what's the opposite of "stupid games stupid prizes"?

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Dans cette vidéo sur le Pont au Change un mardi soir il passe environ 80 cyclistes, 40 piétons (on ne voit qu’un trottoir), 1 trottinette, 1 scooter, 1 bus, 5 taxis et 1 voiture individuelle. Les ratios ne sont pas toujours ceux là bien sûr, mais ça reste quand même impressionnant !

"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now

i'm not saying that the Democrats should immediately announce a Universal Basic Pierogis campaign but I'm not not saying that

I think the problem with fencing is just always going to be the processing speed of the layman viewer, like in hockey. At some level, your understanding of what is taking place needs to develop to the point where you can track the motion consistently. Until then it's just visual noise.

like many, I avoided publicly complaining about staying home during the peak Covid years because I didn’t want to be associated with the MAGAs running around infecting everybody at the time. but it’s been 6 years and I’d like to believe we can now talk about how it was both necessary AND hard.

Dozens of US military veterans were arrested at the Capitol today during a protest against the Iran War. Photos via @frankthorp.bsky.social

so they had the press secretary fire the labor secretary via tweet but the labor secretary is now like fuck off Oddjob, I'm staying and has lawyered up, just another day in the golden age of America

Christina Koch has officially become the first woman to complete a lunar orbit. Today, I honored her and the Artemis II crew on the floor of the House of Representatives. As an NC State grad, she has made North Carolina extremely proud. Go Pack!

It actually, honestly, sucks how we seem to collectively deny the trauma COVID inflicted on our lives, from not masking to treating the disabled as expendable unconsciously to saving a buck by not installing better filtration systems... This feels like it's gonna reach a breaking point, right?

SAURON WAS DEFEATED BY A HOME INVASION HE DIDN'T SEE COMING, DESPITE BEING LITERALLY A GIANT ALL-SEEING EYE.

I want to try one, or three 😙 Korean street lava cream cube bread! It's a square bread blowtorched to produce a super crispy caramelized shell, and it's stuffed with so much creamy filling it's literally overflowing. Every bite explodes with milky and caramel flavors. #trend #korean #foodie

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

There aren’t enough characters to say this but the criminal conviction underscores the importance of journalism, as the case began with an investigative story in Le Monde. If we want a just and livable world for all, we have to support journalism financially.

Cartoon: My bluesky fail whale updated for 2024. Enjoy.

“Vote blue, but it actually matters who” is the lesson of the last four decades A weak democrat is effectively just another republican as a matter of how the government truly functions

I’m Scottish. We’ve qualified for the first time in decades. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Despite this, I would DEARLY love the team to tell Trump to away & fling 💩at himself. No one from the rest of the world should be spending a penny in the US unless absolutely necessary. 😡

this one specifically

Do I think that Graham Platner will pull a Fetterman if elected? I don't know. Do I find it annoying that people portray white men who went to elite schools and grew up in affluent families as "working class" just because they hate wearing suits? Yes, definitely.

This is terrible news. We need places like Hampshire

Didn’t appreciate it at the time- not a lot of support structure for an 17 year old not from New England and still exploring academic fields- But it framed my eventual career and educational philosophy profoundly when I left and found my direction elsewhere

A real loss. It was a special place, and a world of tedious same-ness.

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

Altman and the AI industry are trying to blame AI doomers, bad "messaging" and "incendiary" rhetoric for the wave of violence—all of which papers over the root of rage against AI. People are angry at what *the industry itself* has promised to do; at the broader AI project as currently constituted.

I think the victim emphasis is a big part of why they’re short-circuiting over him. he’s doing his job by saying not just “you guys are poisoning your souls with all this violence” but also specifically “Iranian lives are precious” and Americans are not used to hearing an American say that

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

The thing the AI Literacy grifters have made clear to me at last is that if you’re putting a qualifier on literacy it is likely coming at the expense of actual literacy.

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺

A very happy fuck all fascists day today and every day and thank you to Hungary for giving us all hope

Péter Magyar: “Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again.”

I am actually fine with fascists attempting to flee the country to escape prosecution, that is an upgrade

Orban achieved a level of authoritarian consolidation unthinkable here and they still successfully got rid of him. Never let the doomers have the final say.

Enthusiastic prosecution of government corruption seems like a winning message that might, y’know, like, travel.

Sending JD Vance to do peace negotiations is like sending me to play in the NFL.

An armistice can take weeks to negotiate. A comprehensive peace treaty can take months. No one on Earth who knows a thing about history or diplomacy thought anything could be resolved in six hours. This will confirm for everyone the extreme incompetence and bad faith of the American regime.

Very unimpressed by pop neurodiversity influencers and their AI apologia. More bullshit claiming that anti-AI stances are classist and ableist and racist. Meanwhile, AI is built on exploited black labor, kills disabled people every day, disposesses the working class, and drinks all our water.

Mood: yelling WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE DRIVING WITH YOUR DICKS at the drivers totally decompensating in the traffic circle, then realizing that all the windows are wide open.

swalwell is so inconsequential on the national stage that i thought he was the perennial also-ran candidate from colorado, not california. which begs the question: why the fuck are so many ppl going out of their way to try and defend him??

There's tons and tons of replies on basically anything Swalwell related, where these miserable resist lib fucks go "he should be investigated but AFTER Trump is first dealt with" That's what it looks like when a person doesn't hold actual moral beliefs.

Think about every billionaire who simultaneously believes his job is indispensable and irreplaceable and extremely taxing, and that he can also do it while chatting nonstop 24/7 with Epstein and shitposting, and then sending exactly 3 emails a day related to business.

The people who use generative AI the most, are the people most frantically and desperately trying to self-sooth the biggest and most uncomfortable contradictions. The more slop you see someone wallow in, the more desperate they are to avoid that discomfort.

Ra'il l'Nasah Kiam, YourSlipisShowing, and the Erasure of Black Trans Organizing transnews.network/p/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

And this is, I think, the X factor we haven't yet accounted for economically. The asshole markup. When you alienate your trading partners, they don't feel obligated to cut you the best deals anymore. They're going to seek out new markets instead and cut THEM the best deals. 4/

It’s hard to overstate how much roundabouts completely unravel American drivers. There’s this conspiratorial thinking — versions of which I have also heard. And there’s the way people seem to just breakdown when they encounter a roundabout. It’s bizarre.

I think I'm coming to view LLMs as essentially being the Fae. The Fae are usually seen as not having souls, and therefore not having consciousness in a way we can recognize; they don't understand the difference between lies and truth, kindness and cruelty; >

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee