Even if we take this as gospel, they still have never answered how any of this is gonna become cost effective anytime soon

Rest In Piss, Dick

I mostly recognize Ted Levine as Gen. “Bloodbath” McGrath from Wild Wild West

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

In the eyes of the establishment, there’s literally nothing Mamdani can do to prove he’s not an antisemite, and literally nothing the openly fascist trump regime can do to prove they are, up to and including intentionally dressing like literal, historical Nazis

The left’s personnel settling into nonprofits and academia with the collapse of mass organizations in the 70s, and the political logic of nonprofits, and academics’ instinct towards novelty, have just wrecked working peoples’ movements. It boils down to an instinct that universal demands are suspect

we sent the UK rich hall and we got ricky gervais and this guy in return. then we sent them back

the fact it's been a frickin palantir the whole time is too perfect

remember during the George Floyd protests when Buffalo police shoved a peaceful old man so hard that he got a brain injury when his head hit the pavement and was unable to walk and the response from politicians of all stripes was unwavering support and infinite money for cops and now we are here

This makes me want to do cardio out of spite

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

Imagine living with the debilitating condition of not being able to enjoy Heat (1995).

Man. Still thinking about that tiger scene. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. If someone gave me a gift like that I’d date them even if I knew they were about to do a great becoming type deal

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Given Collins insanely bad approval rn, very possible the leading voice with power in the country in 14 months against AIPAC is a dude with a 95 IQ who can't think a single step ahead, has zero awareness of important political contexts and measures of conduct, and has a totenkopf tattoo lol.

I don't think it worked well, I just think democrats saw an attack against trans people, lost the election, and then instead of looking inward they looked for a minority group to blame. I think they're spineless and craven and can't imagine why eternal loyalty to Israel might make them unpopular.

I AM SAYIN'

the cure for male loneliness is being alone in public in a conscious and deliberate way

internet crashes under the sheer weight of all 4 billion men on earth posting ”same” “same brother“ “hell yeah” “he’s me for real”

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

Can a journalist ask Graham Platner what he would say to a Jew who is offended by his previous and current Nazi tattoos? Or are Jewish feelings of safety only relevant when a journalist is trying to ratfuck a Muslim candidate?

had to put this one together from the archives but: called it again

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

This is a good question and neither of my two answers, Market irrationality and Bond villainy, augur well for the future

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

happy birthday to New Vegas, one of the best to ever do it

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

Nobody should read a Shakespeare play until after they’ve watched it be performed

This will be the hill I die on, “porn addiction” is not real, that phrase specifically is used as a dog whistle and is backed only by pseudoscience which has been created by right wing fascist organisations with the intention to demonise minorities. It is not real, actual science proves it isn’t.

San Francisco is one word

"no more superficial individual expression"

Above all, One Battle After Another is a beautiful paean to strong black women and the wormlike white dudes that love them

As a historian I just love it when people use revisionist as a slur.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

The "abolish ICE" argument getting so brutally, viciously clarified as obvious and true is good cause for looking at other "want a pony" political demands that are obviously correct but dismissed for, basically, "being annoying to think about"

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

the thing thats so galling abt the whole “Charlie was just a sweet boy who loved good faith debate“ line is that he was the opposite! He took advantage of naive college kids who believed in good faith debate, baited them into emotional responses and posted them online to a rabid fanbase of rw haters

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

The most telling thing about this saga is that the mainstream media, bipartisan politicians, the New York Yankees, etc, would not be doing any of these "a nation mourns" rituals, if a shooter had taken out Charlie Kirk's next big debate opponent, Hasan Piker, instead.

Cary Elwes in Princess Bride is the Derrick Rose 2011 of actors

After discussion with @soundingline.bsky.social and @keithpille.bsky.social I have come up with something important for dudes

Washington state requires all firearms applicants to go through their local sheriff's department. This is yet another example of how well-intentioned gun control measures infringe upon minorities because the people enforcing those laws are conservatives. www.king5.com/article/news...