"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

6-ft Skelly dog is my favorite indulgence this year. I like to think it's my dog that passed a few years ago. And Hiro is ignoring him just like the old times 🥹

I entered my macarons into the NC state fair this year. Sweet potato pie flavored.

Your know it's real because ..

This is the post I'm going to send UNC when they write to ask for an alumni donation.

i can't express how much i love this.

I'm exactly the kind of person who would buy a physical dictionary because of this.

Unrelated to anything important about this news, but if I hear someone is 40 years old I still imagine someone much older than me. A 41 year old.

We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

The message to the entire state of North Carolina needs to be "while WNC was struggling in the aftermath of Helene, Kristi noem sent federal resources to one of the bluest cities in the country instead of approving funds for your relief"

I'll stop calling the political opposition Nazis when they stop acting like Nazis.

The greatest minds of the right wing intellectual dark web think tank cannot -- or won't -- distinguish between "comic gets yelled at in comedy club for telling shitty joke about trans people" and "federal government forces corporation to pull comedian off the air for mocking President"

Putting this here for no reason whatsoever. open.spotify.com/episode/0afn...

Happy birthday to me!! www.supergiantgames.com/blog/hades2-...

Honestly people who believed the initial @wsj.com lies about the bullets just failed a basic media literacy test. The WSJ is just printing white wing press releases and if you don’t know that by now I don’t know what to tell you.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

A lawless and illegitimate regime and its minions are not entitled to the protection of the rule of law.

Get fucked, Google AI. Tone police my entire ass.

He’s not wrong

Newsom can't be President because he's an asshole with bad politics but he can absolutely goad the current President into doing dumb and loud shit and there is no greater need in the moment than a loathsome fuck to anger and annoy the other loathsome fuck

Obama didn’t announce his candidacy until 2007, for the 2008 election. It’s 2025. Election is in 2028. Like… no. We don’t have to accept that Gavin is the best we can do. We gotta push for better in the time we have. No candidate is perfect (Obama wasn’t), but we can do better than Gavin, ffs.

I’m trying to figure out what caused Trump to target these particular mayors

Hear me out. What if all the prompts about every app and website's new AI features make everything so unusable that it kills shitty AI features on its own?

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan. And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

I should give up on all my personal goals and dedicate my life to the destruction of the Republican Party by any means necessary.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

#FantasticFour star Ebon Moss-Bachrach was asked what he would do if he had The Thing's powers “There’s a handful of fascists that I would just throw into outer space” (via IMDb)

if you’re being snide and dismissive about Roy Cooper saying he prayed on something all that tells me is that you don’t understand a thing about North Carolina and the people to whom he’s talking. So maybe hush.

My boomer opinion is that you are not too good for leftovers. Get over yourself, be a grown-up.

it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught

“the party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitals” is a true statement

Organization SiembraNC sent messages Durham, 9:20 a.m.: ICE agent presence confirmed at the Durham courthouse at 510 S Dillard St. Remember your rights: 🤐 remain silent, 🚪 do not open your car or house door, 📃 ask for a court order signed by a judge. Any reports, please call us at 336-543-0353.

When you're a dog owner, that feeling that someone's watching you is pretty much always accurate.

"Of course we're a one issue voter, it's our lives" really cuts through the bullshit. I won't vote against myself. There's a lot of room for compromise but I won't vote to decrease my own rights. I value myself and my dignity too highly.

MAGA have invested too much of their identity into Trump to ever substantially oppose him. There will be complaints here and there but eventually they’ll fall into line. That’s how it’s been since the movement started.

ok NYC there are no easy choices here, every mayoral candidate has serious character questions that should give anyone pause: one guy is a serial sexual harasser who killed your grandma one guy is a literal criminal who is cutting deals to sell out the city for pardons one guy moved a table

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

Cry more, fash freaks

I'm not going to do a global political analysis right now. I am going to tell you that I'm just old enough to remember the last time we had this same stupid fucking war, and tell anyone under 30: Do not enlist in the military. They will ruin your life and they do not care. Please don't do it.

Robin Hood and Lil Jon

Is Bluesky kind of a bubble? Yes. Is X *very much* a bubble? Oh hell yes. Is -- wait for it -- LinkedIn? To a degree that would blow your mind, if you spent enough time there. There never has been a single online "town square" -- they all drift toward certain norms.

assassins dress like cops bc that’s who’s allowed to murder people in broad daylight

Had some more to say on the "riots" and "invasion" in LA. If it’s a "riot," it’s the police who are rioting. If there’s an “invasion” of LA, it’s the US military that is invading.

these are all things that have connected republicans since Regan. trump just took it up 10 levels. cruelty, hypocrisy, discrimination, and censorship has always been on brand. If more people had realized this earlier on, we wouldn't be in this situation now.

Amazing. Respect the lede.