you just know this is the same team that does the extremely racist video shitposting on Twitter

in what way exactly are ICE agents assisting TSA

what i'm hearing is that it's canned cheese time

need to hear from the multi-tabling internet poker players on this one honestly. my recollection is that like everybody took a hit to skill when they went past some threshold on tables but some people took a much smaller hit than other people and it was kind of independent of one-table skill?

this is very bad for the economy but all this stepping on oil arteries is great for our climate

we joke around a lot on here but if we commit airborne troops some of them are going to die and that's fucking awful

sidequest!

@golikehellmachine.com "lawyer" is famously a profession nobody is ever mad at for any reason

i think it's just the Expensive gas stations that are doing this right now but some chance that pretty soon it won't be i don't think i've ever seen an 8 on a gas price sign before and for damn sure i haven't seen double digits

i don't totally want to discount the possibility that it's all shit in ways i will later discover, but the amount of stuff I got done today with Claude Code was conservatively two weeks worth of work for me and another guy without Claude Code

yea i've got imposter syndrome. im poster

Again you look at *any* strongman authoritarian in recent memory; in Latin America, Europe, or Asia, they are not polling sub 40 overall and sub-30 on the economy less than two years into their term. There is no parallel for this.

just going to note that the alleged behavior 1) also includes an antisemitic slur earlier in the evening and 2) took place on New Year’s Eve which is two weeks after everyone yelled at Puka about being antisemitic and he pled ignorance

THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED DONALD TRUMP'S STATE HOUSE DISTRICT IN FLORIDA'S #HD87: Emily Gregory (D)- 51.2% Jon Maples (R)- 48.8%

well, I think Donald Trump will have a Democratic state representative pretty soon

There it is (Also implicit confirmation that all of this has just been Rs negotiating with the White House and there's been no Dem sign-off at all)

this is obviously correct imo. can't score this as a W exactly because Dems are not in fact getting the legislative concessions they wanted, but it's not an L either

because we tried alcohol prohibition back when and it didn’t work well, and because we had gambling prohibition in recent memory and it did work well

curious: is anybody having good experiences with Cowork, or even the Claude Code desktop client? i keep running into cases where it fails and I'm just like, why are we not doing this from terminal

I missed this the first time around but

I think a lot about the man I was named after and how he performed both masculinity and ungendered public leadership. Victorian suppression of emotion is deeply dysfunctional as a *totalizing* concept but like, damn, some folks need to learn the value of a stiff upper lip in public.

look, things suck, everybody is allowed to feel hopeless once in a while, but I do think you have some responsibility to limit the contagion caused by offgas from your personal slough of despond

under the circumstances this feels like a bit of a dunk on North Carolina

oh and if you think a ballistic missile fired at Diego Garcia is an Israeli false flag it’s time for you to log alllllll the way off

even (and especially!) if you believe the absolute worst about Israel, or about Jews, the idea that an attack on diaspora Jews is likely a false flag is nuts. lots of people hate Jews and take it out on the local representatives.

I aspire to the level of Suburban Brain Excellence required to start a physical fight with Jack Reacher because you perceive him to be in violation of HOA bylaws. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

my working assumption is that Trump is mad at Reuters

see I think this is awesome because it means she’s actually here

did Quentin Tarantino steal the idea for From Dusk Till Dawn from whoever directed Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight

this turned into a real ask-and-ye-shall-receive scenario imo

i wonder if this came up in the JSN negotiations

What’s wild is if you take the WhatsApp numbers and GF / Chuffed links and cross reference that against “legit” people you’ll see that the scam has been running for a lot longer than you’d think

because this doesn’t tear up the two remaining years he’s under contract I suspect it is going to wind looking like a very reasonable deal by the time the new money kicks in

i was talking to a friend of mine who lives in DC and she talks about how there are huge pics of trump hanging all over the place and it feels like north korea. grim shit obviously but also that is happening exactly nowhere else

new rt bot pattern, huh good luck Bsky anti bot people, this is pretty annoying

the reason you would take Kharg is to guarantee that the oil shock lasts longer and cuts deeper

hard to escape the conclusion imo that somebody wants a massive oil shock driven by Gulf shutdown. that someone is exactly Russia

fwiw my read on the threat to move ICE to doing TSA jobs is that Trump is looking for a way to back down on snatch squads without appearing to have backed down

fwiw my read on the threat to move ICE to doing TSA jobs is that Trump is looking for a way to back down on snatch squads without appearing to have backed down

*rhizobium intensifies*

I have thought about this post about twice a week since

I hadn’t watched a whole lot of Pritzker tape, and I still haven’t, but he’s got pipes. Presidential timbre.

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

The Arad hit seems pretty serious

do we have any functional diplomatic channels left to Iran or is it just Twitter

“a natural shortening of a word” describes a very solid range of common slurs. I’ll leave it to the experts to decide if it’s a majority of slurs by weight but, like, it’s most of the ones you think of when you think “slur”

Jhostynxon Garcia failed to identify all the squares with motorcycles in the image

I understand that there’s no actual principled answer to this, but what even is the fig-leaf argument for deporting KAG to Liberia rather than to Costa Rica?