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the reason trump keeps bringing up passing those cognition test results in the past is that he knows he can not pass one today

Why Diana & Zatanna Cannot Be (Absolute Wonder Woman #19 Spoilers) bleedingcool.com/comics/why-d...

trump is entering that george w bush post-katrina/iraq approval zone, aka the reason why the last time george w bush attended a republican convention was 2004, despite being perfectly capable of attending in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024. (by contrast former presidents clinton/obama/carter went)

Trump really didn't mind birthright citizenship when it was Russian women coming to Florida and staying in Trump properties while they waited to give birth to their babies

First trailer for ‘Coyote vs Acme’ In theaters on August 28

Trump has basically turned the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System. newrepublic.com/article/2092...

They missed us so far! Keep everyone in your thoughts

Tornado en route! I didn't have 'tornado' on my cause-of-death bingo card. I was leaning really hard toward 'stroke' or 'falls in Lake Michigan and immediately dies from whatever makes the water look like that'

I've never considered what to use beyond pronouns before, and I should have. What can we use for a respectful non-gendered term of address? There are terms for groups of people, but I can't think of one for an individual.

You should never want to be someone’s 1st Black partner. You should never want to be a someone’s 1st darkskinned partner. You should never want to be a someone’s 1st fat partner. You should never want to be someone’s 1st bi partner. And you should never, EVER, want to be someone’s 1st bad bįtçh.

the extent to which so many men are sex pests is just baffling and depressing you can just Not Do That there is shit that's hard for me! remembering to take in the trash cans is hard! checking the calendar is hard! starting a design doc is hard! not being a sex pest: not that hard

Sour and/or bitter things are better than sweet things

Sweet tea is too sweet. I know it's in the name, but it tastes like tea-flavored sugar water

Ketchup is just BBQ sauce that didn't stick the landing. It is tomato baby food puree but somehow worse than most baby food (baby food pears still slap, though)

New sleep paralysis demon unlocked

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

I’m not saying Donald Trump is the devil… But promising that “Hell will reign” might not be a typo.

I .. I have to go look up a thing. *inches toward Wikipedia*

Genuine question: didn't white supremacists used to target Catholics? I could've sworn the KKK used to go after Catholics as well. When did white supremacy stop being WASP-only? (That sounds as if I long for those days, I very much do not long for any of that shit)

Starting a 🧵 of consequences, just so we can remember that consequences can still exist.

omg, the seamonkey browser is still being developed? ain't that a blast from the past!

I must once again trot out the revealing anecdote: Disney execs were shown beautiful scenery from a superhero movie. They wanted to know what technology was used. They had to be told that the cinematographer pointed a camera at scenery that existed and photographed it. 🤯 These are not smart people

And also the crimes, I'm not happy about all of the Church's crimes, that too. All the abuse, refusing to perform an exorcism on Vance, the abuse...

Autocorrect keeps changing 'economical' to 'ecumenical', the Catholics are trying to drag me back into the fold again. It's been decades since my last confession, I'm afraid the confessional will literally burst into flames if I get going

choose your fighter

i don’t know exactly how to articulate it but like, we’re absolutely at war yet it doesn’t feel like it because the people leading it are so fucking stupid so the typical climate of seriousness is missing? if that makes sense?

We have been without power for TWO DAYS. The wind knocked out half the power in the county, and I'm COLD. I didn't know how people survived in the olden days without weed, y'all

oh no the thing that has happened to every single world power in every single major conflict since the advent of modern artillery is happening again

If you go into Home Depot and you have to leave Gambit in the car, leave him a bowl of water and crack the window so he doesn’t get overheated and maybe a plushie for the separation anxiety.

I really wish these people in Congress would HAVE to retire at 65, & then would shift to public service work, seeing as they're mostly all rich when leaving Congress.

when you’re arguing about politics here on bluesky just remember there’s a young sheldon spinoff called george and mandy’s first marriage that’s watched by millions of people

okay, well, good luck to them on pivoting away from Trump over the cause nearest and dearest to his heart - hurting people of color - when so far they haven't been able to pivot away from Trump on the matter of him making them walk around in shoes that don't fit I'll believe this when I see it

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Holy fucking shit. 'If Trump says we won then we won' is even further down the hole than the Orwell quote people always dig up about eyes and ears. He attacked Iran so he could win another fake award. That's it. That's the whole thing. That's wild

Everything sucks. Here's a bird with a peanut.

anthropic: I have made AI tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

Noem isn't fired, she's just being promoted to a job no one's ever heard of. This job lives in Canada, that's why you've never met her. But it's a really hot and awesome job, I swear

They said “sir, no one’s ever seen anything like it,” and they had tears in their eyes.

Even in the area of media stuff people act like everything in the colonial era was high and mighty. Meanwhile Ben Franklin was constantly just talking shit about everyone in his newspaper like he was doing a set on Def Comedy Jam. We romanticize this era way too much.

Seeing guys claim that AI is *already* intelligent and capable of original thought really gives the game away. It’s not about waiting for the technology to miraculously become better, it’s about convincing you it’s something that it’s not

I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community

Trump sounds...unwell. More than usual, I mean. He sounds like he's sleepwalking. Also, for him to break into the Daytona 500 to shill crypto, he must be worried about all the money he's got in it. Prepare for a pump and dump like you've never seen before, folks.

Ah, JD Vance. The human equivalent of a KICK ME sign, but less charming.

Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products: For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

it randomly occurred to me that there was never a risk of my looking for sentience in ai, because i'm from the branch of autism that wanted a robot buddy. not a robot who learns how to love. i didn't give a good goddamn if it loved me, i just wanted to hang out and talk about cool books.

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️