I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

Fascinating read www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/t...

Me communicating with the new Japanese users.

tbh im pretty salty that it's JUST mastodon that bothers to make uploading images this nice. the draggable circle that lets you focus where the crop goes should be on every website that insists on cropping images instead of just leaving them the fuck alone

low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like. we forget these things at our peril

WENDY

i hope everyone gets the gift of ipad this day. ipad: the perfect device for mild computing

incredible things are happening on tiktok www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8y5e9Jo/

saw part of cecot doc worst thing so far no separation of water systems no idea how these guys survived months big picture more so than anything torture is of extreme neglect of basic human needs which bukeles marketing vids dont capture well by design i take it

*at a christmas party* oh Rudolph is your favorite reindeer? That’s cool yeah yeah he’s pretty great *in reindeer chat* BlitzenBoy92: at the work thinh. take a guess DonnerTime: buncha dolphies? VixenLover: fuckin lame bro just keep ur cool change the subject The Dasher Enjoyer: thinh

Please enjoy some Y2K-era PC game yule logs on this fine evening. I planned to add more to this playlist this year but we've had nonstop colds in this house since my son started kindergarten so it didn't pan out. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Mark Cuban may well have once been a well meaning person, I have no idea, but the simple fact is that being a billionaire makes you stupid and evil. There is no avoiding this. That amount of money empties out your head and soul. The only cure is to not be a billionaire anymore.

debi mazar punch me in the stomach for $15 challenge

it is wild to anyone who was a hard-core PC gamer in 1996 when we realize that NVIDIA is now one of the pillars the entire world economy rests upon.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.

White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller has spent years weaponizing hatred to become the mastermind of Trump’s crackdown on marginalized groups. Zeteo traces his most hateful, strange, and downright cringey moments along the way.

"Journalists regularly tricked by astroturfing groups" would be a good story but you can see why they don't write that one

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

The social ideology of the motorcar unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...

The thing about that Graeme Wood article defending Weiss is that he *also* has never worked as a news editor, let alone a TV news editor. It’s bizarre contrarian dilettantism of a type the Atlantic is sadly prone to.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

“Working toward the Fuhrer” is a well established principle in authoritarian systems

i think this is exactly right. she was hired to be a regime censor but that requires a bit of real skill and finesse to pull of successfully and she has neither.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Showing the girlfriend how to airbrush 40K miniatures.

Bari Weiss texting Stephen Miller to let him know she took care of the CECOT piece

I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be

Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

it’s kinda depressing how every trans person knows that the TA was specifically targeted for being trans and most cis people will never hear about it because most news at most mention that she is trans in passing

it’s really fucking cool to see people working outside the system to expose the hacks running all of our crumbling institutions

I wonder what would happen if bbc news paid for 30 second unskippable news broadcasts as YouTube adverts. Kind of like pathe news at cinemas.

It’s over navy bros

Remember when I said Weiss was stupid and incompetent? Stuff like this. An actual television producer would understand this stuff - if not the exact schedule and procedures for how the episode was distributed, at least who they could ask who would know.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

completely forgot i wrote this

oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.

nothing i can say about these people is crueler than their behavior toward each other

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

My hot take is that if DK Metcalf is taking a swing at a fan, they probably deserved it.

I love to leave my life of unimaginable luxury at the apex of my profession to travel to the windowless lair of a video game streamer with a room-temp IQ so I can do the most absolute dogshit banter imaginable with him and his lumpy shithead buddies.