You know what you never see? Someone in an SF setting shooting someone with a phaser or blaster set to stun, that person smacking their head on something solid when they fall and dying or even just being injured from the head trauma.

Not to be all conspiracy theorist, but I don't trust the Trump regime enough to actually believe in a dire leftist New Year's Eve terrorist attack being thwarted. Not without some independent corroboration.

Any Democratic Presidential candidate who does not swear to demolish Trump's ballroom on day one is not worth voting for. It really does need to be the first question we ask them.

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

"While the Bible and Christian theology mention Satan, no current or past U.S. Supreme Court Justice has publicly stated they literally believe in the Devil as a literal person, though the late Justice Antonin Scalia famously expressed belief in a real Devil during a 2013 interview" - Google

I'm still astonished that Trump demolishing part of the White House has just slid past and no one mentions it anymore.

I cannot believe it took me this long to connect Havlock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork with the Doge of Venice. Both absolute rulers who were elected by various guilds etc, both rulers of nation-states that got along via mercantile power rather than military might.

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Racism is also the conceptual fulcrum of Trump’s world view - despite the commentariat’s attempts to portray it as incidental.

I just remembered the Fritz Lieber novel The Silver Eggheads, and it's stunningly prescient. Written in 1961 it envisions a future where "writers" put vague ideas into devices called wordmills that then do the actual writing. Dude predicted LLM's....

OK, the whole thing Trump is doing with reversing the supposedly autopen signed executive orders of Biden is just weird. He can reverse any executive order by any former President at a whim, it doesn't require any justification.

Want to know the myth of King Arthur? The whole thing? "at the strife of Camlann, in which Arthur and Medraut fell, and there was great mortality in Britain and Ireland." There ya go. That's it, the totality of the original myth of King Arthur. Everything else is fanfic added on centuries later.

Shorter Plato: everyone who disagrees with me is a cave dwelling shadow junkie Shorter Aristotle: Logic is how we know the Earth is shaped like a banana and women are icky Shorter Socrates: woaah dude, like, do we really know anything? Or is knowing not knowing?

clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit

Trump's "Peace Plan" doesn't need 28 points, it really just needs two: 1) Russia gets everything it wants. 2) Ukraine gets to give Russia everything it wants.

The CDC website now says: "The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." I thought RFK and Trump had announced Tylenol causes autism? Did they change their mind?

"The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." - CDC website Studies have not ruled out the possibility that the existence of President Trump causes autism either Mr. Brainworm.

MAGA in 2016: Q is god, pizzagage! Evil Democrats are pedos! MAGA in 2025: Who cares about a little pedophilia? Anyway it wasn't REALLY pedophilia because puberty. I don't know why, but I'd actually thought a few might waver at Trump being a pedo, but nope. They stand with him.

Is it just me, or are variants on the phrase "first principles reasoning/science/logic/whatever" both becoming more common and being used mostly by people trying to "scientifically' justify bigotry?

Remember when the Panama Papers came out and revealed that basically every rich person was a criminal? And the only thing that happened was a reporter who covered it was assassinated? I worry the same will happen with the Epstein files.

Great, having just bought Activision, Saudi Arabia is now wanting to buy Warner Bothers. Get ready for video games approved by the Committee For the Suppression of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue! I can't wait!

You might have missed it in all the other awful, but the Swiss tariff negotiator met with Trump and, on live TV, made a "gift" of a crazy expensive watch and a 1kg bar of gold with Trump's name laser etched onto it. Trump immediately cut tariffs on Switzerland by more than half. Open bribery.

Never forget that at absolute minimum every single Republican on the committee that's been sitting on the Epstein files knew Trump was a child molester, and they took steps to hide that fact.

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I think we can all tell how Trump being a pedophile will turn out. The Republican Party is going to go full bore Libertarian and declare that age of consent laws are stupid relics of the past, probably DEI somehow, and it's objectively good for rich white men to rape young teenage girls.

Remember back when America had an actual terrorist organization that destroyed private property to protest tariffs on tea?

Truly new levels of train technology

And since I'm very late to many parties.... I just realized that the overlay of Abrahamic mythos in Evangelion covers a meta-plot that's strongly Buddhist influenced. The Human Instrumentality Project is a twisted techno-nightmarish forced version of nirvana.

The new Flash Gordon run by Dan Schkade is pretty great overall, but as far as I'm concerned his single greatest contribution to canon is the word "Mongothic" for things of or pertaining to the planet Mongo. Mongothic law. The Arena Mongothic. Mongoths. Mongothic monsters. It's just great!

Now there's a problem with having a government run by bonkers power hungry would be dictators: even if Imamoglu really is a corrupt graft laden crook, the absurd penalties demanded make the case seem petty and driven by the whim of an autocrat rather than like serious charges.

It really is always projection isn't it? Trump says "Sleepy Joe Biden" and it means that Trump falls asleep during meetings and is trying to project his issues onto those he sees as enemies.

Just your reminder that Elon Musk is personally, if somewhat indirectly, responsible for a minimum of 600,000 deaths including 400,000 children. And that's just from him destroying USAID. Just something to keep in mind when you see the headlines about his trillion dollar paycheck.

Well. I don't know why I expected anything else. But somehow I was gullible or desperate enough that I did.

Mamdani: Free busses would be a good idea. Republicans: EVIL COMMIE! That would never work! OpenAI: We'd like to have unlimited government funding and the right to loot everything for training data without paying. Republicans: BRILLIANT! A perfect plan! Very workable!

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Regarding the possible overturn of Obergefell CNN writes "One of the factors the Supreme Court considers when weighing the possibility of overturning a precedent is whether Americans have come to rely on the decision" Like they did in Roe because NO ONE had come to rely on that, right?

I'd like to remind Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga, that the Federal government takes vastly more from NYC than NYC gets in Federal spending. Talking about "spending money on NYC" is obscene, what they really mean is "not taking as much from NYC to spend on red state welfare".

@bsky.app Why is my birthday set as 11/6/2007 and unchangeable?

Today's XKCD is the perfect solution to the metric vs stupid system debate! I'm 5 feet 16 centimeters tall! xkcd.com/3164/

I wonder roughly what percentage of Mamdani voters went with Mamdani because they hoped Coumo would keep his promise to leave NYC if Mamdani won? I mean, probably not many, but at least a few right?

Trump: "We're gonna soon see $2 gasoline."

While Mamdani's victory is great, it's also worth reflecting on the fact that 41.6% of New Yorkers wanted a serial rapist and obscenely corrupt white guy to be mayor.

What do we call this, since Tea Party is already taken? The Great Awokening?

EA says that it's sale to Saudi Arabia will TOTALLY not result in any content control by Saudi Arabia and they will DEFINITELY keep full creative control without any meddling at all ever under any circumstances. And if you believe that I've got some oceanfront property in Kansas to sell you...

Alright I'll give him some credit for this one

This is your reminder that if Mike Johnson calls the House back into session they'd have to seat Rep Grijalva and she'd be the final vote to release the Epstein files on the committee meaning Johnson would have to openly vote to suppress them. That's at least part of his motive.

The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.

Mal Reynolds(Firefly) Frieren, Kaburo (Dungeon Meshi), all characters who aren't murderous and don't like killing but if they conclude that they do need to kill someone they do it without hesitation and with ruthless efficiency. I don't know why, but that's a character type I really like.

We're definitely speeding along the Fascist road, now we have the government trying to extract money from a company based on a quack in the government falsifying data and making up lies about the company's product. Captain brainworm said it, so Paxton is suing. JFC.