't been updated since 2022! Anyways here's your reminder that I'm still hot.

the very pathetic truth is that all the fuckers writing 'harris lost by running on the left' op-eds would, if she had ran the exact same campaign but won, be writing 'harris won by rejecting the left' op-eds instead. they're not honest people

I feel this should be obvious but we do understand the reason for the focus on gender affirming care for incarcerated people, right? The goal is to get people to admit that they think gender affirming care is *not medically necessary*.

“Okay, okay, you guys have had your chance—the horses want another shot at it.”

"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.

If I wanted to disrupt a protest, I'd start a rumor that the regime was going to send agitators to infilitrate the protest and act up. Then I'd sit back and watch them all act like cops and turn on each other. We go through this every 3 years and it works every time.

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

Don't companies usually have profit goals?

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

this reminds me very much of how musk would complain about twitter features needing to be fixed or removed whenever they posed a problem for him and/or the chuds he increasingly molded the site to serve not saying just saying

It's like if someone started a boat racing company with the intention of creating a Sea Steading venture. But instead of ever getting to Sea Steading; they accidentally created a functional and relatively well liked Boat Racing League. They resent their success because it inhibits their "dream".

i can’t be trusted to use the “before you react or engage—for your own mental wellbeing—maybe look more closely at this person, because it seems like they might value the opinions of men who believe you’re less human than other humans” information responsibly. hi. i’m the problem, it’s me.

The tank's role is to draw aggro

All I'm saying is they're absolutely going to cave because this is performative and it's not like this is some big revelation they're arriving at everyone knows what a shutdown is. Anyway. Any Dem keeping this shit open needs to go ASAP because they're funding an invasion on their constituency

This is all downstream of declining literacy rates, right? Like this isn't just some "kids these days" thing. People are choosing the method of absorbing information that suits them best, and a lot of people struggle with large volumes of text.

Huh.

The running theme with the Congressional Democrats is that they give up concrete material stuff in order to get purely procedural wins.

In referring to Stephen Miller as a "sexual matador", Katie meant that he steps out of the bull's way.

the generous interpretation of "we need a different slogan" is trying to find some way to *sneak* taking money from the cops away in a way that won't get any outcry, won't make the cops go nuclear, won't make the right wing come in like a bomb. not happening. you can't sneak this in with rhetoric.

"That shit must've been laced with Tylenol, because I'm struggling to understand the social cue of giving a single fuck."