best ending of all time, let's be real

People who can sleep on airplanes, salute. I don't care how long the flight is, I can't do it

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

tonight New Yorkers have rejected the candidate most likely to believe the ninja turtles are real and active (Eric Adams) AND the candidate most likely to claim he beat one to a pulp in 1988 (Curtis Sliwa)

If Senate Dems see this, and are still considering caving, I don’t even know what we’re doing any more. Trump continues to openly defy the courts and break the law. You can’t make a handshake deal with someone like that. It’s just not how it works.

For the 6th year in a row, a player named Will Smith has won the World Series 2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers 2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves 2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros 2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers 2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers 2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers

To anyone not into baseball I’m sorry but also get into baseball

It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.

Should be wearing a Greinke jersey as a show of solidarity between guys who got a 9-figure deal in LA after abandoning the Royals

if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public

This report convinces me that right-wing propaganda works, most notably on Dem operatives who are supposed to be shaping public opinion, not merely reacting to it.

democrats have been pivoting to the economy literally my entire life, and yet somehow centrist pundits are still convinced we're the party of identity politics. maybe the problem isn't policy. maybe you can't run from the culture war. maybe you just have to win it!

i like that climate change has basically scrapped the temperate portions of spring and fall on the east coast, it's just straight from hot to cold and vice-versa with *at best* a week of "oh, it's nice out"

Good news guys turns out we actually won in 2024

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

the duality of man

The ability to just unreservedly admit your were wrong about stuff, man, you don't realize how important it is for a functional civilization until it's gone.

One’s identity as a consumer organizes one’s politics in part because the thicker social structures that once performed that role — unions, fraternal orgs, churches, etc. — have mostly faded away.

A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.

i will note again that there is a really unhealthy, unpleasant and strong current of consumerism that runs through the left in a way that genuinely didn’t used to be true

Trail Blazers fans have achieved the mythical "our team started out 0-1 and now the head coach is going to jail" that college football fans have dreamed of for years

Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

we are in a self-awareness crisis

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

I agree with whoever said a rather under-appreciated dynamic is the extent to which Professional Politics Opinion Havers flat out just find the left interpersonally irritating in a way they do not find the right so, and I think a lot of the talk of a vibe shift was wish-casting their irritants away.

Instead of screaming MODS! MODS! use your own personal moderation abilities on here (which are really strong) and block block block (keep hips low) and share who should be blocked and then let's post about breakfast

Watch for the errant flag throw that hits a player, stay for the Oscar-winning acting job.

Pretty fucking grim that "if you elect someone the President doesn't like he'll occupy your city by force" has taken less than a year to just become a standard and accepted part of US politics.

note to incoming bluesky users: you MUST bring your own joke understandings. members and staff are NOT responsible for explaining what, how, and why jokes are

there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.

i'm gonna be so mad if people start pretending to be libertarian again once trump is gone

going to channel @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social when i say that it is bad that the gatekeepers of political discourse are indifferent to serial dishonesty

football is the game of gods

Shocking new footage proves that they resumed the football game that Bane blew up after he made his big speech. This is from the second quarter.

people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

tfw u have major Heat plans

Assholes want to rig the world so that it rewards the trash values of assholes.

this is every Guy Ritchie film

It is so incredibly weird and scary and disheartening to watch the world's most powerful nation being systematically dismantled and pilfered by a gang of ego-thugs led by a painted carnival barker who is literally famous for being a greedy crooked cheat.

So Hulk Hogan, why are you a great candidate for the Administrative Assistant position? Hulk Hogan:

Again, Kavanaugh justified racial profiling by claiming that this doesn't happen--a justification that becomes more preposterous with each passing day as Trump's goons terrorize more people based on the color of their skin ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

it's funny to me that the people who talk about the criminal mindset, which is not a real thing, are the same people who talk about the success mindset, which is just crime

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.