this is such a great and hopeful initiative in a time when we're losing so many important journalistic archives!! they're paying $2,500 for your work that can't be found anymore due to link degradation and media outlets shuttering

Maybe I’m out of the loop on these things but this feels extremely condescending, insulting to people’s intelligence

God watching me at speed dating:

i think this because i am currently reading The Shadow Gospel by Whitney Phillips and Mark Brockway, which has a whole chapter on how "collectivism" became a synonym for Satan in the 1950s Evangelical scene mitpress.mit.edu/978026255227...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

New Chotiner

i can't even say that having seen people with neurological trauma prepares you for it, because it doesn't. but it's the closest thing. the smartest person you know has lost their long term memory and regressed to childishly agreeing with the last person who talked to them half the time

Put together some thoughts about Mike F and his greatest posts for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/in-post-memo...

I’d be a terrible president bc I am soo sleepy all the time and they do NOT be napping like that fr

Here’s my conspiracy theory: the daycare thing is a pre-consent manufacturing machine to take down any attempt Mamdani (or other cities) tries toward universal daycare

Someone recently threaded how the main goal of foreign interference wasn’t to change the 2016 election, it was to weaken Dems by making them constantly suspicious/not trust each other Which is exactly what happened bc now Dem leaders call any dissent foreign (Chinese/TikTok, prev Russian/Facebook)

Won’t do a big thread of what I wrote this year because there’s not that much of it, but I am quite proud of this one

It’s a cop out to say every instance of someone going crazy is “LLM psychosis”. Some of us are just losing our minds the old fashioned way (mental illness and stimulants)

Apropos of nothing, if anyone has questions about torrenting or VPNs…

This exact thing is happening with skiers, they’re watching two companies jack up prices and now everyone is suddenly a communist

this article by @milesklee.bsky.social is still one of my favorite things ive ever read im always so glad to remember it exists. it's such a wonderful examination of our cultural relationship with men's nudity. melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...

Just dubbed "The Weissand Effect" by ‪@miasato.bsky.social‬.

Happy solstice!

Great example of the ongoing economic sentiment conversation(s!) If the question is “what is everyone’s debt to income ratio,” this chart is perfect But if the question is “what about non-rich people” stuff is a little different. Important to just be clear re: what someone is highlighting

this is sooo me-coded bc I love reducing communication barriers between groups, and almost always--at first at least--this is what that looks like

Kate Wagner Was Right btw

This is kinda blowing my mind bc even just legally, why open yourself up to liability like this But allegedly it is legal in some other countries? Interesting

In discourses about how to get more people, specifically more left wing people, to support large language models or related tech I think the labs would need to…be more left wing? They haven’t even tried as far as I’m aware?

Categorical difference doesn’t matter in the face of personal/moral difference If I get calories from almond milk or dairy milk, I’ve ingested calories either way. But if I’m vegan there’s very different implications of “better ways to get calories”

I should just re-post an old longer thread, but liberals should hesitate to threaten catastrophe when ppl bring up economic sentiment + prices “The only options are corporate greed goes as hot as it wants, or we crush your already low wages” is not a take you wanna be linked with probably? Idk

I think we need to approach the issue with more creativity and address long-term accumulated drivers of cost of living pressures, which ultimately is what the public is asking for a response to. Our last print issue addressed these directly: prospect.org/archive/dec-...

I don’t have one but seeing as there are no genuine answers in replies/quotes: - know what’s in the fridge while you’re at the store - auto/quick buy - recipe suggestion - expiration date monitoring - temp control I could see it

@0kultra.bsky.social I’m not a SWERF, btw? I regularly send this to people: www.swopbehindbars.org/copy-of-educ...

WHAT'S UP!? WHAT'S UP?! WHAT THE FYCK IS UP, DENNY'S

Picnic Magazine is seeking a private equity acquisition/leveraged buyout

not sure how to describe or engage with education discourse. I recognize that changing the curriculum to seem less racist seems silly. but the people most-loud about how silly this is would've hated the *other* solutions to the problem

Streaming lossless Spotify to my car speakers from 2002 >>>

For someone that sings about love a lot, Taylor Swift didn’t sound nearly sad enough on “Last Christmas.” It was like she got stood up for a first date or something, not nearly enough yearning This proves the song is about two gay men imo

Costco added passkeys lets fucking go

Been making notes to download music offline instead of just in Spotify. Anyway Taylor Swift’s “Santa Baby” goes hard

got a stew goin tonight

This Steam Machine/GabeCube business is revealing that while I haven’t really kept current, a lot of stuff in the PC & gaming community hasn’t changed over the years

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Like idk yeah, the people who are mad at Ken Martin aren't correct about the specifics but like, cmon. The most powerful elected Democrat not only didn't endorse Mamdani, he refused to say he even voted for him himself (imo this means he probably didn't). The party has a lot to answer for here

There's a lot of mainstream democratic party types on here who are very mad at the idea that any Mamdani supporters might feel slighted by the party and like, perhaps be mad at the many members of the Democratic party who were opposing him for a bunch of bullshit reasons instead?

Now in the @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social Patreon: I talk Adrian through the lesbian pulp revival, and beg the world not to be weird about it. www.patreon.com/posts/142389...

For this Patreon-only episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @moiradonegan.bsky.social walked me through the lesbian pulp genre: its heyday, its disappearance, and what its recent reemergence might mean. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Zohran, cancelled after confusing the concept of hyperreality as symbols standing in for an older reality instead of creating their own new, current reality

This month, @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I watched a bunch of 70s horror films to do an @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social Powers of Horror (Film) spectacular! This first part delves into THE WICKER MAN (1973) and CARRIE (1976), part 2 will have SUSPIRIA and ALIEN! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

So cool to be on this list: bookshop.org/lists/featur...

Dating outlook rn

michael? peter.

Fellas if you’re not laying it down like this just give up