Most of the stuff he’s asking them to do already PBS does. You know the public broadcaster that belongs to Americans and Trump and friends are working hard to destroy?

HIT THE MUSIC 🇺🇸

If there's one thing Janeway loves more than anything, it's coffee. But if there's two things, it's coffee and killing Tuvix.

BREAKING: Taylor Rehmet was just sworn in as the first rank-and-file union member to serve in the Texas Senate. Senator Rehmet is a beacon of hope not just for Texas, but for every union member and worker in the state. This is a huge win for Texas workers!

The reason the FCC can do this nonsense is because the American people own the airwaves so companies broadcasted are obligated to give airtime to both parties. Given the majority of people don’t watch broadcast it’s absurd they alone are subject to this requirement. (see Colbert’s YT success)

I do not think this will be a bisexual awakening for people like the 90s one

everyone saying “liberals and leftists have plenty of emerging technologies they love!” feels kind of goofy because the problem is never the technology. it is the people and systems using technology. AI, LLMs, hell even doorbell cameras are all useful when not lashed to all-consuming corporations.

I know Youtube thinks I’m a middle aged man instead of a middle aged woman because it’s giving me ads for ED pills and “manly” sweatshirts and recommends Sopranos assassination clips constantly.

I’ll take “why is everyone mad at Microsoft and Google for $1000”

11 year old godson: “The worst thing you ever did to me was let my mom play Grand Theft Auto in college.”

The problem with getting in the news business, as Meta and now Apple are learning, is you are then a media company and need to stand by your journalists or chuck them under the bus.

alternatively what if this brings us back to proper action films that have ladies jump dirt bikes onto moving trains and dudes slide down a couple of stories using nothing but string lights or fight scenes you can follow and that actually look good

If we have communism then where is my socialized healthcare????

rural Texas rules because you say “oh I’m gonna walk in this lovely walking trail“ and then BAM. tiny dickbutt

saw this in Fort Worth last year and it’s wonderfully clear eyed about the problem and just how unpopular these book ban initiatives are. make a point of checking it out!

Wild take from Abbott given how unpopular his vouchers program is and how brutally GOP lost in Fort Worth a week ago largely because of politics in schools. like Greg you done lost the whole ass plot and need to log off.

can’t believe it. brett ratner made a film someone enjoys.

absolutely fascinated by the political commercials on local TV in Texas atm. 80% of them are just people saying “Sharia law” or “Muslim” or “immigrants” in a scary voice. Talarico actually stands out with “I capped insulin prices and will fight for you” bit. It all feels cartoonishly on the nose.

I lived away from Texas for more than 10 years so I was super surprised when I learned that not only is getting you license now by appointment only but no politician has made fixing it a platform.

Wambasganss spent a lot of time loudly flipping school board seats to the hard right which led to a lot of book bans and a notable drop in the quality of the schools in this district. I suspect that hurt as badly as the Trump connection--which is still the focal point of every GOP ad in Texas.

Saying it like Beyonce at the beginning of Daddy's Little Girl. "Texas."

Pre streaming if you lived in a rural area the only way you could get more than broadcast channels was if you had an antenna (pricey) or someone paid to run cable out to your property (more pricey). So many of us have little knowledge of Degrassi or Real World but know the Red Dwarf theme song by ❤️

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playing video games with your godson is great until he asks you why you were playing until 3am in front of everyone.

best portrait of me ever

still thinking about my godson telling me he didn’t want any of my mechanical keyboards because he wants one that’s really good and not mushy. i didn’t MEAN to flex on an 11 year old. But I did.

The world sucks, but Reddit's algorithim brought me to the Laundry Spa Day post and I now have a bunch of shirts I can wear in public again. Pit stains GONE. Oily residue ERADICATED. Clothes CLEAN. Cost CHEAP. (Unless you lack a washing machine. Then it will probably be much more annoying.)

take a break in screaming into the void about the collapse of democracy and America to appreciate this incredible tardigrade my brother’s MIL made me.

Elon is right that this is a not great consolidation (break em up!!!!) but he doing way too many designer drugs if he thinks that mean anyone should partner with xAI in its current state. Shit’s like Patrick Stewart in Extras just whipping clothes off every person people upload a photo of.

we used to be a society!!! we used to have good remotes!!!

Greg Grandin unfortunately wrote one of the most prescient books about our times and it came out last year and you should listen to him!

Other things that happened exactly five years ago that I will never forget: I got my new couch.

stephen miller governing is like when you don’t take out Montezuma FIRST THING in Civ.

I truly love that @vicmsong.bsky.social has been covering this thing since it was just a bandaid on a mannequin taint and now it’s a real product.

my semi monthly request that everyone read America, América about the very different but similar political cultures of Latin America and the US. came out last year and besides being a terrific primer for our today it also clearly explains why this was the stupidest possible fucking move.

there’s often this assumption in the US that companies will “do the right thing” and through our monocultural media system and political saber rattling that used to be true! but now you can just ignore outcry and pay the right political party and carry on.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

My mom is mad because we keep making the gingerbread man cookies into Minions

An additional part of this is that the audience that will pay for journalism instead of listening to a kind of stupid person plagiarize an article on TikTok is almost exclusively this website and three subreddits.

gentle reminder to everyone saying CBS employees should quit—the job market is bad and people need to pay their bills and have health insurance. simply walking away is a luxury and a privilege and many people can’t afford it.

absolute queen shit from the note obtained by NYT from Alfonsi, the corespondent who worked on the story.

60 Minutes is the GOAT at covering all sides of a hot political topic fairly. Their recent coverage of Israel is a pristine example of that and should legit be studied in j-school. Bari putting her finger on the scale is atrocious.

It doesn’t mention it because the more northern breeding center was shut down long before DOGE. The new world screwworm‘s march north has been happening for some time and the new breeding centers we’re building will take time to produce enough sterile flies. this was a long term policy failure.

mom went in for a stroke work up where they moved her to the stroke ward at 2am and woke her up at 6am and I very much understand the logistical necessity but strike me as wild how impossible hospitals are about sleep for patients. It’s the last ranked priority.

You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls

for the party that claims to stay out of people’s business it’s weird how much the GOP wants to control kids’ gender journey. Bunch of creeps making an already difficult world more difficult out of stupidity and spite

The Duellists by Ridley Scott and Scaramouche by George Sidney are where it’s at for European style sword fights from Hollywood.

oh my god he’s gonna do a cuomo

ran into this when I used Pods to move across country this year. Pod was just never delivered because they have a shortage of drivers. My movers told me it was extremely bad on the east coast due to the limits on who gets CDLs and salaries being at some of their lowest in ages.

USPS is a government service and we REALLY don’t want all mail delivery to be privatized because then many people simply won’t be able to receive mail. but Amazon continuing to prop up USPS (an org that has been repeatedly cut off at the knees by the GOP) is also not great! Fund USPS properly!