This thread gets pretty wild. I think this person forgot there's a mute button?

I still can't believe that, after two years, the hostages are all free! I tear up every time I think about it. 💛🎗️

I can't get over his notion that redistricting would "tear communities apart". Does he think they'll be building highways along the new district boundaries?

I'm really starting to doubt the accuracy of those construction signs claiming that "motorcycles use extreme caution".

I mentioned to my father that I almost always keep my phone on silent. Dad: How do you know when someone is calling you? Me: Why would I need to know that?

I'm a Millennial, and I lack the "cultural competency or comportment" to make it fifteen minutes into that movie.

I can vouch — my Bukhari family pulls these out at weddings, and they are wonderful. They come in a variety of colors, and each has its own design. Many examples here: www.google.com/search?udm=2...

Along with everything else that's wrong here, I'm SUPER upset this is going to be a lot of people's first exposure to Bukharian jomahs. Which are actually pretty fab when they're worn where it's appropriate, and have a cool, but possibly apocryphal, origin.

Today in "two things can be true":

Why is everything a video these days? I do not need ten minutes and high production values to absorb one paragraph's worth of information, tyvm

I'm getting really sick of these Viking raids. Can't they pillage elsewhere??

Warning: each serving contains 100% of the RDA of puns.

"Africa" by Toto is a perfect song, and I won't hear a word against it, unless the word is "some of the lyrics are kind of ridiculous", in which case OK yes good point.

Slightly diminish a book Love in the Time of E. coli

This is fascinating; it's a sort of blend of Christianity with the cynicism that seems to have taken over large swaths of society.

It's interesting how, even with the ability to change the constitution at will, Orbán's party prefers facially neutral changes that give them a huge leg up but don't explicitly codify them like in China. Legitimacy is vibes, and slippery, but it matters somehow.

Wake up babe, new contronym just dropped. #langsky

This is a good point, but never-Trumpers are obviously outliers in their party; they wouldn't be never-Trumpers if they didn't get how uniquely terrible Trump is. Most institutionalists in both parties prefer to believe/pretend that Trump is in the same category as earlier Republicans.

One guy on OkCupid saw that I was a software developer and wanted to hire me. I *think* he also wanted to date me, but I wasn't sure, and anyway that's worse!

I think what he's trying to say is both clear and reasonable, but people have lost their minds about Israel and want to interpret everything in the worst way.

One odd result of America's global cultural influence is that people in other countries are often more familiar with our laws than their own, and don't always realize that theirs are different.

Naturally.

The weird thing about Stancil's frustration here is that he and Matt Yglesias are both pretty great! They both want the left to succeed, and they both call attention to real problems preventing that. The left hates both for the same reason the Trojans hated Cassandra.

The answer is in the replies, and, my friends, it is not guessable.

Jaws. It's basically a jaunt to the 1970s, an enforced break from social media and current events, and it's not like I ever swim in the ocean even in the real world. The biggest challenge: what did people do for a living back before email jobs??

Don't worry, one of the improvements in GPT-5 is that its apologies are sincere now.

It's been nine months, and I still just can't get over the fact that so many people voted for Trump to become president again. What did they think would happen? Is this what they were hoping for?

In the abstract this might be a good idea, but the devil is in the details, and technology is never perfect. I've driven a car that purports to tell you the current speed limit, and it was frequently wrong — sometimes off by as much as 60 mph.

Did y'all know about this? Because I did not know about this.

I'm sure this is true, but aid that *doesn't* enter Gaza does no good, either.

This is a slow burn.

Protesters in Tel Aviv took to the streets carrying flour bags and pictures of malnourished children from Gaza, calling for the end of the war on Gaza and the hunger. #protest #TelAviv #Gaza #hunger #IsraelGazawar #Israel

Who knew teamwork was so adorable??

Racist, and objectively false. The immigrants in question are required to pay all taxes but are not eligible for most public benefits. And New York sends more money to the Federal government than it gets back, whereas Tuberville's home state of Alabama, like most states, is the reverse.

"Instead of Charisma BEAUTY". 💀 I guess the author had never actually spoken to a woman, but only gazed on one from afar?

Gorgeous!

I dare you to watch these and not laugh. The one with the cubes and sphere has *perfect* comedic timing. (Sound helpful, but optional.)

No lie, this is actually a bit better than I would have guessed.

This. The harassment speaks to his character, but more importantly, the mayor is a bunch of people's boss, with power and influence over many more. None of those people deserve this.

Today I learned that pythons are measured in pounds, like bulk food.

Exactly this. I never understood why Netanyahu fought the 2015 Iran deal; it had problems, but there was no better alternative. Now we're stuck in a much worse situation.

There are wonderful people in the world.

The phrase "growing evidence" is always a red flag IMHO: evidence *always* grows over time — it's not like it can shrink! — so you can't just say "line goes up", you have to actually examine the evidence for and against. But this idea is interesting to think about, at least!

Happy Pride Month! You know who doesn't change their brand image to rainbow just for June? Ctenophores. They make their gay little rainbows all year. It's a Pride parade in the ocean every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 366 every four years. 🦑🐙

My favorite part of this is that this happened when he was a freshman and he wrote the op-ed when he was a junior. Dude never got over being asked to sign a birthday card.

Humans are so complicated.

👇 As long as they'd rather pander to us than to homophobes, I'm calling it good!

This would be self-parody if he had any self-awareness at all.

This is a fascinating thread. I love when people take the time to try to understand a different perspective; even if that perspective doesn't convince you, you can usually learn something from it.

A piece of my childhood, restored!