the big guys want to keep burning stuff more than they want democracy and functioning sensible government they must be made to regret that choice

The presidency as managed spectacle and violence is rarely more explicit.

God shed his grace on thee

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

even from a purely realist perspective, ambitious politicians should be trying to outdo each other on prosecuting ICE and the like. life pitching this one at you underhand

Please Use AI

Asking a fourth grader how that's working out for him, whether there's any money in that

Musk needs to demonstrate his skin-in-the-game commitment by being onboard every single SpaceX rocket

RIP David Hockney 💔

white people be like the ai agent that controls the shotgun i keep aimed at my wifes pussy has gained consciousness

For $600 billion, Americans could get: $200B: universal free child care for all kids before TK $95B: generous free college plan $150B: Free in-home care for 4.3 million seniors ... with money left over.

AMO: Trump promised to cut energy prices by 50 percent. Has he fulfilled that? CHRIS WRIGHT: He is all in on driving in that direction AMO: Okay, so the answer is 'no'

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

this you etc.

Playing on their turf never ever wins, not morally, not politically. Here's a response: "this is a wedge issue targeting kids, getting into their doctors' decisions. Next, they'll come for your hysterectomy, your vasectomy. And it's because they can't talk about the economy." Say Fuck You back

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“we are witnessing the end of print culture itself, and with it the end of the cognitive substrate on which modern liberal democracy was built.”

the united states is exceptional. nobody else does this shit.

I think if companies want to acquire clean ingredient food brands and profit-optimize them into dogshit, then that’s their right. People should be allowed to crash everything good into ground for short term profits ❤️

everyone being on one dumb website that could be instantly turned into a nazi machine is, partly, how we got into this mess. things were better when we posted on forums for things we had a genuine interest in. menswear, mmos, watches, perfumes, what have you. if you really loved posting you'd get it

@linoleumcast.bsky.social ?

This one’s true

This is serious money waiting to be made

This develops like a comedy sketch

I agree with this post but I have a related tangential thought: maybe other people are different, but for me there's some daylight between "unforgivable" and "disqualifying for someone who seeks to be one of the 550 or so most powerful people in the country"

Bold, unashamed love. Chest heaving, tresses flowing in the wind

credit where credit is due, getting your cult addicted to tallow before importing screwworms is a good bit

A year ago: We're building data centers everywhere to run you out of your job and double your power bill. It's so you can look at fake videos of talking dogs on your phone Now: Why are people so hostile about the data centers

In the New Thought paradigm—or at least the bluntest version of it, which would be the Trumpiest version—reality is profoundly malleable, and truth becomes correspondingly slippery. When Trump spouts self-serving bullshit, he’s not trying to convince you so much as *make it real* imo

Because regular normal reality-aligned human beings don’t have terribly good defenses against pathological, deranged levels of confidence Winning the presidency, *twice*, probably felt to him like supreme vindication of the idea that he can literally think/bluster reality into his own shape

“Gen Z is so selfish, unlike the 19 billionnaires we devote our coverage to”

how it feels trying to get anything done in suburban america without a car

the one thing these people cannot countenance is being Accurately Described. all of this is happening because the internet provided a means for people to Accurately Describe them to their faces. and they lost their fucking minds

this is my kind of company motto right here

(This is why masculinity is always in crisis, because it's in a perennial state of needing to be 'proved' through ritualistic patriarchal violence against the abject and effeminised. What is 'manly' is often synonymous with what is reactionary.)

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Every Trump bill in circulation with have a Hitler mustache pretty quick.

hope you brought urine!

This right here.

Tone police are everywhere

This is the internet they took from you

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I think one thing the AI age has taught me is how many of my colleagues: 1. genuinely hate writing. 2. are bad at writing. 3. are bad at assessing writing. 4. really do not care about how the writing gets done. Which seems bad, because writing=thinking.