How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Schumer & Jeffries should have the integrity to resign from their positions in leadership. They've failed, badly. Either they cannot control their caucuses or they're lying & secretly pushed this vote through behind the scenes. Either way, their betrayal of the American people is indefensible.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

don’t just go into a new codebase and start ripping things apart. “live in it and learn the pain points.” — @ohhelloana.blog @beyondtellerrand.com love this. refactors should be based on actual needs and real benefits, not the desire to “leave a mark” on the codebase

made this for my streaming friends

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Fossil fuel lobbyists are now talking gas up as a ‘green’ fuel. To be absolutely clear, this is nonsense. Coal full life cycle emissions: 800-1,700g CO2e/kWh Gas full life cycle emissions: 290-930g CO2e/kWh Wind power full life cycle emissions: 5-15g CO2e/kWh

If you do fun things to the font of your username, you are known as "pretentious squiggle" in my head, just so you know. I can't read that shit, people with screen readers can't read that shit.

helping my coworkers relive being on the internet in 2004

GET REKT we were right all along

ah, this guy was taken alive, unharmed, and there hasn't been an all-hands-on-deck freakout about What It Means. Guess the demographic!

To say that the majority of Trek fans are right wing and that women don’t *really* like it is something that only a real trek fan would know that only a fake Trek fan would say

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!

no need to be specific now I guess

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

Vance is very much the "little brother with the unplugged controller" of politicians

Solar Opposites is such a delightful example you can do adult humor and marriage comedy based on how much the couple *like* each other.

This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/

FERTILITY RATES ARE NOT PERCENTS

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Eugenics is about collectively demarcating who among us is “inferior” enough, in the “right” ways, to be actively or passively cut out of society. It relies on us not caring about disability justice & also encourages people to disable each other to the point they can be easily,wordlessly left behind

Fuck apps - build websites.

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

One of the neat* things about adding +companyName every time you sign up for something, is that you can tell when @adobe.com sells your info to recruiters.

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I work in user retention, so kudos to whoever at @vercel.com was in charge of the account deletion flow. Good user safety and relatively low friction.

ok, but why is it a statue of Steve Carell playing Trump? www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/p...

Always Be Cowards

40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

If you’re in favor of shutting down museum exhibitions or banning books because they make you feel bad, that’s a pretty good tip that you deserve to feel bad.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!

CNN looks to have ChatGibbitied the CDC page and left off the large sub-list of qualifying disabilities — including things a pharmacy can’t challenge like ADHD and visual impairment — that are on the CDC page. It’s BAD, but it’s not as bad as CNN is saying. www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/cl...

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

This is obscene thehill.com/policy/defen...

This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values. If you don't want it, tell them. Social media and support forums. Leadership won't listen to employees. github.blog/changelog/20...

Ok, if each mediocre restaurant chains flip their logo back and forth, one after another, for the next three and a half years, it might eat up enough oxygen that we’ll have most of a country left. Operation Comic Stand

a lot of people seem to conceptualize what happened to Twitter as “they stopped censoring the Nazis” but what actually happened is they rebuilt it to create Nazis

The man arrested for killing Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in June told the conservative blog the Blaze that he confronted the couple because he believed the mRNA shots were killing people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Essays like this leave me aghast. She seems to want credit for supporting the evisceration of state capacity *except* when that evisceration directly and negatively affects her. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

"people who are still concerned about covid are so unreasonable, they just want us all to go into lockdown again!" literally nobody is asking for that. what people are asking for is stuff like universal masking in healthcare settings and investment in indoor air filtration/clean air infrastructure

earth science at NASA includes improving hurricane and wildfire prediction, just so you know

I got into tech because it’s fun to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together — or rearrange the parts into something brand new. it definitely feels like the new ethos is “bro why bother to learn? caring about that stuff is cringe, just go FAST bro” and that bums me out

Guess what vulnerable demographic is most likely to have no immunity to COVID, due to having had no previous exposure to the virus or previous vaccination.