you know what, I should try not being Online

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Would be dope if it happened today

personally speaking

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

people who find those words in statements like this deserve to be blocked

This is 100% the correct approach. John Quincy Adams brought down Congress’ “gag rule” (which prevented members from discussing the abolition of slavery) by bringing abolitionist petitions to the floor *multiple times a day*, against House rules. Every day the House was in session. For years.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

It's just like, y'know, in addition to all of the other clearly evident things to consider there was also the supremely basic thing of... character. I will never understand how so many people weren't bothered by (or somehow didn't notice) the difference. Life isn't a game.

But, you see, it was all this or a woman

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

I have to say, I don’t love that a former editor for the “New Yorker” is using this horrible war as an excuse to spread antisemitic conspiracies that New York Jews are all Israeli sleeper agents - especially when the state of Israel has made it clear it doesn’t care about us at all.

For the Old Heads

With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

I'm seeing a lot of people talk about how awful democrats are for supporting war with Iran and I'm seeing a lot of democrats say war with Iran is stupid and illegal and an atrocity for which the president should be impeached, but I'm not seeing anyone quote any democrats who support it

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Someday, before I die I hope, Americans will come to realize that not choosing the lesser evil means the greater evil wins

I still believe strongly in "when they go low, we go high" as long as "high" means "finally sign onto the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court and see that they are prosecuted for war crimes and human right violations"

this suggests that iowa fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of a sandwich, like, as a state

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

I bet I'm going to regret asking, but why is there "working for defense contractors" discourse again

I mean, you’re not wrong! Shows my friends worked on for years were canceled and then used as tax write-offs.

RIP first film robot

the most wonderful thing

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

Put up some limited edition Public Enemy SHE GOT GAME shirts to raise money for these women athletes. shop.flavorflavofficial.com

In case you're wondering if you'd like to see absolute blues legend Buddy Guy play a few classics & later be joined by Miles Caton & watch them play amazing versions of two of the songs featured in Sinners, the answer is yes, yes you would like to see that

JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I knew someone who went and visited Michael Tracey in his early days when he was trying to be a semi legit reporter. They said he lived with his parents in Jersey in a room with nothing but like a mattress on the floor and a cross on the wall.

May I suggest following up from the perspective of building code compliance? Even if it's a relatively new building, conversion from warehouse to detention should trigger a wind & seismic upgrade. bsky.app/profile/dbon...

Seems so long ago now but there was a while where most tech luminaries were just sorta awkward weirdos and not full-bore Bond villains.

LIGHTS OUT GUERRILLA RADIO

the older I get, the more important it feels for general mental well-being, and also the more frustrating and difficult it feels, to accept that many of the people who have done the most evil and harm will never face justice or consequences in this life.

hey just in case you haven't recently, try watching the Bad Bunny halftime show again, I bet it'll make your day better

I'm using this right now

Very well dressed woman chasing down a Coco delivery robot yelling "I hate that thing. I'm going to fucking kill it" while her partner yells limply behind her "baby no you're gonna get sued"

I'm seeing a lot of "oh everyone who was rightly anti-'AI' is now gonna be pro-Anthropic just because hegseth's mad at them" and I know we're all very jaded and cynical and all but I just don't see any evidence that that's likely

Hey the guy that makes the deepfake generator and suicide machine is gonna get into the murderbot business sounds great what could go wrong

music is maybe the most important thing in the world? and blues is one of the most important kinds of music.

starting to think that letting a handful of weird billionaires buy up everything made by better, more creative people and then systematically dismantle it for parts isn't the road to greater freedom and innovation i was promised

Just finished the Behind the Bastards episodes on the impact of Jeffrey Epstein. And like a takeway is that he started funding anti-trans research because he allegedly SA'd a trans girl (she was 16 at the time) who turned around and sued his ass for it and he was mad that she sued him.

jesus christ, man, how is he 89 years old. thank you @npr.org Music for making sure to get the closeups on his finger work.

we're gonna need some more Lina Khans

I said it before and I'll say it again

wait there's an NYT article about Chris Fleming as a "breakout comic"…_today_? I swear I've been seeing people quote and link clips of his bits for a decade or more

While this money is spread across three organizations, the Marsha P. Johnson Fund typically has an annual budget of $20K. We’ve allowed them to help SO many more BIPOC trans people with micro grants than they would have otherwise. Well done, everyone

Did you know that "young Sammie" and "older Sammie" did a Tiny Desk today? Yep, Miles Caton and Buddy Guy performed together #Sinners youtu.be/m5XxOLdMSS8?...

see also: every infomercial for a labor-saving device that people love to make fun of for portraying what looks like unrealistic incompetence