Balthazar is thinking about blackmail. It looks ecstatic.

Synthesis of the murky world of Epstein, Tech Bros, Science Bros, Edge/Brockman Bros. Glad to see the extensive links, including to my reporting from 2018-19. www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

COLUMBO: My wife, she loves your games. The sunken ghost ship level. It’s her favourite MARIO: Thank-a you! C: Just one more thing. Now you say your girlfriend, the Princess, was kidnapped by Bowser, your enemy. And yet you were go-karting with him this morning? M: What’s-a your point, Detective?

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

This was my lesson reading about history. People have basically been the same gross, goofy, perverted, dick-joke-drawing naked apes we’ve always been for like ten thousand years.

USPS blue mailboxes are stamped with year of manufacture. This is one of the oldest ones I've seen in a while. I am lots of fun at parties.

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

I stopped by “The Late Show” (soon to be the LATE Late Show) to give Mr. Colbert a piece of my hand-drawn mind. @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

another note about Mejía's upset win: abolish ICE was her central message. on her mailers, on her socials, on her website landing page, on the stump, if voters knew one policy position from her it was that one.

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

My period is swiftly approaching so I feel it appropriate to remind us what our uterus actually looks like inside of our bodies…because for some reason, to this day, women’s bodies go unstudied and are never depicted properly

Is the purpose of a door to be opened, or to be closed?

If you understand your values as the basis for your politics, you will have considerably less trouble figuring out what to say. (Practice, slogans, preparation all help too) bsky.app/profile/ohta...

this is of course correct and indicative of the protestant (in its basest sense) capture of the American imagination. where true religion is only about interiority and therefore never questionable, and therefore true politics are about internal intentions which can never be known.

"Twitter is cooking their brains" theory looking pretty strong

This man is a fucking generational political talent and the fact that there are any parts of the democratic establishment that haven’t rushed to embrace him is a damning indictment of them

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you: oh hey the polls are back early what do they say me: woke's back you: what? me: *loading a sten gun and getting in a sherman tank with a pride flag on the side* woke's back

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

I wanna personally congratulate Hunter Biden for not only being nowhere near the Epstein files but for having rock-solid reviews from sex workers for respectfulness and tipping

at the center of modern right wing is a ravenous nihilism that preaches to its aspirants that the ultimate aspiration in life is to rape a literal hole into the center of the universe if it means you will be remembered.

I have very few regrets. But one of them is not trying to get on college jeopardy when I was attending community college. It would have been amazing to trounce some dipshit in an MIT sweater while wearing my DeAnza Community College one

It is actually really staggering to contemplate how little there is left in the tank, just absolutely nothing has been offered by this party and implemented by way of national policy since what? No Child Left Behind?

I can't believe the libs are making a big deal out of Kid Rock's song "Pedophilia is Cool (Let's All Be Pedophiles, Y'all!)"

They're going to destroy anti discrimination law and going after trans people in the law and culture is going to be the means to do it.

Ascent in elite circles is typically a selection process for maintenance of some pretty fucked norms. this selection was disrupted, by demands for diversity, equity and inclusion and the inclusion of more marginalized people, and we are living through the backlash

We all forgot about this but this is probably the best headline to explain the guys whole vibe

Guard: “Name?” Hef: “We’re a big, unruly mob!” Mob: “🎶 we’re a big, unruly mob! 🎶” Guard: “Do you have an appointment?” Rocko: “No, it was kind of a spur of the moment thing.” Guard: “oh yeah? Then how do you all know the words?” This is one of my favorite episodes of television, like, ever, lol.

seriously - I have had this conversation with a bunch of restaurants. the burrito taxi apps are not good for them either.

mainly, I want to help more people learn to cook simple meals because it makes me *real* mad to see parasites like DoorDash and Uber Eats making big bucks off price-gouging both small restaurant businesses and stressed out normal people.

When people tell you that it’s hopeless, remind them that Okla-fucking-homa decided that having an ICE concentration camp built here was going to be a problem

Them: Our Christian values are why we voted for Trump Trump:

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

I've never been a conspiracy theory guy, but you're never gonna convince me that there hasn't been a specific cabal of ultra-rich dullards trying to buy, strangle, and bring to heel all of the most important reality-shaping machines since the uptick in power labor had during COVID

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

King: boy those Epstein emails King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate Neil Gaiman: hello everyone Gaiman: i'm back Barker: oh boy Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time

zoomer: a single hot cheeto would kill a child from 100 years ago kid from the G.I. generation: *full of lead and asbestos, hands calloused and greasy from factory work* im outside your house with a gatling gun

Ive watched this about 100 times. This is why the internet was invented. Right here. Peak content.

1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy. 2. Don’t establish other revenue sources. 3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right. 4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls. 5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.

I have to say that this is the greatest thing that @theonion.com has ever done

Remember like 15 years ago, when Russian dash cams of horrible accidents went viral? And everyone in Russia was using them because they couldn’t trust the authorities? Fundamentally, the dash cam and the body cam are the visual record of a failed state. They are a symptom posing as a substitute

🤔You mean the *centrist* Dem responsible for killing good bills had ties to Epstein? Imagine that

Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $ NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$ Harvard: no Trump: 1B Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations intensify Trump: 200 million NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal Harvard: no Trump: 0$ Harvard: ok NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses. Trump: How about 1B$ Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations resume!

I know a lot of folks think that any time people get into it about this sort of discourse it is a clout game. But please hear me when I say that trying to disingenuously redefine "legal observer" to mean "guy who records crime he disapproves of" endangers people, including actual legal observers.

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...