Thread. Until Covid, I had thought that while people could believe all manner of crazy things when their own interests were not at stake in a fairly obvious way, they would get serious when they were. I will never get over being proven wrong about this.

To go dark-ish myself, one of the hardest laughs I had while my step-father was in hospice, was he asked my mom and I to get in touch with two specific people they'd fallen out with. Why? He wanted to tell them to fuck themselves. 😂

Take a load off your minds everyone, it was regular old misogyny the whole time

REPORTER: Sir, can you tell us what happened with the elephant? ME: (huddled in a space blanket) Of course: I was minding my business when the beast grabbed me with its trunk. My penis, exposed for unrelated reasons, functioned as a sort of axel by which I was rotated like a holiday noisemaker

“You’re gonna die for a ‘multicultural economic zone?’” “Someone is.”

It’s so cool how every college professor lives under constant paranoid terror that their piece of shit admin is going to fire them because Kaiyliegh Homeschool, class of ‘28 accused them of teaching Gay Marxism for not accepting “god did it” in crayon as a real essay but this guy just cruised along

This 4 minute video is the best thing ever ever done in the world of Brand videos. This is what happens when the client calls all the shots and has terrible ideas. The theme song is everything.

A perfect mom-and-pop affordable housing provider 🤗 story in 3 images

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

Do you want a Glorious Revolution? Because this is how you get a Glorious Revolution?

"but the left" no no, don't be modest. it is time for the left to sit back and watch excellence at work. decades and decades of preparation finally playing out in practice. there is a time and place for all things, and this is the time and place for resisting tyranny. go ahead. show us how it's done

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I want everyone who has spent years in therapy wondering what is wrong with them, wondering why they had so many bad relationships, why they felt so much dread, to know that it was in part because you were living in a world run by evil, evil people and you could tell that somewhere deep down

#OnThisDay Feb 1, 1942: Vidkun Quisling becomes Minister President of Norway, actively supporting Nazi war efforts and the deportations of his own people to concentration camps. His name becomes a famous eponym for those who collaborate with enemy forces occupying their own country.

Oh man nothing makes some people madder than finding out that a lot of their acquaintances actually do NOT approve, tacitly or otherwise, of the little ethical bargains they're comfortable making.

If you are close friends with a notorious trafficker of young victims of abuse and joke that he 'likes them on the young side', it at the very least calls your judgement into question. If you go on to joke about sharing a wonderful secret, it at the very least implies complicity.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Maybe it’s because I’m not a professor of complicated ideas, but I actually don’t think someone had to say this.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’m old and have a lot less at stake than many people. If I get arrested, I won’t lose my pension. If I get shot, I’ll lose 10-20 years of arthritis getting worse and worse. I have no reason not to rouse a little rabble.

One of the many ironies of our incredibly stupid moment is that the same crowd that believes “a man in a dress can never be a woman” apparently thinks that an obese goon can become a Tier 1 operator just by strapping on a plate carrier, helmet, and face mask.

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

you think there’s an evil cabal of democrat billionaire pedophiles who all hang out together and are secretly responsible for every bad thing that’s ever happened in history? okay bud (six years later) oh, republicans were there too. that actually makes more sense

On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville. On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”. In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.

The most important thing in today's Epstein files may involve 4chan. In 2011, Epstein met with 4chan creator Christopher "moot" Poole; that same day, Poole launched the /pol/ board that 3 years later would be the heart of Gamergate. And Gamergate was the start of the movements that led to Jan 6. 1/

Quite the blow to meritocracy myths when half the billionaires in the country are in the Epstein files emailing shit like “hey best friend, what should I wear to the crimes party?”

In this long post in Hebrew, Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's Defense Minister from 2013 to 2016, compares the ideology of the Israeli right to Nazi racial ideology. His words, not mine. Under the IHRA definition of antisemitism, this makes Israel's former Defense Minister antisemitic. x.com/bogie_yaalon...

There's no zero point of Enlightenment it's going to reach - it's going to get as good as it's able to get and then Stop

This is kinda inside baseball for weirdos like me but WOW that is wild

I know this looks like shit, but until we develop the technology to fabricate period costumes and train humans to pretend to be--to act as, if you will--other people, this is the closest we can come to visualizing past events in a narrative art form

top pick 28% off rn

You can’t change other people. No, not even that one, not even a little bit, but you can change yourself if you’re willing to work at it and fail a lot.

I saw a critique of Springsteen's new song, it being too earnest and cringe, and if I could just take a second to introduce you to the entire Bruce Springsteen catalogue we could settle this in a heartbeat.

Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent

Remember when the iPhone came out and people just weren’t able to find a use for it so the government started handing them out for free?

Visiting grandpa at the nursing home: kids nowadays know their steam library more than their local library Grandpa: I ‘member when they invented the steam engine (He starts choking me) Give me back the amulet I hiss: your times up, ancient one (louder) hes having another episode

This is the part in Mary Poppins when they punch a hole through George Banks' hat

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

I used to ask "Gender Criticals" how many trans folk they were willing to jail & kill & how many cis women they were willing to have harassed, beaten & arrested to get what they want & if they understood it still wouldn't work. Humans want to be human & will never stop trying to be seen as human.

“And therefore, because of this failure, I will resign the immense public trust placed in me by the people of Long Island,” he didn’t add.

I think there’s a difference worth pointing out between a person you know changing their mind (welcome) & a pundit feeling the wind shift on their spit-slicked finger as they declare it’s now correct to call something fascist (fuck off into the sun). One of them will never fight alongside you.

some pretty consistent features of conservatism: 1) rules should apply to my enemies but not to my friends 2) white people are more important than non-white people 3) men are more important than women 4) if it makes me money i’m for it, if it costs me money im against it

imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus

If only someone had warned them!

hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading

i feel for all the radical centrists out there now confronting the fact that their ideology was the one built in a bubble and formed by groupthink. with enough exposure to facts and logic they will, some day god willing, catch up to the left

If you’re just figuring out now that yes, it really is fascism, that’s fantastic & I think you’re great & I’m glad we’re on the same side. I don’t need to scold you. My desire for “told-ya-so” is as useless as your denial was. Let’s move on together to the fight at hand, each as we feel called. 1/2