mission accomplished brother

Me when I see an ESPN headline about “Ronaldo did XYZ”

What’s so brazen is that the subhead literally spells out the travesty. It says that tech industry lobbyists have convinced congress to pay for their products to be made a compulsory part of public education so that when the industry wreaks havoc on American workers it can be blamed on educators.

Then Utnapishtim approached the well of the sea depths and cried out, 'Prepare to approach Uruk-the-sheepfold! For an inescapable fate lies ahead, and only the kingly wisdom of the wild man might prevail.'

This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

damn right!

The specific kind of brainworms associated with bluesky is being so well-adjusted that you drive yourself insane in a world no longer designed for the well-adjusted

The Gothic Nautilus sculpture created by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

“lemme get an eight-ball of bees”

Antonio Assegina United States, Census, 1930

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

<cries in Old>

The Lama Rinpoche Nissan Sentra revealed the 12th enlightenment and attained Carvana.

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

i called my rep, the person at his office was friendly and sympathetic to the notion that we should probably not “destroy” a whole country. dunno what else to do. consider doing the same, at least it’s… something. anything. what the actual fuck.

"What can Democrats do?" When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him. So, you know, that.

the french know what’s up for real

I hate how stupid everything is.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to put on a tactical vest and go to the newark airport at 6 am on monday. your order is to wander around like a confused oaf. when a mom drops her sandwich at jersey mike's and scares you, pull out your gun and start shooting. good luck soldier

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

For years I've been using "these people are fucking clownshoes" as a saying, and now the administration has come along and made it so goddamn literal

One of my favorite things about hosting the Celtic show on WZBC 25 years ago 😱 was playing some of the most overtly political music on Earth (see, e.g., Young Ned of the Hill, A Nation Once Again, Back Home in Derry) with occasional listener feedback that the show could go even harder

is the sharia law in the room with us now, mike?

“You may be grieving at first, but, believe me, you’ll be smiling when you see how much less you’re shelling out every month,” said President Donald Trump

@brianrosenworcel.bsky.social when figuring out my kid’s cub scout pinewood derby car, he told me he wanted to call it the “thundergod.” i said, cool, and he said “we can have him driving it,” and briefly I’m thinking he means thor (the guy from his hand-me-down tshirts) but… well this is it -

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Could someone please reset the "Hours without an embarrassing DOJ filing" clock to 0?

Senators should get more into quoting tweets that quote peepeepoopoo’s tweets @deepdishenjoyer.bsky.social

Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year. youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

unsurprisingly she did very badly in his town (North Caldwell), but Analilia Mejía is the Democratic nominee to represent Tony Soprano in Congress

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

It's true that when a government becomes tyrannical it is the duty of the citizens to overthrow it and form a new one. It's just that the people who have been saying it in my lifetime have been saying it in response to stuff like the existence of Hannukah, and Black people, and the Spanish language.

“those rights don’t count when you exist in a way I don’t like” is a wild position 🥲

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

INTERVIEWER: As you know, we are a nation beset by myriad horrors. What are you doing to fight back? SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.

As angry as we might be at Democratic leaders, we are still not angry enough.

Saying to somebody like that "there's a neo-Nazi Holocaust denier incel white supremacist with over a million followers on Twitter / Youtube / whatever who's been calling Vance a race traitor and this is something that could be a problem for Vance in the 2028 primaries" sounds utterly fictional.

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Trump: this is my MVP; it's a finals MVP hockey Reporter: *nods* Trump: I asked basketball, but they made me MVP hockey, that means Canada is America now Reporter: *nods* Trump: "Wayne Gretzky" is my nickname Reporter: *nods* Trump: I once fondled my daughter Headline: Trump Covets NBA Honor Next

“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

Are we?

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

We really cannot use the metric system, huh

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.