I should be allowed to kill myself as a treat.

I demand that people online start being funnier.

Patriotic Millionaires urge wealthy Britons to pay more tax Patriotic Millionaires UK are targeting affluent London homes with postcards urging the wealthy to back higher taxes

I suspect more than a few people enthusiastically embracing "clunker" as an ironic slur (you can't mistreat them cuz they're not alive!) are actively or passively racist. Instead of reducing real people to objects you can abuse, they anthropomorphize objects to abuse them like people.

If you missed the City Council Moda Working Session, here are the headline items that came out of it. The biggest discovery: Tom Dundon already owes the city hundreds of millions of dollars due to his responsibility to keep the Arena "first-class". 🤯 www.ripcitynotripoff.com/work-session

My uncle knew some guys from the old days so he pulled a few strings and had them take me out back one afternoon to see where the sausage was being made.

Private investment in the Moda renovation is my starting line for any negotiation – and I do mean a capital investment in the RENOVATION itself. Buying the Blazers doesn’t count. And neither do ticket user fees, parking revenue, or rent.

I'm sure that Tom Dundon playing hardball is going to cause the business community to shit its pants in apoplectic doom loop hysteria, but I don't anticipate a conciliatory reaction from voters, and I hope city council sees that.

Re the Moda Center, from experiencez in Florida, it is a mistake to give large amounts of taxpayer monies to sports teams for major facilities upgrades, especially when existing agreements put the onus on team owner. What happens = they don't stop asking for subsidies. Plus $ better spent elsewhere.

This might be my favorite New York Post headline ever

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Magic the Gathering will save us

Boston Baked Beans are popular enough that people like me need to grab a few boxes whenever they're found, yet very few stores actively stock them.

I've decided to become intolerable.

Hi. Donald Trump and his MAGA allies talk a big game on cable news or social media, but once they get in front of lawyers, it's a different story. Today, we look at what happens when MAGA runs into serious people who exist in reality. youtu.be/9RuPvv0maCQ

There is a problem with the stories we tell & the way we perceive how change happens. The Union of Pinnacle Tenants, the largest tenant-led union in NYC—are the reason Mamdani took action. Organized people power is pivotal. Top down stories of elected heroes (even ones we like) are not sufficient.

I know things aren't ideal, but I'm at my kids' preschool graduation, and it's a very diverse affair, a mix of East African immigrants, dirtbag tattoo guys, Portland hipsters, etc, all of us watching 5-year-olds walk to Pomp & Circumstance, and it feels like America, like the experiment's working.

Tonight, should Allah will it, his aim will not falter.

My favorite thing about this era is that "a cabal of rich pedophiles is bleeding the world dry" turned out to be 100% true, and it's barely mattered at all.

BL Shirelle believes art has the power to heal and helped her turn around her life during her time in prison. She helped build the first record label in the country for prison-impacted musicians — amplifying their stories to a growing audience of more than 100,000 streams on music platforms.

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

For posterity

A thank you note/love letter/commentary on art for anyone interested

If there's one thing I know about women, it's that they desire to be perceived, ideally by a gaze which is male.

I still don't enjoy sports, but I do enjoy people riffing on them.

Great, now I need to deal with how hot that deer witch anime girl is.

Nonsense.

Dammit, man, is Lee Household alive or what???

I’m told that we can’t post our way out of fascism but they quite literally posted us right into it. Just another one of the many unfair things about posting and fascism. orbooks.com/catalog/we-h...

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

TIL that Americans aren't taught much about abolitionists who were themselves enslaved primarily because of white supremacy but also to give institutionalized white supremacy a veneer of inevitably. We can't be taught that victims are capable of changing a system of violence directed against them.

I'm woke now.

I'm being seduced.

The proud legacy of phreakers continues!

Richard Dawkins anthropomorphizing a computer program and then immediately presenting his delusion as proof against reincarnation is very funny.

Hope is contagious and science is king: 10 big lessons on ending the fossil fuel era

Goodbye, get lost, and we'll see you soon.

Google Earth exaggerates how green landmasses look. Is that just an effect of the 3D rendering? An accident? Or is Google trying to make people think that deforestation isn't as bad as it is? Look at high-res satellite photos of Florida. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

they're sending chickens on adventures for science

Got high and spent the night learning about the horrific violence and intimidation suffered by journalists in Mexico.

I'm not gonna pretend I knew how all this would play out (and things can still get worse), but I knew these freaks didn't have the juice as soon as DOGE fell apart. What use is a grand strategy if you can't follow it? Especially when your leader is a sociopath with no coherent vision of anything.

What could possibly be political about using massive amounts of tax payer dollars to renovate a billionaire’s sport arena while a city is facing a $100~ million budget gap? 🧐 I love the Blazers. I want them to stay. This is also a *negotiation.* I’m not showing up hat in hand.

I will say one thing for AI slop; it has radically increased my appreciation of shitty art. Like maybe it lacks creativity, maybe the execution is unskilled, maybe the motivation for making it was commercial, but damned if a human being didn't think of and create it with their own mind and body.

I desperately need writer friends again.

A significant component of IT work just involves looking shit up. Yes, I have some specialized knowledge that gives me a better framework for understanding various problems, but your average person, with the same resources, will either give up after a few seconds, or not even try.

Some timeline stuff: — We expect to get InfoWars.com after the judge clears it in a couple of weeks. — We'll build a world of characters on the site and across social media. Tim Heidecker is in charge, and we have grand designs. — Visit theonion.info, buy a subscription, help us dominate the world.