I’m jealous of people who get annoyed by astrology fans. I’m surrounded by enneagram perverts and it’s so much worse. “Oh I’m such a 7” NO, you’re a Virgo, gdi!

I’d like to imagine myself a soldier in a glorious Revolution, but that life is not for me. I think the real communist revolution is happening in secret meetings in homes across America, and it involves a lot of spreadsheets.

For it to be a signature song, I think it has to be one of his originals, and I think his absolute best is Albuquerque.

Who up sitting they shit?

The people running the US government are very, very bad people. All of them are bad. Stop trying to figure out what is wrong with them or how to fix them. Protect your fellow humans from them. Protect your earth from them. Stop them.

Imagining Vance, post Trump, on his own, stammering through arguing Peter Thiel’s case for the end of Democracy publicly, reciting mangled versions of Curtis Yarvin’s blog posts, muttering about hobbits and dark elves

They hurt people hurt people, but please also remember that broke people break people.

A lot of bands come through town here that are cover bands for specific classic rock acts (recent examples include the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Metallica, and ABBA). I kind of think this is good. I think you should see tons of touring bands that just play music boomers liked in the 70s.

Lunch check

There is a viable solution to Republican control of the courts: stuff the courts. Trump would have expanded the Supreme Court if he'd had to. He just lucked out because those slots opened up for him. He absolutely stuffed the hell out of the lower courts anyway.

Simply hire a bunch of 22yo kids into jobs of unclear legitimacy, put them in charge of DHS, fire all DHS employees, and fold DHS into idk the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. It's all legal now. I don't want to hear this loser shit anymore after what they did to my friends.

Learning about how elections work in my area gave me the same eerie feeling as watching The Chair Company. It's that feeling of "Really? It's that easy to just break everything? The system is just running on its on dwindling inertia now?"

Bexar County step up! Election judges needed! You can start as a clerk & work your way up! Jr clerks make $15/hr starting at 16yo. Contact yr local elections office & learn how you can be part of saving democracy. When polling sites can't open bc there's not enough judges, that's going to be bad.

I finally got frustrated enough with the automatically generated Apple Podcasts chapters to look up how to turn it off on the listener's side. You can't. That isn't an option on this end. The podcasters have to explicitly turn it off.

Someone else should probably read this. I can't get past the opening words "Alpha School": www.404media.co/students-are... @404media.co

I love the whole Ozymandias series The Vast and the Trunkless 2 Vast 2 Trunkless The Vast and The Trunkless: Mighty Despair Vast and Trunkless Vast 5 Turnkless 6 Vast and Trunkless 7 Dec8 of the Wreck Lone and Level: A Vast and Trunkless Story V9: The Trunkless Saga Vast10

Never seen that word before. I assume it means “big”? Other words I tried that apparently aren’t really words: Carch: where I sleep when the wife is mad Garch: where I park the car Farch: looking for food in the woods Barch: rudely entering a space Warch: observing my tv shows

Republican voters are always saying they want to punish pedophiles, but I really don’t think electing them is that harsh of a punishment.

I volunteered to be an election clerk during the primaries in Texas (Election Day is March 3 here, early voting starts tomorrow). It’s interesting to see how many people have to decide it’s worth it to keep doing democracy for this to be possible. Somehow enough people have always shown up.

liberal walking into the car dealership: i want the second shittiest car you have. i will buy it for literally any price

Thanks to life magazine, we have a new reaction image.

Nothing that can help regular people is possible. Everything that can hurt regular people is easy to do. This is basically how most politicians act right now.

I’m pretty sure Saturn by SZA is in 4/4 time. It just trips me up because they hit the snare on the 3.

“Homie, what set of pedophiles you from?”

I cried out Heaven save me But I’m down to one last breath So with it let me say Let me say Hold me now and watch the hoodwink As I make you stop, think You'll think you're looking at Aquaman

I’d be so embarrassed if I were ever caught working at my desk.

Podcast from @404media.co today demonstrates that we are not hating the AI companies enough. They can only generate images because of the grueling, psychologically destructive work of data labelers, most of which work in post-colonial countries with underdeveloped economies.

When you buy Cinnamon Toast Crunch on Valentine’s Day

I used to ask “is Pedro Pascal in this?” to determine whether I wanted to see a movie or TV show. Now that he’s in everything, it’s more a question of “what kind of character does Pedro Pascal play in this?”

People have told me my whole life that humans have an evil nature. That we are inherently selfish and sinful. This isn’t true, and my evidence for it is that actually evil people will use our instinct to help each other against us.

I don’t think there should be a separate doubles luge event. It should be a single event that awards bonus points for each extra guy

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not. 12/12

Who up Caesaring they Julius?

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

As a Sikh, seeing JD Vance aggressively pushing for microdosing scares me.

Re-watched 101 Dalmatians (1961) with the kids last night. It’s a fantasy about the Disney corporation paying their songwriters a living wage.

I’m not fluent but I know a lot useful phrases in Spanish: ¿Cómo se llama? Buenos días Chinga la migra ¿Donde está el baño?

Text generators used to be good.

the very idea of gavin newsom in 2028 is preposterous. he's a throwback to the time where you could put a haircut in a suit and have him mouth platitudes while the status quo grinds on. we're so far past that. we got pedophile nazis now. lol that you want to reanimate dan quayle

you do not have to use your one wild and precious life going to bat for gavin fucking newsom

Me after ruining everything: “sorry I tried to HELP!!!!”

I don’t think I would win a physical fight against a Nazi, but I’m fighting by working for local organizations. I’m fighting by showing up to school board meetings and other local government meetings. I’m fighting by making sure by kids understand what’s happening and why.

Apparently these can’t all be verified, but some Grace Prep alumni went to the NBA.

Hiddenly crouched, at the tiger line, dragons pumping and thumping in time

never. the answer is never.

Actually, do it. Send ChatGPT to the moon. We’ll naturally need Sam Altman and Jensen Huang up there to keep it running.

Every millionaire is really a temporarily honored homeless guy.

Lab MP Georgia Gould is asked if theres a problem with how everyone in politics seems to be interconnected Gould, the daughter of Lord Gould (a key figure in NewLabour), who as a child used to go on hols with Alistair Campbell & his family & Mandelson, says there isnt a problem