Thoughts while I am having a severe cold: It's a common observation in Communications that communication has a relational and a factual level. I think there is a disconnect within centrist liberalism that overly focuses on the relational over the factual level in such discussions.

I want to note that a few of those screenshotted posts are just astute jokes. Apparently banger jokes are "toxic" now.

The highlighted part isn't even the most deluded one. Imagine being on the right and believing that Rufo is a bad faith actor PAID BY THE LEFT. How deluded do you have to be

Will make a great "victims of Trumpism" memorial one day

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

*starting to float towards the sky* "Aww yeah putting the rap into rapture! I am Hari and I'm here to say...!" *slowly floats back to the ground* "Ah, fair."

Deeply unserious

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

Trump is angry at a word a Black man uses to describe himself and asks why he can't say it, but it's not the one you thought it is.

"Wieso kaufst du denn immer Gouda für die Pizza, der schmeckt doch nach nichts?" - "Ich dachte, dass der vielleicht ganz Gauda zu passt." - "..." - "War das etwa keine Gouda Idee?"

Walking out the Supermarket, suddenly the podcast running on my in-ears (Knowledge Fight) stops. I click around helplessly on my phone until I figure out that I connected to the bluetooth of a car on the parking lot. To whoever suddenly had Alex Jones talking about the CIA on their stereo, I'm sorry

rare W for COINTELPRO from a legendary conversation between Bhakti Shringarpure and Mahmood Mamdani (h/t Silke-Marie Weineck)

*staring at the shocked Jubilee crew* Oh you meant crush verbally, not physically. Hah, my bad

Ok but this should have been an Email as well

*getting mauled by a bear after teaching it how to operate a chainsaw* Well that was a fucking lie wasn't it

The thing about schools is that they teach students the values society professes to live by and quite a few facts. That makes students the perfect target for conservative backlash, as they mirror back our values undistorted by the hypocrisies, cognitive decline and double standards attained later.

Fingers crossed for the first american antipope

Couscous is gay rice (complimentary)

Ok, now that I've finished the pitch script for the sitcom "American Pope" let me take a sip from this coffee and open the news

*looks at elephant* *looks at truck mounted machine gun* I think I have an idea

Immigration number must go down. This is very important because otherwise people be angry at that immigration number not go down. Why will they be angry, you ask? Because the immigration number. It not go down. It supposed to go down! IT MUST GO DOWN. So anyway that's UK national education policy.

"We have to abandon this minority group because of..." *looks around* "...the undeducateds. Not because I don't like this minority group, of course. I am a good person making hard choices who just happens to decide this minority group is expendable." *pause* "Also don't tax the rich."

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

*googles "how do I short all the stocks at once"* Hm Hm

spent ten minutes laughing and then ten more explaining the deep lore of Charlie Brown's hoes to my only sort of online wife

personally I think Kendrick should have looked directly into the camera and changed the lyrics of "Not Like Us" into a political treatise explaining his exact position on both separation of powers and the immortal science of dialectical materialism. missed opportunity tbh

Rainer fragt sich: "Lohnt sich #Arbeit für mich?" Er macht sich schlau und erkennt: "Ja, #Fleiß lohnt sich für mich" Aber was will denn dann die #noCDU mit "Fleiß muss sich wieder lohnen." Diesen Unsinn kann er nicht nachvollziehen! #CDUistunwählbar #MerzIstGefaehrlich

I keep thinking: The first mistake was to pardon Nixon Then they couldve investigated Reagan for Iran-Contra Then they couldve handed over Bush to Den Haag

if democrats promise to throw elon musk and everyone in DOGE in jail on day 1 in 2029 they will win a 50 state landslide

Hey, anything can look like anything if you're able to pretend to be stupid enough. That's the Greenwald-Taibbi special

Side-note, but: Elon Musk is not her opponent

Mr Magoo ass explanation

Today in accidentally denying the Holocaust

So... Trump IS a gamer, huh

You're laughing Dilbert guy told ChatGPT to tell him his kids love him and for a second, he believed it And you're laughing

Über die Attraktivität des Grundlosen (mit einem kleinen Überraschungsabsatz über disruptive Dekonstruktion, die nicht widerlegt) www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

There should be a name for the phenomenon that for any really hard game, every forum thread is full of guys talking about how easy it is

The people in power becoming angry because their power doesn't translate into recognition. Maybe continental philosophy wasn't completely wrong about everything

all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art

Thinking about the studies that found that support for anti-covid measures decreased with white people when they learned it affects POC to a larger degree

🎶 Sing me a song of an ass that is gone 🎶

Appreciate the sentiment and the questionable punctuation

If you can't decide between buying a combustion engine or an electric car a Tesla appears to be the perfect compromise

Guess I'm in my pillage and steal era.