"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

The Epstein Ballroom it is

this is pretty much the perfect Bluesky headline

Go Bobon!

Garbage

A cop so distracted by watching an anti-trans hate Matt Walsh vidieo, *while* driving, that he mowed down and killed a cyclist pulling a trailer. At which point the cop tried to cover up his viewing history. vtdigger.org/2025/03/07/s...

Depression: excess of past Stress: excess of present Anxiety: excess of future

This occurred to me while i was straight-up eating olives from the package. I'm sorry.

I love this framing

There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

This is such a sweet story

"I am finally free." Leonard Peltier walked out of prison today at 8:40am, nearly 50 years after the U.S. govt lied to put him there. New statement from Peltier, along with photos of him moments after leaving prison, in the sun, happy. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...

Oh my fucking god

A feature every social media should have is a button where you can pin the panel of Ray Gets Sort of Stoned that best describes how high you are so everyone knows What Your Deal Is right now

Powerlifters after (2) reps:

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 We’re excited to announce the 6th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats hashtag#CySoc2025 that will be held at hashtag#ICWSM2025 in Denmark! 🎉 🌍 Spotlight Topic: "Political Conflicts in Online Platforms in the Era of Gen-AI." 📅 Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025

I love this man tho

Good stuff

NEW: Want to know how Kendrick Lamar's incredible Super Bowl halftime show came together? I got the scoop for you. www.wired.com/story/true-s...

if i text you this just know you’re cooked

I hear the Miniature Counterfeiters' Guild is accepting new applicants, if you're looking to make a little coin

Dear god

Just a total lack of comprehension of what it means to be a human

If I just read one million more posts tonight, I will have complete control over what comes next

Me leaving the gym: It's 7 pm Fri, it's 25 degrees, I ain't got no protein and no protein ain't got me

very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman

Insanity

It's Tuesday. So let's talk about birds eating eels, passing them, and eating them again. It's a THING that shows up in art & language. Here for example, is a lovely 13th C. image of a heron, shown in various stages of eating and...um...recycling eels. Or, at least, an eel. 1/4

🚨BREAKING🚨 Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.

Blue Smash, by Adolph Gottlieb, 1960

@wandrme.paxex.aero is sponsoring a bill that would make rolling stops legal for bicyclists in NH. While this would make me personally safer it would also deprive me of a daily opportunity to commit victimless crime

Well there's the makeup call

I hate content

It is going to be such a fucking challenge to stay sane in the near to medium term future

Old dogs don’t wanna learn new tricks cause they got arfritis

Yet another strong argument for how left praxis includes going outside and being normal as fuck by going to a gym to lift weights, picking up martial arts, etc

i think this is just a specialized case of where we allowed the right wing to take cultural ownership of routine daily hobbies and activities that are, it turns out, very good at generating meaning to everyday life when you live under godless modernity

tfw you love your job at the Bird Naming Factory

Whatever we make.

The 2024 Lions are the most fun football team I can remember. Just throwing out the wildest plays for no reason

Biden leaves the Democratic Party an empty husk that has forsaken its claim to all moral beliefs. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stand-for-...

At this point it kind of feels like the genre of cyberpunk in its most visible embodiments — works made by major corporations — functions simply to set a bar for corporate dystopia that includes criteria which will not be met in real life, to fend off people realising they're in one

An all-timer right here