Bsky's automod is permanently set to "Ned Flanders." You say "That's stupid" in a reply and you can practically hear the automod going "Okily dokily posterino I'm just gonna put a rude label here because you used the S-word."

My favorite is the Matthew McConaughey ad where he's at a restaurant but the restaurant doesn't use AI so they don't know not to sit him outside while its poring rain and they just bring him random dishes rather than take his order. Yes AI ad, that's problem I run into frequently.

The basic lesson is that if the site administration should use bland corporatespeak instead of trying to be Posters. People would still be mad about Singal (justifiably IMO) but there would be a lot less discourse if it communicated as a corporate statement instead of Posting Thru It.

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Even ignoring that slave power was aggressively domineering and expansionist this logic makes no sense. Basically any attempt to secede from another country would never win by this logic, you can disprove it by pointing out that America won the Revolution despite not wanting to govern Britain.

Sex workers posting wildly incorrect WW2 rage bait to get people to click on their bio instead of thirst traps is the funniest anecdote you can tell about this place

Who can forget Spinoza's famous declaration "Facts don't care about your feelings."

I love that there's replies who seem to think Father Intintola is a real person and are getting mad at him and the Church.

I'm not sure what the operators of the Ain Jalut Skate Park were expecting.

I watched the Elijah vs. Ba'al's prophets video and from a purely technical perspective its interesting to see that AI still really struggles to maintain consistency between shots.

Except for Cubs fans, pretty great year for the Cubbies

Communism is Soviet power plus all-day breakfast across the whole country.

also Janet Mills is so old that you gotta be truly nuts to run her. late seventies! come on!

re: the Maine Senate candidate I definitely understand skepticism of a prickly outsider who goes further than party orthodoxy, because that is a description of Fetterman 2022, but I think we're better off taking gambles here and there than staying the course with someone boring and normal

Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into

I'm taking a different Romanian stereotype and assuming Big Balls was beaten up by a gang of Draculas.

Finally you can experience the Wizard of Oz as it was always meant to be seen: in the style of a 2000s video game cutscene.

I think the ultimate proof that the Ottomans are not the Roman Empire is that after about a century they started to deemphasize their Roman claim and instead made their central claim to legitimacy the caliphate. Which is the most un-Roman thing imaginable.

something so telling about yarvin's character that he's willing to perform grotesque racism but is too chickenshit to spell out the n-word

Khazad-Dûm was actually hit by industrial decline and the space was just neglected until the Balrog turned it into a legendary techno club through his innovative and energetic DJing, which however pissed off the nearby dwarf residents who moreover feared a drop in property values due to noise

Who are conveniently not in the room to actually have to defend these positions. Allowing the pundit to just stop the conversation and not actually have to make an argument

idk i need to do a longer form piece no this but I feel like there's a broader problem with popularism in practice, in that it's extremely corrosive to elite liberal discourse. rather than simply making the case, elite liberals now appeal to the voices of other people

Its amazing that Assassin's Creed came up with a 10/10 game idea ("you are in the past doing parkour off iconic buildings and killing famous historical figures") and then decided that a significant chunk of the game should be spent in the present day following a dumb and confusing conspiracy plot.

I think you can criticize the Dems for doing nothing on DC statehood, but the California thing is like getting mad at Biden for not declaring Texas's annexation illegal and giving it back to Mexico, thus denying the GOP its largest state.

Zohran mamdani you have 48 hours to release how fast you ran the mile in 7th grade or the New York Times will publish without comment

Good news for Elon: if all of his kids vote for him he'll have enough support to win at least 2 states. Bad news for Elon: None of his kids are gonna vote for him.

The only reason the Rolling Stone writer thinks this guy is cool is because of his fascist politics. If this weirdo was left-wing or even just boring center-right the author of this piece would immediately recognize how dumb and cliche he is.

Jesse Singal is evil, but we should avoid the Great Man narrative where he single-handedly made transphobia a thing and recognize that the primary driver is the GOP and right-wing media.

TCW being one of the most block-happy people I've see on BSky really reveals how hollow his whole "people need to step outside of their epistemic bubbles" schtick is.

Thermostatic backlash means the Democrats can win Congress despite low popularity. What should scare the Congressional Democrats is that a majority of your own voters disliking you is the perfect condition for a bunch of you to get primaried.

"But you let Charles be King." "It says No Kings, we're allowed one."

JD Vance is now in his group chat desperately trying to explain to SpartanPederast88 that they can still be friends even though they are on opposite sides of this feud.

Hot girl: How's it going? My AI collar: Regarding the song Kill the Boer...

Imagine you're drowning and suddenly you hear Eric Adam's voice saying "Remain calm. Help is on the way." Shocked that the Mayor is there you look up, only to see a drone. Then the drone (in Eric Adam's voice) starts talking about how great Turkish Airlines is.

I really enjoy how anti-vaxxers have gone from "Everyone who took the COVID vaccine will be dead in a year. They'll fucking die" to "Can the vaxxed ever experience true orgone alignment?"

Actually, it would fit the "dumbest timeline" thing we have going on if our version of the Enragés was led by an NYT columnist best known for thinking that you need a college education to understand Italian deli meats.

You cannot simply just scare the hoes endlessly and then ask unironically "I don't see any hoes....where the hoes at??"

I'm pro-union but supporting unions is not a suicide pact. Trump's tariffs are bad for everyone, union and non-union, and if the UAW is going to embrace them I'm going to say they're being stupid and stand against it.

Literally "Many Americans hate steak fries. But in this Ohio diner many say they are underrated."

A lot of right-wing attempts at constitutional law are basically the same as saying "Well the Constitution doesn't explicitly say the President's term is 4 Earth years, therefore Trump can be President for 4 Neptunian years (about 660 Earth years)."

Quick question: is it normal for the New York Stock Exchange to forgo ringing the opening bell in favor of playing "Nearer My God, to Thee"?

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.

The story of Megyn Kelly is someone who tried to make it in the mainstream media, but found she couldn't hack it and retreated back to the conservative ecosystem. Her talk show disaster should have been the end of anyone taking her seriously.

Americans also don't actually want to pay more not to buy Chinese goods, I guarantee their revealed preference will be for cheap stuff because that has been their revealed preference every single time a "lower prices or" tradeoff has come up.

The Realist IR theory that you don't need to know anything about a state's internal politics to predict its actions has never been more dead.

No one who speaks German could possibly be evil.

The worst part about this is that she got knocked up by a reply guy.