I know there's some criticism of his big policy proposals, they're not maximally effective from an analytic perspective, but I think part of how we got here is an emphasis on technocratic effectiveness that tried to make its own success invisible, and we need to compete for attention again.

yes! also, remember in the '90s when "just another tax and spend liberal" was an insult? YES. THAT IS HOW TAXES WORK. IT IS THE POINT OF THEM. god the right has always been shitty

We have got to fucking find a way to raise taxes. Its one of the most pressing problems of building political legitimacy of our era. I think Mamdani has the right idea: you have to connect it to specific, *visible* projects and drive home the association of *what you will be getting* for your money.

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i think it's fine that bsky wants to be a site where you can't say "[public figure] should [insert gory method of death]" and i think it's bad when we're like "they're just jokes", it would be better obviously if they extended it not just to public figures but the entire userbase

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he could have been ronan farrow with the opportunities birth afforded him. instead he wrote for trends and his “hard” pieces tend to be apologias for well connected people who fucked up bad

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

[Commission] Oread Barbarian #Artsky | #DnD | #ttrpg | #commissionsopen

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

All 31 #zombieskulltober doodles on one canvas (crappy gif version in comments)

No one brings this up enough: -Acosta gives Epstein a sweetheart deal -Becomes Secretary of Labor -In that capacity tries to gut anti-human trafficking funding It's like a poorly written paperback legal thriller

That mean homeless teenager, upending the career of Matt Gaetz. What on EARTH is @nytimes.com doing?! She did not “have sex.” She was raped. Because she was a child below the age of consent. SHE did not “set off a chain of events.” MATT GAETZ set off that train.

The whale's tale art installation just off the interstate 89 in Vermont under tha Aurora Borealis. 📸Tammy White

love bites #art #horror

I think some people also need to get off the internet once in a while. If someone argues that certain types of furry art might normalize bestiality, they need to spend some time outside, where people don't even know what a furry is & bestiality is in no danger of becoming even a bit normalized.

as someone who got the axe off ko-fi and patreon more than two years ago, for other Problematic Kinks, the feeling of being a canary in that coalmine is inescapable

other artists laughed and said good riddance when we got the boot, so now that its happening to y'all, i'm kermit_drinking_tea.gif

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

there is so much in this wonkette summary. there is so much

epstein gave steve bannon advice on how to smear Kavanaugh accuser Christine B Ford and gave dating advice to Larry Summers www.wonkette.com/p/i-love-the...

like honey on your tongue #iwtv

Someone upset her 😔 #ocsky #artsky #scifi #cyberpunk #cyborg

Portishead’s Geoff Barrow: ‘I can’t think of any worse music to make love to than ours’

so ppl didn't care that he bragged about assaulting women, raped his ex wife, raped E. Jean Carroll, but now people are gonna care? and if they do, caring will lead to...?

Aaaaaaugh, I’m short about $25 on a bill and of course I’m broke again. There’s no way to stay ahead I swear to god. So I’m gonna boost my adopts again 🫩

i love IWTV AMC so much, it is so good but i do have one question: why does Daniel go Chotiner-level hard on these vampires? as if they're world leaders or something? "because they have personally harmed me" doesn't feel like the reason maybe lies just offend him to his core?

!!!!!!!!!!!!! god damn

you will notice in a lot of these documentaries that it was easier for lesbians, fat women and older women to get out of NXIVM when they started to smell a rat. being invisible to men like Keith kept them out of the inner circle, which I’m sure stung at the time, but it freed them in the long run

Part of me wants to know how this got from A to B, but another part of me thinks that might ruin the magic.

I want to formally correct the misinformation: only some of the hole photos were plagiarized. At least one was actually his

GUESS WHOS UNEMPLOYED AFTER NO WORD FROM WORK FOR 2 MONTHS SUPPORTING ME WOULD BE VERY APPRECIATED IM TRULY SORRY I CAN NOT GIVE MUCH BACK WITH MY SHIT HEALTH❣️

The sky said trans rights

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

Yeah I had some "leftist" once call me a genocidal psychopath on FB for being happy that the Tyson Chicken plant got shut down during COVID.

we shoulda never let selfish people figure out about wokeness because they just use it to justify being a shithead and not changing their ways. NO ETHICAL CONSUMPTION MEANS CONSIDER YOUR PURCHASES CAREFULLY, NOT DO WHATEVER YOU WANT.

country violently allergic to acknowledging the existence of policy trade-offs, and steadfastly convinced that this allergy is virtuous and even a skeptical rejection of the powers that be instead of a prolonged temper tantrum by the most privileged people to ever live on this earth

the congestion pricing thing was kinda a massive red flag here. even the median progressive believes that improving overall outcomes is bad if a single hypothetical poor person might be negatively effected

i'm convinced if we ever tried to touch the rail of meat politics in America (something that's going to eventually need to happen in order to reduce CO2 emissions), it would lead to a huge right-wing shock

an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic

Little demon giving me powers to finish stuff

For years, I’ve known that Maitlis was a key player in the institutional and orchestrated attacks on Trans+ youth Now, emboldened and clearly unrepentant, she's flaunting her complicity The world can now see her for who she is - someone willing to weaponise their power against the vulnerable

We’re watching Joyce Carol Oates slowly torture a Boer to death in real-time

I'm honestly starting to think Americans are going to end the decade with either universal health care or malaria.

ok as long as vape discourse is apparently happening, someone please clear this up for me: when vapes first appeared, my friend's ex smoked nicotine on one and it was odorless, just water vapor but now i always smell ppl's weed vapes why?

idek if it's the same sea shanty but whenever this is brought up all i can think of is that ep of Due South where RayK did mouth to mouth on Fraser or vice versa

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