Think about how basically every TTPRPG group has more robust systems in place for dealing with bad actors, than the US government.

Praise be to Allah

Favorite moment in 2024 was when Chuck Schumer did a big fancy super historic speech in Congress where he said Netanyahu was an existential threat to Israel and that Israel needed snap elections ASAP and then two months later he invited Netanyahu to DC to give a campaign speech for Trump.

The current moment in tech is loosely understood as software guys getting so evil they made hardware guys discover Marxism from first principles.

>Wittgenstein was Austrian, which is close enough. Wars have been started for less

Happy Saturday, heretics

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem.

So my more Tolkien-minded friends how do we feel about this theory? Because I mean it makes a lot of sense…

It’s friday baby

If you truly believe the Bible is univocal, inerrant, and noncontradictory, you best be forgiving debts every seven years.

What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.

Reminds me of this from Hamilton Nolan

Halo is better than Friends.

be serious

no oral. no anal. no piv. no kink. fox only. final destination.

the future where apple stumbles backwards into being the last standing corpo giant runs through them flopping hard on siri AI then benefiting from their soldered ram addiction being the one weird trick to magic hardware

Investment tip: when the GOP says they want to let “average investors” in on a good deal, it’s a sign that all the wire has been stripped from the walls and the investment is about to collapse, and they’re looking for suckers to hold the bag and be the face of a bailout

My @nytpitchbot.bsky.social pitch: Some activists say jewish people are being kidnapped by ICE. Experts disagree.

It's International Trans Day of Visibility, post your favorite trans people. vimeo.com/1136910307

The oxford comma carries non-optional semantic weight and leaving it off is an error, not a choice.

even apple, the one company that took UX more seriously than anyone else, basically abandoned the field and got sidetracked by liquid glass and other such folderol

It continues to be the funniest thing in the world that the Bluesky team made good functional user-friendly social media that isn’t riddled with ads and Nazis and they fucking hate it. They hate the site, they hate the users, they would all rather be doing literally anything else than this

I think it's important to say this part out loud: They hate their base because they hate themselves. They cannot imagine a politics based on love, on solidarity.

We are going to win.

because you dipshits don't know how to build a fucking interface anymore. everyone forgot

how cool would it be if we had different words for "incredibly computationally intense and kinda troubling but startlingly effective coding tools seeing massive uptake", "dumb UI shit nobody asked for polluting everything", "cheating helper", and "computer program for identifying bird calls or wev"

Mind you bluesky was shading X on X about adding AI tools 5 months ago

i think what we're seeing is a party that has largely bought the idea that the Democratic Party brand is too feminine, too Black, and too queer, and that it's losses with the white working class are a product of bigotry, and so they must forcefully go to the right and superkick the super woke left

I think it's important to say this part out loud: They hate their base because they hate themselves. They cannot imagine a politics based on love, on solidarity.

Free public parking is bad

i remember back on twitter some pundit was lamenting on how there aren't major top down groups anymore that can enforce discipline among the left, like they had in the 60s and such, and. like. yeah, there aren't. your side smashed those groups to bits with cops, feds, state power. remember?

reproduction of mass social gatherings for purposes other than consumption, leisure, or capitalist controlled labor is LITERALLY. DUAL. POWER. And if they’re not leveraging it ideologically? THEY ARE OFFERING FOR YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN COMMON. SET UP A BOOTH JACKASS. YOU COWARDS DON’T EVEN SMOKE METH

"The left needs to do THIS to win!" is usually incanted by someone who has not won anything and is not on the left

i figured out what is wrong with everything and its that every technology right now. i am used to using bad UI and technical kludges because i use a lot of weird experimental software and am always using third party customization tools and foss stuff. but they just put that shit in everything now

There is no class solidarity like the Rich with other Rich.

every mathematician is a demiurge

we talk about Woke 1 but I was there for Woke 0.5. one time in 2013 I was speaking in front of a conference room full of organizers and I said the words "thanks guys" and someone interrupted me by yelling "OUCH!!!! gendered language!!!"

I love how completely within the realm of possiblity this is

We need to bring back the ideal of masculinity focused on quiet self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Alpha shit is for losers. Be a man and humbly forgo the shit you want for years so you can provide for your family, you indulgent little wuss

Booking John Hinkley Jr. to play at my DSA Chapter Convention.

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on

Yeah, I saw you sent me a youtube video. No I didn't watch it. I'm not gonna watch the next one either.

Yeah it was called Operaton Kalshi. Kalshi is Persian for uhhhh... Freedom?

for concision, we can use the term “journalists”

Someone should write a response to the Unabomber's manifesto that's like "You got what you wanted. Now everybody's under socialized. What the fuck?"

Tall women

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Someone had to do it