kid-in-the-brown-hoodie is a whole-ass ideology

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

turns out the discord situation is worse! the company that will be doing the age verifications with IDs is Persona, a peter thiel aligned company we're going to try to wind down the Kill The Computer discord and try to get a subreddit for the podcasts community up and running

Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job. In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike. The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.

Great blog I am going to use as an entryway into another gripe: biphobia is a real, mainly intracommunity issue, but bi women do have specific dangers specific to their marginalization. biphobia is not when a queer woman says that a narrative that was once open to queer reads is now comphet.

🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Gallup announces, after 88 years, it will no longer track public approval of presidents. Trump's second-term approval rating fell to 36% in December, among the lowest ever recorded by the company. The president repeatedly has threatened to sue media and polling firms that portray him negatively.

This is a big deal. Approval polls, like the media, courts, and Congress, can serve as vehicles for presidential accountability. We are watching in real time as the institutions that could hold this administration to account wither on the vine.

I will say, there is something in how this reactionary political movement nationalizes southern plantation cultural production to enact their fascist plan to break nation-states into corporately controlled economic zones. Talk about the afterlives of slavery. Whew.

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

A reminder: this is an Irishman with valid papers speaking about how he's being held in US concentration camps. If you don't have to go to the US, do not go to the US. "GDC" is not "have to go". One denial at the border is going to mark you for life, and that's the best of the bad outcomes.

Really excited to be doing a little stretch goal bonus writing for Blades '68!

Remember if you watch this show or buy this merch, no trans person will like or trust you ever again. Sorry but those are the rules.

“I am an AI hater” amazingly written anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

i will absolutely delete my discord account rather than give them personal info to verify age. that company has had so many hacks. they've /already/ had a hack which revealed scanned photo IDs. i'm not giving them my personal info. reverse the policy decision. www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...

do not give your ID to a tech company for any reason

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

the idea that making art is embarrassing if you don't do it well enough to make a career out of it is an objectively harmful and toxic brainworm.

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

With your help, people like Kat Abughazaleh can be the future of the Democratic Party, whether AIPAC likes it or not.

Streamer Northernlion just discovered his high refresh rate monitor was still set to 60Hz. It can happen to any of us. https://bit.ly/3OrsiFn

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

EVERYBODY CAN MAKE ART IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT

this barrier cannot stop me

The majority of slop is also not directly human-prompted, but is used to destabilize information environments with nullformation. Slop matters as an epistemic weapon. It does not respond to collective taste so much as attack the aggregation and assessment of collective aesthetic demands.

To the Bin my Friend, Tonight we Vacate Earth (Mogwai)

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

If anybody thinks this is a joke

If you ever wonder why I often say Western analysis of China is misleading, it's because a lot of China experts (even the liberal ones) are primarily motivated by ideas of Western superiority to the point they end up projecting This is the first time this leading China expert has mentioned Epstein

Alright 4 am wake up finish my book club book I procrastinated on totally not a depressing read about the futility of humanity in the face of the sea. 10/10 thanks @kaaosa.com

Painted up a trench crusade for my friend who hosts the games

I put more work into this than anyone in their right mind would, and I blame/credit the good folks at @rangedtouch.bsky.social for putting the thought into my head. #comioc #hobbit #bofur #traditionalart

so homeboy can't get murdered by the state anymore? not a home run but still a base hit

Ahem. I've thought of an idea that will really stick it to those ICE boys: I will make them super-duper triple promise to follow the rules.

as long as they're *professional* when they kidnap your neighbors and their children, then everything's just fine.

its looking like the local & state administrators might have folded and will let ice continue to operate in minneapolis WITH local law enforcement protection in exchange for some fake promises that there will be a real investigation into the two murders & a "scaleback

the left is winning gun rights and the 2nd amendment in the national divorce

I'm tired, grandpa.

EVERYONE STOP TALKING CRAB MECH

"you wanted a pony" is the guilt talking. the knowledge that you didn't push the party to do the right thing out of triangulation and cowardice. you tried to play a very dangerous game of enticing the enemy at the expense of alienating your allies and you're lashing out the people who warned you.

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his job is to not oppose the republicans, & to occupy the space that someone who might oppose the republicans could use to do that. when he is forced to do something, it is his job to water it down as much as possible. he is not failing, he's doing his job perfectly

saw someone call schumer cowardly and chide him for lacking the backbone to call for ICE to be abolished, & it must once again be pointed out that that is untrue. he is not trying to oppose the republicans and failing, he is on the same team as the republicans, and his enemy is you

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It can get lower!

it is impossible to miss the difference between the names you see in newspaper headlines and the names you don't see in newspaper headlines