This is a reminder that you can still ask real people for advice and recommendations. You don't have to ask the robot for everything. In fact there are some things you definitely should not be asking the robot about.

Feels kinda silly to say that rich people from the center to left of things politically can’t build a successful media environment when the onion is doing it basically using donations from semi-employed forum goblins

Fun fact: The Onion's acquisition of Infowars was an almost 2-year long process that cost a shit ton of money. Much more fun fact: You can show your appreciation by subscribing to the Onion for $9 a month AND get a print copy delivered right to your doorstep. membership.theonion.com

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

liberals on this microblogging website

I love people dunking on JD Vance, but do find the jokes about disagreeing with the pope meaning you should be protestant kinda funny as someone raised catholic. Most american catholics (including cradle catholics) don't agree with the big C Catholic Church and pope on all sorts of things.

I am proud to say I walked this park many times when I lived downtown and never once fell in, but I was anxious about it. P.S. A lot of the quote posts on this are amazing.

It's been so interesting to watch this unfold. Barnes & Noble and other big book chains shut indies down in the the 1990s (and on) and then Amazon came along and ate up all the book market share. Now people tired of big corporations are creating demand for more indies

Now they're just writing Torment Nexus fan-fiction as justification for building it.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

I consistently repeat to folks that they do not in fact ever *succeed* on their own. Sometimes the assistance is visible, often it is submerged. None of the USian billionaires *succeeded* on their own. In fact, most of them continue to benefit from your money, labor, etc....

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Sword & Sorcery is when the soft animal of your body has to slay a fucking necromancer.

eventually he was executed

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

there is a privacy apocalypse coming, and the democrats are just as responsible as the republicans.

less of a butlerian jihad and more of a butlerian discussion about land use and zoning for datacenters

Be kind to your neighborhood sporty lesbian today. Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird split up.

Unpopular opinion: Lucifier is misunderstood. He was the FIRST labor organizer in the celestial world and God punished him for challenging him on the grounds that He and He Alone owned the means of productions. He formed a wildcat union and WAS PUNISHED for it

if we want the vibecession to end perhaps we should be focused primarily on reducing the grinding existential dread of the future that even many objectively comfortable and highly-paid people seem to be feeling nowadays - and yeah, i do think there are practical things one could do to improve this.

also, you know, as folks mention in the comments: everyone's terrified of losing their employer provided health insurance on top of everything else, just at the moment they decided to destroy subsidies so no one can afford to get insured on the exchange, and covid wrecked so many people's health

The way he talks about this is competence porn in itself. Holy heck.

still recovering from this discovery

I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr 1. barely works 2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate) 3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen.

its been so long since we have had a train to hate

I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur. HUMMINGSAUR

Generating software faster, or automating busywork, doesn't guarantee success in business.

imagine, there could be 5.6 million bees under you right now

The covid amnesia shell game happened DESPITE THE DATA, in part bc we never had a reckoning or real memorialization The *moment* we replace this regime, they will memory-hole everything they did. If we don't keep clear records and then make them into public memory, they'll get away with it.

people will never feel like the economy is good when they can see complete ruin as a realistic possibility in their immediate future, even from a fairly secure present.

well, yes, a rat might have bitten your sister, but frankly, how can you say you're poor when you live in a country rich enough to visit the moon? take a look at these charts

An armed Paddington Bear stages a shootout in post-apocalyptic ‘80s New York, but afterwards he offers the survivors marmalade.

*up in the castle, JKR crushes a crystal goblet in her fist*

I have a vacation next week and am hoping to use part of the time off to start learning how to make models for the 3D printer. Any experienced folks have recommendations for the best tools/resources to start with? I have a bambu p2s and use a mac laptop if the ecosystems matter.

Inject this into my veins. www.politico.eu/article/hung...

Same. Despite doing well right now, I’m aware of just how precarious my safety is, and that’s stressful. If I lose my job in this market, it could take years to find a new one, and everything keeps getting more expensive, so the emergency fund I’d need to survive that keeps growing.

I think maybe the only thing we can all agree on is that the vibes suck regardless of whether you think the vibes alone are responsible or whether you think it’s vibes and material conditions, the vibes are terrible

As a real person who has spent a lot of time fundraising for my actual neighbors the scams and bots on here make it worse for everyone who is trying to do real work. If you are a leftist who believes in direct mutual aid you should be against this even if you believe the people involved are real

It's not punishment to say that someone with power who has abused that power doesn't get to get more power. That's a consequence. Some of you are truly ridiculous.

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

I think a lot about how my entire household/financial situation would've been difficult-to-impossible a generation prior. We basically have the trad gender roles reversed with me working and providing most of the $, and my male partner doing the majority of the house maintenance, errands, etc.

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this. You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs If, and only if, it would NOT at all be a financial hardship, and you find what I do valuable ⤵️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

If I never have to read some person saying "what happened to innocent until proven guilty" about why some guy should still be elected to one of the most powerful positions in the country despite numerous sexual assault allegations it will be too soon

I am so tired of being deluged with the sordid details of sexual crimes. It feels nonstop since 2014. Yes absolutely those stories should be told. I get that this is how justice begins: with victims having voices, stories being heard, and so forth; I've been supporting that forever.