why does the “you can’t fight it” rhetoric around AI feel so familiar?? 🤔

“He’s got a very — a person who I’ve known for a long time,” Mr. Trump said Thursday of his son’s bride-to-be. “And hopefully they’re going to have a great marriage.” 😬

This is 'Red Beach' on Hormuz Island off the coast of Iran. The red mud is actually one of the island's most important natural resources: OCHRE. It's a mix of silica, clay & iron oxides. Let's talk about the unusual geology, vibrant colors & culture of Hormuz Island, Iran. (📷: Sirsilentbob423)

“Lollipop people” is adorable and we should steal it. Also, abolish cars.

One of my least favorite parts of depression is how fucking small it feels. Like, my gov’t is literally killing people but my problem is that I can’t get out of my soft bed

I don't only want fully funded libraries but I want fully funded parks, public education, FREE HEALTHCARE, actual affordable housing etc... these are ALL CONNECTED.

Democrats could promise every single resentful white working class guy in the country his very own rainbow unicorn & it wouldn't matter because those guys *never hear what Dems say*. They get their information about Dems entirely second had, via sources committed to making them hate Dems.

The hardest lessons Democrats refuse to learn is that they have to create policies that shift the polling, not the other way around.

Hey #birdsky, is there an online marketplace for used bins and scopes? If not, can someone make it? Thanks. #birds

One problem with being a very visual learner is 90% of my searches on this app are like, “the leftist one with the skeleton profile pic… no not that one”

"For this focus group, conducted shortly before a sustained green glow began emanating from the station’s superlaser array, we spoke with residents who said they had backed Emperor Palpatine but now felt conflicted."

Young people cynically used by large political campaigns, abused, and then marginalized while they reckon with a world of climate disasters and genocide are primed for radicalization, actually.

Grapes of Irritation

I’d mostly written Banksy off, but I kinda dig this one

Film you've watched more than six times with gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli

Idk if you've read about the "effectiveness" of lethal injection, but firing squad seems like a much less brutal way to go.

“Because you disliked that they indirectly massacred children, you let someone into office who more directly massacred children.” okay dude

We all have days like this

I've been thinking about this a LOT. I think this is why a lot of well-meaning "hearts and minds" talk around things like Palestine, fascism, abortion, trans rights, etc, feels so hollow. They're individualistic and cannot meet the moment.

God, please let this be good. This trailer makes me nervous...

In a sick, violent way, they have more faith in the possibility of a new world than a lot of people on the other side. They are willing to reimagine all of it. Many of us cannot imagine getting rid of payday loans and they’re like eff it, let’s see if the Pope’s still got the juice.

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

i just don't understand how @microsoft.com could possibly need to update all their apps every single day. How is there another new version I need to install!?!? Fix *all* your shit and then give me a new version, I don't have time for this

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

For DOOMSDAY MACHINES this week, a post that has in some sense been in the making for something like a decade. It is a very close look at the "war plan," QUICK STRIKE, featured in the formerly classified 1958 film "The Power of Decision," produced for the USAF. doomsdaymachines.net/p/a-long-loo...

CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

BREAKING CBS: Survivors of the deadliest Iranian attack on U.S. forces have disputed the Pentagon's description of events and said their unit in Kuwait was left dangerously exposed when six service members were killed and over 20 wounded. The members disputed the description from Pete Hegseth.

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more emergency calm

I would be rolling my eyes at a script that pulled juxtaposing images of the fragile Earth from the latest Moon mission with possible countdown to use of nuclear weapons.

Really doing "I'll attack Persia and a great empire will fall," huh

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

boston 2026

✋ IT'S FOR ME!!!

wrote about how our sense of how political change happens is often backwards. we think changing beliefs changes actions, but often changing actions makes people change what they think. which creates obvious problems if you're just following polls. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/actions-ch...

Preparing myself to disbelieve every news story tomorrow even more than I already do

my opinion on The Martian suddenly feels *very* vindicated

ICE agents seen running, scurrying, and attempting to hide from photographers at JFK airport in NYC. Video is below in next post. Thanks, Oliya! @scootercaster.com URL: x.com/ScooterCaste...

Generative A.I.s are Thneeds.

Generative A.I.s are Thneeds.

You ever wake up with this feeling deep down that today is the day, and then you check and it’s not. And your heart sinks once more.

“The Epstein Class” is a good sound bite that should be repeated everywhere and constantly

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

Everything Is Mechanical Turk

Remember when the only way newspapers could stay alive was by paywalling critical stories which siloed information and boosted untrustworthy - but free - outrage bait and then democracy died? What if that again, but on a truly monumental scale.

Changed name and handle

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies