cartels mining the tiktok MLM field for suckers is one of those things that, upon reflection, i am kind of surprised took as long as it did

Honestly think the only way to solve the condescension problem is to stop insisting that we have one. It's very obvious why your opponent would call you condescending for being smart and right; stand up for yourself!

If, in the face of all reasonable warnings, a child still insists on touching a hot stove, at some point a parent has to let them get burned, as it is the only way they'll learn. This post is about Republican farmers and Trumpers writ-large.

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Trump leaked this story because he wants to you hear it. Let’s be clear :: Trump wants you to blame a shutdown for shit he is planning to do anyhow. If dems cave and fund him, he will STILL wield executive power and slash government programs. He HAS BEEN doing that with the government open.

They're just a fucking gang. A pack of bullies, hanging on a street corner, looking for trouble. Everyone one of these shits should be in prison.

interesting factoid 80% of Americans live in cities. as one of the few who grew up rural (ACTUALLY rural. don't fuckin try to fight me on this lol) but now is one of the 80%: we can and should stop embracing the made up imaginary and racist conceptualization the other 20% has come up with

This is how you do it.

Finally (for now): a story showing that the firing of US attorneys for not following orders did not begin with the Comey case. In July, a USA in CA told a Border Patrol officer to adhere to a court order. She was fired *that day. * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Innnteresting...

this is terrorism

You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.

Submoron, the point is not that the DOJ doesn't have an obligation to investigate our leaders when the possibility of wrongdoing is evident. It does. The point, you gibbering ass, is THE LEADERS DO NOT OPENLY DIRECT THE DOJ TO TARGET THEIR OPPOSITION. The decision lies with an independent DOJ.

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

I don’t even like James Comey, but this is so wrong. Let’s start indicting Supreme Court justices who blatantly lied to Congress

Stop pretending everything they do is a brilliant gambit. Stop acting like every ridiculous move they make is going to pay off for them. STOP RESPECTING THEM THIS MUCH! They are drunk toddlers with guns, of course they are dangerous. To everyone, including each other and themselves.

I'm only one story in (Cop Car, which is RIYL Scanners, Akira, The Boys even)... but this book kicks ass. BIG recommend.

this is why we need to bring back shame there need to be consequences for being a huge asshole, there need to be standards for how you behave in a decent society the rules cannot be set by the worst of us

Didn't a Boston city councillor just get collared by feds & jail-time for taking $8k? But,Tom Homan gets nabbed accepting $50K and *poof* —nothing to see here. Skates like it never happened. That's some banana republic-style sh-t! Good for our Mayor for calling it out. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

This is true! While I do try to give the players that kind of power, I do two things to try and mitigate this problem: 1) Open it up to the table (oooo! Hey, guys, how should we do this? What would be cool?) 2) As a GM, know which players want this and which don't. Don't ask everyone.

Wow. I...I think I need to see this? Maybe?

Being a bisexual emperor must be the most stressful shit in the world. You go to the inner palace and your wives are scheming. You go to the outer court and the male concubines that you promoted to viziers are fighting. Your wife just poisoned your favorite twink eunuch. There’s no peace

Me, every time my kid's school schedules a function at 5pm: PEOPLE. HAVE. JOBS.

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Post someone who looks good in white 🤍

Using a computer/using the internet is just objectively worse in every conceivable way than what it was like even ten years ago and it is getting increasingly difficult to explain this to my students.

I've heard the sperm whale described as "the Final Boss of the Ocean." Headcanon confirmed.

I say we only do it if we get their reps vote to impeach.

Yeah, man, the South famously never tried to impose its will on the North. Good talk.

Putting aside the researchers' inability to identify acts of state terrorism, the number they're using to justify this subhed is five.

Genocide was codified in a 1948 convention drawn up after the horrors of the Holocaust that defines it as acts “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

It feels like nobody appreciates how close their favorite author/musician/director came to never being a thing. A flap of butterfly wings away from the most famous creator you enjoy never getting a chance.

The richest man in the world is a racist with the emotional development of a 12 year old, his friend who finances the right believes he’s fighting the Antichrist, and the President is a dimwitted sex criminal who thinks he’s a polymath. Curtailing their influence is literally the government’s job.

The animating purpose of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. The rest is wainscoting.

This is how you know he's a super-conservative.

Also good news! (the single greatest tech improvements in human societies over the past 25 years have been in the health sciences, no doubt, and yet when you talk about "technology" the only thing we think about is iPhones)

Gotta share the good news.

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.

every company on earth demanding its underpaid workers use the garbage generator machine for everything and now they're mad that all they're getting is garbage

Victory: Rats

Rep. Melanie Stansbury on Trump's UN remarks: "This man is literally unhinged, irresponsible, bizarre, bonkers, ludicrous. I don't even know why his staff are allowing him to stand in front of a mic at this point. It was completely incoherent."

Charlie Bucket and his grandpa getting raptured, but then they start burping, which brings them gently back down

If Dems put up real candidates in strong R districts next year -- both Congress and state legislatures -- I bet they pick up a bunch of surprising seats. This has the potential to be a highly unusual wave election. But we need horses to have a horse race. Better ppl have to run. For everything.

The Spanish PM said this at Columbia University yesterday: “Defending your country is one thing. But killing 60,000 civilians, bombing hospitals, and starving children to death is something else entirely.” “We are witnessing one of the darkest tragedies of the 21st century unfold before our eyes.”

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

popping back in from mat leave to say i profiled @katmabu.bsky.social for @wired.com and you should read it! she's running a fascinating campaign: www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...