I know people are gonna insist something like hamburgers or pizza is the quintessential American food, but I just had a large jalapeño popper burrito as my final dinner in the US for a while and it feels truer to me in this cultural moment.

MSCHF bought a cow and presold the meat. The catch: if within two years most buyers felt remorse and canceled their orders everything would go unfulfilled and Angus would live. I am happy to say that, at the very last moment, 50.1% of buyers cancelled their orders. Angus lives!

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Will this hellish reign of socialism ever end?

The Republican vision of a "race-neutral" society looks an awful lot like the Jim Crow South.

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I can finally watch Oppenheimer as it was meant to be seen: silently on my neighbor's screen with subtitles on during a transatlantic flight.

i think cuomo did well considering he couldn’t campaign while the sun was up

If I were Canada I would already have passed a massive amount of funding establishing a flagship biomedical research program based in Toronto and be well into recruiting the absolute top talent from the United States. Is this already happening? Ditto in Europe? This feels like such a no-brainer.

While I appreciate the presentation this is a sausage roll — vegan in this case — and it's altogether too fancy for my tastes.

While Animal Farm is one of my favorite books, I'm not exactly convinced that what this particular historical moment needs is an impassioned argument against a theoretical communist revolution.

I feel like Blue Prince is fun for people who like to solve half a crossword puzzle and then get told they aren't allowed to finish it but they can try a different one if they like.

I really don't get why it's so hard for people to understand that trans women *are* biologically women. The trans people I know didn't choose to be trans, any more than the gay people I know chose to be gay. There's a lot more to biology than the SRY gene.

People who regret their vote for Trump but blame the Democrats for not presenting a more compelling alternative feel like the kind of people who swallow rat poison then sue because the "DO NOT EAT" label wasn't bigger.

If we do hit the circuit breaker then Fox News is required to start playing Swan Lake

Chase has locked down my accounts for "suspicious activity," and requires me to talk to a fraud specialist to unlock it. Their fraud specialists don't work overnight. So if you need access to your cash overnight, maybe because you're overseas and it's your daytime, you're just fucked.

I'm not sure the recurring "you should have voted for the smart black lady" posts are doing much. Yes, that would have been much, much better. But you're never going to get an electorate fired up voting for the kind of corporate candidates the Democrats typically find themselves promoting.

RANDOM TARIFF ENCOUNTER TABLE (D8) 1 - 25% 2 - 34% 3 - 10% (but you must buy our chickens) 4 - 49% lovely people but they've been ripping us off 5 - 20% and 2d4 ogres 6 - 31%, roll again on treasure table C 7 - 25% (28% for elves) 8 - Roll again combine both results

as trans day of visibility fades into night, it's time to build support for a new holiday: trans week of unfettered access to long-range rocket artillery

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My biggest surprise in the National Security texting scandal is that they weren't using Telegraph.

Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

A Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation of your death, based on US mortality figures. I find it strangely calming and meditative.

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Interesting thought: the Republicans have been operating on outrage for decades. The Democrats haven't. Has that finally changed for the Democratic base, and are the missteps by politicians (Schumer voting for cloture, Newsom interviewing Bannon) a failure to recognize that shift?

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If a right-wing government proposed shooting Jews, blacks, union organizers, and LGBTQ people in the streets, the press would describe a situation where only half of those were shot as a "moderate compromise" and cite it as evidence that liberal democracy was still fully functional.

The idea behind "World Book Day" is depressing. There's no need to celebrate the commonplace. Books should be so deeply woven into our lives that they're inextricable. It's like having "World Air Day" but I suppose we're well on our way to destroying breathable air, so maybe we need that now, too.

Wait, the Germans stole a part of the Bayeux Tapestry?

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The Republican position isn't that we should be wary of medical interventions for teenagers who feel uneasy about the gender they were assigned at birth. The Republican position is that transgender doesn't exist and that all such people should be banned from various places, including the military.

It's a little telling how shit the worker protections in the United States are that people naturally assume Musk *could* fire people for not responding to an email. The government has civil service protections precisely for this reason, and it's a travesty most of the jobs in the US don't.

Honestly, as an American it's kind of refreshing to hear of an election where the fascists only managed to hit 20%.

I am constantly reminded that our cyberpunk future is 90% dystopian and the tech overlords who are bringing it to us are so convinced they're going to be able to live forever in that remaining 10% they're blind to the consequences.

I sincerely hope the Pope recovers, but in the wake of *Conclave* the Vatican has some pretty funny options. I'm guessing they put a Nazi in again, right?

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Swing and a miss. What a bunch of incompetent buffoons.

No I'm not 'going through some stuff' Maureen. I'm actively trying to break my body down into its component atoms in the hope a high wind blows me across the four corners of the earth and like dust, I'm spared the misery of a sentient existence and yes, I'll have the spreadsheet finished by midday.

Not to belabor the point, but with all the talk of "massive fraud" being uncovered in the US government you'd think there'd be at least one or two people arrested by now, wouldn't you?

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

Can we stop saying the government "accidentally" fired people? They deliberately and intentionally fired people, then realized they fucked up. If you load a gun, point it at at your foot, pull the trigger, and *then* decide it was a bad idea we don't say it was an accident. We say you were an idiot.

I'm not advocating for the US dropping out of NATO, mind you, but I'm starting to worry that the world may not have a choice.

You love to see it.

Sad to report I just lost my job at nuclear, after 40 years of faithful service overseeing the US nuclear arsenal. My job was keeping all the nukes from exploding by pressing the don't explode button every 48 hours.

Impossible to really game out how this ends, but there's a very real chance the US drops out of NATO or sabotages it so badly that it ceases to function. It's questionable how much the current administration would step up to defend Estonia or Poland if the Russians were to attack their sovereignty.

I think a lot of the people looking forward to the inevitable stream of governmental fuckups coming as a result of all the layoffs aren't entirely aware that the government's also fired all the people whose job it is to notice the fuckups.

I'm getting a little tired of assuming the worst is going to happen and then discovering I was being too optimistic.

Currently wondering whether Trump's isolationist streak will beat out the desire to seize some beachfront property or mineral fields. Anyone got the over/under on having American boots on the ground in a former ally in 2026?