POLITICIANS: these protestors in the streets are outside agitators PROTESTORS: so if we’re locals, you’ll listen? POLITICIANS: no

The one thing I get to be proud of this coming 4th of July is that I will have never contributed to the annihilation of the country—unlike these two clowns.

Why are we ignoring the actually responsible people here: the voters of Maine who, given their 3-decade love affair with Collins and the polling around this primary, seem to be gullible imbeciles of the highest caliber?

Everyone is getting mad at Platner, but they should be mad at Chuck Schumer, who circled the wagons around a 79-yr old centrist with no juice. If the party were in touch with its own base, it could properly vet candidates that people could actually get excited about

Wait, the cops in Jersey don't live in Jersey?

There is no point in electing Democrats who happily protect fascists. These folks need to be made painfully aware of their betrayal.

Probably worth noting that the Iranians literally can't remove any mines laid within the next 30 days because, you know, we blew up any minesweeping vessels they might have had.

Typical transphobia, absolutely no interest in considering logical scenarios.

Does this gendered god of theirs have a massive cock? I am generally a straight man but I definitely want to see a massive Godcock.

Why is everybody lying about Google being able to define disregard? I just tried it three ways; 'disregard' through google search, 'definition of disregard' through AI search and google search, all three returned normal results. Like what's the goal of just lying about AI at this point?

That really sucks. This is a really fun museum and these blimp hangers are a fantastic piece of history from a sadly lost era of air travel.

Gov Cox apparently spent those 20 days learning how to disagree better.

I don't give a fuck if they back Democrats, I just want them to stay the fuck home.

Browser text based social games (which do still exist but are not the like cutting edge fun they once were). My IRL friends and I had an alliance in CyberNations with a well-functioning government drafted up by us. I played a similar one but set in space. Fun, social, not slopified.

🚨If a state is making it harder for your family to vote, why reward them with your talent and your NIL money? I said what I said. You can still make it to the NFL, NBA, or anywhere else without propping up politicians attacking democracy and voting rights.

That's step one. Step two is burying him forever. If I see Polis on your network, I'm done. If I see Polis in your newspaper, I'm done. If I see Polis on social media, I'm blocking him. Man is a deceptive weasel who couldn't get elected as a libertarian so he decided instead to just lie.

I know he's a terrible monster, a horrible person, a shitstain on the sheets of american democracy which we may never wash out etc. But on a very basic human level, this is an elderly man who needs more time to sleep and who is not able to function mentally as a result. It's borderline elder abuse.

Archaic Erogenous Zones is the theme of my next TTRPG campaign.

Look, I don't have a problem with space launch providers making chunks of their cash from government contracts, because governments are still the #1 customer for satellite launches (excluding mega constellations). But to call spacex 'a marvel of free markets' is ignoring literally every data point.

You know, @kenmartin.bsky.social could have just come out and said 'the report was AI slop and we've put the consultant who generated it on a do-not-rehire list'. It would have solved all of this a year ago. Wonder whose buddy/brother/college roommate they're trying to shield from this.

Everyone should pay civilization fees (taxes) because we all benefit from society, though people who are able to extract the most out of society should pay the highest civilization fees!

Feb 2026: Washington Post eliminates sports department in mass lay-off May 2026: Washington Post conducts 'first of its kind' AI analysis of 1/8 of a baseball team's season to bring us the breaking news that sports betting is ubiquitous now.

Somebody should show Taylor the 'frozen meals' section of her grocery store. Usually under $5, generally nutritionally complete, and they go from 'I'm hungry' to 'I've eaten' like 20x faster than doordash.

Man, hard to think of this as a win, given that the fascists who did this to him aren't currently in prison. But I'm glad he's gotten something out of it.

Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

Tucker has changed absolutely nothing except his antisemitism is now louder than his christian nationalism. If you're on the left and that's appealing to you, read a goddamned book.

There are like 45,000 payment processing fintechs out there right now. Not even one of them is interested in taking on adult stuff? A 'processor of last resort' type thing where you could charge higher fees in order to offset whatever additional compliance burden you take on?

So incredibly ready to ditch plex. $750 for what exactly? For transcoding my media? No that happens on my hardware. Oh for storing my media? No, also on my hardware. Oh I know. They must have bandwidth costs. Wait no they use my bandwidth. Anybody have any idea wtf I'm paying Plex for?

I do not understand the point of journalists or politicians posting 'you should be outraged' or 'you should be angry about this'. Motherfucker, I am. I'm TOS violations mad about the entire goddamned thing. You have magnitudes more power to influence and stop this shit, than I do. Go do that.

Even in aerospace engineering, the weak spot is the printer.

If thousands of hours of playing grand strategy games has taught me anything, it's taught me that you do eventually get bored map painting.

Americans, again, giving a pedophile everything he wants.

Bad Bunny and the rest have been doing this and getting attacked all over the place for years now, y'all just don't care until the person doing it looks like the Boss

Are they really at the point that they make less in serving ads on old 538 pages than it's costing them to store and serve those sites? That would suggest the economics of the internet are fundamentally broken.

In case you're wondering, like I was, of COURSE China already buys tons of oil from us.

What a crooked shithole this country has become. Utterly corrupt.

University of Utah to a T. "Here is our nuclear reactor, the artificial heart was invented here, we were the only non-California institution on ARPANET in 1969. Oh also you can open carry on campus and the legislature will regularly roll back student rights."

$30,000 for the settlement, an additional $350,000 in legal fees to the ACLU. While I do appreciate St George helping to fund the ACLU, a $20 donation would have been just as helpful and not, you know, destroyed anybody's civil rights in the process.

I tend to wonder a lot if like...'what is happening' is getting through to the average american and it seems like maybe it's starting to?

Walking out of Covid and saying 'I sure don't trust our public health agencies' is a take. Yeah, they fumbled at the beginning of the outbreak, but the failure on Covid (in the US at least) was a complete lack of courage of the American people. Middle aged moms breaking down in tears over a mask.

This is the whole issue that I suspect is underlying the markets being quiet: the strait will open because the strait not opening is really bad.

So he jacks up prices of everything ranchers need....now he's cutting tariffs, not on beef inputs, but on beef imports. And yet I'll walk through my hometown and dudes in cowboy hats will talk about how great trump has been.

Slightly increase a band All The Mountain Goats

Also probably worth noting we're going to need to come up with solutions for all of these petroleum-adjacent products in a post-petroleum world. Aluminum, fertilizer, naphtha; everything either gets produced as part of the refining process or relies on byproducts of it.

Lady Gaga’s Just Dance has entered the chat.

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

I appreciate that this take has been widely panned across the Skyline.

I (thankfully) do not work on biothreats anymore, but some of y’all know me from Covid-era twitter and before that (!) from Ebola-era twitter so if it is helpful to you: I don’t think you need to be concerned about hantavirus