Nothing that can help regular people is possible. Everything that can hurt regular people is easy to do. This is basically how most politicians act right now.

I know what people I know look like. But I dont spend a lot of time thinking about it, for at least 80% of em. This made me think i have a little bit of face blindness. Maybe it is

kinda weird how almost no one wants to be ruled by robots and continuously surveilled by nazis and have everything written and illustrated by dumb programs and have their brains liquify and run out their ears

Folks I’ve run the numbers on this and—you won’t believe this—for the 900th issue in a row, the real problem is not the issue itself but instead the way “””The Left””” talks about it. What are the odds

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Probably the toughest part of losing my Christian faith is that it's impossible to like commercials any more. Over 20 years since a commercial delighted

When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts

Donald Trump spoke to an audience of religious leaders, foreign dignitaries and business elites in what will surely not go down as one of the Godliest addresses in history.

I need people to understand that if you’ve dealt with ice, if you’ve had to worry about you or your kids or neighbors disappearing, if you see the govt giving nazis carte blanche to kill you, every “reform”’ from democrats who currently reject abolition sounds insane. and frankly fucking stupid

I think I'll start whining more. What could this do but benefit

Guy falls asleep early in the evening because he woke up early: "hard worker" "disciplined" Guy sleeps in because he was up too late: "irresponsible" "chaotic" I'm sick of the double standard. It's actually the guys who wake up early who are the problem.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine the first domino slamming into a second one without knocking it over— forever.

A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.

Frodo was a nepo baby. Half the fuckin fellowship were nepo babies

The right will never ever hand it to you on a single fucking thing even if they secretly agree with it. They will contort themselves into shapes that do not exist and spite themselves and destroy their own families just to fuck you over. Insane to me that people don't know this yet.

Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

the Great Cycle: a stupid right wing asshole starts a global war, it blows up in his face and gets 100 million people killed, including himself. everyone is like "man, let's not do that again." years pass, the war generation dies off, memories fade, and hey presto: another stupid right wing asshole!

People: Do something! Politicians: (do nothing) People: (do something) Politicians: Do nothing!

not that long ago there were new videos every day of cops maiming and beating the shit out of protesters with gleeful abandon, and not only did “defund the police” get written off as extreme, joe biden got elected and proudly gave them even more money. it’ll easily happen again

lmao

we know regime playbooks here: smear the deceased, target the family, valorize the murderer both as supposedly innocent and with a sadistic delight in the murder itself.

Evergreen: The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.

here's this vintage jeopardy clip with ken jennings

Several years ago I went to the dentist bc I couldn't chew on the left side without pain. He couldn't see any problems but filed a couple of em down to even the bite. It didn't help. I got in the habit of chewing on the right even though it mostly went away

very well then. send as many men as you can spare. and fresh horses for all of them (covering the phone and leaning over to talk to my wife, the queen) an egg fell. off a wall

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile

Watching a ball drop is exciting enough. but when it becomes a whole new year at the same time it's insane

You cannot have “AI” without having “machine that almost solely exists to create nonconsensual sexually explicit images of mainly women and children.” The former exists in tandem with the latter. That’s how this industry has worked so far, and it has only gotten worse with zero accountability

I dont remember anyone, when I was young, giving me a "You're can do ANYTHING" kind of talk, even a hint. What did they see? What did they know

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.