it's called a job because needing to have one is like being cursed by God

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

Incredibly irresponsible hed: "COVID Vaccine Linked to New Side Effect, Especially in Older Adults." News is actually abt *benefit*: significant reduction in heart problems. How many ppl see only headline & infer endorsement of propaganda misconceptions? uk.style.yahoo.com/covid-vaccin...

“purpose but no meaning” is gonna stick with me holy shit

Future dystopian sci-fi has imagined things like nuclear wastelands, sure. Totalitarian oppression, climate catastrophe, sure. But rarely has it imagined today's real horror of AI making stupid and annoying people 100x worse.

Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.

this is true. zero babies died in shootings in chicago in 2025 while black infant mortality is unconscionably high due to our racist medical system. didn't expect vivek to go woke but i respect that he knows which way the wind is blowing

been hearing a lot about "chatgpt" this and "claude" that. listen up chucklefucks: no computer is ever going to cut costs as well as some guys from bain with no experience in your company's market who comes in and fires half of your employees arbitrarily

years ago i did a political cartoon roundup for wonkette and it's always interesting to see which of the guys who were fairly anodyne libs during the obama era are like "hey you live in the zone of interest now motherfuckers" these days

if it saves lives i think it's okay for europeans to invent a slant where they're somehow dunking on americans by installing air conditioners. "you american pigs with your coddled central air systems could never compete with our graceful ductless mini-splits" something along those lines

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome

people treat "due process" like it's a reward for being the right class of person which is simply wild to me

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

The pharmacy I worked at in high school closed, so I took a bunch of these and blanketed my school in “For rectal use only” and “May cause discoloration of the urine and feces” stickers.

“You have one remaining wish.” “Summon a hydra in the middle of my enemy’s fortress, but one with so many heads that any new heads will be crushed immediately, creating an ever-expanding mass of hydra heads that will destroy the entire stronghold.” “You mean…?” “Yes. A hydra-djinn bomb.”

Thought you all might need to see my puppy seeing some food above her, deciding to sit super still as she takes aim, and then jumping up to eat a cashew nut through a glass table she does not comprehend as existing.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

The way some people read books is absolutely baffling to me.

it is very funny though to imagine xi asking one-on-one, "no, but really, would you defend taiwan if we invaded? you can tell me, we're friends" and trump is squinting down at "STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY" on the back of his hand where rubio wrote it with a sharpie

It’s so good and now you can play it on Mac, PC, and Switch!!

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the thing is that for a lot of people their answer to every question you ask them about donald trump just boils down to "do i like him or not"

Who will think of the plight of the “vilified” ultra wealthy now that their second-homes in NYC might be taxed at a slightly higher rate, as they already are in Montana? share.google/EeFfrPecjZrO...

the best thing you can say about donald trump is that he says out loud some things that are obviously true but that previously politicians pretended were not, like "fox news is an extension of the republican party and should act like it"

Dammit, another thought: once you absorb the importance of the dominance axis on social media, you really do see it everywhere. A story titled “Top 5 Ways to Prevent Dementia” gets read and shared. “Dementia Is Mostly Genetics” is ignored. It explains why conspiracy theories outperform facts.

hmm strange. it's david ellison who runs paramount and is seeking to gain control of warner bros. larry ellison, his father, runs oracle, an unrelated database company. this must be a typo of some sort

Perfect Tides: Station to Station is now available for pre-order in the Nintendo eShop at a 15% OFF discount! It's coming at you fast with a 5/14 release. www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

making racial gerrymanders illegal but partisan gerrymanders legal directly incentives political parties to get more racist

If "supporting the elderly" requires an unsustainable forever-increasing population of younger people, then the problem is not "low birth rates", it's the way in which our society supports the elderly.

this is a very sweet story about my home town. we were just there last weekend and i really did notice quite a few houses flying combination US/canada flags

it's related to the fact that a lot of ppl have convinced themselves that the only reason companies sell fossil fuels is bc they're evil, when in actuality it's bc ppl love buying them bc they're a really efficient and convenient way to generate energy w/the only downside being the end of the world

The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story

i definitely think every dem state that gerrymanders should also say "the easiest way to stop this is to ban it at the federal level and there's only one party that ever votes in favor of that"

They think you're stupid.

why is the advocate, literally a gay magazine, doing the “critics say” thing

feels weird to use streaming music features with classical artists. it's like, yeah baby, give me Frédéric Chopin's top songs. bangers only, in descending order of bangitude. you know i only want his HITS, and what the FUCK is Nocturne Op.55 No. 1 in F Minor doing THAT low on this list??

I feel awful for those kids. I’m going to need the “why doesn’t she just leave” crowd to pay CLOSE attention and look at me when I say this: he will kill her anyway. Usually with a gun.

Great thread. I’ve adored Vivian Maier ever since I saw a This American Life story about the discovery of her photography.

researchers discovered that a coin, when flipped, overwhelmingly yielded a useful “heads” or “tails” result and almost never landed on edge. this indicates that the coin has situational awareness, intelligently refining its outcomes to those with the greatest contextual value

i mean if a global hyperpower started a war that that resulted in the trade corridor my entire economy depends on being blocked, then signaled it was ok ending the war without unblocking it, i would also probably make this request

tricking other men into mating with me so i can steal their precious bodily heat and use it as my own en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garter_...

right, i get it now. we get rid of health insurance like he suggests. the gov't just gives you money directly to pay for health care costs as they arise. we administer it through the centers for medicare and medicaid, and make it available to everyone. i'm picking up what you're putting down sir

The true fantasy of a Holmes/Watson dynamic is not being an eccentric supergenius, it's having an allistic friend who handles all your social and financial and administrative bullshit and asks for nothing in exchange but to admire you while you do your special interest stuff.

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

[smiling beatifically] we've created a situation where random guys are just firing off ICBMs without any kind of strategy or centralized coordination. and that's good by the way

🚨Warning Black people!🚨 Another famous white person with trash views has died! Do not use their own words against them, or BlueSky moderators may be forced to ban you!🤡 Do not mention that "1000 years of darkness" is a white nationalist and great replacement dog whistle! Don't mention birtherism!

(Unrelated, but I just noticed that the example given in the Wikipedia entry for "Bust/waist/hip measurements" uses a woman who is 36-24-36 and 5'3", which are the measurements given in Baby Got Back. I salute you, random wiki editor.)