Incredible.

"Look, we're gonna have to detain *some* five year old. I mean it's the only reason most of us signed up for this gig."

Never Forget

The bats**t anti-vax quackery gets all the attention, but sometimes you have to stop and recognize how f**king weird it is that the HHS Sec and a national news show are promoting deep fried wings as the most healthy dietary choice one might choose.

For a while I though the whole thing was like a Yes Men bit. Now it's like "what even the fuck is this"

honestly unsure if this is well done satire or a some choad

I'm coming to your house next super bowl. I'll bring the white people tacos.

this is somehow not meant to be a parody

Today I learned Jake Paul doesn't know what ICE does.

As I noted earlier this week, because the Seahawks are in the Super Bowl I am making a comically large amount of food for what is going to be either three or five people total. This pan of (mostly) habaneros will become Piri Piri sauce for hot wings. #blueskysupperclub

Social media addiction doesn't affect everyone the same, but for sure it has cooked some people's judgement to the point you should question their ability to manage any position of responsibility.

This one by Paul Simon always kills me: "She comes back to tell me she's gone As if I didn't know that As if I didn't know my own bed As if I'd never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead"

That last bit is often overlooked, I think. Speaking more in trends than absolutes here , but I suspect there is some difference in destructiveness between the Quiet Billionaires You've Never Heard Of and the Billionaires Who Really Want To Be Regarded As A Public Intellectual Or Celebrity.

FYI deleted a post about Chris Hayes because I was wrong about when it was posted. My bad.

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Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

#Caturday 'tis the curling season

America:

#UniteForDiversity #ProtectTheVulnerable

FWIW, the place Pat is talking about here are the Northern Mariana Islands, a place that 50 years ago we made legally part of the US. We did this so American corporations could use slave labor without having to pay any import duty. First part of my piece is here: ordinary-times.com/2015/11/03/a...

This reminds me of a piece @rtodkelly.bsky.social wrote what seems like a billion years ago about an island nation sweat shop and yeah, it's true... the root cause of companies being terrible is that consumers are terrible.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

This entire thread is cursed bsky.app/profile/thoc...

Twenty years ago now www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I see the connection because I have personally heard people speculate in front of me that the different races represent different stages of evolution with the darker and hairier and presumably less-intelligent races being closer to apes People really believe this

Possibly my favorite Xitter interaction (during the Kavanaugh hearings)

{Insert Sarte quote here}

Wild take. My whole motivation for learning to cook in my early 20s was that I was ordering too much Chinese takeout and wanted to learn how to cook Chinese at home. It's very doable, even for a guy who could barely cook an egg at the time.

what in the what

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Dems see opportunity in controversial Trump post

"President Trump's account, in a racially tinged video..."

Great schadenfreude thread, but also it's helping me realize that the whole Crypto Bro thing is a lot like the PUA thing: you signal to the world that you're in it for the chicks/wealth but really it's all just a vehicle to bond with and brag to a bunch of s**ty loser dudebros who are just like you.

I try not to do too many screenshots from other sites but this gave me a chuckle

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Someone needs to create an absurdist, epic poem about the Trumposcene era using only NYTimes notifications.

Yes, everything is terrible, but I painted this and it kinda rocks #sciart

That’s it, exactly. ICE is trying to figure out how to make us scared. They tried following us home, didn’t work. Tried threatening us with arrest, didn’t work. Tried arresting us, didn’t work. Tried tear-gassing us, didn’t work. People just keep not being afraid of them and following them around.

bluesky lately

Don't just pray it's not real. It is real. Do something.

Seeing these two headlines side-by-side is really something

A video shared on President Trump’s Truth Social account depicts the Obamas as apes.

but not in an antisemitic way

I mean, sure, maybe one or two have marriages where the all of the bedroom sex and romance is all gimp-suit related, but that has to be just the exception not the rule right

like, i feel at some point you'd look at yourself in the mirror and it would just hit you that the only thing your spouse liked about you was your money or your celebrity or maybe it they just felt trapped but that there was no way they could possibly actually find you attractive in any way

i mean, has there been a single one of them that has gone, 'you know what f**k this and f**k all of you i can't do this anymore'

i know it's been ten years but I still don't get how any of these people can still go on, and like not even on a moral or ethical way but even just on a purely being willing to get out of bed in the morning after having publicly debased yourself this badly way

not to be constantly complaining but i hate all of this

like, i feel at some point you'd look at yourself in the mirror and it would just hit you that the only thing your spouse liked about you was your money or your celebrity or maybe it they just felt trapped but that there was no way they could possibly actually find you attractive in any way

i know it's been ten years but I still don't get how any of these people can still go on, and like not even on a moral or ethical way but even just on a purely being willing to get out of bed in the morning after having publicly debased yourself this badly way