- mind like a diamond - knows what's best - shoes that cut - eyes that burn like cigarettes - right allocations - fast - thorough - sharp as a tack

Hard to imagine this will not escalate, esp in cities like Austin where local government got rid of the cameras and DPS installed their own out of spite, just because the governor wanted to "own the libs." They'd probably have a hard time getting a jury to convict over it, too.

DPS installs license plate reader cameras in Austin, months after city ended program https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/dps-license-plate-reader-cameras-austin/269-372ec82a-ab8f-4f95-aa45-b0157dbf9b5c 

[nodding] the mitochondria is the whorehouse of the cell

I honestly think one reason Millennials are so angry about all this is that many of us grew up during the brief period in American history where the official line was that we had won history *because* of our values, and most of us actually internalized that.

Not to my credit I keep singing "Malick Thiaw" to the tune of "Bella Ciao"

turning on women’s curling and doing the Leo pointing meme when I see Cory Thiesse on the television

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

I would adjust this to say that Computer is still evolving in fascinating ways, but Things To Do With Computer is not

Gurgling with pleasure at this wording

"All [men] are created equal" is a deeply liberal idea and the entire history of American "conservative intellectualism" has been trying to figure out ways to deny it

Who decides what's too controversial? One professor worries it'll be university presidents and others who "haven't set foot in a classroom in years." https://www.kxan.com/news/education/university-of-texas-regents-to-vote-on-controversial-topics-standards-faculty-group-says-it-opposes-censorship/ 

Ken Paxton just unilaterally gutted part of the Sandra Bland Act, one provision of which required independent investigations of county jail deaths. Paxton ruled investigations needn't happen if a prisoner dies in a hospital, ambulance, etc., off jail grounds, so many cases now won't be investigated.

That parody song of Shia stalking someone just keeps getting more relevant. youtu.be/o0u4M6vppCI?...

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

A Real Man should have only one pair of jeans that he renews every 10 years like a passport

if you hate or love "maxxing" please be advised that guys my age think it's funny as hell and will shortly be using it approx. 500 times a day. you will be cringemaxxing and despairmaxxing but no amount of cringe & no depth of despair will stop the guys my age from usemaxxing "maxxing." just fyi

Me in social groups:

2026 basically

There used to be a ton of right-leaning artists, poets, writers etc. This kind of person doesn't really exist anymore because all right wing energy is aimed at asserting the intrinsic superiority of this or that arbitrary genetic group on a podcast

Gemini still can't coordinate with Google Assistant to avoid duplicating everything with multiple devices

Talarico, at least, is very explicit about his religion being a private guide and not for him to impose on others. Many feel the same way but feel too isolated to say it

To discoursesmash, I feel there is some overlap between the ills of cosmetic surgery and genaimaxxing: convergence to a dull average that feels ok but unsatisfying

Someone got yelled at

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

One of the annoying features of Texas gerrymandering is that *both* parties wind up with mostly uncompetitive districts, so you wind up selecting for the best infighters

Tbh I'm not at all convinced that the richer and more educated aren't, in certain cases, more bigoted

Meet a nice lad from Birmingham who had strong (negative) options on whether Kentucky should be in the SEC

If I had to crystalize my concern about Crockett as a general election candidate in one thought: it's that the only competitive elections she's been in have been against other Democrats

They're coming for adult care and they're explicit about it.

The Colonel and Cole Palmer

EXCLUSIVE: 21 Texas state legislators have signed a new letter to Congress demanding major ICE reforms and declaring the agency “an unaccountable paramilitary force that threatens the constitutional rights and safety of the communities we serve.” thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/13/t...

Yeah maybe you shouldn't have endorsed in the first place

The Milwaukee Road alliance

Me, trying to upset everyone at once: look, what if we just donated North Texas to Oklahoma

when your party is all dominance-minded megalomaniacs who spent months gassing each other up about the vast implications of a 1 point victory, the mere fact that americans refuse to go along with their own subjugation feels like a grievous offense

Nah, Douglas is the worst city in England

Pawterdämmerung, is this anything

Tbh the Coast Guard doesn't look great in this story

Made an Improved NATO Phonetic Alphabetic for all my beautiful commuters—hopefully this is helpful!

I watched a Mitch Hooper video recently where he asked a doctor how much he'd prescribe for a regular patient, not a pro athlete looking for enhancement, and bro said 1000mg. I lost my shit.

She said I know what it's like to be dead I know what it is to be sad And she's making me feel like I've never been born

60 items on this ballot, lol

How did I wind up with the moodiest printer on the face of the planet? Constantly deciding it is "not available right now"

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There's a comment in here that people need to focus on. Talarico mentions people who come up to him after events and whisper, as a secret, that they're not Democrats. I don't think our pundit class understands the cultural prohibition against openly identifying as a Democrat in much of the country

To be provocative: psychologically, why do Americans hate the concept of shantytowns so much?

I didn't actually see him saying we should house the homeless here

Finally: The perfect shirt to wear to World Cup matches at New York New Jersey Stadium this summer