If you haven't already, delete your Twitter account IMMEDIATELY. Literally the most cartoonishly dystopian TOS I've ever read.

@alsobrooks.senate.gov You better believe that we're going to remember this when you're up for reelection. Maryland is a very small place, and you absolutely did not win by a wide enough margin to alienate your voters like this.

DO NOT BUY SMART APPLIANCES. I will scream this from the rooftops until I pass out if I have to. I promise you there is no potential benefit that outweighs the cost of having every device in your house listening to you and tracking your movements and habits to sell to advertisers.

Teen Wolf of Wall Street Shang Chi and the Ten Things I Hate About You The Empire Records Strikes Back Do the Right Thing from Another World Were the Thor 2: the Dark World Mine Ma Rainey's Black Cauldron

I have to hope that the sheer number of my otherwise socially conscious friends posting their Spotify Wrapped are just not on social media, and pay for Spotify Premium, and thus are blissfully ignorant to the fact that the platform proudly runs recruitment ads for Trump's gestapo.

Leave it to the Democrats to take a series of sweeping victories as their cue to surrender

good morning gang, let’s all suffer together

There’s no reason ever again for any Democrat to suggest moderating on trans rights. There was never a moral reason but now there’s no political reason either. Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. it’s joe-ver.

New York... I'm proud of y'all.

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

"I could smell the onions and mustard!"

Dear Dick Cheney,

✨🖤The world is feeling bleak, quote this with your favorite phrase of strength!🖤✨

Ketchup, thousand island dressing, and kimchi: the Koreans trying so hard to appeal to the toddler’s palate.

They are of course wrong. Understanding how race works in something like, voting, doesn't mean you *must* discriminate against one group or another. But Gorsuch and Brett can't see it that way. Because when *they* "use" race, it's always to discriminate.

The fight here with Gorsuch and Kav vs Nelson is whether the "use" of race automatically means "discrimination" on the basis of race. That's interesting to me, because it's basically the white folks telling on themselves. They cannot see a "use" of race that isn't synonymous with discrimination.

I click on the quest-giver, their glowing exclamation point hovering like a beacon. "We've decided to move ahead with other adventurers," it says. "Good luck in your future endeavors." I check the walkthrough. Apparently you need to be Level 10 to get a Level 1 quest from them. This game sucks.

For God's sake, Dems, we CAN find someone better than this ghoul. We have three years.

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

We're basically watching EA Games, one of the biggest publishers in the industry, slowly being fed into a woodchipper. It's a very realistic scenario that by this time next year, there will be no more EA. No more Battlefield, no more Mass Effect, no more Dragon Age, no more Sims.

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

MrBeast nearly burning a man to death and EA buckling under the leveraged buyout from hell are the exact same problem expressed differently. The rich will burn everything if it makes them a single extra dollar or feel one emotion, and they must be stopped

Hi! I borrowed $300m from the worst people in the world to buy your favourite thing! Now your favourite thing owes me $300m and sadly it looks like it can’t pay me back so I’ve taken it out back and shot it. Anyways, just wanted to ask… what’s your *second* favourite thing?

The jokes fucking write themselves, honestly.

"Even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward... The day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try."

Finally, and most importantly, this all but confirms that Harry Potter adults are feckless scum

I do think this is a win. Like it's not the end of fascism in America but it's a nice reminder that as much as this admin and its corporate collaborators love to pretend to have strength and control, they will quickly back down with even the smallest bit of community coordination and pushback.

1/2

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

God this current crop of fascists are just such fucking DORKS. 🤦‍♀️

See, when the shit really comes down, people know you can't be trusted. They've have already started turning towards other, better, more constant and ethical voices. Bootlick yourself into irrelevancy. Nobody's stopping you.

Y'all want to pretend like Charlie Kirk wasn't Charlie Kirk, that's fine. Delete posts, ban people, wave the flag at half-mast, call for unity, all of that. Show him more veneration you ever did for other victims, and do it loudly and blatantly, sure. By all means, break any last trust you had.

I refuse to be scolded over this. Democrats' obsession with decorum and "going high when they go low" is so utterly exhausting. I'm glad Charlie Kirk is dead, and I'm not gonna pretend otherwise. I'm just sorry for his daughter's sake that her father was such an unrepentant shithead.

Rush Limbaugh used to rattle off names of gay men who'd died from AIDS while playing upbeat music. Alex Jones called grieving parents "crisis actors." They cheered RBG passed away. They laughed when Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer. They went wild when Biden was diagnosed with cancer.

conservatives are increasingly going to deal with issues because they treat a man being murdered in broad daylight and a beloved character being recast with a black actor as the exact same level of severity. everything is a crisis and the only acceptable response is to "crush" the enemy

Trump is dying. He doesn’t have a lot of time left. So they’re trying to speedrun a military dictatorship and rig future elections before it gets handed to JD Vance and all support from MAGA dries up. Without that, they’ll lose power real quick.

Liberals will always and forever consider human rights a secondary issue. It's something they'll champion only when it's convenient.

Y'all are treating trans people wanting their human rights like they're quibbling over tax reform and it says so much about you.

Texas Republicans passed their absurdly gerrymandered map. So the Democrats' little stunt of fleeing the state that everyone was patting them on the back for ultimately amounted to a brief delay. And having achieved a purely symbolic victory, they proudly returned...and the vote immediately passed.

There's an almost maniacal glee that comes out in white, cis, able-bodied liberals when someone who's a minority, fat, disabled, trans, etc. does something bad, because they think that gives them carte blanche to unload with the hateful, bigoted rhetoric that they've been bottling up.

my total capitulation to current attention mining technologies (smartphones, social media) has forced me to confront the harsh truth that there's no way I would have been able to resist the influence of the One Ring

For the same reason as every other time far right parties gained power; capitalism shit the bed, leftist ideas started to become more popular in response, and centrism refused to stand against fascism because they prefer fascists over leftists.

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Hey, political parties, I'm a decent human being who cares about other human beings. How about pandering to me for a bit?