A Blackwater mercenary should probably be vetted and show some kind of remorse and contrition before he’s proposed as the Next Great White Hope.

I read 1400 pages of Immanuel Kant in fourteen hours, went to a verbal exam and got an A. What are you going to do? Wear a headset and answer with a fifteen second delay?

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A political media apparatus either full of suckers or accomplices willing to gobble up absolute garbage about Trump “distancing himself from” Project 2025.

Any time people start talking about weakening protections for certain groups I am always reminded of this quote.

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

i hope people see this recent microsoft news as proof of BDS' effectiveness; especially in regard to raising publicity and encouraging action from microsoft employees and it inspires more people to join in keeping the pressure on these unrepentantly imperialist tech companies

chotiner’s real gift is very quickly revealing how many powerful and influential people are complete morons. Sunstein is asked about his friendship with Kissinger and it’s pretty clear that he’s never really thought about it.

Class Sunstein is a man who believes in words. But he does not believe that words should have substance or definitions or weight.

what I'm learning from the fact that every one of these decisions has a "huge merger waiting to be approved" factor is that we should no longer allow mergers sorry, you can't buy any other companies anymore, too dangerous to civil society only antitrust breakups allowed

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War

"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure

Hvis attentatet på Charlie Kirk har lært os én ting, så er det, at journalister ikke er online nok på den rigtige måde til at forstå nutidens massemordere. Hvordan kan man se ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ eller “Notices bulges OwO what's this?” og ikke øjeblikkeligt antage, at det er en gamer?

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

'the bullet casing engravings indicate antifa sentiment' jesus fucking christ not a single one of these people has any clue about ironic online culture and yet here they are earnestly stroking their beards and wanking each other off with Serious Statements

God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.

So after two straight days of Republicans saying trans people and the Left did this, threatening full on violence, it turns out the suspect is a politically unaffiliated white dude who was trained to use guns by his Republican law enforcement dad? Do I have that right?

PSA: never trust Crowder

⚠️ NYT reports that the WSJ claims about the “ideology” on the bullets “might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted.” Gift link for ongoing updates: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights

House of Leaves for influencers.

The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...

If one of my philosophy professors had said this to me, I would have walked into the Baltic Sea, the three critiques tied to my belt.

What a pair of soulless ghouls. “Actually, a lot of Holocaust victims had pre-existing conditions.”

there's "charitable interpretation" and there's "being a mark" and the inability or refusal to distinguish between the two is practically a credential in some circles

Bluesky is dying cause not enough people are sharing one of the best videos ever made.

cuomo is not sephiroth posting he is godrick the grafted posting

i really like ultimate guard boulders and katana sleeves. too bad i'm never buying any of them ever again.

"Protecting" the populace from depressing, ugly, & "confusing" art (& representing it as contagion) has been a feature of more than one authoritarian regime, and whether folks like Isabel realize it of not, they are siding with deeply anti-democratic ideas when they engage in this type of rhetoric.

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

hey dude, I noticed you attempting to carve a small space for joy in the face of overwhelming sadness. kind of problematic considering all the horrors

If you can't replace the words in the logo without the Brand Typeface still being recognised as your brand, you have not rebranded. You've just selected a font

The right-wing backlash against #Superman has happened before. Here’s my @vanityfair.com report w/ the full history —starting with April 1940, when the official SS newspaper attacked the comic book hero & its creators. Plus, that time Superman fought the KKK… 🔗 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

this is the number one harm Twitter did to journalists and public intellectuals pre-Musk: judge without reading because reading slows down the pace at which you have takes.

when the nice indie software begins telling you to "supercharge your productivity" and a sparkle icon appears

“As little as one hot dog a day[…]” Slavoj Žižek is not a representative sample of any population.

My solution to the discover feed is that if someone hits 250 posts and they're all replies, the discover feed only shows them calming colors and muppets excited about a specific number

the whole manosphere is basically middle aged men pretending to be in their 20s online to deal with midlife crisis

ok i had to

I’m organizing a borgerforslag to ban @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social from getting a visa to Denmark for their anti-daycare-kids-in-Copenhagen-sentiments. Just 49.999 votes till it has to be discussed as a resolution proposal in Folketinget.

if you are old enough to remember, at all, what was going on during the run-up to iraq, and fall for it again now, you are either vile beyond repair or such an enormous mark that you should be locked in a mcdonald's playplace for your own personal safety

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.