Why do none of these fuckers call their companies Gandalf or Samwise

*puts wine glass down* anyway, the lack of public transportation in this country is intentional and meant to maintain economic inequalities

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is the best Xmas song not just because it's good but it also sounds like something a mom would say as she throws the whole fucking ham in the garbage while having a nervous breakdown

Something seriously wrong with Republicans

Search your first name and then "glamour shot" and post a photo. Oh hell yeah.

It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.

"Allegedly" is doing a lot of work here. It is incumbent in the Post these days to actually find out the truth here. ICE will absolutely lie to journalists and reprinting it without any corroboration is malpractice at this point.

Remember when a presidential sex scandal would lead to the appointment of a special counsel? Good times.

My Brother printer/scanner suddenly stopped being able to scan on MacOS. Could print just fine, but Mac refused to see it as a scanner. Ironically, NixOS worked no problem after a one-line config change documented plainly on the wiki (which was the top Google result). So, #yearoflinuxonthedesktop?

Every so often, the old truisms come true again (broken clocks, etc). Today, (the people of) the internet treated censorship as damage and routed around it.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

I need to share this with someone

How come when the children put a hat on Frosty and he comes to life it’s cute and kitschy, but when I write “emet” on this lump of clay and it comes to life suddenly I’m “bringing destruction on the whole village” and I have to “make it stop??”

The UK government is completely delusional. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

Is there any everyday pursuit other than driving in which basically everyone considers laws that are even so much as slightly inconvenient as completely optional?

I don’t think even Paul Verhoeven would’ve included the McDonald’s logo.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

They are, but of course they don't have to be. You could easily have a purely local mp3 player that rolled up at the end of the year and said something like "Wow, you listened to Fleetwood Mac's Rumors 493 times this year. New record for you!"

I think a large part of the problem capitalism is having now is really we have all the technology we need for our day to day lives now; we don't need anything new or more technology-y, just stuff that lasts or works properly, but no, here's a incredibly flammable subscription dictaphone instead.

Wow, that's an incredibly telling admission of a complete lack of imagination. What a tool.

Good morning! When we say ‘more than books,’ we really mean it 😂 Proud of what our libraries make possible every day! 💪🏽

Pretty damn proud to tick all of these boxes. Fuck the FBI.

this is really it — this case isn't about the legitimacy of birthright citizenship or the 14th amendment, it's about the legitimacy of the court, and any ruling that doesn't uphold the former decides the latter

Too long for the character limit but

Truly the stupidest cult. Obsessed with a drug that doesn't work against an infectious disease that they don't even think is real.

When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.

The shitty thing for Adm. Bradley is that, if what happened was a violation of international law (I'm not a law of war expert, but it sure as shit looks like it was), then one of two things are true: either he willingly followed an illegal order (not ok) or issued an illegal order on his own.

I was a decent ways into my adulthood before I came to understand that not everybody knows who Alice is or why you might be interested in her Restaurant.

If you have to say "We're not Enron" in your internal communications, you have already completely shit the bed.

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THE WASHINGTON SPIRIT ARE GOING TO THE FINALS!

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Seriously, fuck this guy in particular. What utter waste.

In the newest episode, Sirens explores life's certainties: taxes, trade taxes, acquisition reform, and nuclear annihilation. Wait, WHAT? What's the end of direct file have to do with democracy, what's portfolio acquisition, and are we starting nuclear testing? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

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Thanks, I hate it.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

people who keep claiming "BILLIONAIRES WRITE LIKE THAT ON PURPOSE" ????????? i think i've probably had a decent degree exposure to email and text messages by the rich and powerful (at trial and elsewhere) and even though they are at times quite comical they don't look like this shit

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Strong advice here.

Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?

Aside from being just horrible policy/politics/humanity/whatever, this is also, just... barely comprehensible English.

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"Now liberty, in case you've forgotten, is the souls right to breathe. And when it cannot take a deep breath, laws are girded too tightly."

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