this is an exceptionally pleasing tweet to choose to parse literally

finished Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, which drove me insane because I don’t think the Argo is the ship that gets replaced over time, the Argo is Jason’s ship, the replacement ship is Theseus’s ship? I get that it’s from Barthes but I think Barthes got it mythological wrong?

Genuinely insane. LeBron is some kind of Leviathan

the Autism Transit Project announcements on BART are basically my favorite thing ever

I don’t think “why aren’t there as many campus protestors in year 3 of the genocide risking life and limb under a repressive regime for whom protestors are not a relevant constituency” is a particularly interesting question

“Show less like this” isn’t strong enough. I want a button that stops other people looking at or even maybe posting this

"Lebanon is ready to explode. The Israelis found their perfect opportunity. Most of the world is looking at Iran. Lebanon is too small to matter. Israel knows that. They got away with a live-streamed genocide. Why wouldn’t they get away with another one?" - @ayoub.bsky.social

Pope Leo XIV welcomed the Harlem Globetrotters to St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, where Leo was seen attempting one of the team’s classic tricks — spinning their iconic red, white and blue basketball on his finger.

Ways to get there: - 25A (by far hardest, useless) - Straight impeachment (H. majority + 2/3 S.) - Fund nothing until he's gone (fewest votes needed, just a willing majority in either house, but takes the longest) - Congress declares him 14AS3 disqualified (simple majorities) - uhh... [redacted]

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

I have voted twice to advance articles of impeachment. We cannot wait. Congress must convene immediately and begin proceedings to remove this man from office for the safety of our nation, Americans, and the world.

Oakland is one of the greatest cities in America and literally everyone does it dirty constantly, including its own goddamn bus network, but if I ever had to live somewhere besides Seattle I'd move there in a heartbeat

StS2 players bitching about the Regent is so fucking minion-coded

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

slay the spire 2 is very fun and i already have hated enemies. WHY are hunter killers SO strong *and* regular enemies??? those fuckers have ended more runs than anyone! i'd rather face a boss!!!!

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

A10 Regent was so hard and took me like ten billion tries but I LOVE that I managed to beat it with a card generation deck with a bunch of cards I had never really used before Slay the Spire 2 has some kinks that need working out but boy howdy it is a really good game

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Someone on this app said one of the biggest things that AI will steal from is our collective sense of wonder and I’ve never stopped thinking about it. Photos like this shouldn’t have to come with a caveat because nature is deliriously gorgeous and … wondrous.

ran two great RPG sessions in the past three days. I feel like running both Wildsea and Mothership at once is really showing me how the best RPG moments have nothing to do with rules and instead happen whenever the players get excited about the problems they’re facing in the narrative

I don’t want to know that certain sentence structures are a “tell”! this is all a giant waste of my attention and intelligence with no meaningful societal benefits and I hate it!

reading is one of the great pleasures of my life and I deeply and furiously resent the introduction of a low grade but ever present anxiety that I might be fooled into believing that some slop came from a human mind

there are so many things to be angry about but at the moment I really fucking hate the fact that I’m expected to be able to recognize AI generated slop text

something truly wild about looking at the SF rental market and realizing that it may be literally impossible for me (a highly paid government worker) and my girlfriend (a comparatively highly paid graduate student) to afford to move in together there

Had someone in the wild try to make the case to me that AI "isn't going anywhere" so "you have to start working with it" and no I don't! I don't and you can't make me!

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

I’m a white female college grad and I think that I am as legitimately and importantly American as a white male who flunked out of trade school and listens to podcasts at the gym.

"but i grew up with harry potter! i can't NOT watch it" hey thats really pathetic 👍

A question you have to ask yourself if you’re going to approach politics as a responsible adult is whether your goal is to improve material conditions and achieve changes that reduce human suffering, or whether it is to look really cool in front of your friends online.These are not compatible aims.

So, what we've called a "gender" gap is better understood as a race, class, and gender phenomenon. Marginalization and hardship appear to foster the emotional intimacy that builds close friendships. Whiteness and class privilege may actually work against it. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

hellll yeeahh

Afroman releasing a song called “Randy Walters is a son of a bitch” literally hours after Randy Walters, a police officer, says he’s been called a son of a bitch but not in public, during a defamation trial against Afroman, is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard of

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

Alysa Liu and Ryan Coogler, god bless Oakland

Slay the Spire 2 thoughts: GOOD: - the fun little animations are very good - ancients and their rewards are really, really, really fun, the sequel is probably worth it just for this one design change - some of the new design philosophy stuff, like "cards that play other cards", is v cool

People will eat up "first player to have 23 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 6 steals & 2 blocks on 59% shooting with 0 turnovers" but want to put asterisks on 2nd-most points in a game in NBA history.

Laker Fans Furious As Bam Adebayo Dies In Even Worse Helicopter Crash

This is an all-time Onion headline. It's everything an Onion headline should be.

this shit is so fucking stupid. Bam accomplished something only one other person has ever accomplished. EVER. Sports media is so fucking obsessed with nostalgia for ancient greatness that it actively seeks to tear down greatness today.

finished. Really enjoyed it. I hope we can figure out how to defeat OpenAI and Meta and Microsoft and X and Polymarket and all the Altuses of our world.

curséd breakfast thought: “AIs“ no longer have female names bc their makers want them to benefit from the unwarranted respect accorded to men and also himpathy

really enjoying slay the spire 2 but I have to say I really wish they had gotten rid of the persistent-state-across-fights relics (pen nib, happy flower, etc) instead of adding more of them

reading A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green and really enjoying it just like I did the first one but also discovering it’s hard for me to read a book about oligarchy and information manipulation while my government is mindlessly slaughtering children and bombing desalination plants

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Replayed Subnautica (god that game fucking rules so hard) and now moving on to Below Zero and it’s kinda crazy playing them back to back how much Below Zero improves on the early game