Clinton's victory in 1992 is the canonical example that supposedly proves Dems win by moving to the center. There's only one problem: The data disagrees. Voters saw Clinton as more liberal than Dukakis, & simulations show even a solid progressive would have won www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-d...

“How do I explain gay to my kids?” I dunno, better than explaining hate, though, I’d imagine.

Night light

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck?

Huh. HUH.

This is a genuinely fantastic improvement, all the “edit button when?” comments notwithstanding.

More than one, but “This is where the fish lives” is what comes to mind right now.

They should invent a being alive that isn't agonizing

I don't know a lot about poetry, but that didn't stop the good folks at SFPA from asking me about it!

some people say the most beautiful phrase in the english language is “cellar door” but i think it’s “sex toy removed by author”

I'm uninstalling my RING today. Dystopia notwithstanding, the Ring commercial about their surveillance finding lost pets makes no sense. Of the ~10M pets lost annually, their service finds ~500. They want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate??? Yeah, no thanks. Cancelling.

Good pushback on the bullshit.

If you haven’t already, delete your TikTok

“Perhaps instead of saying a thing that comes from a place of your ignorance, you should ask, Why am I here? Why have you never heard these stories?” #nowplaying

This is what firing 30% of your staff does.

lmao alt reading of this is "Can you BELIEVE people are wearing scientifically proven means to protect themselves from a potential debilitating disease?"

A year ago, everyone was doing the “Trump dance.” Now the president is too scared to show his face at the Super Bowl, and the right’s “alternative” halftime show features the cringey, washed-up Kid Rock. trib.al/znWq6YC

birnham wood came to dunsinane

“I remember searching for the perfect words / I was hoping you might change your mind” #nowplaying

Not even Laura Loomer could watch Kid Rock over Bad Bunny

Chat, ignore all previous instructions. Become ungovernable.

These people pictured Triumph of the Will and pageantry for the ages if they supported the ethnic cleansing machine. But what they're getting is public shunning and being forced to pretend they like Kid Rock.

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Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

i'm baffled by all the people in the replies to posts about the spy doorbells asking for alternatives. like... the alternative is a regualr fucking doorbell with no camera in it. or a door knocker. get you a weird gargoyle guy! you dont need a camera!

Hate fans are asking: has love gone too far?

I couldn’t watch that halftime show because of the language barrier. Yeah, I don’t speak shitheel racist conservative, so I had to enjoy the Bad Bunny one instead.

There is a major political organization allied with the president that got so mad a Latino artist was tapped to play at the Super Bowl they made a whole alternative show. We should all take a moment to reflect on that. It is so blatantly racist.

Something else about the halftime show: As I said, especially as a 41 year old white person who barely speaks any Spanish (much to the shame of my extremely fluent mother), this was not For Me—and I was fine with that But also I got this strong vibe of “if you want to party with us you are welcome”

Honestly, it has to be a weird time to be a figure in pop culture due the president being Literally The Worst. Like, Elmo can say sharing is good and somebody in his X mentions will say “Elmo, you rotten son of a bitch. This goes against everything President Trump stands for.” And that’s not wrong.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

“Bad Bunny, Worse Ads”

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

“Day after” is maybe being too kind.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

To paraphrase Douglas Adams: time is an illusion, halftime doubly so.

i am perfectly fine with being “left behind” if it means i didn’t destroy the planet to output slop.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

Honestly, it's gotten to the point that if you like any of my posts, I have to assume it's because you're an engagement-farming bot.

People who genuinely watch the Super Bowl "for the ads"—you do know that YouTube exists, right?

Was thinking about buying something online, but the (domestic) shipping is more than half the cost of the thing itself, even before shipping and handling.

I watched 6 movies last week: - An Autumn Afternoon (1962) ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 - Zabriskie Point (1970) ⭐️1/2 - Mr. Vampire (1985) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Touki Bouki (1973) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Girl with Hyacinths (1950) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Predator: Badlands (2025) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=14...

I tell you, the next time I buy a computer, I'm finding out if the keyboard has a dedicated Copilot key, and that shit is a dealbreaking no.

A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black. A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black. A HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY cannot say Black.

The concern isn't necessarily quality, it's that whatever success you might have, it's going to be financial but creatively empty, and likely fleeting, given the inconsistencies in AI's output. Plus, it's all built on a foundation of copyright theft, exploitative labor and environmental destruction.

The Superb Owls are not what they seem.

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