Also Gen. Howe, a few months after "easily" conquering Philly: Wait, now we're also at war with *France*?

Lmfao what an awesome proposal. One reason you need a 90% income tax rate at this level is these guys are too stupid to have the amount of power they do. Like giving a glock to a 4 year old

I fuckin love technology

Even better

Note that the sudden rise in "nudification" is not an advance in the tech itself, it's a design choice by Musk / xAI. LMMs trained with nude images have been able to do this for years; Grok is the first time a major company has chosen to enhance this functionality for users rather than restrict it.

We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

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We don't need to give ICE agents more training. We need to subject them to rigorous oversight and, when they commit crimes, we need to prosecute them. The only education they need is to learn that they can and will be held accountable for what they do in the field.

Logistics

After the invasion, from Tom Kidd’s splendid 1999 illustrations for H. G. Wells’ “The War Of The Worlds”.

One of the most telling ways of how we ended up here is Americans are fine with terror as long as they don't have to make eye contact with it.

bluesky is a sealed epistemic environment and also i am going to make sure that no one can correct me when i say tendentious things like “kirk was killed by an ideological opponent”

please share this GFM fundraiser for this man kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis. i know a lot of you are out there mad about Renee Good, but ICE never quits.

Democracy dies with an immigration officer shooting a lesbian soccer mom in the face and half of the country not giving a shit.

This man looks like an unwell penis.

- Okay, so in this episode we’ve got an ICE agent murdering a mom. We’re really amping up the conflict between the evil of the Trump administration and the good protesters. What name should we give the mom? - How about… Good? - You’re fired.

i know we live in hell because i just got a sponsored post where a woman used a fake story about ICE to promote a fucking mobile game

So. Much. Gender.

ai search results going great

It's funny because he called the fascists gay. Do you get it? He owned them so hard by validating their belief that being gay is shameful. Master strategist.

I miss consensus reality.

Fewer pursuits but more deaths shows ASP is really fine-tuning their wrecking abilities. *The best way to ensure traffic safety is to deliberately cause fatal traffic accidents.

I think about this July 2024 threat from the head of the Heritage Foundation quite a lot these days.

Erich von Däniken, popularizer of the idea that non-white ancient people were incapable of building monuments, died yesterday, prompting many people to say "that guy was still alive?!?". In honor of his passing, I think @ifbookspod.bsky.social should do a special episode on Chariots of the Gods.

"Now look at what you made me do" said every abuser ever.

Men are too emotional to play a responsible role in public life.

Her last words were “I’m not mad, dude.” And then he shot her in the face for that. In is indeed worthwhile thinking about what was in his mind as he said “fucking bitch” right after that.

He's just straight up rationalizing that it's OK for them to murder people over "hateful rhetoric." "Contempt of cop" is not, in fact, a crime, especially not one that warrants summary execution on the streets.

There has 100% been a vibe shift on Twitter this week — apolitical and sports people are talking about Minneapolis and even a lot of right-leaning Finance Bros are like “you freaks have lost your minds.” Whether that is representative of anything in the real world is TBD but it’s noticeable.

The fact that hundreds of folks raised 20k for this AI slop filled garbage has me staring out the window into the middle distance

It's debatable whether 2022-2024 was the best total job market of our lifetime, but there's no question it was the best market for lower-income workers in generations. That's what corporate America hired Trump to fix.

Imagine wanting to support a murderer, but still being enough of a cheap motherfucker to support him in an amount that is like if one of us gave 25 cents.

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I miss consensus reality.

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Ayatollah Khamenei saves NATO

10/10 no notes

BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...

Now we have to prove we are US citizen to go to a freaking park! www.thetravel.com/us-national-...

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time."

"It said the UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year." Reducing inequality is a key part of addressing the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’s the most [citation needed] post of all time

Imagine thinking Gov Goodhair is presidential material when Michelle Wu is right there.

If you're not willing to arrest the killer, don't arrest the demonstrators.

In general, "fuck those kids" laws should be ended. But somehow "fuck this kid in particular" laws seem even worse.

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵

They’re opposed to preventative healthcare policy because they believe they’re an intervention in the natural eugenic hierarchy, framing this as an issue of “government overreach” while they’re literally banning healthcare for disfavored groups assists in that effort.

Stuff like this should lead to the suspension of the USAfrom international sporting associations

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time