Has there ever been a better sentiment for how to produce positive masculinity than “I can teach you martial arts, how to make action movies, but it’s more important to help people!”

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

really can’t stress enough how we just don’t have to go along with any of this shit, the world was made and can just as easily be made differently

if you don’t think it’s a political winner to campaign on “should masked goons be able to terrorize every facet of your life or should they all be fired and prosecuted” it’s because you either don’t want to or you really really suck at your job. either way you gotta fuck off to your skdk gig

god damn

They need all protestors to be paid operatives because they cannot abide the possibility that somewhere in the world, people sincerely believe in standing up for others. It isn’t enough that they’ve chased all moral virtue from their own hearts. They want a world where no virtue exists in anyone.

the temporal front of the culture war

scully you're not gonna believe this

i'm not saying we can't have a "what have you done for me lately" person in charge of the country. i'm just asking, begging, that "lately" extend beyond "the fog between toilet breaks"

The online communists were right about everything and people are finally starting to realize that.

:\ can't believe some of u are still supporting cs lewis even after he jerked off in front of those women

I am weaving generative AI into every aspect of my life to maximize my role as an unemployed guy

thinking about how a city hall attorney at a mentoring event once asked if i wanted to see police brutality complaints for laughs and then a few years later his police department killed george floyd

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

the decadent press practically screams "do it, pussy!" at him any time they can

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

ICE detained Purple Heart veteran William Vermie for hours at the Whipple Federal Building. He says he’s speaking out because he’s white, he has privilege and if he doesn’t use it to stand up for others, who will? That is what solidarity looks like.

tl;dr is that now that this is happening to cops, the cops are pissed about it. before they all just assumed it was some darkies whining like they always do but now that it's happening to POLICE it's a problem. fuck off hog boy

Ken deserves eyes and money for all the uncovering of stuff other outlets don’t ever report or “discover” weeks after he did all the work reporting on it He’s shown a lot of what the admin has been up to that gets swept under the rug by mainstream media

This is CRITICAL. I know you’re all putting your back into mutual aid & a thousand other great things, but if there’s anything left here, so many folks depend on these front-line lawyers right now.

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

i know i’m beating a dead horse here but it is funny how badly he does not want to have the conversation on ICE. it’s more fascinating than upsetting once you accept that he’ll never be president

They can kidnap you, they can shoot you dead in the street, they can terrorize your neighbors and threaten World War 3, and the Democrats will always sign the check.

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fascinating to compare how Wall Street reacts to the possibility that a socialist might have some power somewhere versus how it reacts to the concrete reality of a literal madman tearing down the American-led post-WWII global order

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

seeing something really weird on my skyline - i can see posts up to 3 hours ago, and then they are all gone up until 13 days ago, January 7th. bug, or burgeoning conspiracy?

I'm gonna be completely honest today is a self-indulgent "play Monster Hunter Wilds" day #andyislive twitch.tv/andyaml

NASA: Among the most storied & respected jewels in the crown of America — Domestically & Internationally. Congress has finally figured that out and is standing up for it, in a bipartisan vote, against proposed cuts from the White House. www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/1/ves-e...

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me that X and Grok's creation of sexual deepfakes of children is "completely unacceptable" but again won't commit to taking direct action against them, or to stop posting there. Says "all options are on the table" but suggests it's a matter for Ofcom, not Government

people really just be driving full speed into what they cannot see maybe it's the insects turn again

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

Hsu and Chan in "Live and Kicking!" part 18:

OpenAI has absolutely zero ideas. They have no business. This is not a real business line and it’s so utterly vague and specious, I’m shocked at the credulousness to just print it without saying “there is no logical way this works of course” or talking about how the CFO of OpenAI is saying nonsense

A small, ancillary detail in this horror that made me cry

⬇️ This is happening at @sfsketchfest.bsky.social on Thurs. night! Improv riffing on some truly weird short films with this gang of geniuses. And me.

I think they have different jobs. Just my opinion

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Make Heaven crowded! Bring your torches and pitchforks, attack and dethrone God. He has failed us!

Ok, says the recording has started… Thanks all, for participating in my "cupcake trivia" icebreaker. It turns out today was National Cupcake Day, so I thought that would be fun! But now we can get started with our main topic: we must overthrow and behead the executive suite to reclaim our humanity.

SPEED 3 is on Bluesky!

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

can someone photoshop the screaming cowboy guy in here