the best thing about Alien: Earth is every episode ending with a butt-rock needle drop

I don't think the urbanists who want dense and abundant urban housing are allies of suburban sprawl enthusiasts and pretending you can smooth that over by just saying abundance over and over is dumb at best and actively malicious at worse. People who wanted sprawl tried that already with YIMBY.

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

My professional assessment is that Ezra Klein is a moron @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?

Maria Ressa going on the Daily Show and being like, "we tried to warn you [colonizers] this shit you created is bad and self-destructive [but you never listen brown people and women]" is basically the story of "western civilization" in a nutshell

Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?

we have a big idea -- that thoughts are the way the brain talks to itself. since man first tamed fire he has used his mind to form word pictures, and translated those word pictures into actual pictures and actual words. we seek to harness that simple drive through the thinking of more words and mor

I am proud to be born a Muslim. I am proud to be born in Somalia. I am proud to have become an American. None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet. Drink some water and touch grass.

aw man

Give me the Beach Boys, and free my soul

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.

This Week's Onion Magazine:

I was in shock for months when the mainline liberal response to Trumps 2016 win was to subscribe to the mainstream media. It’s like watching Frankenstein’s monster kill your family then bankrolling Frankensteins next project. But it’s what liberalism keeps doing. We don’t fucking learn shit.

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

Is there a social media app where you can join a bunch of people all reading the same book at the same time? I want to talk to the people in the middle of reading something I'm reading

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

This is one of the most euphonious headlines I’ve ever read.

no that ship has sailed. barring a trump-like destructive figure on the left steamrolling the institutional dems like he did the GOP and coming in and forcing through sweeping anticorruption and other reforms there is no coming back from this, at least not in my lifetime

Archetypal American hot dude. Back when celebrity meant caring about good art, having talent, doing some charity and not being shitty to your loved ones

Breaking — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Colt Hagmaier just resigned in an email to staff. He's worked at the agency for more than a decade. Hagmaier's resignation comes immediately after two FEMA employees were placed on leave for comments about Charlie Kirk. Text of his email shared with me:

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

horrified they weren’t quick enough to keep her from spreading this kind of vile hate speech on TV. for those who don’t know, “go birds” is a coded expression of support for the Philadelphia Eagles

Doggy swim day :)

Not for the first time, those from more gentry backgrounds, or who've grown up more comfortable, seem to be more prone to mistaking propaganda blitzes and elite collaboration for defeat in itself. It ain't. There's a world elsewhere, and the ridiculous amount of quisling bs is backfiring.

i dont think multiple democratic governors should have lowered flags to half mast for a racist who said gay people should be stoned. i dont think a democratic governor should have called for continuing "the work" of a man who said mlk was a myth and evil. is that too much to ask? ffs.

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

This entire book is a nightmare

Slightly diminish a book: Catch 21

this is a watto if it was Paulie from the sopranos

Courts have upheld the crucial 'can't maim a guy with sandwich' legal principle. The rule of law holds in these United States. For now

This woman in the gym just backwards mounted the chair on the thigh master machine and did it hitched up like she was riding a rodeo horse

Finally, a poli sci professor with a useful dataset instead of just an "freedom index" where jim Crowe era US scores 80 points higher than East Germany

"Othering" has been used 3 times Rep Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) "We need to recognize this danger for what it is and denounce the tropes, conspiracies, and othering that lead to horrific, violent acts of antisemitism." Rep Barbara Lee mentioned "UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute. "

I will vote for any candidate that can do these 3 things: 1. Stop the authoritarian takeover of America 2. Restore and revitalize public services 3. Don’t spam my phone

the uncomfortable fact people don’t want to acknowledge about this Trump administration, and Elon in particular, is that they have been creative; literally doing things that are supposed to be impossible in our system. no mainstream Dem has ever one idea that fits that category.

Quick refresher for the mouth-breathing Elron faithful who believe actively funding this man is not explicitly political activity. Your continued financial support affords this psychopath the power to overthrow democracy. His actions are absolutely your responsibility. #BoycottTesla #BoycottMusk

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

ESPRIT DE CORPS - Kim Kitsuragi is a nice guy. Wish he was here right now.

Slightly diminish a band: Ceramica

Rather than just say “blue no matter who,” let’s take the time now to not only find someone whom we think could win but who also will not compromise on the rights of our citizens and who will not continue to fund and arm a genocide. There’s time!

uh, so if I have this right, Tesla sent a Cybertruck owner a cease and desist for rapping about the truck, and then deactivated said truck on the side of the road until he signed it??

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...