"There hasn't been enough cynicism for these; I need to make sure my part is cynical." A genuine thought I had, and then acted on, while doing a lecture introduction in my 20s. That was some bullshit. Anyway: there are more dumbass kids like I was. Lots more. And they're on this app.

This is a monstrously fucked-up thing to ponder To the rest of us, this guy is still a batshit interloper, despite being the obvious driver of The Horrors these days. But to many, this may very well be what they think of when they think of politics.

Mainly, what you're seeing is pretty simple: - Republicans know they are historically unelectable without their Narcissist King on the ticket - So anyone still running for office has handed him the keys - He is lazy and evil and handed those keys to viziers, except when he throws switches for kicks

[After hearing a story about my life that, in hindsight, was I guess kind-of A Lot] "Wow; you're remarkably well adjusted."

These fucking lies are why some people I work with have such a hard time dealing with the public. People keep telling them they can like, beat death with herbs.

Silly AI; you just named four authoritarian states.

I am annoyed by the persistence of 'resist libs are tired of resisting Trump' line. No Kings put record-breaking numbers of people into the streets, specials/off-years are at D+10 or more. I don't think the resist libs are tired. I think some writers are tired of writing about resist libs.

I forgot they got this guy on Strange New Worlds to do an exact copy of Scotty's accent.

Not me, but a friend of mine, who has literally never missed a vote and only ever voted blue, snarked on something on my account re: "establishment dems" (I know, I know, it's whatever) and like a dozen people started screaming at him for getting Trump elected, which he did not do.

We foolishly assumed the "everybody is 12" dynamic was fixed, but Republicans have their course set all the way back to the womb

I'm a wine aunt; wine mom is stolen valor if you've never cared for children.

Michael Cera and I helped tend to a drunk woman passed out on the sidewalk (and got her medical attention) during the celebrations on Vanderbilt Ave when Biden’s win was announced in 2020. He was incredibly nice and very concerned for the stranger’s well-being.

I believe strongly that ... other people's kids will live in a better world.

I don't like *enjoy* being alive in places, I've noticed is the problem here

These are all good ideas for a short story, but I genuinely don't think I want to see them in TV or movies. I dunno. Maybe in a Twilight Zone type of capacity?

Ruin two bands by combining them America First and the Gimme Gimmes

BINGO (Like yeah life can suck and be difficult and painful but nihilism doesn’t do anything but make that WORSE! Fuck it, we keep trying to survive because we CAN)

DOES THE RULE OF COOL MEAN NOTHING TO YOU REFS

Was happy to celebrate two of my favorite "totally normal things that piss people off" (wearing a mask; sitting for the national anthem) without anyone trying razz me this weekend.

The number of people who need to literally eat shit is just ... There's so many. I used to think it was like 20, but it's in the hundreds of thousands, at least.

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.) www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...

Drivers are never asked to justify their infrastructure, but bicyclists (and pedestrians) are constantly forced to defend why their infrastructure is "necessary"

I will protect my peace today. I will not engage in the same unproductive conversations we have been having for ten years (and more) today.

The main life skill I learned from my physical therapist is that every time I said "Well, I did this and then that and this happened, so I really feel like there's causation there," she'd be like "Ehhh maybe, but bodies are weird," and way more often than not, she was right that I was wrong.

My most "Woke" (not really woke in a true sense, but in the nouveau internet co-opted sense) is that you should be reported to your workplace and punished for acting like Archie Bunker online.

I just hate to see some fuckin idiot go viral by getting mad at their own allies and contributing to nothing

Do we like Dragnet or Sherlock Holmes better as a storytelling/narration voice?

Yellow mustard, mostly Mayo if the main course isn't too fatty or creamy Dijon or grain mustard if it's all I have

the whole world bending around one little special boy, i would like to be done with it

people should get sick and most people will be fine and yeah some people will die is some of the most psychotic shit i have ever seen and now it’s not mainstream but it is sort of mainstream adjacent. the goal is zero. hey stupid, go to a mirror, look at it, and say the goal is zero.

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

I go to very few live shows, so I always forget that some of these venues are stricter than the fucking airport, which seems asinine

Still wondering what the Venn Diagram of "Anti AI" and "pro self-checkouts" is

Not to add to the "nobody watches prestige TV" discourse, but everyone in the world should be watching The Lowdown.

Tammany Hall died *because national social services came into being* and suggesting a RETVRN to these strategies feels like we've already given up on the actual solution of a robust national social service network.

Large amounts of the current horrors hinge on the belief that some people in this country -- be they children, immigrants, or just currently unemployed -- don't have rights. So I think the fight for guaranteed (and subsidized!) human rights for everyone is still The Big One. Pay people to thrive.

Can't sleep so ... reading the plots of Ray Bradbury stories? What a horrible fucking decision tbh, I'm supposed to sleep *better* after this?

It’s interesting that Conservative propaganda only works when it’s released in bulk and seeks to choke out everything real existing around it

The credits on this episode feature: - Sam Harris' mom - Joss Whedon's dad - The Arrested Development Guy What show do you suppose I'm watching? (The first one might give it away, IYKYK)

I have a sort-of broken need to believe the people around me aren't really as terrible as they act, and there's a short route in my lifetime for everyone to get like real cool But that's wish shit. It doesn't work like that. Our neighbors hate good things and mostly just have to be stopped.

I, too, have "Want for nothing" as a goal and desired outcome, but pretending the average person has *ever* accomplished this, and we're just not doing the One Weird Trick, ain't the way to get there.

This entire app spends every day relitigatingand reliving every major shitty event since 2016. It's fucking toxic and stupid and I hate it

Stevie Nicks to Katy Perry: “She said, ‘So, who are your rivals?’ I just looked at her. It was my steely look. I said, 'Katy, I don’t have rivals. I have friends. All the other women singers that I know are friends. Nobody’s competing. Get off the internet and you won’t have rivals either,'”

I still can't decide if I'm too prudish in general to tell when *any* two people are flirting, or if I'm right and there is literally nothing incestuous (or really anything more than "corny") about that one Folgers commercial.

One thing that sucks about this app is that it's got hundreds and hundreds of people who step on a Poe's-Law-shaped rake every day. You cannot be ironic in the comments on BlueSky without someone who you have literally 99% Venn Overlap with saying PEOPLE LIKE YOU GOT US INTO THIS MESS or some shit

It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.

Nothing is quite as emblematic of a very sad, uncertain moment in the recent past than a shot of one of those old hospital coffee machines where the cup drops down and fills with that weak-ass brown water. Stranger Things knows what it's doing.

The agency can’t exist anymore and its personnel must all be prosecuted