There are definitely times when you ARE in the right and people you don't get along with suck ass, but I really feel that the idea of "They'll all be sorry when they see how great and important and successful I am" fantasies are toxic. Harry Potter slots right into this trope.

Recent news out of the SpaceX data center proves that we can just not trust this industry to behave itself. They can have their toys back when they learn to stop lying and taking other people's things (like power, water, and intellectual property).

Really, the main reason I'm not *that* worried about the upcoming speech is that Trump has dementia and his administration is made up of idiots and ass-kissers who are bad at their jobs.

He didn't say "Democrat Party" he is getting a whipping tonight.

happy nonbinary day to all you cool nonbiney/nineberry/gender-heckin' folks

Me: "It's time to start eating healthy." Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!" Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."

i deeply resent having to think about upstream food safety because i am supposed to be able to eat like a carefree raccoon

NYC Mayor Mamdani: let's give city parents one night of free child care so they can have a date night. Also let's give people in Queens some flood kits and bring special ed to all five boros this fall. Republicans:

One of the downsides of being an adult is knowing what food costs so when you make something that turns out like shit you have to eat it for the next three days anyway

You know bluesky has the juice when a bunch of people show up in the replies to one of your posts to argue about whether we should defund health care in red districts. The kicker being that literally all of them agree we shouldn't. But somehow the argument has been going for hours anyway.

They are continually extending these Fable 5 trial access periods. Which is definitely something you do when you have a product that people love and are willing to pay for.

I give Congressional Dems a lot of shit, and I stand by all of it. But fair's fair. They did good today. More of this sort of thing, please.

As an epidemiologist, I declare this to be an excellent substitute for fruits and vegetables during the cyclosporiasis epidemic.

There is a tiresome back-and-forth you can look up if you want to. But I think this attitude is an example of what's wrong with dem messaging. Those people who feel strongly that trans kids shouldn't be in sports? Yeah, they're never voting for you. Stop chasing them. They are not "gettable"

Has there been a more pathetic and ineffective leader of the House Democrats in our lifetimes? I can't think of one.

So England's path now runs through two Spanish-speaking countries with which it has territorial disputes.

I will say that I totally agree with the Speaker about being in an existential fight to preserve our status as a republic. We diverge somewhat on who we think is responsible for that threat...

A quick look at the 3 months of development of Tenebrarium, a simple colony simulator, which is now coming to steam 🦀 #indiegame #gamedev

The French defense has collapsed, you say

Trump tried to kill renewables. They’re growing anyway. Wind and solar generation churned out more power than nuclear and coal in the first half of 2026... www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

whoops we accidentally uploaded entire personal file directories to the cloud in a country too corrupt to pass modern internet privacy laws

20-year-old me will forever be shocked that Bill Kristol is now to the left of like 80% of the Democratic leadership on ICE.

I don't think the skeptics are being unreasonable. We're not asking him to go out and run a marathon. Just a simple conversation with a reporter or something to prove he's still all-there and establish the physical facts on the ground re: his care.

good club to have in the bag for this

In my view, this is an infantilizing rural voters. They're big boys and girls. They can read. They have access to the same information sources everyone else does. These are the choices they've made and if cleaning up after them causes issues, well, that was also a result of their choices.

While JK Rowling and Amnesty are being mentioned in the same breath it's worth remembering why she lost her job there.

Carnegie's generation understood full well that they needed a lot of good will to secure their own well-being. Meanwhile, Musk's generation sneers at the people they're screwing over. They'll be lucky if regulatory crackdown and a tax hike is the worst they ever face.

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

For every 10 years they try to roll back democracy, science, and pluralism, we roll back our concept of fairness by 100 years. I would feel bad about it but it's clear that by-the-book prosecutions of low-rank offenders is no deterrent at all to them returning with more malice and lawlessness.

reminding everyone that Elon Musk has basically no expertise in business or finance or science or engineering — the thing he's actually an expert on are these Trump-style aggressive legal shenanigans that have let him break the law and violate contracts

Like if someone made the very bad Armie Hammer movie but for ICE agents instead of immigrants it would sell out every theater in every city

People are once again talking about what polls say about attitudes towards Trans people. I'm just going to point out something I think the stats-people are missing: there is no overlap between "people who would like to vote Democratic" and "people who hate trans girls playing youth sports."

I think it was the Visigoths.

Please remember every time you drink water it's less water going to data centers fight the system stay hydrated.

The thing society has yet to come to terms with is that CEOs are not, by and large, very intelligent. Rather, they mostly just have one or more personality disorders that predisposes them to acquire wealth under a rotting capitalist system that doesn't really generate new value anymore.

Didn't take long for For Women Scotland to engage in antisemitic conspiracy theories about George Soros and Amnesty International. Just in case you are wondering if they were a far right org.

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

ICE defends latest killing: "We like to murder people."

YEP! Sex segregation is bad actually. It makes sense only under extremely limited circumstances. Policing women and girls' bodies to enforce sex-segregated "spaces" - using their safety as justification - is what societies due to subjugate women and girls, and ultimately treat them like property.

If only someone had warned all the "protect the girls" people about where this would ultimately lead, ideally often and at great volume. But, alas

When someone first suggested that the world really did end in 2012 and this is Hell I laughed. I've been finding the idea less and less amusing as time goes on.

this is the closest ICE has ever come to saying "yeah we just murdered a guy"

If I said what I wanted for everyone even slightly involved with ICE I would get banned. So I'll just say I hope they get what justice demands and leave it at that.

Hard to read this as anything other than a Freudian slip. Trump's father died of dementia and Trump has spent the last few decades morbidly afraid of it (according to Mary Trump). Now he's showing signs of serious impairment and is talking about how *other* people are doomed by genetics.

In my view the most fundamental question for all rights is "do you own your own body?" If trans people do not have the right to physical and social self-determination then no one does. If the government can take away rights from a trans person for daring to own their own body, they can do it to you.

I'd be surprised if we were talking about him in 200 days. Just a lickspittle who sold his soul for reasons that don't matter anymore. If he is remembered, it will only be because he accurately saw Trump for who he was and bowed down anyway.,

Some good news.

I've seen enough and believe the national average price of gasoline will again reach $4/gal in the next 7-10 days, if not sooner. oil now up nearly 10%- I'd expect price increases of 15-45c/gal (depending on price cycling state or not) in the next week or so.