i've been watching for less than an hour and i already almost have the jason kelce "why settle for meh" youtube tv ad memorized. this is unwatchable, but honestly i expect nothing less from nbc's olympic coverage. i also now irrationally hate youtube tv, so they're also defeating the purpose of ads!

every tech innovation these days just turns out to be a variation on the mechanical turk

my apt complex's included spectrum service comes with free ad-tier peacock, so that's how i'm watching the olympics. so far nbc continues sucking, even watching event feeds that eliminate fluff packages, bc they're cutting to ads any time they think they can get at least 30 seconds between athletes

Last month the Japanese American National Museum asked me to deliver a keynote speech on what is necessary to combat authoritarianism and preserve democracy. You can listen to it and the Q&A that followed here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

watching mamdani get into office and just start flipping the switches labeled "good things" makes me think about this post a lot establishment democrats don't like the guy because he puts on display how intentionally ineffective they are

Unexpected yuri in my Muppet Show

ONE WEEK UNTIL P4A!🥳 You can learn more at projectforawesome.com

i fucking love trans people so much

The prophecy, fulfilled

if you need some Friday afternoon reading, this thread is truly Chicken Soup For the AI Hater's Soul. a useless lawyer (man) cites fake AI hallucination cases. an exasperated judge (woman) gives him a chance to explain himself. he digs himself into a hole the depths of which you cannot imagine.

the last two Popes went out of their way to call this man an immigrant hating freak and a fake Catholic. Bless his heart for going to Italy expecting to have a normal one❤️

JD Vance looks like yassified Chucky

RFK Jr. and his henchmen are going to take away every single vaccine that they can. I don’t know why some people to continue to be in denial about this. They. Will. Take. Away. Every. Single. Vaccine. They. Can. And Republicans support this.

This regime's cruelty knows no bounds. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/05/liam-conejo-ramos-dhs-requests-expedited-deportation-proceedings-for-family

The US government is spending taxpayer dollars to sue a 5-year-old refugee/kindergartener for seeking asylum here through the legal and proper channels when he was an infant

the highest and best category of human, in my opinion, is “when stuck on a long flight behind a screaming baby, plays peek-a-boo and makes funny faces to entertain child rather than getting mad or blaming parents.” few elected officials belong in this category but I believe Zohran does

God damn he’s good

I realized that a lot of the guys who have been found in the Epstein files are probably really struggling because the guy they would have gone to for advice about being discovered in the Epstein files was JEFFREY EPSTEIN

HERE WE FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO do it Leo. do it. you want to. you can. these guys were excommunicated in 1988 for doing this and they just did it again. you have the opportunity to do the coolest and funniest thing in the world

Yes. The folks who study election rumors and conspiracy theories are worried that a forced (and false) confession by Maduro (of 2020 election fraud) is a real possibility, and we’ve already seen some (wink, wink) foreshadowing of such a move.

if you can't accept that great authors were creeps and weirdos you simply can't be a fan of science fiction

If you won’t say this, you should not hold public office

From a Reddit post about ICE in LA. Wearing a Hawaiian shirt under their police vest is a very intentional choice. This seems like a Boogaloo boy who is also a thug agent of the state. LA friends - be careful out there and make sure folks are aware of what is happening.

The mainstream media needs a "political showdown" story angle to ICE or they won't cover it. What is the red team doing and how is the blue team responding? What are the implications on the midterms or Newsom's or Pritzker's 2028 run? Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, ICE raids never slowed down.

The fact that mainstream media stopped covering ICE kidnappings in LA isn't because ICE stopped kidnapping (they didn't) Or ICE slowed down (they have actually increased their tempo) Or that resistance to ICE slowed down (it never stopped, it grew) It's the "political showdown" that stopped.

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

'Scooby-Doo' did something that 'Sherlock' never could: effectively separate solving mysteries from the police and copaganda.

The glibness with which these people are dismissing what is, fundamentally, an extensive record of elite atrocities makes me think it’s better if I don’t finish this sentence

*leftist cradle catholic rage intensifies*

leave it like this, it's performance art now

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

see also: Me Too has gone too far

EXCLUSIVE: on Jan 22 we rolled up on a raid happening in South Minneapolis. we had no idea who they were taking. turns out it was a *two year old girl* and her dad on the way back from buying fruit. he had no criminal record. this is their story. youtu.be/yaeXlxJOAXU?...

Welp. Expect "accidental" tear gas in long lines and whatever else. Everyone saying "I'll vote so hard" completely ignoring the normies who aren't terminally online that just want to vote after work who might not want to deal with this. Maybe Chuck should help THEM out, Mr kitchen tables

Woohooooo, here we go! Episcopal consecration without permission is a "latae sententiae" excommunication, ie, the excommunication is automatic and at the instant the offense is committed. www.vatican.va/archive/cod-...

i saw this on tumblr and immediately was like "i gotta go find the bluesky post and make sure @clairewillett.bsky.social and @johndellaporta.bsky.social see this"

“But we lost all those girls.” I think about this a lot—but unsurprisingly, Seanan puts the perfect words around it. ::cries in comics… and games… and movies… and books… and apparently everywhere else, also::

okay, so we offered up the MILDEST list of requests (mostly like "can they please follow laws") and the GOP responded with "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU, WE WOULD RATHER SHUT THEM DOWN THAN NOT LET THEM DO MURDERS" it sure seems like there is no downside to just saying "sweet, go for it"

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

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Lots of folks saying “this is good” but no, it very much is not. 1) this is the 4th amendment 2) this is a historical norm at worst 3) this is already required 4) again, at worst an historic norm 5) 4A 6) 4A 7) fine 8) good if enforceable 9) useless 10) again, at worst a historical norm

Gentle reminder that many disabled and elderly people can't boycott Amazon. There's a myriad of reasons the alternatives are less accessible. Build community care networks instead. Offer to shop for someone. Deliver goods. Take them to a store. We're in this together.

bluesky friends! i'm at 10+ months of job hunting post-layoff. i'm in san antonio tx, but am well-suited to remote work. i can do lots of communication-related tasks and am a quick learner. see my resume and portfolio at my newly-shiny website. know anyone hiring? pass along my info!

bluesky friends! i'm at 10+ months of job hunting post-layoff. i'm in san antonio tx, but am well-suited to remote work. i can do lots of communication-related tasks and am a quick learner. see my resume and portfolio at my newly-shiny website. know anyone hiring? pass along my info!

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.