Been using MX Linux on my laptop since 2019. All Windows before that. MX Linux has been low maintenance, easy-to-use. My expertise is below developer level, but I did work in software for a while.

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

His hair? Wack. His bronzer? Wack. His fascism? Wack. His cronies? Wack. His malignant narcissism? Wack. The way that he falls asleep all the time? Wack. Me, I’m woke as fuck!

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

It is kind of insane that in the present time there isn’t a box that you can connect to your TV that lets you play Steam games.

The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now

I was noticing how Instagram really pushes bad habits on artists. Like, if I do broader humor, or jokes with pop culture tie in, or vaguely hot takes, I'm showered with attention. Often stuff I consider artistically better gets nowhere. But, this is how you build a corpus people care about?

i don’t study fascism and i’m not fucking leaving, this country belongs to us, not them, fuck you

My love language is that I love language.

Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con. Please.

My dad knew Cheney since he was fords chief of staff and would always say “i liked him then. Idk what the hell happened” In the run up to the second Iraq war my dad wrote an article comparing it to the gulf of Tonkin and Cheney himself made sure my father was fired from his gov job Anyway he’s dead

Historically and contemporary. The US exists because of two generational human rights abuses: those against the First Nations and those against Africans. It's not alone in this. Contemporary abuses of human rights place the US in a much smaller club, the members of which are all autocracies.

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

Impeach. Convict. Impeach. Convict. Indict for treason. Convict.

the future of the democratic party is a coalition of the wokest people on tumblr and absolutely dead-eyed pursuers of the national interest and the maximization of GDP

We have to remember that this election took place in a solidly anti-democratic media environment. Imagine what can be done with real media on the voters’ side.

There are more of us than there are of them.

We cannot survive as a democracy in a two-party system if one of the two parties is perpetually authoritarian, conspiratorial, and anti-intellectual. They'll win some of the time, and "some of the time" is all it takes to stick a knife in democracy's back, as we are currently seeing.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

gonna reiterate a hobbyhorse of mine: 'let the ATF keep electronic records' is a good fight to pick on guns. it doesn't impact normie gun owners at all, it's an insane bit of GOP mandated dysfunction in government, and it's being "tough on crime" in a way that actually matters

The story of the 20th century is conservatives taking advantage of Rules Liberalism's assumption of good faith and commitment to diversity to install themselves at the commanding heights of our institutions so they can rewrite the rules to their own advantage

There are a large number of Democratic politicians who insist that Jonathan Haidt is a reliable narrator and one who they should take their legislative cues from. They should be asked why they're supporting someone the Heritage Foundation is cheering on in their efforts to censor the internet.

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif.

Captain Picard is right. We need to stop falling back.

Shame.

I couldn’t believe it when I scrolled down and saw that it was Celsius.

Only twelve people saw Pixies live in 1989, but all twelve of them later became adjunct professors of media studies who wrote a 33 1/3 book.

Thing is, all the MAGA people I know IRL have rotted their brains with decades of substance abuse.

SNAP should be money

What movie do you consider perfect

I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.

Did you ever realize that "real-ize" means to make real? Check it out with your real eyes! No real lies!

I increasingly think how flattened every kind of criticism gets is one of the main discursive problems of social media. many reasonable things to critique about immigration policy under Obama or Biden. not even in the same universe as what's going on right now.

Taxpayers need to worry, too.

We are not there yet, but ICE/CBP would be smart to worry about what happens if they keep doing this they manage to evade legal consequences.

What's incredibly revealing about it is how so many people who would not be otherwise inclined to support a populist progressive in the Bernie/DSA mold have immediately jumped on board after finding out he had an SS tattoo, because they care more about being "anti-woke" than actual policy anything

Why does this logo look like it’s a screenshot from the late 80s DOS game Pyro II?

@jaketapper.bsky.social hey you should look into this might be a big story about the president's cognitive decline

The Importance of Being Earnest Goes to Camp

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

at my patient’s deathbed, his family around him in tears: “You’ve read your last free article”

Treason, as defined in the U.S. Constitution, consists of levying war against the United States or adhering to its enemies by providing them aid and comfort.

The most dreadful thought is that we could lose the precious thread of humanity that countless unsung heroes have preserved through the ages. Librarians, scholars, archivists, translators, teachers, writers, storytellers, who saved these treasures… so much could be lost.