Epistemic protip: read linked articles instead of jumping to flash judgements based off of snippets shared online

when i was a 16yo studying abroad in china my host mother once asked me about an article i was reading in the nytimes. she first asked what it said, then she asked what it actually meant. i was very confused and she explained that obvi you have to read btwn the lines bc the newspaper lies

"Tibs" solve the problem of "I don't know if TB is base-2 or base-10" and turn it into the problem "I never remember if TB is base-2 and TiB is base-10 or the other way around"

so then really i was genus 7 when i had my ear tubes, i think topology is fun

Sourced from a friend of a friend who apparently went to the same high school as Zohran Mamdani: he was in his high school's Judaic Cultural Society. In case some people were concerned that his outreach to the jewish community was just temporary pandering, he's been an ally for decades!

we regret to inform you that topologically speaking humans are probably actually a pretzel (genus 3)

I asked my induction stove if it could cook my food but it said 'your food will be cold tomorrow because it was cold today'

for a two-sided mattress, spring = spin fall = flip the ONE nice thing about daylight savings is the built-in calendar reminder for mattress rotations

all 👏 posting 👏 is 👏 performative 👏

at some point institutional investors need to start consulting actuarial tables and SMEs in addiction medicine

I, for one, think it is incredibly woke of Donald Trump to effectively cancel that colonizer's holiday, Thanksgiving.

Big split in US politics is "liked what Jefferson wrote" vs "liked what Jefferson did"

this was too funny not to capture

I feel many of you are going to have interesting responses to this picture of Zohran Mamdani and his wife from Election Night.

this is a situation where it's important to have empathy with your enemy, so that we can understand how to use that to hurt them even more because our side won't need to feel guilt about dragging these men from their families and imprisoning them, when we do that. we will know they deserve to cry.

hey libs, u know what would really trigger all ur ideological opponents? over the counter hormones, transgender for everybody!

Come and take it

if you're going to use spaces instead of tabs for indents in code, use three spaces per level that way, no one is happy

You want the Live Laugh Love women in your foxhole. You want them on that line. You do not want to fight them. You will lose.

yeah this irritates me too. "there is NO AUDIENCE for this", I say as I repost and share the link. it's you. you're the audience. clicks and being talked about are the measure of professional success for these people, and you're sharing their stuff and talking about it.

is the liberal in the room with us right now

Carve it on your heart: when they say they hate "liberal feminists", they mean they hate women

the extra L in front of her name is so she always has a spare one she can hand to Republicans

*sips tea* virginiamercury.com/2025/11/05/d...

people have internalized the idea that public service should be a sacrifice that sucks, which is bad

Sex workers deserve more than survival in the shadows of myths. They deserve rights, protection, and the full recognition of their humanity. The truth is clear - and we have the receipts. www.swopbehindbars.org/post/from-ta...

SWERFs and abolitionists btfo

The basic rule of united front politics is you have to want to beat the enemy more than you want to control the coalition. You can’t trust liberals who hate leftists more than they hate conservatives. You can’t trust leftists who hate liberals more than they hate conservatives.

[sighing] i’ll add it to the list

inshallah

i guess complaining about Joe Lieberman is really a complaint that there weren't ten additional Dem senators in the 111th Congress you can actually do quite a lot with 68 senators and 295 House reps. ask LBJ about that.

functional programming is the reverse polish notation of computer send tweet

No kings in America but we absolutely have a queen in Virginia

on the most local levels of interaction, they still want us to like them and include them in society despite their extreme hostility towards us.

There cannot be a coexistence in left factions between the mindsets of “Having a sense of duty as a government employee is CRINGE because that implies faith in your employer which is cringe” and “I want government to be responsible for MORE things”

My brother in Christ how do you expect socialist utopia to work without fundamental trust in human beings’ innate goodness

The anti-establishment candidate specifically positions themselves in an adversarial role to the core of the party, both rhetorically and in terms of their *policy positioning*. They challenge core planks of the party platform or the platform as a whole. Mamdani didn't do this!

Bouie doesn't get swept up in the general anti-pundit slant for the simple reason that he has access to higher technologies such as "reading widely," "doing research," and perhaps most crucially, "remembering facts"

You can see this in election results from last night; chasing centrist white people isn't sufficient to win elections for Dems, even putting aside the morality of it. Support from minority groups is what makes Democratic elections winnable. Fuck bus throwing and calling it a kitchen table.

i'm white and shouldn't be able to understand this, but i'm afraid i do understand it and think it's pretty accurate (whole thread in here is good, but this in particular... man)

yes I am a Spanberger-Mamdani democrat and we are the future

to doom is to die. the right feeds on this. live defiantly in their faces. stand on your beliefs. carry your struggle without shame and people will see themselves. stay true to your beliefs and show people a better world

The Dems are a big tent coalition. Whether you're a communist who hates Republicans or a centrist who hates Republicans, you can be part of a united party.

These were the obsequious headlines a Republican got for winning a race by less than 2%. Spanberger won by 15 tonight. The coverage should be absolutely apocalyptic for Rs tomorrow, but it largely wont be bc political news media sees Rs as their friends & allies & would never trash them like that

sorry todd gilbert but the voters have spoken

congrats to the aloof wife

The PMC remain the revolutionary vanguard against the reactionary workers