Article in @nytimes.com never mentions this. This is fucking gaslighting. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

One day of general strike & they immediately fold. That is POWER folks. This is not rocket science, its just regular old class war.

An aged man is but a paltry thing A tattered coat upon a stick — unless Soul clap its hands and sing And louder sing for each tatter in its mortal dress — WB Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium

That money could’ve ended homelessness in the US, or established UBI for every American, student loan erasure, or supercharged every creative industry in existence to pay artists better, instead of, yknow, blowing it on dead malls full of Elegy of Emptiness statues for rich people I hate it here

This right here. You could build a whole solidaristic political consciousness around being a "good neighbor." [It would of course have to resist reactionary Nextdoor / neighborhood watch / property value protection versions]

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Yes - though I’d replace ‘useless results’ with ‘generations of imperial blowback and a world-historical squandering of resources’

What I love about this racist fetish is that the Western Civilization Supremacists don’t understand the Christians won a grand total of one out of seven Crusades

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This is only one bit of anecdotal evidence. I say we must immediately begin large-scale tests of his hypothesis.

Correct & definitive answer. Everyone can now stop posting on this subject.

For a moment I thought this was a reference to the explosion following the death of William the Conqueror

APB for assault /kidnapping perps > “I apologize”

Netflix: "We don't want movies to even go into theaters because that reduces demand on our product." Also Netflix: "We demand that you treat our original films as amazing motion picture experiences worthy of being seen in a theater!" Gotta pick, dudes. Got. To. Pick.

I just received notification from University IT warning us about phishing attacks that “seem too good to be true” and I can’t stop thinking about the scammer last year who wanted us to enter our credentials to register for our 5% annual cost-of-living raise.

2026, dir. Cronenberg

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

If people understood orders of magnitude better, more people would favor socialism

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Then, to my siblings in Valhalla: “LOL, Cuomo thought he’d be in Valhalla“

1998 called, they want their hit pieces back

The Oceans Eleven of Louis Bonaparte www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/w...

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Somewhere in the afterlife Sam Beckett is smiling with satisfaction. Or perhaps not perhaps its all a meaningless void of non-existence 🤷

Silent movie edition! THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE CINEMATOGRAPH (1901) was a joke that was taken seriously by later generations. "Look at this smock-wearing country dolt, I bet he thinks movie trains will hit him!" quickly became a much-repeated "fact" about early cinema.

Sinners (2025)

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Did not realize how much I needed @aywarhiannon.bsky.social's absolute banger of a rant on the new @fivefourpod.bsky.social. Suck it up buttercups, and get yourself some dialectical materialism! History is contingent! We make our own but not in circumstances of our choosing.

universe loading the bases for a walkoff grand slam

Migration is fundamentally good, and it's the job of governments to build institutions that allow people from wildly different backgrounds to live together in harmony and prosperity, not cater to xenophobic fear-mongering among people who have no idea what they're talking about

I don't have a good answer for what the alternative looks like, but asking 18 years to bet their future on highly specified training for jobs based on which they think will be in high demand 5-10 years from now turned out to be a very bad way to structure higher education

Hell yes, I am down youtu.be/Cyj_N0TqNyc?...

Unfortunately the entire team exclusively has Ph.D.s in marketing psychology

Using ‘furthest point of a trip in that direction’: N: Arctic circle waters N of Iceland E: Petra, Jordan S: Sydney W: All the way around!

What if GG Allin was created by K Mart that’d be even more punk rock and Better Art

You figure Mamet, who writes those brilliant Mamet characters, is smarter or more insightful than them. But over the course of this dramedy you discover, no, he’s just Ricky Roma, a guy who can close a bit more than the other guys in that room youtu.be/Be62DXxpgq0?...

Most people don’t know this amount of head room was just not technically achievable in 1939. If Fleming et al had access to AI, this is how the shot would’ve been framed!

We need a Freddie Krueger of the left

“Even I have to admit I’ve been wrong on every past issue. But you should trust me this time.” — War crime enthusiast Bill Kristol

Go further: 'Broken windows' approach, but applied to cops. Zero tolerance for speeding, parking in a red zone, etc., unless it's demonstrably necessary to stop a crime in progress.

One thing undercovers are really bad at is saying “Excuse me” and squeezing by you in a crowd without conveying that they’re gonna make you move no matter what

Remember to shut the fuck up. Tell your family and friends to shut the fuck up. Don’t out/id protesters, intentionally or unintentionally. Wear a mask.

The preamble of the Declaration of Independence contains the answer to the question. (No state has the right to exist.)

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KPBS has reporting on the ICE raids at a restaurant in San Diego: www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

This is the key to understanding A.I. It is a bullshit machine that automates the generation of bullshit. In a sane world, we'd try to decrease the amount of bullshit we require people to produce but instead we automate it