Right wing influencers out here collecting scalps. Do not love to see it.

What a year for music, man

The killing of civilians in boats by the military was a test by the Trump administration to see if they could power over some of the oldest longstanding norms & laws of war: don't target civilians, render help to capsized sailors. Once the military double-tapped rather than render aid, die was cast.

at some point you have to admit which one is worse: "running suspect elections" or "unilaterally bombing another country and kidnapping the head of state"

Okay, using the aesthetics of signing day is pretty good

I know lots of happy couples where one is a liberal & the other is a socialist, my own included. Actual moderates who have no problem at all being happy with their "kooky" lefty partners. But right-wing people have their own media bubbles which consume them. There's no common ground to be had.

Not sure what this says about me but I’ve lived in over ten states all across the US and it’s pretty easy for me to find good in just about anywhere. That said, you’re never beating the west coast and its mid-Atlantic haters should try seeing a sunset over the ocean sometime.

2025 recapped

It’s the most powerful online sexual harassment tool ever invented and it’s driving people insane with parasocial relationships but the most prominent critics lie about water use.

And it’s that accumulation of lost opportunities in the favor of endless caution and risk aversion - most profoundly after 1/6 - that helped put us on this doomed path. They win each individual argument about each branch in the road, never addressing the deeper risk that the road led off a cliff

Let him cook

it is distinctly maddening how there’s so many people who cannot defeat the incredible rhetorical argument of saying you’re doing the opposite of what you’re doing. “are you stabbing that man?” “no, i’m actually very anti-stabbing. why are you so pro-stabbing?” “wow, you must be sincere AND smart!”

it's so goofy to believe making software that mimics human thought is related in any meaningful way to making software that thinks. building the most amazing lifelike animatronic horse the world ever saw does not represent progress if your goal is to create a real horse. huge waste of time actually

yes, this is a crucial aspect of research for me - finding useful stuff in the process I wasn’t actually looking for

Really feels like the part where ghosts just take over the entire city in the original Ghostbusters

Spotted a 60-something man on the beach reading Olivia Nuzzi’s “American Canto.” His wife is nearby. She has Mar-a-Lago face and is wearing a trucker hat that says “Sun. Yoga. Champagne.” She’s been watching a live cam feed of her front door on a comically large tablet for the last 20 minutes.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.

RIP Rob Reiner: as far as I know the only Hollywood director to get a shout out in an MF Doom lyric

“Abolish ICE” has got to be the compromise position in 2028

What actor's facial expression in a movie/TV show will stay with you for the rest of your life? “Rollo Tomassi”

Dishwasher leaking, no idea where. Having gone down a dishwasher repair rabbit hole I have now realized that these are one of the most complicated and miraculous inventions of modern life. To my extreme detriment

Okay I bit the bullet, here's the giant thread where I'm gonna post thoughts as I do an X-Files rewatch

Marx would have been a first ballot hall of fame poster

If you’re a complete idiot life sure does have a lot of surprises for you

Sure, they also could have been attempting to contact their mothership in the andromeda galaxy, but neither is very fucking likely.

don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job

Yea, this has to kinda be one of those “straight to juvie” crimes, like bringing a gun to school.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity:

UNLV- LETS GO REBELS!!

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Cash transfers-THEY WORK!

It is kind of funny that this all ultimately ends up throwing Bradley under the bus. Shit rolls downhill I guess.

That’s….what I’m talking about!!!

Four-way tie in the mountain west is funny but I’d be really stoked to see UNLV in the championship.

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

It’s probably a banal observation at this point since it’s Spielberg, but watched E.T. Yesterday with the fam for the first time in at least a decade and it’s definitely a 10/10. The lightening, the Williams soundtrack, it all slaps. You can also see its influence on the Duffer brothers directly.

The fake Tate quote aside, it should be a big red flag to young men that incel stuff is strictly a right wing phenomenon. I’m not saying *not getting laid* is a problem for all right wing men. But at a population level, it seem statistically to not exist for left wing men. Something to think about!

A movie that takes place where you’re from For better or for worse

DEMOCRATIC SENATOR, 57, CLEARLY WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT: mr presidnet tronp the rule of law and our border, TAMARA, 57, POSTAL WORKER: I'm ready to face God, Officers. Are you?

I saw W Kamau Bell say on Subway Takes that every New Yorker should have to spent two weeks every year in the South, and honestly, no. Rural Southerners should spent two weeks in NYC. If they’re nice, they can do a week here and a week in some Ben and Jerry’s ass part of Vermont in the summer

i think this + the economic paper about work from home basically means that cheap housing + work-life balance -> people being able to have the families they want

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

The Epstein emails are so fucking funny dude. Genuinely like “Donald trump is not only a pedophile but gross and even I, a pedophile find him repulsive.”

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

Literally just finished Blake Crouch’s novel “Run” two days ago. No WAY you’re doing to trick me into looking at an aurora of any kind.

The craziest part is that Republicans could’ve ended the shutdown on their own anytime they wanted. 50 senators is all it would take. But they didn’t feel like it. Which is accepted as a premise, so fixing things becomes Democrats’ responsibility, and apparently enough Democratic senators agree.

THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES