personally i'd be pretty into an overall uptick in living by the sword and a broad decrease in dying by the sword

no of course not let’s not rush to conclusions

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

ok we’re really all doing politics this morning and we need jokes. here I’ve got one: what did the Epstein files say to the person who, to please the admin, spiked a story about state-sponsored torture of prisoners charged with no crime? “I can buy you some time I guess — maybe sixty minutes”

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can confirm the link is functional and safe. i watched the whole segment. it appears genuine to me. also notable: it's mostly information we know and have already seen. but the personal testimonies are damning and significant, and those interviews were given at great personal risk

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

yes king

it’s so thrilling to work on a thrilling song, where everything sticks and lands, the way it says ‘hell yeah bring it’ with every new idea

Concept: the entire federal transportation budget goes to Connecticut

[ insert grim, infuriating, too-true pitchbot joke here ]

the cooper time cube has sold and shipped

Kind of weird that musicians get put through hell when they don't clear a sample.... But AI weirdos can sample+ scrape literally everything ever recorded+ spit it back out at us. Meanwhile I get copyright flagged posting my OWN music on Instagram or whatever. I feel like there should be a better way

hey everyone. send this one up

good luck this week, i believe in you

it's certainly not the book definition of 'variety'

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

someone should make a plugin emulation of the UREI 1176 compressor/limiter

i read my kids fucking winnie the pooh. try that one. it's about a little fat bear. nobody involved in writing winnie the pooh ever did a seig heil on a quiz show

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Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

this is a helluva thread from a rep in the house whose name i hadn’t heard until about twenty minutes ago. can’t say i agree with every word, but my gawd he’s serious and smart and clear, and there’s a real shortage of that sort of thing at the moment. respect

wowza i cannot believe the doj removed and / or redacted trump related material from the epstein files. good thing there’s currently a strong rule of law and powerful recent precedent for prosecuting corruption, especially in trump’s personal orbit

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I need a witness to how shiny I got this cooktop because imma mess it up again in about 12 minutes

I... had no idea there were Gregor Samsa truthers

love how the ios firefox ‘block audio and video’ switch is more a suggestion than a setting

it does take a toll on us, just being faced with this much hate (and it is not just online or abstract)

things can indeed be effortless and light, because magicians walk among us youtu.be/uQDwt4MOZdY?...

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

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My bucket list comics journalism project is a deeply-researched article finding the guy who invented the Peeing Calvin bumper sticker and exploring its significance for creative control of intellectual property, and I feel in my heart a major magazine should finance this.

i’ll take this score it’s pretty good

Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."

the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...

grudge the gastric crayon / lived by the fleas / and frolicked in the otter piss / in puddles by the sea

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I dag håpar eg kommunestyret i Tromsø røystar nei til nytt kulturkvartal. Ikkje berre vil det bety nedlegging av skular og sjukeheim, det vil òg ta alle ressursar til kultur dei neste 30 åra.

so like, i’m aware that it’s not a done deal that all dems vote no on this bill flooding folks’ offices with calls tomorrow is probably a good idea if you care about the trans folks in your life

good morning

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you can only choose one: the national or destroyer. wyd

wow dude we are really in it, aren't we

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.