I’m reading Goldfinger (don’t judge me) and 40 pages from the end it decides to become a fantasy novel

This person is about to be my state’s governor, probably, unless there is a benevolent intercession

Sam Altman has killed more people than Luigi Mangione.

when people called you a boomer you used to be able to day haha bitch think again im genx!!! now that just makes it worse

If you think about how much Trump was helped by sending out physical stimulus checks it really highlights how much he wants SNAP recipients to suffer. He could go on TV and lie "Despite the Democrat shutdown I am personally releasing SNAP funds" and get full credit. But he won't.

5 years ago today

My hot take is that all villains are tragic villains, if we're given sufficient access to their interiority & backstory. Redemption arcs & empathy with villains aren't about excusing harm - on the contrary, acknowledging humanity is to emphasise our constant, ongoing capacity to *choose otherwise*.

nytimes logging on to do some bike commentary

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

abroad, musk took medicine and food out of the hands of children at home, americans scavenge from dumpsters as SNAP runs out due to trump

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

the government is giving me $10 billion because i made a phone app that reminds you to kill yourself

I realize it is not the most useful piece of analysis but I feel like we don't talk enough about the plain fact that a relatively large chunk of the country has just kinda lost their minds

i’ve been saying AIs main utility to capitalists is to allow them to bring back all the racism sexism ableism transphobia and every other bigotry under the sun we’ve managed to mitigate in the last century and go “computer did it 🤷‍♀️” when called out for it

This is the future liberals want

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

In this splendid photo from Valerio Minato three wonders were captured in a single shot: - the Basilica of Superga, located near Turin (Italy) - the Monviso, the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps - the setting Moon, captured in a crescent phase ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23122... 🔭 🧪 #sciart 1/2

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.

opening it up now is to open a portal into a nazi simulacrum where expressing views consistent with those of ronald reagan brings six pedophile shut ins posting your daughters SSN at you. it's a poisonous madness rune. it's like that recording from the event horizon in the warp

It is officially time for the Democratic Party to stop wasting money on their out of touch consultant class, and start paying for insights from Bluesky posters named "<--- kill me" and "Kicked In The Farm Parts"

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Cuomo, once again being reminded, in a ruinous fashion, that no means no.

I’m told that the results of a single election reflect a perfect, unchanging, and inescapable spirit of the Volk, so I will expect us all to start respecting the American people’s desire for Woke Maximalism.

"It's crazy motivating, because I'll tell you why the short sellers are constantly getting screwed by Palantir: because every time they short us, we just are, like, tripling down on getting the better numbers, and part, honestly, to make them poorer"

i will venmo any reporter $600 to ask trump "when was dick cheney vice president"

"Vote Blue No Matter Who" means you have to vote for Zohran.

Conservatives 2016-2024: dumb libs think words are violence Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...

trump wins because he honestly and transparently tells you what he sincerely believes: the entire system is corrupt. i am corrupt. by definition i will punish my enemies and reward myself and my friends and this will be a great spectacle and profitable for those who are my friends. be my friend

i know that it's hack to do this but seriously, like with everything else. can you imagine an obama threatening to defund texas if they elect a republican governor or whatever. half the state would instantly drop dead with rage aneurysms

Don’t believe it. The Cheney cannot die. Before life was here, The Cheney was here, lurking, waiting, and when life is gone, The Cheney will remain

You heard Wikipedia. Expand it

When you lease a new Dodge Grand Caravan.

I've been reading "The Power Broker" (the epic biography of Robert Moses), and one of the main things I'm taking away from it is that almost no one in this book built power by running to the press with their political rival's hidden motivations. They leveraged it and threatened them with it, instead

I Like Beer: Lunch Edition

Vought loves to invoke Christianity but when it comes to actual morality he’s agin it. Christianity is just a talisman, a club, a virtue signal to these people. A law that protects them but does not bind them

If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.

“Humans can just go get manual labor jobs if desk jobs are repaired with AI” is both not going to suffice to provide enough jobs and is also going to result in massive societal anger because manual labor jobs often *are terrible*, which is why people have worked hard to avoid them for generations.

dark at nine, feeling fine dark at five, fuck my live

don't be fooled!! there's no real elves producing Keebler products! their factory is not actually a whimsical tree!

Thread!

I'm seeing a whole lot less outrage for the journalists of color who have been systematically discarded at places like NBC and CBS (and across journalism, really) than the response to Jimmy Kimmel's 5-day suspension.

They finally built a machine that can simulate peaking on edibles

Our generation’s Virginia Woolf typing out a social media ad that says “it’s giving GIVING: gobble up these turkey day discounts” and throwing herself in the east river