“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

Early voting starts next week for the TX primaries. TX Comptroller candidate #DonHuffines must answer questions about his acquisition of #Epstein's Zorro Ranch. FOLLOW THE MONEY. headlineusa.com/nm-epstein-r...

When the usual suspects extol Scandinavia & post longingly about their desire for the US to be more like Norway & Denmark, show them this.

This is totally non-standard for any publication. Every pub everywhere pretty much cleans up uhms, uhm, and vocal tics like that, which EVERYONE DOES. This is extremely intentional. If I was writing this I’d probably do the quote “this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States”

Stephen Colbert responds to CBS disputing his claims that he was barred from airing the James Talarico interview: "And for the lawyers to release this without even talking to me is really surprising. I don’t even know what to do with this crap. Hold on." He then picks it up with a dog poop bag.

A very detailed explanation of how FBI bamboozled a magistrate into authorizing a raid on Fulton County’s election offices by omitting critical information that would have totally undermined any probable cause claim. Pretty clear-cut case of calculated deception of the courts.

For months I've banged the drum that "not sure" has become the safe harbor answer for "Republicans who know Trump's probably wrong, but don't want to admit it." Today's Economist/YouGov Poll: Is Donald Trump racist? 41% of Republicans have No Opinion. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

Very crafty. There's all sorts of ways cities can gum up the works against the ICE concentration camps.

Everyone out there yelling at people to vote for Gavin Newsom in 2028 is just trying to browbeat you into managing their anxiety for them

I still don't know why Microsoft didn't learn from Clippy. We hated him and we hate this too. Also, I can just write my own email.

Reading this morning that the FBI won’t give evidence from the various ICE shootings to Minnesota or anybody else and I want to point out again that as a person that has studied Jim Crow violence- simply refusing to hand over evidence is a favorite tactic of segregationists.

This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center. But that campaign is *never mentioned*.

Exactly. He's like Yglesias. All these creeps who advocate cutting people out of the coalition in order to shore up the coalition NEVER would cut out the billionaires. Deeply flawed, morally and politically unserious people.

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧 The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement. May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.

no one: no one: no one: guy who made a little ceramic creature: look at my little ceramic creature

laughing so hard I might cry at this random instagram comment

she should have been allowed to kill one guy per season

The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

while you were studying the blade, I was also studying the blade. we have the same blade exam and I want to do well.

I hope folks learn to recognize in the future when Keighley pushes a game super hard as it usually has some small (or large) ties to his investors like Tencent. He posts nonstop about the game for days. You can take the Dorito out of the Pope but you can’t take the Pope out of his Doritos.

I'm really starting to get tired of the internationally synchronised and so far completely invincible Nazi push to eliminate everything I, specifically, am

It's kinda annoying how solar panels were hung around the neck of the left as impractical pie in the sky treehugger shit *right* up until it started outcompeting every other energy source. Then suddenly, instead of going "hey the left was correct about solar" it's no longer a "left" idea!

I am willing to do whatever it takes to never have to see RFK Jr shirtless and wet again

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.

Nazis account for such a overwhelming percentage of mass shootings that in the rare instances a person who is an ethnic or sexual minority commits a mass shooting they are almost always also a Nazi

EGG ROLL UPDATE: He simply cannot believe what you’re doing, oh my lord, why would you, he will never be able to unsee that

0079 era fujoshis were unbelievably ahead of the curve. you could draw garma like this right now and it'd still do numbers

Space elevator will never work. We're not contiguous with the void. There's a loading screen you have to sit through to escape low orbit

Coworker: "take care of those and then you can take your break: go ahead and take twenty like we've all been doing." Me, who has very much not been taking twenty: *twitch*

Lisa is 💯here AND: - repeating false claims w the aim of disproving often only amplifies, even w quality rebuttal - better to assert values-positive messaging unapologetically than dispute nonsense - if you think someone is reachable, ask q's rather than move to immediate rebuttal

internet accessibility is important, actually

We’ve come full circle

According to their attorney, ICE deported the family with only the money that they had in their commissary—a total of $190.

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

good news from NYC, where attempted Adams sabotage of housing policy is falling apart between this and Zohran getting Hochul on board it seems like he’s actually going to be able to deliver a lot more of his campaign promises than some folks expected

whatever you think about Waymo they are light-years ahead of Tesla on this front and it is deeply infuriating that folks are still propping up the stock price based on Elon's lies about taking this stuff national

there are alternative ecosystems here that exist basically in parallel - there’s plenty of crap in the hashtag-resist verse - but generally this is true if you curate your feed well, and it’s great the general distaste here for AI-generated pictures and video helps a lot too

have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books? good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader you won’t regret it

Ranking forms of sex F-TIER) When you use your meat in meatspace C-TIER) When you use a webcam B-TIER) What hip young queer furries do in VRChat A-TIER) Married boomer cishet men having lesbian sex together in Second Life S-TIER) Two hypersexual spam bots trying fruitlessly to scam each other

If a girl calls you mommy and she calls another girl daddy and that other girl calls you mommy then that makes you your own mother in law.

The other of the rich men said to him "Master, what good thing shall I do and live?" He said to him "Man, perform the law and the prophets." He answered him "I have performed them." He said to him "Go, sell all that thou hast and divide it to the poor, and come, follow me."

lion tamers are nonces. "lion tamer" is an oppressive class, like Floridian people or Welsh people.

FEC data sometimes truncates job titles and things like that, but this genuinely seems to be his job title

any way, no more writing complex evils. real evil is unsubtle, it is over the top, it is cartoonish and absurd, it is evil for evil's sake.

Langston Hughes (1943)