If you understand this image without someone explaining it to you, remember to take your ibuprofen before bed.

It will never make sense to me that transit vehicles are heated beyond the point of comfort for passengers who are almost invariably dressed to be outside

im legit cracking up at the “we gave functional criminal immunity to the part of the US government that basically ensures the legislature will never function again under a blue government while simultaneously giving free range to the fascist right wing party” revelation of the vichy dem cave bill

thread. interesting research but also, they named their french LLM Baguettotron i hope it sticks. i hope Baguettotron is the best LLM out there and everyone has to say its name

Broke: using salt to season everything Woke: using pepper to season everything

does anyone else remember the way inception was sold as this super confusing movie? and that newspapers were printing visual guides on what the plot was? and then you saw the movie and it was actually really straight forward? what was that about

I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

the nectar of the dogs (puddle water)

twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.

You spend approximately a quarter of what your ancestors spend on food in 1947 and the food quality is far superior and more varied. cepr.net/publications...

We cannot rely (and never could rely) on a magical return to normalcy in 2026 or 2028 on the part of the Americans, even with a strong Dem showing. Climbdowns like this raise serious questions about how far the Dems will go to ensure this administration never happens again should they take power.

It’s very funny to me that the Left is accusing the Liberals of going over to the Right and meanwhile the latter have just fully devolved into AI-slop brained maniacs.

Oh my god one of the Ostriches was apparently named ‘Charlie Kirk’

People are doing Stancil Discourse on The Economy again and I'm just asking people to think through the implications of "the Economy doesn't feel good to me" for this whole socialism thing.

DOGE cut a bunch of stuff that is incredibly cheap in terms of government budget but wildly effective in terms of saving lives. it is literally the least sympathetic possible program to make this argument in defense of

It’s kind of hard to talk about the pretty brazenly racist and chauvinist treatment Singh received because he was, separate to that, a complete disaster of a leader by almost every available metric

one of the greatest struggles for any left-wing political movement in the modern west (and increasingly beyond) is how much of the sheer abject deprivation, fear, and often fatal dangers that were inextricable to the lives of any but the wealth just...barely exist anymore

My favourite hotel on earth (at least in Montreal). It is really a brutalist low rise motor hotel high a top of a concrete plinth. It remains gorgeous & perfect 60 years later. Heaven.

“This man knows no beauty and his whole world has devolved into fights on the Internet.” Man: “Liar. I will fight you on the Internet.”

*rushes back to the internet* "Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer and party whip Chris Warkentin “barged” into his office, pushed his assistant aside and yelled at him about “how much of a snake” he was." 🚬🚬 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

Idk what annoys me more, the fact that the Canadian left is once again dropping everything to chase of the coattails of the latest magic yankee, or the fact that Mamdani’s win is being treated as the vindication of the same bloodless ‘positivity’ that’s won the NDP 0 of the last 20 elections.

huh. this could be interesting.

I’m honestly just generally tired of every single fucking thing in the world being about NYC

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

mainstream political news is gonna look like Radio Rwanda because journalists are all addicted to twitter

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

yeah but he’s the technofash Kwisatz Haderach and the same sort of amoral corporate striver that journalists all want to be best friends with, so to the extent the info environment matters they would give him every scrap of help possible

they think they're making a god, and to sell the government on it they've said it's a weapons technology on par with nuclear weapons

I blame Rory Girlmore for making me think that girls who went to Yale liked to read

No jn Tapper’s case it’s because he only has a career because he shit talked Monica Lewinsky to an alt weekly, wrote the most racist thing since the Turner Diaries for Salon (“Gang banging in media land”),

The guild naviators said its not habit forming

there’s a general incuriosity about material facts that often comes with this innumeracy: said journalists have no idea how much of anything being discussed is present or possible

We're lucky we managed to crack down on smoking when we did; similarly speed limits and seatbelt requirements. Nowadays any attempt to restrain a *bunch* of stupid destructive phenomena - guns, hypertrophied cars, crypto shit - immediately gets labeled as part of the Culture Wars and goes nowhere.

you ever read something and think how close the author is to realizing something but can't?

scientific racists believe that the -2 sigma African, a substantial percentage of the population, is about as smart as a very smart dog

Could you fund apartment development by getting the big box chains to pitch in for their construction in exchange for having a franchise at the bottom?

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

I find it intensely upsetting that there is a cutting room floor of policies which work extremely well that everyone has just collectively agreed not to use for no reason.

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

hey guys isn't it weird how they're all saying this at the same time? ignore the fact that this is now happening with Tyler Cowen, an economist who sits at the center of a sprawling system of think tanks and policy "influencers" who have been laundered into DC with both Koch and SV VC money

it's state policy by twitter DM groupchats and business cults that have infiltrated half of the policy scene in DC. That's a pretty succinct and accurate summary for what is happening. bsky.app/profile/utop...

They finally culled the ostriches and now Right wing twitter is having a meltdown and brigading all Canadian government social media. It's primarily Rebel News and American influencers leading the charge because 98% of Canadians actually don't care about this whatsoever

This pretty strongly suggests that either the premier or someone within her circle is reading Schmitt

I actually think that a big problem with public life in Britain and Canada is how few politicians and public officials go to prison - even when obvious corruption is caught out there‘s rarely criminal charges