if your commitment to democracy is predicated on a specific and static demographic makeup of the population in question then it is not much of a commitment at all

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This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order

more forums in general, please, i am begging

easy to write this off as purely rhetoric but regardless it's a rhetoric that has otherwise disappeared from our elected officials

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

it’s good puzzmo.com/play/ribbit/...

happy new journal/planner day to all who celebrate

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

wow am i not excited to hear about “america 250” all year

Happy Mamdani New Year to all those who celebrate

i got into cryptic crosswords in 2025, thanks to @momes.bsky.social and @dobolino.bsky.social, @boobypuppy.bsky.social, @mossdef.bsky.social, @joshuakosman.bsky.social, @lrlr.bsky.social, @unchcrosswords.com. best part of the year. i’m bad at them still but steadily improving and it’s v rewarding :)

Max Beckmann, Happy New Year, 1917

just like everyone predicted

i love blocking people on here because i’ll never think about them again but they can see i’ve blocked them and i feel confident it’s annoyed at least one person

Lots of people wanna say 77 million people are irredeemable. I think that's wrong, but lots of those people are, but the real solution is a positive vision of real change that mobilizes nonvoters. Then we don't have to give a shit about these fucking dorks.

"That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, ... renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pauses myself, when I feel drunk with the intensity of life and I want to plunge into animality to draw from it new vigour."

AND IT'S ARSENAL ARSENAL FC! WE'RE BY FAR THE GREATEST TEAM THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!

this might be the most dominant arsenal half of the arteta era

dec 30th, the return of the gabriels

VAR going back to see if Davor Šuker was offside in 1999

another VAR embarrassment regardless of the outcome

Hang five on this execrable team

massive

LOL gabriel is back

i hope to become even more annoying in 2026

Remember: Everyone is fighting a battle you can't see. Be kind in 2026.

they don't want you to know because it'd be too dangerous in the hands of the general public, but a coke zero + shot of espresso over ice actually heals every ailment

trump should put out some obama-style lists of his favorite fox news segments of the year since he can’t read

nooooo

at this point waymos seem more or less completely integrated into austin traffic, to the point where i do not even register a thought when seeing one. is this abnormal? are most people still surprised by driverless cars?

Imagine being a grown adult who works as a political writer and thinking America had a great reputation until we started cozying up to Putin, like nobody cared about slavery or imperialist wars or colonialism or extractive capitalism or all the other anticommunist monsters we propped up

the talent density at austin systems is actually insane. that’s why you 🫵 should come by and give a talk and hang out sometime

Sudoku purists : scanning for “weak cells” and “Naked singles” 👀 .. oh NO—DEADLY PATERN!! CALL MY WIFE, sudoku “variant enjoyers”: We encoded a finite-domain constraint satisfaction problem over planar hypergraphs of king move adjacency. also, there is a fucking Rat in the grid .

The top 1% own 51% of stocks The bottom 50% own 1% GS

perfect 90s albums? there are many good choices but i must go with the absolute goat www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBAV...

been using vivaldi for at least a year now, on windows mac and ios, and it rules

one of my favorite moments of the year was when a high level manager at work finished giving an AI hype speech to a big room of people and in the following silence pleaded, "this is a positive message, guys!" eat shit, no one's buying it

not going to read if there's some Discourse happening but if you think john prine or jesse welles is cool, check out willi carlisle

they're hotboxing that shit

if i get dementia i would prefer you shoot me in the head at point blank range than do this, thanks in advance

Found a bookstore that stocks your novels

no longer enjoying this game

If I get 10 more $6 a month patrons that'd go a long way in keeping it sustainable for me to keep having my zines printed professionally, instead of doing it by hand in my garage, which is a huge weight off my shoulders.

one of the more annoying pistons games of the year

lol @ the ashes tonight

manti te’o, brandon marshall, and seth rollins is a nightmare nfl panel jesus christ

the windows are open and i’m coming around on the 77 degree christmas day