Apple blackinum - Ross Neely https://macthemes.garden/themes/f3385ad319d9-Apple-blackinum

Seems like people now broadly understand that data centers use a ton of energy but pols are happy to trade that for "high tech jobs." But just bc it's big computer doesn't means it's big jobs! It's a big storage facility. The jobs are mostly in construction, with a tiny maintenance crew thereafter.

No one is making you be a writer if you can’t do it and also don’t enjoy doing it. If you’re larping a job for clout I’d probably pick surgeon or Nobel prize winning diplomat, stealing valor for from isolated weirdos at their laptops is like shoplifting from the landfill.

one of the reasons they are invulnerable to criticism is that an entirely neutral description of their personal conduct, and their conduct in office, sounds like deranged slander.

I’m not religious so I don’t care about the blasphemy per se. Whatever passes for my soul, however, can’t accept that the American right has now merged the rituals of death with the aesthetics of a monster truck rally.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Judging by Miller’s statements over the years, I’m assuming it’s a Grand Dragon.

“And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.” Traditionally, the dragon isn’t one of the good guys. 🤷‍♂️

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

“This is just like Mussolini” man this shit is Mississippi

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

i also want to note that "i don't want children to have to undergo genital inspections" is an extremely easy argument to make and the fact that elected liberals cannot manage it is because they are either incompetent or complicit and i do not give a shit which

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

"Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."

They have abandoned the teachings of dril

Rapture theology - that the holy will be beamed to heaven before a period of tribulation - is a concept younger than the steam-powered locomotive. It's neither widely accepted as a Christian doctrine nor widely believed outside the United States.

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

I realize not everyone knows this, but when the Canon Creators convened to invent science fiction they actually specified that the first word is an acronym of "Science, Chaos, Invertebrates, Extraterrestrials, Cats, and Entropy" and I for one think it's important the genre respect its roots

Years ago I went in to select an iPhone for our cell plan. For the model I wanted, the only colour available was Rose Gold. I had to confirm with the salesperson multiple times that I, a cis man, would be okay with a slightly pinkish phone (that was going into a phone case anyway.) 🙄

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

Good morning

I went through the hour special and outside of the "I'm a Christian and family man" stuff here's all two minutes of him actually talking, and you can see why ABC didn't air this

GreenTech OS - Terra Jo M. B. McGrail https://macthemes.garden/themes/2b7b26537da3-GreenTech-OS

beale *is* an unhinged maniac. depressed, alienated and antisocial. and his rant, critically, is inchoate, apolitical, reactionary rage, packaged in a bow for advertisers. what the movie gets absolutely right is the way that alienation is just another product.

“Bob Colgate” 🤣🤣🤣

We need to get the Internet back to what it was meant for Cat memes and arguing about who’d win in a fight, the Enterprise or a Star Destroyer

holy shit this is so fucking funny cc @angryblacklady.bsky.social

I’ve had great respect for Watson since her dealings with the reactionary wing of the atheist movement. Nice to know she still brings the thunder…

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

I don’t know what The Discourse around DA: Veilguard is/was and I don’t care because I love these characters more than any other DA characters so far. Man, what a year for RPGs.

The idea of ethics—free speech, standing up to a vengeful would-be autocrat—that sneaks into the VERY last bit of the article… “All of this will have to be carefully weighed, in addition to the ethical considerations of taking a stand against censorship,” he said. “I don’t envy Bob his decision.”

Every time one of those “Bluesky is worthless, Twitter is where it’s at, that’s why I take time out of my day to post this on Bluesky” things gets attention on here, a bunch of people go “I get way more traffic from Bluesky than I ever did from Twitter, and even if I didn’t it’s way too unpleasant.”

The right has four different social networks (five if you count Twitter, which you should), one of which is the current US President's primary social network, and the left kind of accidentally found ourselves having one, even though the people who run this site hate us and don't want us here.

At Edmonton Expo, and so far the celebrity who wins the award for “most surprisingly handsome in real life when you walk past his autograph booth” is Brandon Routh.

I don’t have to like them, I don’t have to be friends with them, I don’t have to be cool with all their ideas, I don’t have to dig the language they use. I just want them to stop trying to kill me and my friends. This is not a wildly outrageous thing to expect. The problem is not on my end here

“We have to live with each other” Okay listen I am perfectly content to live in the same country with these people provided they stop trying to dominate and kill everyone they don’t like, I don’t think that’s an unreasonable ask

i just fucking hated charlie kirk while he was alive and it's kind of great seeing that 0 people actually are sad about his death at all. like there is no room for personal tributes of any kind because he had no redeeming qualities to honor. they're fully making up a guy to be sad over

it is funny that kirk was such an unseasoned noodle of a man that no one is revisiting anything he said or going to places that he loved or playing his favorite games or watching his favorite movies. they are like "we will pay tribute to him by doing what he loved: hoaxes to abuse baristas"

"...we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass..." MUSCLE MASS CHANGES WITH HORMONE THERAPY! Please learn something, anything, just the most basic things about trans people before weighing in on these "concerns" or you just end up looking like an easily duped fool at best.

The first time an Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause, public outrage forced a reversal in less than 24 hours. I wish to God Albertans would show the same moral fury now, when school children are outed & bullied by the government that is supposed to protect them. #ableg #abpoli

Mosaica Francais - Martha Royer https://macthemes.garden/themes/e734b78278a5-Mosaica-Francais

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

Hey, what do you think is more likely guys: Indian firms and US firms start hiring more US workers Or Indian firms and US firms start the biggest offshore program to do the work in India and China you’ve ever seen in your life causing a net drop in jobs for US workers

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

Dystopian Sci Fi: after The Regime installed FearNet, they used its extensive surveillance data to create bespoke tortures for each individual" Real life: The government has demanded that every business give them one million dollars or they will go to jail

Doing a Batman thread for Batman Day. Batman!

Can’t read this without hearing Kevin Conroy’s voice