There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

Red Creatures whose name begins with the word "Goblin" (Sorting MtG cards)

lmao

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

THIS PART. It shows a deep and committed misunderstanding to the agency of the MULTIPLE people and strategies it took to win. And it’s straight up erasure of the fact the dudes you are shilling for ? ACTIVELY insulted a lot of those efforts

It's good that public sentiment flipped as soon as people saw the consequences of the things they thought they wanted, but we have a serious problem if we're going to keep cycling through this process forever.

One of the things that kills me about all this is that it’s just, like, maybe ten guys.

Link's permaban is unjust and should be reversed. #FreeLink

"I saw someone call generative AI a Thneed. [...] It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionaire. It left no real lasting impact, only damage." --BrainsandSpoons

bucket of ice at a fancy dinner table with two 40s of Natty Light

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

huh it doesn't seem like it's necessary to run away from supporting marginalized people in order to win at all, it almost seems like it helps you win the support of a polity that hates our supremacist government we might just have to beat bigots without seeking the approval of bigots

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

staying strong!!!!

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore

new NoVA winemom yard sign just dropped In This House We Believe: -Black Lives Matter -No Human Is Illegal -Women's Rights Are Human Rights -Science Is Real -[redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871] -Love Is Love

Nope go to their offices . And cuss the the fuck out , We are not routing and changing entire modes of campaigning for them to be weak little quislings Start calling and start cussing

We ready to talk about racism and #metoo now and how much these women have BEEN racist

if you're in line to get shot in the face, STAY IN LINE

"Maybe you have a little lingering trauma from last year's elections?" No. Shut up. That's stupid. We have bigger things to worry about. Also, yes.

Afternoon light🌤️

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One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong. How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

who needs god or the threat of hell to be a decent person when one can simply strive to live their life in such a way so as to not earn an obituary written by @attackerman.bsky.social on the day of their death? www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Teen Vogue has become a top-tier political journalism authority and doing this the day before election day is just cruel.

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

I realize that my primary job is helping people sort out their romantic lives but... good god damn at some point I'm going to need to write a VERY long diatribe at how elevating romance to being more "important" than friendship is why so many folks are single and miserable.

smh. fell victim to one of the classic blunders

The purpose of a system is what it does. Once you realize that, everything becomes clear.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

I've seen a lotta "Ds need to beg Mamdani to teach them the secret to his success" sorts of posts online & its literally just a) talk to voters, b) run an actual campaign. Its not some new thing for how to do this shit! Lots of candidates in the era of social media just think they can corners to win

“By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.” This kind of line should only be in a horror film, not a news brief. I feel so bad because usually you’d hope the us governent would do something, but the people in charge revel in this.

On a whim I went looking for Mothman books other than Mothman Prophecies…and found a whole lot of erotica and, of course, “Mothman Did A Great Job Installing My Home Audio System And Now He’s Eating My Ass: A Trans Buckaroo Tale” by the one and only @chucktingle.bsky.social

After going for a long walk, Moorton was shocked to discover that she no longer pines for the shadowy embrace of the reaper.

Kinda want Trump to admit he, personally, has fucked a couch so we can all be “Yeah, whatever dude, not your worst crime by miles,” and JD loses his goddamned mind.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here. And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

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The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670 Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy? You’re doing their dirty work.

I’ve said this before but white guilt is useless. I don’t want people to feel guilty for things they had no part in, and guilt easily curdles into resentment. But everyone regardless should feel an obligation to correct injustice, especially if you somehow benefit. bsky.app/profile/mich...