I wonder if someday Republicans are going to pass some legislation that kids whose parents opened Trump accounts for them don’t have to pay taxes, or something like that

Also don’t do whatever you just did in the same way again

I figure no one will be able to understand this pain better than users of this site: I said X, a huge asshole corrected me with near-unfathomable condescension, I bristled and doubled down, and then discovered later that he was right.

@design-law.bsky.social @rtushnet.bsky.social enjoy www.law360.com/articles/249...

I thought the climbers got permits for that. But it turns out they are just two people who decided to climb the Empire State Building yesterday?

Bro is not okay

Stranger Things meeting: So we’ve got “Byers”, “Hopper”, “Wheeler”, and “Brenner” for last names so far. What do we do for Steve? “Harrington.”

Boo! They could have bought so much compute instead

If you told me during the election that egg prices were being manipulated upward because of greedy, criminal executives instead of just the avian flu, I’d have called you a conspiracy theorist even though you would have been exactly right

This was a major campaign issue! And it was a result of illegal collaboration to raise egg prices!

“You eat in your car while having a phone call” is exactly what I would tell someone if I were trying to convince them that the United States was a dystopia

People complain about AI model costs skyrocketing, and they aren’t wrong, but here’s a good example of why it’s going to keep happening for a good while. No, you cannot get any developer from any country to actually review 6000 lines of code critically for $100. Fable is fantastically cheap

Crocodile Dundee

I am anti-retvrn in all its forms

Sex testing in sports has a very long history—a century long history in the case of women’s sports. What we’ve seen this do most recently (disproportionately to cisgender black women) is force them to decide between lowering their naturally-occurring testosterone levels with drugs, or not compete.

We can complain that specific stories did not say “lied” or “racist” when it was merited or that the media over-reported Her Emails or the vibecession, but every outlet broadly communicated what Trump was and people liked it voted for it

this is true. people who respond to this with "but Reagan wanted to kill gays" (basically true) or "but Reagan was demented and the worst people in the world on his staff ran his administration" (also basically true) are missing the point

Bribes*

These were donations, not investments www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Thank goodness we have secured the violent shithead vote

Republicans on X are finding vindication in the fact that their preferred policies are those of failed 1990s Democrats

This is *not* AI! It’s by Hiroshi Nagai, a Japanese graphic designer and artist. He objected to the unauthorized use of his work here by DHS

The administration is not focused on birth tourism. It is focused on remigration to remove the majority of non-White people

Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

There were no restrictions on immigration in 1789 or 1868. 14% of the population was foreign born in 1870. 25% had two foreign parents. A proper originalist interpretation would be that any immigration restrictions other than for health and safety are unconstitutional.

The numbers are a bit complicated. All of us born in the United States are birthright citizens. Not just technically, but straightforwardly. Parents don’t need to show citizenship for a kid to get a certificate. Very few Americans get citizenship through parents as John McCain and Ted Cruz did 1/

None dare call it socialism (gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

as an AI moderate I can tell you this has a lot to do with the kind of AI. Nobody hates automatic transcribers of student meetings lol

Faculty differ a lot in how much they hate AI in higher ed, but about 80% use it themselves research.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ai...

61.4 percent of recent high school graduates in the US enrolled in college in October 2023. Attending college is now a very normal thing most Americans do at some point www.bls.gov/opub/ted/202...

Ezra Klein has a whole column he could use to explain this. I’d read it!

That’s a lot of second generation car dealership owners.

Of course Die Workwear’s cat would wear a tuxedo

This is deceptive. You can take any wife-angle shot of an event no one is attending and say no one is attending it

256 is 100 in hexadecimal

Q for the class: is this good? Are people in the UK now happier?

Someone is finally fighting back against these woke universities michiganadvance.com/2026/06/26/d...

It’s odd to see the National Mall look so empty in photographs of the 250-years celebration event because there’s often more people than this when nothing is happening

I remember this from the 90s. Authentic, flamboyant gays are the good kind. The bad gays are all self-hating, and you can see it from how they support marriage.

Cannabis clubs in Spain required passports for age verification, and then they leaked their entire customer database including phone number, address, favorite cannabis strain, and how much you consumed each month. (This is a GitHub link, but it’s an understandable article) github.com/xn0tsa/becau...

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My favorite anecdote about how studio meddling is sometimes Good Actually

The metallurgy of Middle Earth is totally whack. The ring was forged in the fires of Mount Doom, but forced-air dwarf forges certainly get hotter than lava. Elf-forged and dwarf-forged blades seem to know who made them getting properties from their makers rather than materials or techniques

As another scholar said, “In that part of the world, a ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner. It's a different part of the world, you know. I'd say in that part of the world, a ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner.” people.com/donald-trump...