I thought this was a metaphor. It is not.

WHOLE THREAD But if you ever, ever, ever think 'heeeey this seems fishy' always call back and always use the company number YOU HAVE, not the one they give you.

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Because California allows people to postmark ballots on the day of the election! The other option is to require votes to *arrive* by Election Day, a rule that would end up disenfranchising voters. Why is everyone pretending this is a huge problem?

Capitalism is able to distribute racism more efficiently than any other system in human history! /s

“Public confidence” is exactly my point though. The villains here are the bad-faith actors eroding public confidence, not the totally normal election procedures. There is no reason taking a week to count votes is a problem by itself!

get rich quick scams have been incredibly effective throughout human history and we are living through their greatest golden age yet it’s never been a better time to be a charlatan

Please keep reposting this. Every time you do, his legs wiggle involuntarily like a little pig's

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

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Your annual reminder that elderly people are the most vulnerable demographic to death and severe injury during heat waves - and many of them, especially those raised in cooler times, struggle or outright refuse to believe heat can kill them. Keep close tabs on them on hot days.

THEY'RE SO SHINY YOU CAN SEE A REFLECTION OF YOURSELF NOT BEING ABLE TO AFFORD GROCERIES!

Moo Deng been real fuckin quiet since Brötchen dropped

It’s interesting how some version of this map replicates itself in every city election in America. Traditional redlined burbs: the conservative candidate Professional class renter neighborhoods: the progressive reformer Traditional Black/ Hispanic neighborhoods: the establishment Dem

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LOOK AT BREAD ROLL

Findings like these are produced regularly but readers will never see them in the nyt.🧵

"Milkshake Duck" originated 10 years ago today! Who are some of your favorite examples of milkshake ducks? (People, brands, organizations, products, etc.) @pixelatedboat.bsky.social

being transgender is amazing and beautiful, transitioning is one of the greatest choices you can ever make and i hope more people realize that its not dangerous or evil, but liberating

I want you to notice how this article, which took two journalists to write, doesn't even bother to seriously explore whether the claims being made by companies are true it's genuinely just not relevant to them

Whether you're a fascist or someone ineffectual at resisting fascism, everybody can dress like an asshole!

I'm not a Buttigieg fan, but I'll say this - this is how I would hope to see every Democrat who was even thinking of running for prez in 2028 talk to have even a chance of reversing course after a trump.

No, the assumption that disabled people require our colleagues’ stolen words and illustrations chopped up and spewed out in order to participate in art is ableist. We have BEEN creating art. Many of the works you love? Made by someone marginalized out of traditional jobs.

Trans women's status as so dehumanized as to not be worth defending is long established, but even so this is pretty fucking brazen.

Let's assume, for argument's sake, that the Knicks really did, unlikely as it seems, win Game 4. The problem is that many, many, MANY of us simply cannot believe it. It seems for all the world like cheating. This matters, & is going to matter more.

Notably the first time I think I've seen a major presidential candidate (let's not be coy about that) mention expanding the House.

WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

Worth noting that in 1921, the American Yiddish-language press described the anti-Black Tulsa massacre as a “pogrom,” because they knew that was the word that would best make their immigrant Ashkenazi Jewish readers understand what happened. ingeveb.org/blog/the-mos...

Pikachu learns it is complicit in war crimes

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

This is going to be such a good learning experience for Europeans about why air conditioning is in fact life-saving and not a frivolous luxury

"No, Liz, it's not Evan Almighty. It's Ethan Almighty, a movie about a rescue dog. Kelsey Grammer plays the Governor of Kentucky. I'm the voice of the dog."

Erin Allen @wbez.org highlights Chicago’s gay beach in the 48th ward and Jerry Marcoccia who built this welcoming community for all. Loved hearing familiar voices @byadamrhodes.bsky.social @rebeccakling.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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To all the people glumly stating you can’t go after Elon Musk because he’s rich: you have been trained into holding this false belief. There is absolutely no physical or natural law stating that really rich men cannot be punished. The only barrier is cowardice.

"the national park service, which appears to be taking its instruction from ufc," we gotta put so many people in jail

MOTHERFUCKER

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

they should be slicing up these people's brains and putting them under a microscope after they die like wrestlers and NFL players man. chronic transphobic encephalopathy

the baffling to me about Bluesky is that often they have really cool ideas (like Feeds! and more detailed reply/quote/etc management, and the nuclear block (yes I know a lot of people don't like this you don't have to tell me)) but then they vibe code it and push it out with terrible UI design 🙃

alot of problem with cops is 1) they're legally allowed to do anything if they're scared 2) they're trained to be afraid of everything

Flagging because of all the suggestions that people — usually journalists — play audio of Trump to anyone who says they “haven’t seen that.” Rep. Sykes does just that.

When the Artemis program was first announced, the claim, all over the website, was that the landing mission (which has since been shifted from III to IV) would include "the first woman and the first person of color" to walk on the Moon. Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.

I have a moral obligation to repost this every time raw milk is in the news.

Target Scales Back Pride Section To Single T-Shirt Saying They’d Do A Threesome With A Girl For Their Boyfriend’s Birthday https://theonion.com/target-scales-back-pride-section-to-single-t-shirt-sayi-1850501108/

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

I have never seen such a bunch of reactionaries in my life as the US media establishment. Someone with 0 followers & a sickle in the bio told you to go die so now all leftism is evil. some asshole on an ebike ran into your kid so now bike lanes must be destroyed. Its like watching children do meth

Why is the Supreme Court Historical Society selling a peg doll set featuring only the current male justices? Who would want this? supremecourtgifts.org/products/sup...

I'm far more terrified of gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets kicking in doors, checking cars, attacking anyone they want with apparent impunity than I am of being stabbed by someone with a different religion or country of origin.