really dislike that "Boriswave" used to be something you'd exclusively see being used by racist Twitter accounts but it's now made its way to the political mainstream, including today's Playbook headline

this seems impressive to anyone who hasn't seen the dreck CFAs produce day in day out

שנה טובה ומתוקה to all who celebrate!

you'd think, but *glances at the US* even very serious people don't take these things seriously until they happen, if at all

They always start by saying it's legitimate to be concerned about flows, but ultimately the rage is about the stock. Think I've first said this as a silly quip ten years ago, and well, here we are

Well-oiled machine. Only the best people. etc. etc. Super great business environment.

www.axios.com/2025/09/20/t... New H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, official says

I think it's bad for the president to order the military to murder people so he can gleefully blast the snuff video out into everyone's feed.

To my H-1B friends, I am so fucking sorry. This all sucks so much.

yo what the fuck

I am losing my goddamn mind, the government is so full on neo-confederate groyper nazis that they’re currently attempting National Harakiri on a Friday night.

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wow.

annual. $100,000. fee.

🍿🍿🍿

yeah man that's literally the entire point: I don't get off on being radical. it is not an emotionally important identity to me. I do not like that many of political beliefs are outside the mainstream. I consider that bad. I would be happy if that changed.

ironically, this is loser behaviour

atheistic Rebbe for Yud is 🧑‍🍳😘

‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...

Wild to remember how Electrek used to cover Tesla

Lab-Our Party is this anything?

straight out of the pages of The Argument

it is possible to note it without being sexist (and the quoted post is how you might do it) but man, bluesky is not covering itself in glory on this one

Composite map of Roman territory, 753 BCE-1948 CE.

and then there were three factions

The finding that drinking alcohol improves one's ability to speak Dutch doesn't surprise me. A Zambian friend has long claimed to speak better Afrikaans (a related language) when he's drunk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

god this is the most English of stories never mind the racism, what about property values?

Relatedly, don't look up your blocklists, that way lies only madness

Disco Elysium is truly the most leftist game of all time, the studio immediately collapsing into bitter infighting demonstrates the depth of its authenticity

How has there been a multi-day crash out over using email registration for protests. You can just go to them

the apprenticification of everything

LFG

I mean there's that but also I think they still teach you in Cardinal school that you're not meant to canonize a heretic

I'm really impressed with @graze.social for building custom feeds so far. I started playing around with it, ran into an issue, asked for support and someone was on the case within minutes

omg it's so good. head & shoulders above any other custom feed tool I've used

haven't got any work done for an hour because I can't stop chuckling at my own intro: "Risk management is a lot like Warhammer 40K. Partly because it’s a nightmarish dystopia dominated by mutant cyborgs, but mainly because in order to play, you have to have a lot of expensive models"

I see Dolan has gone full Prod.

British Sausages

just had şalgam suyu for the first time, wtf Turkey you drink something called turnip water with your kebab, it should be the nectar of the gods reader... it is not.

I realize it would be difficult to implement but being able to selectively mute two people only when they’re interacting with one another would be an amazing option to have

Absolutely astounded to hear that the party that hired known transphobes is "being run as a “sexist boys’ club”."

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS

the investor letter after Jensen Huang has pumped your bags:

Measles Abundance

free speech absolutists (the free speech is silent)

of course it was Liberty U bros

I saw this circulating on twitter, I thought it was a joke but it’s real

Over on #DarkBlueSky we ignore this crap. Sign up for a rally. Don't sign up and just go. Just don't do this navel gazing bullshit

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.