They are fighting a one-sided civil war against immigrants

Being against libraries is one of the brightest red flags I can even conceive of

This goes along with my buddy's position that it doesn't matter what's true about AI -- it matters what someone has convinced people in power is true, causing them to act on that information.

To borrow language from Art Spiegelman, poverty doesn’t make you virtuous or wise or anything else. Poverty just makes you poor.

Guy who says he's homophobic but loves queer people; it's just that he only buys cream-top milk

I don't think you can do "It's all Dallas, who the fuck cares" and also "St. Paul is not Minneapolis" I mean whatever, I live in neither, but places are where they say they are, whether you like them or not

The guy who made earthbound is also the voice of the Dad in My Neighbor Totoro is also your philosopher king.

Yes, sir, I *can* boogie, but I don't think that's appropriate to ask during a job interview

Sorry, this rules, if a hundred million people are cheering because I lost, get the fuck out of my face, I do not want to see you, I have thinking to do

Isn't the official dish of the UK Chicken Tikka Masala? This immigrant fusion food shouting match is unworthy of being today's discourse.

Google's AI was at least this smart

Whatever’s the case on paper, our politicians don’t have control over law enforcement if law enforcement doesn’t want them to, and that’s an enormous problem that it feels almost dangerous to say out loud.

Bourdain episodes in countries I am terrified to visit without a guide are the hardest for me to watch. I respect the hell out of people coming here in our shittiest era.

I still think about when Peduto drove to a protest to tell abusive police to fuck off, and the response was a coordinated effort to make him suffer, and it worked and he gave up.

personally, I’ve become pretty good at saying “Elon Musk has murdered millions of people” whenever he comes up in conversation with a glassy, graveyard-serious look in my eye: experiment with your own ways to drive the point home!

The fact that Elon Musk is now one of history’s greatest mass-murderers, due to his total destruction of USAID, is still far too little-known. It’s on all of us to shout this from the rooftops. Never shut up about Elon Musk’s genocidal crimes.

There's an event that happens periodically where it looked kind-of fun, but much Cooler people than me said it was Weak and Fake, and it's always way across town, so I never go -- but I ended up there tonight and it was Fun and everyone was having a Good Time and, anyway, don't ask, just Go.

Just catching up on Smackdown, and I find it really cathartic to see two old friends slap each-other across the face on national television over a pointless spat. It's not role model behavior, but boy, have I done it.

I worry about the people we’ll have to become to get through this mess and mourn the people we could have been.

There's a thread right now where someone details a scammer trying to get their bank login through a fake IT call I was tempted to say "This doesn't sound particularly savvy," but I forgot: - IT is my job, so insert XKCD expert comic, I guess - I have a friend who's fallen for this multiple times

All the news will carry how Elon is now a trillionaire. How many also reported he openly encouraged white race riots this week?

This guy at work just had a little secret bitch session where, as I understand it, he just secretly Got Mad About Stuff. Look, one of the few benefits of my workplace is you can be mad about stuff On Main without retribution. I have a fuckin sign above my desk about how important it is to get angry

Can we just As a society Please Agree that Lying On Main is negative Just make that one thing universal Say things that won't be debunked, or say nothing I just fucking hate lies, man And right now is not an agreeable era to be fucked off this bad by lies

BREAKING MS NOW: FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative — a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, according to three people briefed on the search.

🎶 The Wu is too slammin' for these cold killer labels Some ain't had hits since I seen Aunt Mabel Be doin' artists in like Cain did Abel, Now they money's gettin' stuck to the gum under the table That's what you get when you misuse what I invent: Your empire falls, and you lose every cent 🎶

This is just bleak as hell, man. The end of the idea of development and international assistance. Was it completely altruistic in the first place? No! But the main non altruistic instinct was putting giant USA letters on the grain to feed starving people.

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Sarah McBride (ordained Presbyterian elder) and Raphael Warnock (Baptist pastor with a PhD from seminary school) are both considered less "Christian" than Donald freaking Trump.

Moreso than packing SCOTUS, I do demand that we Pack the House. Saying this shit out loud singlehandedly makes Pete not a fence-sitter, and it sucks that people reject that.

The thing about other people assuming bad things about white Christian men is, yeah, for sure, that makes sense. You just Be Cool, and after a while, they treat you accordingly, and then you keep not fucking up and everything's fine.

Back for a minute already just to say, New type of crank I never met just dropped: "Eating seedless fruits make you infertile/barren"

Just went to pull my phone out of my pocket to check The App and got *extremely* anxious about it, so I think that means I very much just log off for a while, if I can manage it.

The worst part of taking forever to finish a book is having to remember what it was like to be as young as the characters who were your age when you started.

Big fan of Knicks; it was my favorite block of Saturday-night adolescent TV programming.

This is all just so fucked

what’s wild to me is that elon musk has clearly gone insane though he has been for some time and journalists are like i need to be on twitter despite having no evidence it has a discernable impact on media impressions for the average person you guys know he’s calling for a global race war, yes

Every Raw Food Diet person I've ever known (too many) has been a walking advert for why you should literally never live like that and it makes no sense. It's just self-evident when you talk to them for five minutes how bizarre and unnecessary it is, for zero benefit and only detriment.

I remember staring at the TV with tears in my eyes at one Tomahawk hitting one apparent chemical facility on CNN back during Clinton. I kinda can't even fathom this.

The Least Defensible Blood For Oil War Yet, you say

I have a few simple requests for broad reform, and one is that Outside should not stink. It's Outside. You can't Go Outside to avoid it. That's bad and it should stop. So like. Whatever we gotta do. Dark Ages, some shit, idk, get to brainstorming. This stink thing isn't working out.

Ubisoft EMBARGOED news to outlets about the layoffs and studio closures, FYI. Employees were told this morning. And then many reached out to us. Companies trying to embargo layoffs and closures might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in my 16 years.

🎶 Things got bad, and things got worse I guess you will know the consequences of taking a folk herb that may do nothing but cause liver damage Oh, Lord Stuck with Fo-Ti again 🎶

You know when you're writing about the feel of oxidized lead and then you feel it all over your fingers and you worry you're gonna get lead poisoning and you have to get up and wash your hands to stay safe You know, that feeling everyone gets from this very common situation

The "Nobody can stop me, even/especially if the choice I'm making is awful" theory of patriarchical conservatism continues apace

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The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair

If Christopher Nolan cast Theseus, filmed most of the movie, then the actor dropped out for Reasons, but then the next actor took lots of cues from the first actor's performance, is it actually a new performance?

It's wild that the media isn't 24/7 in on the entirely self-inflicted nature of this. It's not even like Trump is following some long held Republican orthodoxy. It's because he did insane shit that no one wanted.

I think, much to my chagrin, "Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" is going to end up being the last campaign slogan, implicitly or explicitly driving every presidential campaign, forever, until people actually start voting mor-- (HAHA) ... moral-- (AH, HAHAHAHA) ... m-morally.

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.