liberals are at their most passionate when they’re explaining why the Democrats can’t actually do a thing.

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who gives a shit about power levers. if you don't even attempt to start the process of impeachment, the fuck is the point of anything. "step on me daddy. please rig the next election, daddy" bsky.app/profile/squo...

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

What a time to know anything about the history of American imperialism and its consequences

im tired

Being a trans woman with any level of notoriety online fucking sucks yall. It fuck sucks and is exhausting and literally drains me of my personhood it feels like whenever I try to engage.

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

i fucking hate large language models. every single aspect of using the internet has gotten worse over the past 3 years and it’s all thanks to this fucking bullshit. it’s a bullshit machine that annihilates information and makes me want to destroy everything

Note that it’s the administration that’s to blame. Graham will never admit to his own culpability in what he helped build

this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

Me yelling, "Talk to a pharmacist," over and over as the automated system repeats, "okay, but actually I can help you with most requests. Simply state what you need..."

sliwa correctly understanding that mamdani ran a very traditional campaign and thus surpassing the analytical ability of 80% if people who comment on politics for a living

swearing my inaugural oath on a copy of Hofstadter's The Paranoid Style in American Politics

day one in mamdani’s new york

Happy New Year to the haters, the losers, and the far left marxist transgender extremists, which I think covers everyone here.

Happy Public Domain Day! Jan 1 marks the date when eligible works pass into the public domain in the United States. Notable works entering the public domain this year include certain early Mickey Mouse cartoons, the novel As I Lay Dying, and the Gershwin composition Embraceable You. #copyright

2026 kicking off with a bang

It’s time to play “fireworks or gunshots?”

It’s cool how google is worth trillions of dollars and employs supposed geniuses but can’t tell the correct name of the main character of a film (it’s Peyton Westlake)

so while most of you have been absolutely lovely — and thanks for that btw! — it is sadly time for the quarterly reminder: if you are being "playfully" rude in the replies of someone you have not met, you are just being rude. you have not yet earned the good faith required for joking rudeness!

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.

Cis comedians making great trans jokes is always such a treat

good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein

we're so back

This was a pretty good one

After three perfect wins in three games, I’m starting to think that Free Play ghosts in The Bazaar are not particularly good at the game

I said chatgpt doesn't have a soul and got put on this list

"guys you don't get it, yes she voted for the Put Trannies Through The Torment Nexus bill, but the important part is that she VOTED and that's what we DO because we're AMERICANS"

the shit that a box set of the West Wing does to someone's brain, man

alan wake-themed improv team called Harold of Darkness

You should be able to rev your shopping cart at people in the grocery store

One of the best to ever do it

Tom Maxwell from the Squirrel Nut Zippers smoked half a pack of my cigarettes

Holy shit, drew scanlon was a clue on only connect today

There’s something to be learned from the genre of web browsers whose selling point is “we will handle your tabs because you can’t be trusted with them”, but I don’t know what

Mario Fuggin Fuggin Italy, Genova, Genova, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929

Hacker News is a website

john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

ain't this that communist video game no one shuts up about