me: new year, new me!! narrator: it was the same old him.

This entire thread is worth reading

To be clear @swingingstorm.bsky.social I will run this game

in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.

Good article, but I think we could add that many of the current government officials & influencers spreading political point-scoring falsehoods during crisis events HAVE BECOME gov officials & influencers BECAUSE of their bullshit-spreading talents. System effects of rotten attention dynamics.

Since 2024's Hurricane Helene, 800+ storm victims in western North Carolina have applied for buyouts under FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. State officials vetted applications and sent nearly 600 requests to Washington. So far, not a single approval has come through. @bradydennis.bsky.social

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

This doesn't take into account all the people those 270,000 supported with spending

Local person is bad parent

And Tiny Tim, WHO COULD NOT DIE, heard the rattling of chains behind him, and a voice calling his name in a tongue that had not been spoken on the dying world in countless aeons.

In addition to the game I'm in, I really just want to rerun my NBA Handmaid's Tale campaign to be honest

I say that as someone who has started newsrooms from scratch sometimes with two people - if you’re doing your job correctly you will need a lawyer because the first thing rich people do when you write something they don’t like is threaten you legally. It’s cheap for them and expensive for you

What is the point of paying taxes if some random unelected administration officials can just decide to withhold it? Do we have a union or not?

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

i could be wrong but this has strong “banning this book will only sell more copies on amazon, suckers!” the people who need to read that book are kids without credit cards & amazon accounts & with oppressive families, not the extremely online with disposable cash for occasional point-making buys.

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this just has me thinking about how so much of this government and the movement around it is purely a matter of aesthetics. is there a strategic reason for produce a new warship? maybe. but my hunch is that this is happening because the president thinks it will look cool.

Before it hardens, the mixture is super frothy and kids like to throw it at each other and rub it in each other’s hair and faces. This is what happens when your country is too hot for snowball fights.

This is true of lots of reporters, but it more reflects the limited resources daily journalists have and pressure to publish 5 seconds before the TV station than the actual skill or care of the journalist.

Fun fact @sl0wl0ris.bsky.social there was an entire theoretical branch of my campaign you never saw that was all about counter regime propaganda and trying to smuggle stories out.

Also why Rs are so keen to take control of TikTok

@koboldlygo.bsky.social just invited me to plY another game with her.

This is essentially the same strategy they successfully deployed against Planned Parenthood

NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises. An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.” These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:

this is the unspoken but absolutely clear argument at hand.

#BREAKING: Former Gov. Jim Hunt has died, per his daughter, Lt. Gov. Rachel Hunt. #ncpol

Maybe those getting the money could donate some of it to the food banks that came to their aid during the shutdown.

This is a very good point that I feel like I lose sight of as someone Terminally Online and Political

Another excellent @jamellebouie.net column: We do not have a president, we have a junta (my word), unelected extremists empowered by the Supreme Court and the so-called unitary executive. Gift link. The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

When I was a kid, cynics said "the president claims his war is about human rights but it's REALLY about controlling oil!". Now cynics are saying "the president claims his war is about controlling oil but it's REALLY about his own personal involvement in a mass child trafficking network!".

A really important set of stories

I find Jamelle's video content really compelling.

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Happy Hanukkah, the holiday where we celebrate the defeat of a large cosmpolitan empire by a small determined group of militant religious fanatics

The only barrier to playing TTRPGS is the requirement of not being an asshole. Respect for the table, the GM, your fellow players, the game you’re playing. Understanding, empathy, willingness to collaborate and have fun. From that beautiful things can happen. ❤️

a lot of people also don't conceptualize the random acts of murder in the Caribbean this way but they should because basically every one of the strikes gets posted by official US government accounts on twitter so the base can jerk off to snuff films

Any time you see a house priced under 200k in any urban area in NC, click through and you see it's gutted.

this is the realest shit ever posted and when you become a parent you spend a lot of time internally screaming about it

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I had a plan for spectacular failure that let me introduce a linchpin NPC

Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

It was successful in killing a bunch of Africans, which was his actual goal

The side to this, obviously, is only if that person is Trump. Biden couldn't fire the postmaster general without getting swatted down.

I can’t believe how much of the Trump era is about solving problems that *don’t* exist while making all the problems that *do* exist, worse. There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

I'm late to this meme, but of course the idiots who made the decisions leading to this point look like this.

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