I would apply to grad school if they'd let me study the type of American who wants to be a psycho scary clown or monster. People who wear these and that's their thing

It's cool to be alive in a period you know historians will have a nickname for, but to only be able to wonder whether we are in "The Bristol Stool Scale Seven Twenties" or "The Century Of Unstoppable Evil" or "The Last Year Before Everything Started Getting Bad" or "2025, as humans had counted it"

Never forget that when conservatives couldn't win in a democracy they didn't abandon conservatism; they abandoned democracy.

you hear Crouching Tiger and you're thinking, well that's gotta be the most fearsome and best camouflaged creature in this title,

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

They're coming out with a huge new machine that fucking sucks

Maybe age 8: my friend Jimmy was leaving after a really fun afternoon and I yelled for him to wait. He and our parents turned. I had nothing planned and just started singing "Here Comes Jimmy Claus." The adults all started laughing SO HARD! I wish I'd taken it as a reward, I'd be a different person

it's interesting because right wingers won't shut up about triggering the libs, liberal tears, etc etc but on a deep level what they want isn't for us to be angry, what they want is for us to apologize and admit they were right all along

SCROOGE (Walton Goggins) (VO): It had been seven years Old Marley had been dead. Unless this is known, nothing fantastic can be understood MARLEY (Danny McBride) flings open BEDROOM DOOR: Hey Scrooge what's up you sassy son of a bitch. Who decorated this place Jack the Ripper

I'm in a pickle

A lawyer I know is trying to help an abuse victim client relocate to get away from their abusive ex. They have an infant child and they're really struggling due to SNAP being cut. Would be really cool if you're in a position to help a stranger out.

Yesterday morning I was making coffee when the garbage truck flew up to the end of the driveway about 3 hours later than usual. The guy jumped down, tossed the lid off our can, grabbed the bag with both gloved hands, and tore the top of it right off. Trash flew everywhere.

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws. Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired. They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

Ideally we don’t know the face of any journalist, like, we shouldn’t know them as a person basically.

My wife made me an omelet this morning despite being treated for a bladder infection! She was so careful to prepare sterile food for me, without any infectious splatter from urinating near the food preparation. I love my wife, who makes a mean Western omelet and is on a robust course of antibiotics!

What do I say to my wife who's upset. Topic is old cat unhealhty

If you ask 100 random people for $5 you might end up with $5. Ask 5 people for $100 you'll get nothing. This is not deep. But I wanted to record it for my next "we need to fund raise during a recession" conversation. I think it could be persuasive if off the cuff, not as a post though

You can't whine if you are doing political organizing. It sounds dumb. Note: this is not a callout of anyone I know! It is a stranger, whining in the meeting

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

this world now is almost nothing like i would want! i would like being generally honest and scrupulous to be valued. i would like art to be a kind of human communication. i would like it if police weren't brutalizing my neighbors. i would like affordable coffee, stable meaningful work for people

Nixon on my shower curtain

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𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺: Trump stuns in perfectly choreographed "Single Ladies" dance… with surprise guest Beyoncé! 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁: Mostly False Trump was largely off beat and missed several pose cues. The performance was typical of an unathletic man of 79 under the daily stress of being the world's most famous pedophile.

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

small domino: Joyce Carol Oates says that Elon Musk doesn't watch enough movies big domino: we have to live in a world where Robocop is real

I make my own chamomile face rub

The Three Wise Men. Nobody wrote down their names, just the really good gifts. Seems ungrateful

the women in the workplace discourse is very funny because a man who can act normal in an office environment that's predominantly female is absolutely on easy street. it's maybe the best gig anyone in history has had. and yet for many guys it is utterly impossible

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

Ozyman, Ozyman- dias does what no mortal can and his works? are they there? no, but maybe still despair

I love how one of the first things a guy does when he realizes he's unappealing to women is to get jacked. Congrats, now you're unappealing and scary.

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

Texas chain saw massacre is full of plot holes... what happens to the victims when they die? is there an afterlife?

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

i think the coolest feat of engineering of the 21st century is that every food product now comes in a bag with a tear-off top, and when you throw away the top part it somehow always flutters away from the trash can and lands on the floor

I woke up at 5 am laughing that the person in charge of health in our country fuckin sounds like that. It's difficult, very difficult, to do the voice quietly enough to let others sleep

I was trying to find an old tweet about Hamlet and Ophelia. Google AI thought I was accusing it of killing my dad, and also screwed up the most famous line in The Princess Bride.

They're making a prequel to The Hills Have Eyes called The Hill Has Eye

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

This is my blood

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Lots of people throw the peace sign for photos. Makes me think — choosing rock instead of scissors is also good; paper very bad. One could make a "rock, paper, scissors, shoot" political compass

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

everyone should be sabotaging social media platforms by uploading this video multiple times a day

I keep a loose eye on my fundamentalist relatives, and several were posting about how terrible it was that forces of evil struck down this man of god. One part of it has to be getting regular right-wing commentary from the pulpit their whole lives. Youtubers are preachers, and podcasts are church

The thing with names you aren't familiar with is just to take a stab at it. Sound it out in your head. Don't hesitate long, and don't say you don't know how to pronounce it Mine is easy and I'm white but I'd rather answer to "foo-tay" than you feel embarrassed.