people whose only knowledge about almost everything comes from reading have a lot of opinions about the necessity of direct experience today

*Looks shifty in British*

So many people on my Facebook believe Bad Bunny gave his Grammy to Liam Ramos that he might actually have to do it

Kid Rock’s history adviser is a six-inch tall elephant that only he can see

I'm pretty sure there's a barber giving someone an actual haircut in that window

From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

work, love, life, art, music, power -- these things are ours.

THE COMMENTARY ON THE POWER OUTTAGES THE WAY HE BLESSED ALL OF LATIN AMERICA, INCLUDING HAITI I … I am in my Caribbean feelings

Kid rock right now

How do you hate Bad Bunny. “I hate dancing. I hate joy.”

I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Voters who wanted to give Trump a chance to Just Let Him Do His Thing are now bored or disengaged at best, upset and embarrassed at worst

NBC announcers when there’s an astronaut dressed like an astronaut surrounded by a model of the solar system and an English narrator is talking about space: That’s an Astronaut 😁😀☺️ NBC announcers during Prisencolinensinainciusol: 🤐🤫😴

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

A good thing to do as an academic is read about how many colleagues your field has driven to madness

Every day I wake up to a cold world knowing that Stancil woke up earlier and more eager to fight 900 cops than I do to drink a cup of coffee and login to Teams

On top of everything else, here is Marimar Martinez's defense attorney explaining how to delete a tweet, after a prosecutor last week said he assumed there was a way to do it but wasn't sure:

we said that you shouldn’t start fires and punch liberals

Suddenly realizing that in 10-20 years, the MN Historical Society will have an exhibit about *all this* and there will be a whole wall showing different types of whistles

i decided they needed a statblock

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

“It doesn’t just go to a building, does it?”

Trump saying on NBC that we had forty years of open borders If only some interviewer could be like “wait Reagan did open borders?”

Respectability politics is not the same thing as a mass movement of people demanding that a small group of their allies stop setting fires

I taught my first-year students today about Napoleon's influence on European Jewish history, and one of them asked if Napoleon was the original short king.

i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here. everyone should have some goddamn humility.

Oh my god apple why would you autocorrect juke to jukebox

“Non violent protests like No Kings don’t accomplish anything because they do not impede the flow of capital, unlike my preferred solution, which also does not impede the flow of capital but is more aesthetically pleasing”

many such cases

every time I think I'm out, I get pulled back in. one last job

"I want to get third degree burns and be arrested for assault on a federal officer"

Making a toxic dumpster fire hurts protesters way more than tear gas does 🧵: bsky.app/profile/dank...

Hello to all leftists who may have clicked through to my profile, I will not be grouped in with liberals just because I don’t agree with your goal of creating a competitive marketplace of violence to replace the monopoly, I was literally wobbly

Republicans want my disabled dad to get his health care from clippy fml

via wiktionary

...horrifying message without context, thank you

I hate this but Jeffrey Epstein is evil Forrest Gump

my wife counting out the cookies from the Tupperware after I volunteered to transfer them from the oven tray to the fridge

The difference between a linguist and a normal person is that a normal person thinks that Chomsky should’ve stuck to linguistics and a linguist thinks he shouldn’t have done that either

Listening to Ava Max on an endless loop as loudly as possible like a chimpanzee slamming a button repeatedly for a hit of endorphins

“despite a Democratic Senate and a Democratic President” I feel like there’s one part of the legislative process not mentioned here, who controlled that one, out of curiosity

I don’t start my classes with this. If you don’t know why you’re in my class, that’s between you and God

I am still getting a lot of anti-Trump, anti-ICE content on my #tiktok algorithm, post-takeover, but uhhh I’m also suddenly getting a lot of scantily clad young women I have had this account for maybe six years and this has never happened until now

This is a reason to be claudepilled. For years now, it's been obvious to anyone watching that Anthropic is the frontier lab where people are thinking seriously about the downstream consequences of their work, and where that thought isn't "world is gonna end anyway, so let's do it for da evulz".

Greg Bovino

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

Alexander “protector of men” Jeffrey “god’s peace” or “peaceful territory” Pretti “priest”