“he can walk.” the bar is in hell

was musing on why underage drinking is taken so much less seriously in the UK than US and I think the big difference - apart from more of a history of puritanism, blue laws, etc - is that most UK teenagers aren't driving, and even if they are aren't driving any distance.

Awesome, another team getting away with WWE moves against us 😤😤😤

Wow Hincapié was pushed in front of Linesman and he says nothing ... Prick

That's a foul and a pretty nasty play from Igor Thiago. Shoves Hincapie in the back and down the slope as he's going off the pitch. That's a poor, poor missed call from the referee.

Damn

Madueke's footwork

HE'S DONE IT AGAIN. Mikel Merino flies in for another crucial Arsenal goal!

NOTIONS HE'S NOT A STRIKER DOWN THE DRAIN, AS MIKEL MERINO SCORES AGAIN 😤

Almost ready to go here.

While I have been somewhat skeptical of Mamdani’s proposal to make the bus free, funding it with paid parking would be good policy and good politics.

Anti-vaxxers will lose their power in the end because most people (BY A LARGE MAJORITY) believe in vaccines. There will be an obvious die-off when they contract access vaccines; normal people will react with a push to reinstate them. But I suspect a lot of people will have to die first.

This is one of those things that touches so many other, interconnected things. Access to healthcare, esp. mental healthcare, is class-based. As is education. As are the various levers some parents pull for their kiddos, to try to get thrm ahead. Even so, that's an oversimplistic view of this.

2016 v today

Centrists are just adorable. Getting their knives out for Behn being too lefty when she made a TN hill people congressional district election competitive.

Every time these people look in the mirror, they see the "Fell For It Again" award pinned to their chest, and you know what? I love that for them.

They don’t seem to have any vision on how to actually make people’s lives better right now. It’s “we will punish the people you hate and through magic, that will make your life better” but that shit doesn’t work!

they are an outrage machine that can whip people into a frenzy over a trans kid playing jv tennis with their friends 500 miles away but thats about it

ROTY

Every woman knows that moment: when the men in the room don’t see you as an equal, not even fully human. And still we smile, nod, swallow it. Because calling it out makes us “too sensitive.” But these small humiliations add up. It’s not harmless. It’s the culture. And we’re done.

Lady G better get on the right side of Pope Leo.

I know this is the website where basically no one watches cable but there's this DHS ad with Kristi Noem telling people to self-deport and it's reached the point where my 75 year old mother yells obscenities at the TV that I usually see typed out in League of Legends lobbies

Bombing random boats in the ocean without attempting to prove origin and the propriety of target is such an obvious war crime everyone involved should be fired just on pure stupidity, but violation of their oath will, as usual, suffice

As many expected, the truth is finally coming out, they were just fishermen. The family of the Colombian man killed in the Sept. 15 U.S. military strike in the Caribbean Sea has now filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging

saw the term "wypipo" in the wild and discourse by harvard-educated people about whether white people are allowed to go to h-mart and i have never been so relieved to see something which annoys me so much

As Pennsylvanians pull out their snow gear and shovel walkways for the first time this season, the state is set to begin accepting applications for its Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program on Wednesday. From @wdownard.bsky.social

Oh that's a damaging line of attack in an antitrust case, getting the Saudis involved so that even if someone broke off they're *still* run by you

More #NASCAR / #23XI court notes from Matt Weaver:

Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.

it's so wild how we're just giving up any chance of being technological leaders for the next 30+ years because large adult tv president saw big truck go vroovroom and it scratched some itch in his boomer brain. we're gonna import it all from china, gg xi jinping

chaser: bsky.app/profile/pear...

shot:

The Trumpies think people outside their base are as fervent/feral as they are; they don’t realize Carpenter fans are just normal people who see are simply disturbed by the attack.

Singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter responds to MAGA regime illegally using her song without permission for their racist pro-ICE Gestapo propaganda video: “this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.” I hope she sues.

This wouldn't happen the same way now. And we're a much poorer society because of it. We *should* be shocked about all the corruption. It's pretty much just noise now. So there's very little incentive for people to even pretend to be on the level.

The thing about Watergate is that there were enough highly-placed Republicans who, out of selfishness, self-preservation, decency, whatever, had motives to air the shit out. Bob Woodward was a Republican. Hugh Sloan. Judge Sirica. Martha Mitchell. Jeb Magruder and John Dean cooperated. Sort of.

She has the moral clarity that a lot of elected Dems could use: what is happening today is evil. You don’t need to analyze it much more closely than that

We’ve been forced to watch so much violence since the original Sex and the City finished. It’s about time we got back to good old consensual fucking on our televisions. Now I just need full frontal titties to make a come back. Bridgerton gave us a morsel.

Like I get why they don’t do this about Tolstoy or something because anyone who likes Matt Walsh or Ben Shapiro would be going hey buddy can you make this about Lilo and/or Stitch for me?

It is kind of funny that the only memes they can make are from kids stuff and not from a book that a grown up person would read

"Age verification laws reach beyond porn sites, however ...Where the laws are written broadly enough... Bluesky users have... to verify they’re over 18 years of age. In July, Bluesky started requiring all UK users to verify their ages in response to the Online Safety Act." All part of Project 2025.

JUST IN: Pop star Sabrina Carpenter has fired back at the Trump administration after the official White House account used her song over footage of federal agents chasing down immigrants. "this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda."

The problem is that the gen z cons in particular are so odious that they're triggering massive backlash in their own cohort. Gen Z women are like the most liberal group in the country because the 50% of gen Z men who are cons are literal groyper, repeal the 19th amendment types

the things i want to say violate the terms of service here.

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A big vibe difference as well is a lot of these left populists are genuinely left on a lot of cultural issues but simply relegate them in importance. Yglesias is reactionary on them and hides behind chuds in Altoona pa to avoid the social consequences of that.

Wrt red states the problem is: what fucking labor movement. Union membership is growing in govt and healthcare sectors (because the other sectors are shrinking generally) and that's what everyone's mad at over there.

True enough but yglesias's more concrete asks is libs in blue states moderate on cultural issues to help Dems win in red areas, and I am too stubborn to do any of that. If a Dem wants to be squishy on affirmative action in red states I can't really stop them can I.

Anyway last thing I’ll say on this is that I got my shit rocked all the time in college and I never cried to the media. TPUSA is their own concept of DEI for aggrieved white evangelical pussies and the fact that any group disproportionately wields this much power on campuses is fucking dumb