This is a great read, and it's also a lesson. This is what everyone could be doing, at every level. This is the possibility open to every one of us, while every single cry of "we had no choice" was and is a cowardly lie.

Bro.

this lady bought a bulletproof SUV because she's afraid someone will come and hurt her son who makes ten story tall paper waifus.

for a president who won’t even be bothered to say her name

but the DSA candidates are doing well. if you want to save the party as a moderate, I recommend getting moderate Dems to drop their most politically rancid takes, particularly on Israel.

Conservative media criticism has become so racist and vulgarized that Nolan can make a movie with the message "imperial powers are the barbarians at their own gates" and the right-wing critique of it is "why lady black"

Stephen Daedalus will return in Avengers: Bloomsday

Avengers trailer:

lmao im suddenly and for no reason remembering this concept of "the groups" -- which the very smart sages of the dem elite have told us really screw everything up for the cause of liberalism. these "groups," are they people? people organized into groups? who can vote ?

I was wondering what the hell was going on in the new Avengers trailer but then I figured it out: by showing a rapid series of still images they’ve created the illusion that the images are moving. Very clever!

applying for a job with a british company and the identity questions are getting very specific

one of my favorite charts

If you want avoid being charged with second degree murder for deliberately killing someone, apparently the lesson here is "make sure the murder weapon is extremely fucking heavy"

The contrast is funny because "Reign of the Supermen" is the rare "we created a bunch of characters" event where all of the characters are actually great.

wait.

A point worth elevating about The Post’s pivot to video shorts is that video is necessarily far less information dense than text. They are *opting* to provide worse, less rigorous arguments, even assuming they had valuable arguments to make. (Oh, is that what police say?)

Thanks to years of bad faith Republican attacks, three-quarters of Americans now support voter ID requirements. www.reuters.com/world/trumps...

jane schoenbrun gonna get me put on a watch list

Best part of the Odyssey viewing experience was watching Circe turn the men to pigs and involuntarily whispering “I love her,” at which point the guy next to me who had been actively looking away from the body horror (fair) gave me the weirdest look.

Something that shouldn't need to be observed but apparently does is that the images and videos of Andrew Tate being put into handcuffs has instantly made being associated with him more scandalous for politicians even though the facts of the case haven't changed and he hasn't been convicted.

I say this only because the theory of the case under Biden/Garland for the Trumpworld guys seemed to be that allowing them to corruptly wriggle free made them somehow look worse than arresting and imprisoning them would've and like... no it didn't.

"Don't take my word for it, listen to this Fox News segment" I am begging the establishment centrists to please, please, please shut the fuck up. You're worried about your sinecures and pretending the party itself is in danger. It's not. Shut. The fuck. Up.

"lady ... this is a cold war played with loaded ice cubes that blow up in your face!" police squad level dialogue

Affirmative action was ended by the Supreme Court years ago. Somehow it’s still an obsession of the “anti-woke” crowd. Funny how that works.

The Odyssey is probably a good diagnostic test: anyone who thought even for a moment the backlash was real has been brain poisoned by right-wing social media and they should immediately discontinue reading X, Facebook, etc.

it's a minor point but spare a thought for these poor cops. it's got to be traumatic to have to do this to guys who are practically family (violent reactionary rapists)

11. The issue with modern Star Trek is that it relies on the characters being moved by friendship and found family rather than duty to something bigger than themselves.

It's called The Odyssey because the odyence will see it

An account with this avatar was just blocked.

oh my gd yes apnews.com/article/tate...

Every time someone calls Hegseth's testosterone program or Elon's hair plugs "gender affirming care," I wince. Speaking only for myself, and I know the jokes are well-intentioned: I wish we'd retire this one. New from me on why. www.readtpa.com/p/theres-no-...

it's pretty clear that people who believe in "bush did 9/11"-style conspiracy theories have no experience with enterprise project management

zero posts, a million replies this is the sort of time waster everyone should block

Like Shakespeare, the Greek classics have been interpreted countless times in countless places. If you do antigone in China, are you supposed to scour the place for Greek actors? Nolan’s Odyssey is an American film so it looks like America. bsky.app/profile/beau...

This is the way it’s been done for centuries now. No one cared until we started paying people to be racist on social media.

I don't need to know what Nazis think about movies!

"i wanted an excuse for my deep knowledge of age of consent laws"

Somebody blocked a no-good dame with gams that went all the way up

I hate that we have two Dakotas. Republicans got greedy for new states in the 1880s and we're still paying for that a century and a half later. Two states that, when combined, have the same population as The Bronx. They shouldn't get four senators.

Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.

E.F. Benson’s Mapp & Lucia books have managed to produce two television series that are both excellent and both completely different in tone and the books are still even better. Enter the Luciaverse

What I wouldn’t give

As a transgender liberal, I think you should have to follow legal orders when piloting a F/A-18E Super Hornet for the United States military. That is just my pinko queer opinion.

When I worked in midtown i always used to see unhoused people passed out on the subway stairs with needles in their arms, or piles of feces just sitting there on the damn ground, especially when the cold dropped down to deadly temperatures. But like… where else are they supposed to do it? At home?

It's 2026. Several states can't go outside because of climate change-fueled fires. Trump is bumbling into a forever regional war. The worst corruption in U.S. history snowballs daily. And Matt Y.'s big concerns are equity programs that no longer exist and 9 kids who want to play high school sports.

I've watched it like five times and even the subtitles are classic literature ascending into the canon right before your eyes. TCOURT MAHN A miracle that this exists. Thank you @bencollins.bsky.social @leilza.bsky.social @strle.bsky.social

Genocide in Gaza, war in Iran, death squads in our streets, Roe v Wade overturned, corruption at the highest levels, and matty’s litmus test is “The US Senate should make it illegal for children who have penises to play with children who have vaginas”

The air quality sucks today.. but the smoke quality is pretty good