new William Gibson book opening line dropped

they do not like Mamdani and want him to fail, the same way they wanted him to lose to Cuomo: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...

The people cry out for Jarnathan

oh are we playing ping pong again bsky.app/profile/cart...

You can show me all the charts you want saying the economy is fine but if Serpentor is selling his throne because it won't fit into his new studio apartment, shit is not fine

I think the tech of LLMs, generative "AI," etc is super fuckin' cool. I'm less fond of the hype, the oversell, the yoking of our economy to a small handful of hugely overvaulated companies and the utter contempt the CEOs of these companies clearly have for the vast majority of humans.

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

Being trans on here is like “what are you horny bitches doing n- oh, it’s a cis man with an actual dog, carry on.”

Every group of humans ever to exist has some subset of those humans who attempt to obtain and wield status/power in order to 'accomplish social outcomes', while striving to avoid accountability for doing so. That trans people also do that sometimes is not a meaningful insight.

“I’m just so goddamn fed up with all this,” Gina Small, 29, said in a comment on the U.S. economy that one of her friends assumed was about the world’s ongoing humanitarian crises, another friend thought was about the weaponization of America’s military against its own people.

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

graphcel poasters like me: there is no omnicause that combines us imperialist atrocities abroad with cost of living issues at home; in general american hegemony serves the material interests of the electorate, so . . . Trump: AT LONG LAST I HAVE INVENTED OMNICAUSE, THE WAR CRIME THAT MAKES YOU POOR

It was really easy to claim I/P had nearly no bearing on affordability politics a few months ago. Very hard to do that now!

Important questions #buttons #trolleyproblem #littleguy

A key part of the banality of evil is that fascism trains people who are boringly and completely neurotypical to be incredibly violent, as part of their boring job. It literally could not possibly work if it could only be done by the tiny fraction of the population with cluster B syndromes.

fucking colonialism

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I continue to maintain that “JD Vance, antipope” is the funniest possible ending to all of this

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

germans fall into the same kind of categories as elves in popular media do so you have High Germans (lower saxons) Wood Germans (Easterners) Sea Germans (Schleswig-Holsteiners) and Dark Germans aka the austrians

architecture teaches us that before long, gothic girls WILL be replaced by various types of renaissance girls hailing back to the styles of ancient rome and greece

hasbro executive, sweating: stars wars for Commander? have we done star wars? do a star wars we need more FUCKING money

One of the reasons Julius Caesar was assassinated was because he started putting his own likeness on Roman coins, where previously that was reserved only for people who were already dead.

<to be read in Werner Herzog voice> "Of course, the heart of Fascism as a project or government rests on telling a fantasy story about "Stuff That THEY from THERE Stole from US", yet no fascist's fantasy survives the inexorable power of Reality's ass crack as she grinds it into their noses"

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

"Deithwen Addan yn Carn aep Morvudd, Emhyr var Emreis" would be a beautiful name for a trans girl

I would say that one of the big downsides of living the good life, that philosophers don't often talk about, is that it really dampens your ability to whine. Whining and complaining, which is one of the greatest joys of human existence, is tragically robbed from us almost entirely.

i hate having poly friends. my bestie just asked me to call her wife but every single one of her contacts is labeled "wife" just with different heart emojis

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

ttrpgs are when your goblin has a fat ass, and the fatter the ass on the glblin the more ttrpg it is

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

I would say that in retrospect Microsoft's Clippy wasn't so bad. He gave some pretty great tips on how to write a memo. He didn't destroy the environment by consuming more energy than most countries. He didn't help bomb any countries. All in all, C- to B+ range, realistically.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

islamic christology is probably the funniest theological field because the things muslims believe about jesus are fundamentally 99% identical with the things christians believe to a genuinely funky extent. like including the "he'll come back at the end of days to battle the antichrist" part

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Wrong. America could never produce Socrates because Big Sophism would give a billion dollars to Protagoras to form a think tank that would drown out his message with a million sock puppet accounts on social media, who would all claim that Real Men don't care about the philosophy or the truth.

The modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.

Israel two hours from now: Hamas was hiding under that Iranian preschool so. you're welcome actually

Declare victory and go home

*sigh* great. There’s obviously some sort of device nearby I’m gonna need to use this on to compete a puzzle so I gotta lug it to the leftist coffee shop and bookstore with me

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

Slowly realize that everything is terrible: sadness. Quickly realize that everything is terrible: comedy.

In fairness to them, “I would rather just not do my job than talk to a SovCit person for another five minutes” might be the closest an on duty cop has ever come to a normal human emotion.

Haha holy fuck man