Imagine looking at the period after WWII and especially after the Cold War as an era of American weakness. Unless, I suppose, if becoming the strongest, wealthiest country in history sounds bad to you because some brown people were a part oft, and you'd rather be weaker if it means being whiter.

And Miller is a kind of man "soft times" make: someone who, having never truly experienced hardship or violence, fantasizes about it constantly. But point one gun at him once and he would evacuate his entire bowels and bladder and belly on the spot.

These labelers really make the point

For real.

Tomorrow is January 6th so don’t forget to leave out some ivermectin and a buffalo hat tonight.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

I don't name my inanimate objects, but if I did, I would name my colander Xaviera. You know, the author of The Happy Cooker.

“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination”

I see so many discussions online talk about why Canadians should go to the US for career opportunities and higher earnings. And my career definitely shifted from accessing things not possible if I stayed in Toronto. But I learned how US hustle culture is designed to grind people up and destroy them.

I spent much of the last two years in a perpetual state of anxiety and depression, often posting about a persistent desire to hide in bed. After moving back to Toronto, it turns out a lot of those feelings were due to 1) my job and 2) the stress of being an Asian woman on a US work visa.

"Le MAGA, c'est moi." Hostie, c'est le MAGus, et nous voilà à l'Épiphanie

Adams did it backwards: he started as farce

I'm going to bed right now. I want the last thing I experience to be schadenfreude.

man I wish I had whatever chronic condition it is that allows this guy to forget Mitch McConnell’s incredible run as an obstructionist minority leader

You’re sailing past the Hebrides when you unexpectedly hear music from a rocky islet. You look to the source and see several lasses on the shore. One is a deejay. Another one is singing. Next to them is one standing in the breeze, beckoning, ready to… throw you a rope to reel you in, perhaps? 1/14

I think it would have to be the time in grade 4 when I was holding a stapler in my hands, forefingers on the top and thumbs under the business end, and just on some impulse squeezed and stapled my thumbs together.

Make a musical artist subjunctive That Bill Wither

and so soon after the tragic loss of Stop N Shop founder Stoppard Nathaniel Shop

One thing about this regime, you don’t have to do any hard data collection to social network analysis of interlocking directorates. They just…tweet it out.

Sociologists screaming into the void

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

This guy can’t even make a profit when he’s stealing stuff.

If a bat touches you and you're not controlling it like this with thick gloves and knowing what you're doing You need to get a rabies vaccination and I'm deadly serious. If a bat *touches* you.

you did not see this kitty pull a glizzy heist good morning

Only Vichy can rein in the Nazis because it controls unoccupied France. Free France has no cards to play here.

@stechlab-labels.bsky.social has some pretty useful account labels because some of you are very weird on here

I have neither thrown nor received a real punch in my life but I kind of think the root sin of the social internet is letting people just say and do things that in the real world would get the shit kicked out of them

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

The first two hours this morning

This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.

Sometimes you find that perfect post that doesn't involve you where you can just go in and preemptively block like 25 enormous assholes in the replies.

holy fucking paragraph batman prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Just wondering if we should be paying attention to unusual polymarket bets on when certain countries will be invaded by the U.S. because that might be our first notice of the crimes we’re about to commit.

TRUMP: *machine-guns crowd of pedestrians at Fifth Ave* NYT: President's most daring argument for population control brings new scrutiny.

The paper that buried the leak about the Venezuela mission vs the publication that didn’t.

There’s lots of reasons why being colonized by aliens would probably be terrible, but increasingly I’m willing to do it for the irony.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

greetings from hell

This is my favorite headcanon and it's a great example of how readers can offer a different reading of a text that the author never considered and did not intend, but is nonetheless validated by the text itself.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

This is largely how the most popular grammar superstitions evolved too, e.g., "Don't end a sentence with a preposition." Someone in the 1700s idly mused that avoiding the thing was more elegant, and by several decades later you had schoolteachers enforcing an absolute ban.

OMG Chortlemuffin is great! At the risk of chiming in twice in 1 night, I did this with an ecology piece. *Everywhere* there's a factoid that plastic debris kills 100,000 sea mammals a year. I tracked it back and back to a 1984 NYT article that made it up. It's *everywhere* yet based on nothing.

Stop saying that all Schumer and Jeffries ever do is write strongly worded letters. Bullshit. They're not strongly worded at all.