I dunno, that Christopher Nolan film doesn't look anything like Super Mario Odyssey.

I don't think this is a hard ask for the richest country on earth. Moreover, it'll make us richer

I want an immigration system wide open enough such that all my friends can come and enough housing to shelter everyone who comes with them

Americans are taught Kent State was a brutal aberration- scared untrained guardsmen who went too far and were checked by public outrage. But Kent State was one of many massacres of antiwar student protestors in May 1970 - UNM, Jackson State, the (non-military) Hard Hat Riot - all met with impunity.

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

Today, May 3rd, is World Press Freedom Day. Israel has murdered 363 journalists in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, & Syria in 940 days since October 7th 2023. In the entirety of World War II 69 journalist were killed. In the Vietnam war it was 63. Zionist see truth as the enemy. #gaza

mid white guy has a bad take and gets clowned on by a lot of people: “is this a COORDINATED HARASSMENT CAMPAIGN? are trans women KIWIFARMS?!” as i have said many times the shit trans women go through on a regular basis would make this kinda guy stroke out in 48 hours or less

In the Pulitzer Prize award-winning novel Demon Copperhead, a building is described as being scary, "Like being trapped in a Duke Nukem doom castle." But Duke Nukem has no castle levels, even going back to the original sidescrollers, which clearly aren't being referenced here. ...Yes, I'll hold

Nothing has ever been more For Me than the National Association of Letter Carriers marching in the Mayday parade with anti-war banners

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I really hate academic journals that refuse to allow student use. Fucking selfish, greedy, evil bastards that I wish all manner of soul sapping irritations upon forever. Fuck you and your elitist mindset.

sorry

When Democrats retake Congress in 2026, a top priority should be a blanket ban on all consumer-facing LLM chatbots, which should stay in place for at least a year pending thorough hearings and a raft of thorough regulatory measures. There is no good reason for these to be public products.

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

wish I'd done more fucking around prior to this miserable eternity of finding out

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I think it's worth learning the difference between "I am annoyed by this person" and "this person is a bad person."

Very clear lede here, doesn't mince words or euphemize, and thereby helps us see how far down the democratic backslide we've already gone:

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Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social please enjoy whatever is happening here, or, as the kids are wont to say, dudes rock.

dogs should be able to get a drivers license

One of my favorite animal videos, probably taken at Disney's Animal Kingdom: four asian small-clawed otters racing back and forth across the grass like a troop of predatory socks, hopping up to try and snatch a butterfly out of the air.

finally found something to make me laugh and it's this I've watched this like 30 times in a row

Among other things, pretty sure offering someone an appointment in exchange for dropping out of an election is extremely illegal! Laws no longer apply to king Trump though.

that’s RIGHT

They ruined us! Kurt was the best of us, a trans and gay ally (which was UNHEARD OF back then) and they KILLED him - and then kept mocking him as a maudlin flannel dweeb. Don’t forget what they did to Monica Lewinsky! Don’t forget what they did to Lorena Bobbit and Courtney Love! The 90s were HELL.

It's not just the Voting Rights Act. On Friday, the Supreme Court finished the Republican Party's quest to erase every tangible legislative achievement of the civil rights movement But we've been here before.

I wrote about the double standard around who gets to say "From the river to the sea..." religiondispatches.org/2026/04/30/g...

The indictment is absolute soup. Lab leakers have completely given up on proving their main contention and are now just flailing around looking for any rule violation or procedural misstep that makes it look like a cover-up happened. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...

You're talking to someone that the paradigm "North good, South bad" doesn't jibe with at all. I'm sorry that was your worldview. For me it's south good, full of beautiful Black people being themselves who treasure the land, community, & culture.

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

Yesterday, the discourse is "cigarettes are good because fuck everything" and today it's "eating delicious food is bad, actually". It's like hanging out with my girlfriend from freshman year all over again. By tomorrow you will all weepily accuse me of wanting to have sex with Jennifer Love Hewitt.

THIS IS NOT A THING ULTRAPROCESSED MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING There is no mechanism of action by which "processing" a food would, across the board, have this effect. Cutting up an apple is processing it. Cutting up and salting potato chips is processing them. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ULTRAPROCESSED

Hasbro have apparently hired a notorious union-busting firm in response to the Magic the Gathering Arena teams attempt at unionisation - Reddit mods have deleted the post If you haven't please sign the unions petition actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl...

You can use the names of x files episodes like oblique strategies

People keep saying gutting the VRA and Trump were reactions to the first black President being elected but this is all shit that conservatives have been obsessed with doing ever since the VRA originally passed, along with dismantling the Great Society and the New Deal.

“Men who cannot handle accountability, cannot admit that they’re wrong, cannot actually face the hard work of self-examination and repair, are dangerous to everybody.” From: I Went to Duke With Justin Fairfax and Cerina Fairfax. Decades Later, He Killed Her by Elizabeth Spiers or archive.is/nqBmK

How Democrats Lost Men by Jeff Johnston Depressingly often, a lot of men are just idiots. the end

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

In the Mouth of Madness 2 it’s happening

This is a great account of a livestreamed discussion on city-dwellers’ unrealistically sunny views of life in rural China. Worth noting that these misconceptions can easily be transmitted to Westerners and taken as authoritative commentary on “the real China.” There *is* no single “real China”!

Basically, the thing to understand why there are so many Tradcath converts in educated conservative circles is that there is intense demand there for a form of right-wing Christianity less embarrassing and low status than fundamentalist Evangelicalism.

Haters don’t get enough respect.

I used to be a proud member of OPEC. Now I'm leaving after years of bullying and harassment

I couldn’t agree more with what Julie K. Brown is saying here. Michael Tracey’s misconduct is not funny. I understand why people mock him, but it would be nice to see more of our media peers actually seriously condemn his treatment of women.

I’m nonbinary baby, I can see into your soul

“Occasional discomfort is the price you pay to participate in a public space where expression can exist” is a very wise observation. It explains so many things - in particular, the problem of TERF ideology, which assumes that ANY discomfort felt by a privileged class is an unforgivable violation.

so I’ve got like a dozen texts that people sent me a week ago, two weeks ago, a month ago, and I’ve worked myself into that cycle where I can’t bring myself to respond to them but also I feel like the most absolutely shitty human being for not responding to them, and it’s the worst feeling

Honestly that might be necessary. I’ve been thinking all day about the Transitive Property of Conservative Ideology: they justify everything with “eh, Dems did worse, it’s our turn now.” The next Dem president will face barely-veiled calls for assassination from MAGA pundits. And probably worse.