58 - Oblivion: Legal Advice Podcasting We take a journey to the distant year of 2006 to wear big pants, listen to Linkin Park, and protect Tamriel with helpful legal advice. soundcloud.com/agabpod/58-o...

It's always beautiful watching a Youtuber learn that they can write off their holiday on their taxes if they make a video out of it. It's like watching a bird take flight for the first time.

What they don't tell you about filming is you end up owning a ridiculous number of tripods.

dudes rock

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

amazing. they're so great

"my kids are defective!" is the battlecry of nearly every reactionary movement

The people that voted for him are too servile to get mad about it but it is bleakly funny that Trump has won two elections as The Expediter Of White Vengeance and as soon as he gets into office the most important thing to him is getting Rosie O'Donnell digitally edited out of A League Of Their Own.

Social ostracisation changes thoughts and behaviour far more effectively than 'debate' btw. No epic logical argument is as effective as everyone around someone just saying 'that's fucking weird bro'.

If you don’t know history then it doesn’t matter how smart or how thoughtful you are—you will never understand why things are really happening in the present, and you will never be able to see through the most egregious lies permeating your society. You won’t know who you are or what you’re doing.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

I call this piece the “Hypocrisy of Rosenbury: A story of American Fascism”

i hope nobody still accepts the bullshit "to appeal to more voters" framing. rich people are spending money to push the politics they favor, it has absolutely nothing to do with electability

People know not to trust the FBI but the current FBI might be the most Obviously Constantly Lying it has ever been. There's a distrust of the FBI from the left and right and both of them are correct. This is just going to help everyone decide the shooter was whatever they want.

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

I always love it when a university has 30 year old klansmen invading it. That’s always a big boon for education

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.

Bonus Episode This one got delayed a while so we could catch up on premium content, sorry! Recorded while Reese was busy with her move, we got friend of the show Conqy( @conqy.bsky.social ) to help us catch up on everything risible in the gaming world, Enjoy! Link: pnc.st/s/videogames...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

American right wingers really want to convince you that rich and much older men going and spewing rhetoric at 18 year olds on a college campus in which they edit and publish the results framed how they want to bolster their own media careers is some kind of debate between peers.

I don't think Ezra Klein is good or useful but the fact he considers himself co-equivalent to Charlie Kirk is as insane as it is revealing.

It says a lot how liberals accept the framing of fascists implicitly that any distinction is made between people "wrongly accused" of dishonoring a world class piece of shit and those who did when the punishment is so unearned and insanely disproportionate to any imagined harm.

centrist organizations obeyed in advance. this is where that got them. despite this, I am 100 percent certain their response to coming attacks from the government will be to obey even harder

A lot of people are going to get really in the weeds about "how did it go so wrong" with Starmer, but the simple answer is his project was dependent on the biggest cunts in the country. The Labour Right.

I have been watching people get fired for “political” speech that should be protected but isn’t because it disrupts government narratives pretty regularly for at least the last 2 years, and the acceleration of it this year is the chickens coming to roost

Posobiec - whose ties to white supremacists are legion - wrote a book last year called “Unhumans” in which he labeled half the country UNHUMAN It is language designed to inspire political violence yet our cable news channels have made him a talking head about political violence

My most toxic trait is I never use em dashes but I write as if I had used them and just write really long sentences with lots of commas and piss everyone off.

It's interesting that this has been their talking point lately. It's the same thing with AI, despite the overwhelming evidence that it in fact does the opposite.

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WSJ when an American conservative gets killed versus when Arab children get killed:

600 lb super pigs... welcome to the resistance.

Some people are acting like the possibility of a trans partner makes it impossible that dude was a groyper... I have some unpleasant news for you guys.

it’s right to be v angry at liberals doing hagiographies of Kirk because none of this - mass deportation, Gaza, the project to eradicate trans people from public life, this fascist moment - happens without their constant collaboration & compromise

Stop arguing with nazi apologists about whether the nazi theyre apologizing for deserves defending. They know full well what theyre doing, and when you act like they dont you are defending them! Stop giving Nazi apologists the benefit of the doubt, believe them when they tell you who they are

Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.

Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...

Julius Streicher, editor of Der Sturmer, would frequently published columns titled "Jewish Crimes" crimes committed by Jewish people was published. On October 16th, 1946 Streicher was executed by hanging for "crimes against humanity" for what later would be classified as "incitement to genocide."

*mournfully* This is a problem on the left (posters on the website 'blue sky') AND the right (the united states federal government)

the mainstream blind spot here is obvious and easily exploited 1. I, the mainstream pundit, am a good person 2. This right winger is friendly to me 3. I, as a good person, would not be friends with someone who genuinely advocated for horrible things 4. My friend didn’t mean the things he said

If youre feeling disoriented by this week's extreme "nothing here worth saving" vibes, it's worth remembering that the memberships, size, employee and supporter base of these institutions have been shrinking for decades, but that has the monopolistic effect of making a small segment seem more total

Man, his own wife is trying to launch a social media career using his body as a prop. There were multiple people streaming immediately after he was shot. The guy he was debating when it happened was just trying to launch his own social media career. There is truly no dignity in death for the grifter

Special thanks to all the worms in politics and media who tried to sell us “universally beloved saint Charlie Kirk” over the last few days. Sorry you failed but 1) not nearly as many people know him as you thought / hoped 2) he was deeply racist, like on a KKK level, and that’s kinda off-putting

Shit like Ezra Klein debasing himself becomes funnier in light of this as well; the man didn’t die because of what he believed so much as he died because he was a meme whose spidery thrashings tickled one man’s schizoid webbing in just the right way in just the right subcultural context.

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

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