The epistemic structure Evan points to here is really important, and more and more pervasive. It's the same one at work in Anti-Vax stuff and seems to be animating all kinds of moral panics. There's a kind of metastasizing biopoltical phantasmatic that's at the core of the new fascism.

70 YEARS OF GOO Oh hell yes

Thinking about that half-earth socialism game that came out in 2022 and how if you just dick around for the first 3 years then by 2025 it's already nearly impossible to right the ship. for no reason.

La nueva peli de Madoka Magica es algo rara 🤔

for the life of me I can't get the myth of Pygmalion to stick in my head because I hear the name and I'm just like... hmmmm, pig alien.

what the FUCK is HAPPENING in the united kingdom honest to god

@rianjohnson.bsky.social I just finished Wake Up Dead Man, can you confirm: is Cy's cobra car an Age of Empires II reference? (Possibly an oblique reference to him being an origin of "cheating") (To others this is not spoilers this is spelled out early on)

feeling an increasing need to enter a hyperbolic time chamber so I can catch up on roughly 400 hours of TV I want to watch

Streets are saying If Books Could Kill is the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of podcasts www.vulture.com/article/cult...

Thank you Very Much to zolotarenko.ksu (Threads) for sharing their Amazing Painting of Round Frog wearing her best Proud! Round Frog likes it Very Much and sends you a Big Bucket of Treaties and a Finger! Thank you! 🐸😊🐸

When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".

Mace is a bad person who has done many things to hurt people, and yet more than most of them I find her pitiable.

Playing EU5 as Scotland and decided to make Perth my capital (didn't realize the benefits of making your capital also be the market center, and it'd be a 20000 ducat investment to change at this point). I've become so centralized that Perth in alternate 1429 has a higher population than Perth 2025.

Puking and crying at the thought of trans people in Ghana getting access to microcredit

God, a thousand times this. That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis. I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.

deep gender discussions on @ajreborn.bsky.social's streams

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

This is my point again that the electorate has no idea of what's actually going on. Not in some ideological way, so you can argue whether it's good or not, just in a fact way.

my number one favorite thing about silksong is actually the physics-enabled rosaries. not only is it simply funny on its face, but it really drives home the humiliating nature of chasing down one measly coin when you've got no money, and the despair when a big one falls in a gutter

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally. Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic? 🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...

I did get on the hh:27 bus just now, so I can confirm this is a data issue and not an availability issue

@hfxtransit.bsky.social your website says the 7B goes every 15 minutes, but Google seems to be missing one of the four hourly buses in its routes -- I see hh:12, hh:42, and hh:57, but no hh:27 route, and I noticed this last week too, so there might be an issue with the data provided to 3rd parties

Last night at exactly 10:18 pm (I looked) I stood up from a couch I had been rotting on for days and suddenly had the clarity, vision & energy to sort, shred, recycle eight months worth of mail. Then I cleaned the kitchen, packed for a trip & prepped a talk. It is ridiculous.

This type of consultant brain behavior from Democrats disgusts me share.inquirer.com/wt2NgH

I posted this six years ago, and I still experience that agony every time I'm reminded that he exists

Old Soviet joke: Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three? One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

I still remember booting up The New Order when it came out expecting it to be like Duke Nuke Em, loud brash but fun. While it is that, it’s also beautifully written and soulful. BJ whispers, “You commission a portrait to service your ego. General, you waste your paint,” lives rent free in my head.

Me whenever people seem to be freaking about something in the news

The government should now move on to banning restaurants from pretending not to have tap water

Assuming trans people's physiology based on our birth certificates is potentially unsafe

there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.

If you're afraid of Halifax, I will *personally* arrange for the city of Dartmouth to beat your ass

90 FUCKING PERCENT i’d love for cis folks to remember what the nyt, atlantic, guardian, daily mail, times of london, ny post, cnn, wall street journal, & economist took from your transgender neighbors & loved ones before the next time you consider giving them money or listening to a word they say.

we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues

"I wrote because I believed in an idea that feels almost silly now: that visibility would lead to acceptance. That if people just knew the stories of trans people, understood our humanity, they’d stop seeing us as threats or curiosities or political pawns." @parkermolloy.com

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

One of my favourite GB games as a child, that probably should have been a sign

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024. Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.