Great item today from @cheetah.bsky.social on JD Vance's forthcoming conversion memoir. TL;DR: Although Vance is Catholic, the cover photo for his book depicts a (very photogenic) Methodist church. www.thebulwark.com/i/192730409/...

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AOC was very famously a bartender, markwayne mullin inherited and sold a family plumbing business for millions, which of these two does the median american think to be more blue collar-coded?

Not only is the art bland, the call-out copy on the blue cover reads like a warning against cardiac arrest while pooping.

another day in which, on top of everything else, I'm mad about the SFF cover shift from "little pre-raphaelite painting you can put in your pocket" to "we gave the intern our Canva log-in"

"Deckard: take these blades and just ... run! Run like the wind!"

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Why I'm canceling my monthly contribution to the Working Families Party

"But the Palestinians being executed by Israel confessed to being terrorists!" PALESTINIANS. DETAINED. UNDER. MILITARY. LAW. DON'T. GET. LAWYERS. DURING. THEIR. INTERROGATIONS. AND. TORTURING. THEM. IS. ROUTINE. AND. LEGAL.

Yes, it's bad for gas prices, (soon) food prices, the economy, and the stock market. I feel concern about those issues, too. But it's *a lot worse* for the people of Iran, Lebanon, and a bunch of Gulf states who are dying in the violence of this foolish, illegal war.

Hell yeah, Ian Shoales!

Ben Gvir's equivalent in US politics would be literally if the leader of the Aryan Nations splinter group The Order were elected to Congress and given a cabinet position instead of dying in a shootout with the FBI. It's difficult to explain how much of a supremacist extremist Ben Gvir is.

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Don't forget to be one of the billions against billionaires. billionsvsbillionaires.itch.io

reading a book about a bad person will in fact turn you into one. authors are lying to you about this because they’re all bad people themselves

I remember a friend in Gaza saying that even though the boats didn't get to them, Israel was so busy intercepting them that the people in Gaza could fish again. Think I was ugly crying when I read it the first time.

Step one: don’t serve ham at Passover

Leaving aside the fact that Star Trek has always been political, when do the Fed and the Romulans fight? Those Trek stories are tales of political intrigue and brinksmanship, and the big shooting fights are 90% shots of the cast clutching their chairs while one of them counts down percentages.

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Couldn't remember the name Tommaso Ciampa, blurted out "Tomato Campbell's" instead.

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I've lost 70 pounds in the last year, but the BMI says I'm still 20 pounds overweight for my height. When I mentioned this to my doctor she just rolled her eyes and said to forget it.

This is an explicit rejection of the Status Quo which has stood for nearly 300 years and Israel agreed to abide by in 1949 If Israel can’t/wont do this they are actively provoking religious conflict with the Christians (specifically Catholics here) www.reuters.com/world/middle...

No Kings 3 at Dothan, AL (where city officials just gave Tuberville and Britt awards for good citizenship) had c. 200 participants. Area towns that never had Trump protests before did this time, so the residents who had joined us in the past did not do so this time.

there's also something so weird about this idea that what appeals to, say, someone in Baltimore won't appeal to say, someone in Detroit. like, every state has a few major cities, and those cities have more in common *with each other* than they do with their neighboring rural areas

Holy New York.

I say this gently and with love. The ppl watching the No Kings protests and saying “I have nothing in common with these normies, but I support the wine moms and fleece vest dads” are in denial. You are a middle aged bike commuter with a dog and a mortgage. You are these normies.

not hard

He's doing a cringe safari for the everything app, I think

Very common sentiment among people who either don't or refuse to understand that protests themselves are sites of struggle. Is the demand "no deportations without due process" or "no more deportations!" for example. That question is had out on the streets to a certain extent.

Your life will be a zillion times better if you never, ever listen to a man with this beard/glasses combo who comes onto the internet to post drivel like "the vibe is inchoate"

holy shit, my mom has been saying this exact thing for years: she thinks they’re a satanic plot intended to acclimate people to the idea of benign/benevolent beings from space - so they won’t see the false second coming for what it is: the devil in disguise (no, I am not kidding)

"I foresee a domino effect, empowering communities on other platforms to decide whether AI should be welcome. On their own terms.” www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

It's a really nice looking book, too. Love the dust jacket, spot gloss, all the color pages, and the paper. Feels nice in my hands.

We had literal years of coverage of the "tea party" which had a fraction of #NoKings support and was entirely astroturfed by rightwing moneyed interests. Seriously, fuck The New York Times. Fucking trash rag.

Jedediah sez: It's a little Jane Austen and a whole lotta bloody barbaric vengeance. If you like Conan, The Count of Monte Cristo, highly opinionated narrators, or old-school adventure, then this is the book for you. This is 90% of my timeline so y’all know what to do.

And this isn’t even a complete list. I’d add staying quiet about the photo of him with an open neo-Nazi candidate who endorses Platner for what he sees as Platner telling “truth” about Jews, and Platner dogwhistling allusions to “ZOG” & Protocols so clearly neo-Nazis celebrated.

Tilda Swinton by Derek Jarman, c. 1986.

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Opietalk: "I saw a video on YouTube about a really hard video game called 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.' Do you know anything ab—" Me: Sit down! We have much to discuss!

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1979: Relinquish your collective bargaining rights for cheaper consumer goods, and you might get a house 1997: Also, a bit of self respect and some social liberalism 2024: Fuck you, you don’t get the social liberalism or the house. Also, the country you live in is utterly fucked because of 1979.

pleased to be in this skeet about favorite books

It did not occur to me until now that this is an antichrist prediction lol