I treated myself with a couple of merch T-shirts for the Christmas season. Thank you @fivefourpod.bsky.social. (I also bought the "I dissent" one with the Molotov cocktail.)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

the problem with dedicating campaign funds toward charitable endeavors is what if you lose and then all you’ve done is helped people in need in your community?

If I may.

it's good for people to get aid. it's good to give people aid. it's good when public figures and politicians model positive behaviors like giving aid. it's good as a campaign tactic both for branding and earned media purposes. it's bad to sit online and nitpick someone actually doing good

I have shit in my head that I won't even vaguely describe to people who aren't similarly situated to me because once you even know it exists you can't un-know. I don't even glance at the CSAM shit because I *know* just how badly it would mess with my head. Leave it to the experts. Thread.

was it your christmas wish to listen to three people collectively lose their shit over a meritless polemic? well then, belated christmas, you filthy animals.

Bari Weiss suddenly held to the standard of a journalist for the first time in her career: "Is this anti-semitism?"

anyway i respect guys like him and myspace tom so much. you were smart and in the right place at the right time and made more money than you could possibly ever spend in your life, why not go chill on the beach for the next 50 years instead of trying to invent the metaverse or whatever

a weird side player in the baltimore mayor pugh scandal was that the guy who did illustrations for her self-pubbed book didn't get paid, but it turned out he did pro bon bc he had sold a "website business template" business in 1999 for like $30 million and hadn't needed to work since

Strange Days (1995). A genuinely great cyberpunk noir, set on New Year's Eve, 1999.

This. I mean, I personally follow Will Stancil but that's for similar reasons that an entomologist might have a particularly noxious and smelly type of beetle beneath their magnifying glass. I certainly don't *interact* with him, and this will likely be the last time I post about him.

Why would anyone give this sweet girl up to the local animal shelter? (I am told that she was given up because she bit a child who cornered her and reached for her. Which, as a kid who had cats very young, feels like a issue with the parents.)

I mean, fuck I got a minor in math (up through Differential Equations/Linear Algebra) and did a whole-ass Chemistry degree. Yet, because of Things it's hard to find work.

Often I think about the skill level I have achieved at so many skills and despair at my financial condition, and then realize that I (for better or worse) have never made myself an expert in something that will please the capitalist beast.

My first Christmas after my divorce, I made (very much not authentic) tacos de asada. They were actually pretty delicious. I think I'm going to try to make fresh corn tortillas for New Year's.

Watched Gremlins and Goonies yesterday and it made me nostalgic not for the 80s but for pop culture where bankers, yuppies, and capitalist greed were the enemies

If there was a new Christmas song as horny as Santa Baby, accounting for inflation it’d be called like I Need Santa to Crush My Skull With His Sleigh

Whilst I'm slagging off this unprofessional git, this description of Lord's BASIC INCOMPETENCE AT HIS JOB always floors me: "...his seeming inability to conceptualize 3-D animation during the early planning stages and his preference to edit fully rendered work instead".

I think it's great the way Piers has Fuentes on his program so he can dunk on him, and raise Fuentes' public profile, further normalising him in the conversation, and... oh.

ppl are praising this bcos... well they can't help themselves. but pay attention to piers here. he meets someone who hates women and his response is 'but... the sex, tho?! you must never have had sex?!'. he's just as much a 'misogynistic dinosaur' as fuentes.

Tiny Tim, who did not die, was a screaming across the sky.

Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.

For just a moment I thought that was Richard Spencer.

An absolutely harrowing ghost story by @timescarcass.bsky.social befitting the Christmas season.

"They're just jealous because I have big tits and an Ashkenazi IQ" has been in my brain ever since I saw this clip for the first time, which must be nearly ten years ago now?

For various reasons I have spent most of my adult life in some kind of retail hell. (As I do currently.) Most of the really bad experiences you've had in a retail setting are actually an employee doing *exactly* what corporate wanted them to do.

So much for the tolerant left.

“We are blessed to share a nation and a savior”. Through the official messaging channels of a Cabinet-level department. Christian Nationalism 101.

i feel a certain way about the democrats' official youtube channel consistently putting out videos with view counts in the hundreds. hard to describe. i can't articulate it but it feels unfair for me to have to know about that

there's a reason the republicans grab any right-wing influencer who can string half a sentence together and flood them with cash and media appearances, and why the democrats steadfastly refuse to do that, and it's the same reason. two sides of the same wealthy coin, trying to maintain their position

genuine progressives would dismantle the system that funnels wealth into a few ultra-rich pockets, so nothing. expect zero help on that front

I want to stress, also, how when we approached the Trump White House with a lengthy comment request on our findings, the only things they disputed - among the batch of lawless, titanically rancid shit - were a) Stephen miller was NOT regularly made fun of by his former GOP Hill colleagues…

I miss when there used to be hidden tracks on CDs

The framing of Miss Rachel as controversial is technically accurate but also so funny. She thinks it's bad when little kids get their limbs blown off. That's it. That's the controversy.

A very fine list.

something i learned when a fact checker hired by @swordsjew.bsky.social called me is that books only have fact checkers if the author insists on it or even hires one themselves. you can put anything in a book. that was the only fact checker i’ve ever talked to but i’ve been quoted in other books

Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough

NAME_ (space) is literally a minor plot point in Ender's Game.

Adam Serwer; gift link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

of course bari weiss can be both stupid and evil! that is the point of transphobia, it is evil that you can do even if you are too stupid for other forms of evil, because you can just say the same 2-5 transphobic things over and over again and you get an automatic audience of rich credulous freaks

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

"Well look, no one will go on the record so we're killing it."

yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

watching the CECOT 60 Minutes segment that CBS suppressed, it’s striking that Weiss specifically called out as unnecessary some of the most rigorous investigative work in the segment, including an explanation of how it was done (by human rights researchers)

In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is: “Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”