Need to stop making event posters into little riddles where all the different bits of information are hidden in the aesthetics. I want "who what when where" in black text on a white background all together in one square taking up at least 1/8th of the poster

Do people really still enjoy arguing about the molotov-ribbentrop pact? Why? How is this possible?

Saw a guy w neck tattoos physiognomy but no neck tattoos

Half of Chotiner interviews make people who celebrate their friendship with Kissinger look like complete assholes and the other half make people who’ve done a short film on the Romanian underground art scene in the 70s look cool. The confusion is that the people in group A think they’re in group B.

Where liberals still think the goal of political media is to invoke external referents and frames—their messages should resonate with ideals and material concerns that people have outside of their screens—the right correctly understands that their goal is self-contained, pure entertainment

We are on day 13 for rentanyl-heads keeping count

ONE SINGLE PERSON. Just one person in the study identified as trans and then cis. THE REST OF THAT ONE-FIFTH went between binary and nonbinary trans identities. This is not just a misleading description, it's purposefully intellectually dishonest. But hey you got a cute graphic out of it.

Reddit atheism went down as a pointless intellectual circlejerk but if you look at lw apologetics you would be forgiven for thinking the problem with it was not enough intense academic circlejerking

this is objectively the opposite of how Politico covered this which I think says a lot about how the leadership of Politico thinks about LGBT rights

Me in horror movie seeing a ghoul type of guy crawling on the ceiling right above my bed trying to spooky jumpscare me: oh boy I'm glad he's stuck up there and not down here

JR was dope Speed was electric and Mannequin Pussy convinced my body it had just had sex for like a straight hour after the show, RIP turnstile fans re massive supercell over the lake tho

Folks the russia russia russia libs were right

This is the vibe I wish to bring to the function.

So beyond limiting unilateral military adventurism in theory a much bigger reason for the congressional check is to actually make sure your military isn't fighting against a military that your people approve of *more* than yours

What goes for the equanimity of the law also goes for care work, if we conditioned providing healthcare on personal feeling (which the m4a sort of does as a movement) then there would be no system at all

If you suck nurses are absolutely not quiet about it bts when you die, and if they were, they'd struggle to keep it in, and that would affect the standard of care for all patients

Probably the most effective early negative polarizer for me against christianity was that on our local station the 700 club/90 and 9 club would start right at the end of cartoons, classical conditioning

It's giving Gorzo The Mighty

There seems to be confusion about what I'm saying here, so I'll be even blunter: Charlie Kirk's main argument, which he built his empire on, is that young women should be punished for feminist wrongthink with public, sexualized humiliation. To honor him is to endorse sexualized abuse of girls.

Kirk's empire was built on videos that all have the same thesis: "Look at this dumb liberal slut who fucks other guys but not you, MAGA dudes. Don't you hate her? Don't you want to see her abused and humiliated?"

Not seeing anybody doing the brain genius compromise move: look we can be anti-homicide AND anti-free speech

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To my warren court post, there are several cases that I would be attacking if I were fighting for the other team, but that either through incompetence or a fear of public outcry they are avoiding, but also I dont want to mention them here on account of the Apollo thing.

Pointing this out in this way absolutely doesn't meet the test for incitement in current law, but since we know the conservative movement has had its sights set on warren court decisions since the 70s and the Brandenburg decision established our current criteria for incitement (as an actual crime)--

I have no idea how this is going to work (and Bloomberg, who is the source for this reporting, doesn't seem to either), but it has long been obvious to anyone with half a brain that Trump hates documented immigration too and was going to push to reduce it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

RCV is nice but it's also a big giant computer

If we're going to be car centric forever the govt should fix your car for you

i've subscribed to: rolling stone WIRED 404 media defector the handbasket chicago journalism i subscribed to: unraveled block club it's time to support media directly so they don't fall into the hands of fascists, the replies to this post have additional great news media i recommend supporting

"I just couldn’t understand why he would call me, right now, and make it all about himself." Wow. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Electoral reformists should obvs note that hungary has an extremely good voting system on paper compared to the US and UK

Another pointless aside from me but this is a really great case study for how stupid people talk when using terms they don't quite understand, gloss only the vibes of the term, to hell w syntax just whip them fancy letters around

reading about Yoon, Modi, Orban, or Erdogan would be miles more productive than some of the mental models people work with

Part of it is that in the Global North you're essentially being taught there are two modes of government: liberal democracy and a boot stomping on a face forever, and that everyone neatly falls into these two groups.

among the issues with people not having any knowledge of hybrid regimes in the global South is the fact that everyone assumes contemporary authoritarian governance looks like 20th century totalitarianism

Part of the issue is that many Americans are inclined to think of Germany as a closer peer than Brazil, Argentina or Chile when I would argue the reverse is true.

Jumping directly to "oh shit it's illegal and terrorist to be trans now" is a great way to bring about the "in public life" part of that knowles quote. You can, in fact, be involved in public life and should get involved with your local government and local civil service.

What Does a "Terrorist" Designation Mean? www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

they don't tell you enough about how pathetic and ridiculous the slow decline to fascism is

I can guarantee turning poster instinct into political involvement will accomplish something, the current administration is 99.99% people who posted into it

Hero FCC chair forcibly pivots the narrative away from "the trans menace" jk rowling in shambles

Ahhh ok

Let's try @sentimentbot.bsky.social

Ok but to the broader and less important issue why does literally every conference ever have a dance number that makes the organization look extremely stupid and unserious?

"Enemies do not exist" is clearly an extremist position

bouncing between two levels of thinking on this. from 30,000 feet he's flailing and not successfully consolidating power; this is an extremely damaging but doomed effort. but at the level of individual citizen there's a stochastic risk that your ticket gets punched during one of his power grabs

Silver lining is it's obvious that on a personal level trump hates wind turbines way way more than trans people

the cops are spread so thin that they're letting even more drugs into the country, and the government wants you to believe they have enough people to crack down on leftist movements on top of that

“Dude shoots guy who insulted girlfriend” is not a new story in conservative areas. It’s fascinating how high profile and stochastic it is in this instance, but we’ve also been warning about that for years tbh, just shocking to see it actually happen

We don’t want AI slop. Stop sending us AI slop. Stop wasting our time with AI slop. It doesn’t sound good. It’s antithetical to our core values. You didn’t even make it. Knock it off.

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