“a public pressure campaign against an institution can include social media as a vector” got transmuted into “bullying works” and now people think dunks and death threats are as powerful as Common Sense

one of the best arguments against this insane and stupid war, in fact, is that it has absolutely retrenched the worst elements of the regime and given them a whole new shared-trauma to use to self-mythologize and legitimate themselves. the revolutionary/iran-iraq war generation was dying out.

So what do we think... TACO Monday or are we going to wake up to the next layer of wartime escalation?

I’d never really experienced it much before but holy shit now I know what people mean when they say the Azov Battalion has an austerity problem

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Somehow this is what broadcasts as the nukes launch. youtu.be/E3YGtQ40Qvs?...

Every now and again I trip over an absolutist opinion about how GM secrets or deception is always bad, and I wince. It’s a bad take. And self defeating. It’s cool not to want those things, but convincing yourself of a universal truth of them is just setting yourself up for self-deception.

What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

The goat is incorrect. youtu.be/5qdP7lr8kI4?...

He's really just posting through it, huh Shortly after saying he wants to "wind the war down" whatever that means:

it’s weird to have so many Historic Events happening yet also to find it so boring. it’s like if you had a frantic wolverine in your house destroying everything. it’s all unprecedented but what are you gonna say at a certain point beyond “yeah. there’s a wolverine breaking everything. seems bad.”

Spent about 10 hours today writing or editing and my brain feels like pudding. To be fair, I imagine it's usually like pudding. But now it's like. Pudding that knows it's pudding.

This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

WE MADE A TELEVISION SHOW. @victorlavalle.bsky.social & I adapted his incredible book The Devil in Silver into a new season of THE TERROR alongside Karyn Kusama & Ridley Scott. Dan Stevens will blow you away this. So will Judith Light. CCH Pounder. Stephen Root. The cast is stacked. May 7th. 😈 🚪🔒

Unlike information obtained from cellphone providers, this data can be accessed without a warrant — and used to track anyone.

polls taken in 1947 post-war Germany after the death & destruction, the revelations about the camps, lost family members, the Nuremberg trials, the reporting found an estimated 30% still supported or had a soft spot for hitler, cult members never accept reality they feel attacked & become protective

Predicted about 2 years ago that people would (stupidly, imo) freak out about DLSS. Now almost every post on my damn timeline is about it. I should really be doing polymarket or something huh :p Except polymarket is stupid, and also, I'm far too lazy to gamble using my Kwisatz haderach powers.

Something I have found myself wondering since I was a teenager on an almost daily basis: Outside guiding our own actions (which can be done without opening our mouths, theoretically), what exactly do people think their morality DOES?

Purposefully eating a raw onion like an apple at a historical inauguration for enbies is a form of anti-blackness

BREAKING: The World Health Organization says it is preparing for a possible nuclear incident if the Iran war escalates. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Average Bsky poster: "We must inaugurate a Second Reconstruction with blood and fire." Average Democratic politician: "We are in a war for the Republic, which is why I propose a 23.7% tax cut." Average liberal columnist: "For too long the transgenders have blocked research into the racial IQ gap."

The Fallen Cycle is an existential fairy tale for those of us who may have grown but never outgrew the occult logic of myths and dreams. www.fallencycle.com/podcast

Apparently the meme of the day is about DLSS? My games look great on a 4070 super with it on so I don't think I've got anything to contribute.

Second half of the most recent episode (Monarch) is still one of the funnier things I've ever written (imo). www.fallencycle.com/podcast

What To Know About ‘Sinners’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sinners/

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

Looking forward to the "Netanyahu is a clone" theories to follow public appearances. Middle East crisis live: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Re the alleged Netanyahu-is-secretly-dead videos: he doesn’t have a 6th finger, and the foam in the coffee clearly shifts. We are really in bad shape with AI doubt at this point, but what I keep coming back to is “conspiracy-without-the-theory”: WHY would the Israeli govt conceal his death w/fakes?

This is exciting. They just made all of the Ars Magica RPG - rules and suppliments - open source and free to own! www.atlas-games.com/arsmagica/op...

Hello, Gaius Cassius Longinus here. I have a favor to ask you. Julius Caesar has DECLARED himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE! I need you to send a denarius to Save The Republic PAC RIGHT NOW so we can stop Caesar from making himself a king.

I find it interesting how little of the discussion of the strait of hormuz being "closed" accurated frames it as a result of insurance risk to tankers. A lot of news reports talk about it like the Iranians closed a gate or something.

Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but

For those of us watching this... yeah, 2027 is looking like it's going to be incredibly hot in terms of the global average. Yet again, not that he's infallible or anything but James Hansen was probably right about this. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-el-nin...

I don't think it's necessarily how things are going to go, but it would be pretty ironic if the war with Iran forces more of the world to decarbonize.

How does one do the ctrl+alt+delete thing but with a society

Xeni Jardin teams up with controversial, ableist garf account and disgraced vlogger, Joko Widodo, in a new podcast which promises to be as shitty as you're imagining it to be.

This escalated fast, in a good way.

In fairness, every boat can be a minesweeper at least once.

The problem is that a major war against a country of 93 million people just doesn't *matter* that much to most people, people broadly don't like it, but mostly they just don't seem to care.

Finally got both basses to the shop for repair and a setup. That and about 3 hours of intensive focus work was enough to do me in for the day.

What gets me about this story is that on the one hand you have the possibility the US is using "AI" much as the IDF has in Gaza (as reported by +972 / the Guardian) and agency washing using it ... or you have the possibility that they *aren't*, and are agency washing on the claim that they are.

bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods

I don't know WTF is going on but we've had block-wide many hour long power outages every day, sometimes several times a day, for like 3-4 days now. No weather or notable construction, just infrastructure falling apart.

www.wired.com/story/bluesk... Venture capitalist interim. Go figure

www.cnn.com/world/live-n... Not exactly a surprise.