This BBC thing in particular is driving me nuts. Donald Trump supported the Jan 6 insurrection on live TV in front of everybody. He did the groundwork leading up to it and defended it publicly *for years* afterwards.

This is a super informative thread as always but this part is nuts: China's cooling load is up a third in under 10 years. Some of that is more Chinese being rich enough to have AC but some of it is how damn hot it is

Seahawks/Rams/Bucs/Lions fans watching tonight's game

This could be an @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social We Are Going To Win special. Trumpy city council incumbent in the Trumpiest part of Spokane, who won in a landslide last time, loses to a lefty non-white woman who worked for Planned Parenthood *and comes from California (gasp)*

Standing with them, even if people are getting hurt, because it's all part of the same battle for freedom and prosperity and decency, and clearly winning--until flights got delayed at which point fuck y'all, you're on your own, I'm not spending any more time at the airport than I absolutely have to

Hamas, under sustained attack, buying guns and rockets and whatnot, is taking the time to also fund an American woman singing songs for toddlers on youtube. Sounds legit, boss

Also this country would be much better off if we had statues of Kurt Cobain all over the place and Robert E. Lee had shot himself

A whole store full of employees doing this, sounds lovely

Canvas tote bags at a mainstream bookstore in Magaland, calling for beheading and burning alive those who have brought us to our present predicament. Typically this would be the standard Live Laugh Love gear. Guys, I'm telling you, the wrath of the normielib winemoms is terrible and great.

I called it! Reposting this on the day the Line apparently isn't happening. (Also this is the last post of a IMHO good thread about Persian Gulf migrant labor dynamics and how lethal it is)

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Someone please help, it's my wife, she's aloof

I think this question hinges on whether Israel is the picture on the left or the picture on the right. If it's on the left and it ends the occupation, it can absolutely guarantee equal rights to its Palestinian citizens and will still be the Jewish state because it's ~80% Jewish. 1/

There's some stiff competition but this, by @albertburneko.bsky.social might be the greatest read-for-filth obituary for an evil person that I've ever encountered defector.com/dick-cheney-...

We're all gonna have egg on our faces when it turns out he's a loyal Costco shopper

NYC taking the crown from Beirut for "best nightlife in the Islamic world"

If any media outlets need someone to go on NYC underground food court safaris and report back, I'm available

America's leading Nazis include Stephen Miller and Peter Cvjetanovic and Nick Fuentes and Kanye West and Enrique Tarrio and there's not an actual aryan in the whole bunch

Timing matters so much in advertising. If you're gonna try and sell the RSF as the good guys, maybe don't kick off your marketing campaign right when they're killing so many civilians that the pools of blood are visible from space?

Suddenly it makes sense. Here I was thinking that intellectual diversity meant left/right but it actually means smart/dumb

Just guessing from the footage that @katmabu.bsky.social is like 5 foot nothing? Here's hoping her lawyers have some fun with the charge that she intimidated federal agents

Oh man, this is good news. Jamaica has disaster insurance which should (knock on all the wood there is) pay out $150 million pretty quickly, with about $820 million in total financing available. Crucial to getting up an running fast www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Receipts. I went through Forks several times in the pre-Twilight days and it was *rough.* I'll never stop laughing at the fact the town's economy was rescued by tour busses full of jr high school girls www.nwpb.org/nw-news/2022...

The best northwest vampire story is how Twilight was set in Forks WA because it's almost never sunny there, perfect for vampires--and then Twilight got so popular it brought the actual town of Forks, a played out logging town and one of the grimmest places in America, back from the dead

Scallops and abalone in Thousand Island dressing is a fucking war crime

Whatever, man. This guy handled Sani Abacha, he can handle trump

The destruction of USAID has a higher death toll in the elimination of emergency food and health programs, but it also obviously comes into play when there's a giant hurricane on an island. So many more people in Jamaica/Cuba/Haiti/Bahamas will die than if we still had an aid agency.

This might be the funniest thing in the history of capitalism

Seattle needs to brainstorm an effective response for when ICE comes to town. My fear is that when it happens the locals will just default to being really passive aggressive. We need something that hits harder than "I told ICE I would send them an invite but then I didn't!"

The cartels figured out back in the 80s that flying from Colombia to Miami leaves you exposed to radar and you're carrying so much fuel that you can't carry a lot of drugs. Best to go overland to Mexico and drive it into the US via semi truck. BTW this is how the Mexican cartels got so powerful.

So it never occurs to anyone that "Hey we might need to fix ag so it stops being a rich man's game! And build in some upward mobility for poor but skilled workers!" Because everyone "just knows" that farmers are poor. So all the energy goes to "saving" farmers. Who really don't need it IME.

And that's tremendously unfair to the millions of skilled, low-paid workers who keep ag going. They don't get paid enough to ever move up into owning or running a farm. It's also bad for food security, bc people w that skill & experience are basically locked out from actually running things.

AI image generators making weird misshapen people; AI companies hoping to impress the dude who dreamed up a creature that sees with eyeballs in its hands

Some extra salty thoughts about The Assassination of the Seattle Mariners By the Coward George Springer. Springer of course hit the game winning home run last night for Toronto, denying the Mariners their first ever trip to the World Series 🧵

Beef prices are absolutely through the roof and this statement is bullshit. My guess is this is beef guys and cattle futures investors hoping to either a) keep prices high or b) snag some bailout $ if they drop, plus a GOP senator hoping to whip up a little xenophobia to impress some maga podcasters

"They didn't see how Ben Solo was alive" what the fuck, man. Somehow, Ben Solo Returned. See how easy that was? What, Star Wars has standards now?

The good news: my son is a Mariners fan and as such will need to be able to tolerate pain. This is his first serious dose. It's sharp pain right now but if managed correctly he can live a rich life of dull pain and numbness!

Would I vote Silwa for elected office? No. Could I live with him as an loveable/insane uncle who I could count on to help me out of a jam? Yes. His Ackman roast is worth the price of admission by itself.

"Donald Trump, undercover global Antifa agent" has been my favorite subplot in global politics

There were 291 people Saturday in the logging town of Colville WA and 140 people in Kettle Falls (pop. 1600), best known for the annual Washington Governor's Cup Walleye Fishing Tournament www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social should an aspiring strongman looking to consolidate his rule have a drunken buffoon Secretary of defense shell the same cops who are key to enforcing his tyranny, or should he not do that

OK, we've heard about cops getting tear gassed in Chicago etc. but I believe this is the first I've heard about cops getting *shelled* ktla.com/news/local-n...

Eugenio Suarez has hit a game-winning grand slam to put the Mariners one win away from the World Series. A seismic monitor at the stadium recorded a small earthquake. We'll need to workshop the name--Eugenioquake doesn't have the same ring as Beastquake--but it's still awesome.

Excellent thread and this bit in particular blows my mind. The movement is casting a wide net.

Let's be honest, Jeffries vs Johnson would be just about the dullest debate imaginable. If Johnson's worried that it would go badly for him, he really must be nervous about the GOP's position right now

As it stands, the vast, vast majority of Democratic money gets spent on TV ads, voter registration, and polling. But these are very ineffective measures because they ignore the desperate lack of in-person community that many people face, especially people who are not religious.

Do you recall calling Mr. Ryan J-Rock, Jizzy Gillespie, Jack and the Giant Jackoff, Gaylien, Tinker Balls, Wadzilla, One Erection,

Chaperoning some Jr high kids for a school thing and I'm convinced God is real. The fact that these gawky weirdos mostly turn into well-adjusted adults is a freaking miracle

One of these four fine physical specimens is NOT a leader of the Young Republicans. See if you can spot who!

I know OpenAI is losing tons of money and setting up the world economy for an epochal meltdown when the bubble bursts, but a lot of people would pay a lot of cash to watch every person responsible for this get tossed into a volcano so maybe that's how they make their money back