Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

Obviously Sam Neill is one of the all-time greats and I will be resharing everything I see, but in case anyone hasn't posted this yet, here he is at an event for student journalists talking about the best lesson his parents ever gave him

This is poised to become a far bigger problem as companies promote always on, always watching devices as a path to a more optimized you.

You know what’s worse than making fun of Mitch McConnell’s death? Mitch McConnell.

It's wild how 70% of the stories on the Microsoft game studio layoffs and carnage don't think it's worth noting that the company went on a studio acquisition spree three years ago that involved lying constantly about the vast benefits of mindless consolidation just not useful context, apparently

My real name is Nick Farruggia, and the best thing about me is that I’m the son of Robin and Doug Farruggia. My dad passed away unexpectedly last week. The world should know what he was like, so I wrote about him.

In the wake of the birthright citizenship decision, I decided to examine some of the ways the American right talks about and treats children. I think it’s hard to conclude they cherish children quite as much as they say. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-to-the-...

Routine reminder that US cops kill 10,000-25,000 dogs every year. Almost always with zero reason or justification. That is 27-68 dogs shot and killed by police every day.

this is truly excellent work @himself.bsky.social @cstross.bsky.social @adapalmer.bsky.social @robertjbennett.bsky.social flagging to get this wider sci-fi/fantasy attention

A piece of American political writing always worth revisiting, but especially in the wake of a politically costly and disastrous sectarian struggle. Part of organizing is self-purification, which clearly includes not looking to Blackwater mercs for leadership. www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...

1. RFK Jr. has engaged in an aggressive campaign to discourage the use of antidepressants. He also has an ongoing financial relationship with a Scientology-linked law firm that has spent decades suing antidepressant manufacturers.

also, working class is no longer a class, but a cultural signifier. if you work as a nail technician, you're working class, but no one pitches their entire political campaign at you.

He’s going go get a radio show, or whatever they call it now.

there is no new deal without the influence of actual socialists and communists within the larger roosevelt political coalition

Those sons of bitches who got Obama elected are some of the most insufferable alive. They walked into a hurricane, wound up on a mountaintop, and they think it means they can fly.

I love to see people Find Out About Nixon, it's one of my favorite things. Made possible only by the endless stream of "oh, he wasn't that bad" nonsense.

Every single time they try to pick a random guy because he looks like he uses a hammer at work it backfires

you can't behave this way. i've loved king's art my entire life, but my god, just wandering out into the public square and saying "they let rapists into power, so we have to do the same to compete"? you can't behave this way.

I've been doing sexual harassment and assault research and advocacy work since 2012. If there's one thing people need to understand is that everything, literally everything, is stacked against the victim. Every one who comes forward risks their reputation, identity, safety, and more. 1/2

I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.

Hope is an act not a state of being. It requires talking about and sharing to grow. It is hard to hope but I'm gonna ask you for it anyway: If you're a game dev and have stories of what makes you hopeful for the future of games whatever that may be and would be willing to talk about it, get in touch

This is an explanation, not an excuse or justification, but there are so many white-collar men who - whenever they're interacting with men who code as more grimily masculine - will accept social transgressions, comments, and general shittiness that would never fly otherwise.

Mbappe fires back at the racist Paraguayan senator who said he grew up with chimpanzees

This is a really moving and thoughtful interview

*ball-knower voice* actually it's quite common for a team like America to start the tournament as a 'face' but make a 'heel' turn, especially using an established character such as Donald Trump

asha sharma going "we want 1 billion players a day" a nice reminder that these execs are fundamentally incapable of understanding that their customers do not have infinite money or even just that time is finite. they just think you haven't been fed the right marketing yet to get you on board

Event Horizon lmao

DC isn't a playground for billionaires. it's where people live

I am monitoring this situation

Plume evolution shows the toxic core over DC's Ward 8 and PG County in Maryland, the part of the region with the highest Black population

This is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Fox News asked him to wave and he then waved. At the TV, not at them

O, yes, I say it plain,

“you’ll miss mitch when he’s gone” no i won’t. that’s not true.

Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility

Focus on the Family tried to get a prayer circle goin to have Obama's acceptance speech for the first nomination get rained on www.thetimes.com/travel/advic...

He's officially lost the mandate of heaven

I love America because it is a place where a young couple paid a penny to cross the US-Mexico border, worked in sugar factories and the fields of California. And then, thanks to hard work, Pell Grants and community college, their great grandson could work covering politics at the White House.

The object I found most moving in today’s visit to the National Funeral Museum is this, made by an East London woman in 1904 for her neighbour who'd given birth to stillborn twins. In a world that did not like to discuss such things openly, this gift was her way of memorialising the woman's loss

in these harsh times, we must confront a problem that has plagued this country - born out of both dreams and oppression, blood and hope - for centuries: the American national anthem isn't very good

Just to be that guy, The Glomar Explorer was not a deep-sea mining vessel. It was purpose built for the clandestine submarine recovery and only converted to civilian deep-sea mining use after the operation.

FUCK

I wrote about Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, cinema's greatest resurrection of the dead, for @popheist.com.

It's been fun watching I Love New York guys Adams and Cuomo scamper the fuck away to be full-time pieces of shit, proving everything everyone ever said about them 100% completely correct and making everyone who ever supported them look like the unprincipled jackasses they are

the great American novel is The Stand