I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

If a class as craven as university administrators is prepared to tell you to pound sand your authoritarianism may be a bit brittle

If the Nobel Prize Committee was *actually* playing politics with the prize they would have awarded the Peace Prize to the citizens and government of Portland or just given Barack Obama another Peace Prize. www.bbc.com/news/article...

post your favorite black and white movie

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

To have a cis only space is not anyone’s right just like having a whites only space is not anyones right and insisting it is, well, That, is fascism

Stephanie Lepp suggested on TED stage a compromise to culture war topic of "gender" to have kids develop healthier body image from less social media, so that the social contagion could stop, and that doctors should stop profiting off the trans phenomenon so society could support the "truly trans".

I suspect even if you as a voter hate trans people, the fact that someone like Kamala Harris has so perceptibly turned the transphobia knob back and forth while looking to the audience for approval, showing she does not actually believe in anything, is way more offputting than the supposed wokeness

Look, we have to throw you under the bus to win but AFTER we win then, then we'll uplift you But the thing is, in all of history, when has that uplift happened.

It is a time of madness and disdain, a year of travesty and a season of despair, and the ascension of slutty Labubu cosplay

Oh yeah, this part is definitely correct. Not only is the right to exercise violence is a right afforded only by whiteness, but whiteness can never be a legitimate target of violence, and the right to DEFINE violence is also the exclusive property of whiteness.

This would be glorious

Bouie with 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥, as usual

The Roses is a remake of the 1989 divorce comedy/thriller "The War of the Roses". Amusingly, the leads of the remake both have Plantagenet ancestry. Cumberbatch famously has a House of York ancestor (Richard III) and a little Googling revealed that Colman has a House of Lancaster ancestor.

Mike Johnson is such an empty fuckwit

I assume the expected elements include Au & Pt, as well as the usual C, H, O, N, etc.

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One of these things is not like the others

Death to Carville-era triangulation. We have to articulate our full-throated support for a liberal, diverse, pluralistic democracy, or we will not have a democracy.

Would we be in a better place if Holden Caulfield had allowed Big Balls to reach the cliff? Asking for a friend

That’s why trans people are sometimes called “Friends of Rudolph”

Our cat Pippa was sharpening her claws on the couch and I said "Stop it or we'll take your paws away!" My wife then said "Yeah, stop it or she'll take your paws to Seattle with her!" I added "And then I'll ask John Scalzi what we should do with them"

It would be a significant improvement if Columbus Day was renamed to be Cesare Borgia Day.

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age

POV: you are about to be bitten

Amazon asks what breed your cat is. Aside from grooming supplies for long hair cats, breed-specific marketing opportunities are limited. Unlike dogs, most cats don't have strong breed-specific personality traits. A thread summarizing the potential marketing opportunities for the handful that do.

What's most amazing to me about LLMs is how horrible their writing is. It's an achievement. This kind of writing typically requires a teenager desperately trying to stretch three pages into ten.

uhhhh san francisco tsunami alert

Ellie all ready for the Chronological run.

Most successful active MMO in the world? Steam. Leveling, Collecting, Grinding, Character customization, Crafting, achievements, guilds, etc etc... they just also happen to sell games.

British Union of *Dissenting Disruptors* bsky.app/profile/ayou...

Oswald & Diana's wedding reception was held in Joseph Goebbels house.

Temu has gone too far this time.

I think it's time we all heard the Rest of the Story about the Prodigal child.

The decline of airmail?

In 2016, Ken Paxton had the audacity to sit at my table and break bread with my family knowing full well that my son is trans, then SIX YEARS LATER wrote an opinion stating that families like mine shouldn't exist. Within days, a CPS investigator was in our home threatening to remove our children.🧵

1) Tarriffs are apparently the answer to things his ICE thugs can't do 2) Copper has many valuable uses, but is plentiful and easily recovered (why it gets stolen) 3) The value add for mining plentiful raw materials is low and economy distorting. Ask Australia. Something Something Ea-nāṣir

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

When I was a bookseller, parents & grandparents would often come in complaining that the child in their life didn't like reading. I'd suggest lots of cool, fun stuff and they'd invariably say: "But I don't want them reading something SILLY - I want them to do PROPER reading." 😫😫😫

I never imagined Godwin's law would devolve into "AI" chatbots revealing themselves to be "mechahitler", but here we are.

I have long suspected that the UK has secret sumptuary laws about bedding/matresses. After years of business trips to London, it's my opinion that bedding is horrible or wonderful with no in-between. Hotels like the Savoy and Claridges have exquisite bedding. Good sleep is an upper class privilege.

you should turn this on because it's the right thing to do but also because if you are anything like me, you constantly see characters that you can't quite place and it's incredibly helpful to be able to click on a picture and find out what the reference is so you can judge if it's funny or not

Perfect reframing