i don't trust the confidence that people have that: there will be no substantive difference between cornyn and paxton, even if their voting records will ultimately be similar, and that paxton is necessarily a better opponent for talarico. i just don't think it's good to flirt with terrible people.

someone quoting this is how I found out Ken Paxton won the TX primary. Hitler country. Probably worth a discussion at some point what to do with the 25% of society that worships evil and death,

the DNC looking at itself in the mirror: the voters want 105% hitler in a blue tie

Every Republican primary is between 99% Hitler and 110% Hitler and voters are breaking the lever they’re going so hard for 110% Hitler

thomas is very obviously mainlining the most putrid far right slop imaginable

2026 in two tweets.

I’m an only child. For many reasons, I don’t think people should have just one child, if they have the option.

YOU KNOW IT! 🫡🦅🇺🇸 #dimension20

Whomst amongst us hasn't skipped a family wedding to pretend we're being killed

nothing you said is actually a reason to support spacex it’s only a reason to reform government nasa is more than capable of doing all this if they weren’t hamstrung it’s fucking stupid to hamstring non-partisan govt workers in order to reward a genocidal maniac

and the thing is, none of these people love technology; they are largely uninterested in tech with real revolutionary potential, like desktop manufacturing. they're in love with delusions and fantasies and above all heroic narratives that validate their software-priesthood class position.

they have no relationship to anything real so they are all in on computer-as-wire-mother. they'll advocate for paving the earth to build data centers because they think that'll immanentize the eschaton. they'll actively replace everything in their lives with a dumb generative facsimile.

so much of tech now is just nerds engaging in delusional larping of their teenage sci-fi fantasies but twisted to flatter the primacy of software in their brains. "space data centers" perfectly encapsulates this, turning space into yet another locus for the one activity they care about (computer)

I turned my thread on the Slush Fund "bailout" into an article about television aesthetics and the relationship of generations to political coalitions

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

The fact that the Broadway Six are now perfectly positioned to get paid out of Trump's J6 slush fund as actual, legitimate victims of DoJ "weaponization" is sort of the perfect bow on this.

[modern twitter left-lib takes time machine back to paris 1789] you guys will actually have to work more on average if you go thru with all that. just something to consider

The fact that the Harris campaign made their direct pitch of "these fuckers want to destroy our democracy, don't let them," Trump barely denied it, and it still flat out did not work has done a lot of hidden damage to the Democratic party and, more broadly, the American psyche

One of the interesting tangential aspects of Trump's visit to China is that he can't control the media output. Some of the photos are UNREAL. Had to check this carefully suspecting it was altered or AI gen, but I have found it on three known press outlets with credit to a global photo agency. 😱

Getting mogged by your judge is crazy

oh they put this on fox huh

Declining fertility is a Thing. It's not a moral crisis or something that a couple of hectoring state interventions can "fix." People across the world are having fewer children for reasons that make sense to them.

My contribution to the fertility decline discourse is to note that there has never, in the millions of years that hominids have existed on this planet, been a sustained global population boom like we've seen in the past 300ish years. Why in god's name would you think that growth is sustainable?

May 15th - The Overlook Hotel is re-open for business! 📽️📅 The Shining (1980)

“The Thucydides Trap, which I’m sure President Trump must know”

its crazy how literally everything is worse than it was two years ago

There's still good things on the dead internet.

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

"i use ai to write." "i use motorcycles to win the tour de france." "i use shopping at TJ Maxx to sew my own clothes"

Happy 226th Birthday to John Brown, the only white boy to ever truly understand the assignment

You cannot understand the American right's mental universe without realizing a constitutive trauma over the past ~40 years has been a growing fear of irrelevance and feelings of rejection as liberal culture "won" in mainstream media. It's hard for liberals and leftists to understand this mindset

great at male friendship, pranks involving physical pain, being a smart-ass, terrible at everything else. insufferable and charming in the same gesture. world-historically bad at driving

the more I think about it, the more I feel like “Odysseus is from Boston” is true in a sort of ecstatic truth way

Still the best film adaptation of The Odyssey

I've always loved this performance because he plays it completely genuinely. he knows the choreography, his costume is tailored and well suited to his body, the entire vibe is silly and celebratory instead of showing quiet distaste for what he's doing, as a lot of men would

Apparently the audio track from the Charlie Kirk assassination is now an outfit transition video?! I can’t wtf hard enough.

LOL amazing

logging on in spite of my greatest enemy, Time

Data center? No thanks—I’d rather data woman!! #humour

ESPRIT DE CORPS - Kim Kitsuragi is a nice guy. Wish he was here right now.

What if... I announced a new game. Is that the kind of thing people are into these days?

lol and how did that work out for all of us??

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

what's it gonna take, why won't he just bite it already

I’m fucking horrified that folk 100s of years from now are going to refer to this period as the Trumpian Age or some shit and I’m gonna be lumped in with all the dumb extremist dicks. Solidarity with dead people from the 19th century who thought empire was for arseholes and now get called Victorians