"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." - Matthew 5:7

I dare you to boop him awake.

I fell a couple of times for AI slop on Bluesky the last few weeks. The problem was letting my guard down. Unlike Twitter, BS isn't a place where expect a lot of slop circulating. We can't trust any place to be 'clean', folks, even if the vast majority of users are good people.

Either Joe Rogan really is the biggest idiot in human history or so beholden to Peter Thiel that he has no choice but to keep humiliating himself. Either way, let this be a lesson: never again give professional morons like him millions of dollars and a platform. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fKY...

There's a thin line between grandiose and grotesque. Arc de Triomphe? Grandiose. Trump's arch? Grotesque.

I just heard @edzitron.com call AI psychosis phenomenon 'Son of Sam Altman' and that maybe the single greatest line we aren't using often enough.

Unlike 'scripture' quoted by some people currently in charge of a nation's military, my favorite biblical verse *is* actually in the Bible: Proverbs 12:10: "A righteous man hath regard for the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."

Nobody: Absolutely no one: Not a single person on the planet: YouTube:

The United States has fought six major wars in Asia since the end of World War II (not counting proxy wars and special operations): Korea: stalemate Vietnam: lost Gulf: won Iraq: won, but failed long-term goals Afghanistan: lost Iran: stalemate Not a great track record.

This is truly one of the most bafflingly naive opinion pieces on AI I have read in a long time. www.wsj.com/opinion/with...

"Pope Leo is WEAK on crime" Murder rate in Vatican City last ten years (per 100.000 inhabitants): 2016: 0,0 2017: 0,0 2018: 0,0 2019: 0,0 2020: 0,0 2021: 0,0 2022: 0,0 2023: 0,0 2024: 0,0 2025: 0,0

People who say that Magyar isn't a liberal because he has conservative social views are, respectfully, missing the point: this Hungarian election was about *democracy and freedom*.

Texting with Hungarian colleagues. So much happiness and relief, it's heartwarming. Can't understate how difficult the past 16 years were for the free and independent press under Orbán. My colleagues tell me it feels like a seismic shift in the spirit of 1956. It's history.

Nobody: Absolutely no one: Not a soul: YouTube: "Here's a four-hour video essay about why a 1997 movie nobody remembers was terrible."

Timeline cleanser.

I once told my partner that 'So Far So Good' by Bryan Adams (a 1993 best-of compilation) was the first CD I ever bought, when I was 13 years old, but that I didn't have it anymore. So she bought it for me. I am speechless. 🥺😍

If it's 2026 and you're a man still wondering 'why people did not file a police report' after surviving assault, I don't know what to tell you.

In fairness: Mexico announced universal healthcare years ago and bungled it, then Sheinbaum's predecessor and political mentor López Obrador made the Trumpian promise of making Mexican healthcare 'as good as Denmark's' and made a complete mess, too. Not counting our chickens just yet.

This is some WSJ Editorial Board-level sanewashing by Ross Douthat.

It's hard to overstate the degree to which Trump II's domestic and foreign policies amount to an aggressive anti-growth agenda, at home and abroad. The stock market may have no way to deal with the cognitive dissonance other than to go up, but this administration is committed to tanking the economy.

You may or may not agree with Mamdani's politics, but I think we can all agree that he has social media skills.

Fascists: first they go after their enemies, then they go after their allies, then they go after their friends and finally they go after themselves.

Trust us, @nytimes.com, WE KNOW.

I thought the Warhammer 40.000 aesthetic was supposed to be satire.

I just thought of another terrible consequence of the war against Iran: once Tehran starts charging a toll in crypto currencies to ships passing the Strait of Hormuz, this will actually boost crypto - meaning the bros will soon crawl out of their holes again. It will be torture.

Trump says "THE UNITED STATES IS NOW THE 'HOTTEST' ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!" I mean, if his energy and climate 'policies' continue, it will be - in a few decades.

Leo XIV clearly wants to position himself as a credible mediator who is not beholden to a superpower. This is positive.

Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS PENTAGON TO COMPLY WITH RULING RESTORING PRESS ACCESS - COURT DECISION

Protesters were shot, migrants abducted and put in concentration camps, thousands of people were killed in pointless wars, the global economy pushed into chaos by wars and tariffs. ... but please, let's whine about 'wokeness' again. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

"The allies I repeatedly said I didn't need weren't there when I needed them."

"I'm handsome. I know it, you know it, the pope knows it. Deal with it." - Teddy, 2026

On the other hand, Gilded Age famously didn't actually last that long. Just a few decades.

Oh my.

This is such a fascinating train of thought and the more I think about it, the more I agree.

A majority of Canadians apparently approves of Canadian EU membership. While I understand the sentiment, I don't think it's a great idea. Some sort of free association treaty would probably be better for both.

Since World War II, the United States has fought seven wars in Asia. It has won two (Gulf, Syria), lost two (Vietnam, Afghanistan) and stalemated three (Iraq, Iran, Korea). Not a great record, tbh.

The worst thing about today is how horribly the West has let the Iranian people down - again. Instead of freedom, they got six weeks of hell for a status quo ante bellum under the same regime that murdered them by the thousands just months ago.

It's been a long day for Teddy too.

That's $300 million *per day* once traffic is back to pre-war levels.

One thing should be absolutely crystal clear: it doesn't whether you plan to carry it out or not, threatening to 'destroy a civilization' is NEVER, I repeat, *NEVER* an acceptable negotiating strategy for any nation or leader.

He TACO'd, as expected. Point still stands.

Given Trump's genocidal insanity and JD Vance's disgusting interference in a European election, perhaps it's not the US but Europe that should exit NATO and set up a pan-European defense pact.

Agreed. Whether it's against trans people, immigrants or a foreign nation of 90 million people, the violence is born in the same rancid crucible of hatred against the 'other'. Dehumanize trans people, dehumanize Iranians, dehumanize Mexicans, dehumanize immigrants - the root is the same.

If Trump carries out his threats tonight (for the record: I'm still leaning towards believing he won't) it won't be Iranian civilization that dies. It'll be the US that will no longer be considered a civilized nation.

Can't stop thinking the very polite, police-permitted "no civil disobedience" No Kings Protests... And the moment we are in now, in which Trump is openly threatening to destroy an entire civilization -- and people are hoping someone else (Congress) does something about it.

To all the manly man tough guy podcasters who suddenly have buyer's remorse: you're not fooling anyone with your sudden faux little 'I have integrity and common sense now' act. Rogan, Ryan, Von, Schulz et al.: the world knows what you did and will never respect you again.

Timeline cleanser: Teddy loves going to places. The destination doesn't matter, it's the going on a trip that excites him most.

*Spoken by a grifter who knows his business is in peril and who thinks pretending that he didn't know exactly what he voted for will somehow help him avoid accountability.

We're at the point where Trump just talks like the auto-complete function in a messaging app: random words strung together into completely nonsensical gibberish.