Regular reminder that Linda McMahon is complicit in multiple acts of human trafficking, money laundering, and God knows what else. She wouldn't have a career if not for her rapist creep of a husband.

monday again is it

And again, I don’t think it is “coindinky” that we have not had a substantive amendment in our Constitution since 1971, when originalism’s started as a theoretical construct emerged as a conservative counter reaction. We have frozen democratic time: it is now time to get on the Amendments train.

I've been writing a handbook for a new software system at work -- there's an art to describing with precision and concision how to engage with a visual field through physical actions. But a written document with screenshots is more stable, accessible, flick-backable and repeatable than a video.

My otherwise very nice job wanted to fly me around the country to do database installations and trainings and I said "oh look at the time I need to go write about werewolves fucking" and I have zero regrets.

It's extremely counterproductive that we have an informal prohibition in America against treating Republican voters with contempt. Tagging them as the dummies who broke everything would do wonders for suppressing their turn out in the next election.

Inasmuch as I have an immediate takeaway, it's just some variation of "Man, it sucks to be Armenia."

Trying to get back on my bullshit, even if my brain still feels like moldy cheese right about now.

One conspiracy theory I'd believe without hesitation: This kind of contentiousness has evolved into a deliberate marketing strategy, complete with astroturfed Celebrity Chuds vs. equally astroturfed Prominent Fans Who'd Commit Ritual Suicide In Support Of A Franchise.

Don't underestimate yourself. If you wish to become a dark and formless entity of unspeakable power who floats through the cosmos spreading fear and wonder in equal measure, I know you can do it. I believe in you.

"silicon valley tech bros aspire to be russian oligarchs" is honestly a pretty good reading, i like it, we should do this more

faith in humanity restored

I just want Moriarty vs. Darby Allin and I want it right the hell now.

Cleaning up Orban’s corruption in Hungary is a huge task after he looted their country for years, and it is certainly something we can watch unfold and learn from.

lol Nigel McGuinness got his first rope break, and then in frustration, picked up the headset because he's also a commentary guy, then Josh Woods picked up a headset, and then THEN REFEREE MIKE POSEY PICKED UP A HEADSET and started lecturing them both!!! That's fantastic. 😂 #ROHSupercard

Day Two of Being Sick: My brain has fallen down a rabbit hole involving an anime that maybe ten other people remember. IGPX, a.k.a. "What the fuck do you mean Michelle Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment, Mark Hamill, and Lance Hendriksen did VO work for a generic mecha racing anime?"

Gonna take a mulligan on this one and do it in late June, as I've been dead for most of what is now yesterday. Hurray whatever the hell is going on with the climate in my area.

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Trump is to politics as Vince McMahon is to wrestling. Like, literally. If you compare Trump's political career to McMahon's wrestling promotion career, they're almost identical. There's a reason why McMahon is basically the only real friend in Trump's life. They even have matching sex crimes.

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

In regards to me wrestling again, I have plenty of gas left in the tank. And I'm quite happy just leaving it there.

This truly is general, evergreen advice, however inspired by current beeves it is: Check people's feeds for the context of what they're talking about before assuming it sounds bad. Not just the thread. The temporal context. It is normal for people to assume knowledge their regular readers have.

I feel like unless China also opens itself up to immigration and multiculturalism, it's ability to be a superpower is going to hit a ceiling.

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

In 2024 some activists I collaborated with who were voting Green were baffled that some of their materials were paid for by GOP aligned PACs. Why would they support that messaging? Because it didn’t matter. The election outcome mattered, and every Green voter was a vote the GOP didn’t need to beat.

Saw a Discourse brewing, re: cultural criticism. Muted everyone involved. I respect people's cultural critiques and whatnot, but I also deal with severe depression and it's genuinely difficult for me to enjoy things WITHOUT someone nitpicking every single detail or problematizing it or whatever.

So this one actually was pretty interesting, and I did learn a lot from it, although most of what I ended up taking away were new terms and understandings of how the actual business of AI is structured and how it operates. There are a lot more middlemen than what we hear about.

give DC statehood combine the dakotas save money on not having to change the flag

Hi, actual Jew here running to unseat Lawler so that Rand Paul's antisemite son can try this shit on me. mikesacksforcongress.com

i'm on a C-Beam diet. i see c-beams glittering at the Tannhäuser gate and i remember them

very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.

So that was like reading Greek, but I did learn a thing or two. Maybe. Possibly. Against my will.

calvinball-ass "we have the votes and you don't" court wiping their asses with the very idea of rule of law none of these people should ever be allowed to decide what's for lunch again, let alone the law of the nation

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

It’s fascinating because the chupacabra feels like it should be an old myth and it’s literally a mid-90s thing

Hello please look at this animal called a Mountain Bongo and also LOOK AT HIS EARS

A growing number of Jewish students now in uni, or looking for jobs, contact us saying they want their name removed from a @jewishnews.bsky.social piece, because it comes up on Google Search & identifies who - & what - they are. Think about that for a minute. www.jewishnews.co.uk/i-deleted-a-...

specifically I think they believe it for *others*

a lot of people clearly think that the united states should have a "hukou" style system of controlled migration

A truly staggering number of people believe in and are comfortable with segregation if delivered with the right language. An equally staggering number of people believe in and actively pursue Hermit Kingdom-style isolationism that blends Calvinist self-loathing and Kiplingesque solipsistic racism.

our treatment plants turn crappy content into clean water in about a day's time.

Got a head start on my summer project: Reading 20-50 pages a day on Something Academic-ish. I have a huge backlog of articles I've been meaning to sift through in the last few years, plus recent publications. First out the gate: Agricultural Security Considerations. tl;dr AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Rewatched All In 2025's Texas Death Match to celebrate the end of the semester, and it hit me: There are only two men who have beaten Adam Page in this match, and they don't like each other one bit. Swerve vs. MJF: Texas Death is now on my list of pro-wrestling dream matches.

"You need to have thick skin" "Sure, you can also not be a piece of shit. Both of these things can be true "

Final grades are in. I am officially doomed and/or done for the semester. Pardon me while I finally have that mental health collapse I've been putting off (not the referendum crash-out; the other one).

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

this graph was illuminating for me

Easily the best use of a golf course and it's not even close.