Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

I LOL'ed

This is a complicated bit to post during Pride Month because for all of his greatness, Norm was a bit blase about throwing around gay jokes, but this is one of my favorite gags of his.

I have written about my trip to Japan. www.themdrm.com/writing/2026/5/27/other-worlds

Dana White ruined MMA - the best and most engaging sport on the planet and he turned it into a propaganda machine for the worst people on the earth like Trump, Kadyrov, and various oil sheiks. Never forget, never forgive.

Has there been any serious conservative intellectual that rebuts Wilhoit’s Law? I’d be curious to hear why they think there’s anything more complicated about their philosophy than “the law protects my group but binds your group”. Maybe @mattsitman.bsky.social or @samadlerbell.bsky.social knows?

omens, portents, things of that nature,

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

100% what’s happening, as someone with a family member on Leqembi.

This might have some explanatory power.

MY generation drank from the BLOG HOUSE. we didn't TALK to GIRLS, we listened to GIRL TALK. we grew up in the HOOD INTERNET. we didn't survive lead runoff, we survived HIPSTER RUNOFF. a time when boys were BOYS NOIZE

During his talk at RBS, James Malin—not on Bsky—showed this title page from a 19th-century catalog for Alfred Nobel’s Nitro-Glycerin Company I’d like to nominate this image for the most metal cut in print history—we need to make something with it for Halloween @skeuomorphpress.org

Let’s go Colorado Dems. I have been thinking about this lately. We need to bring back ostracism. Polis, you are shunned. Get to stepping.

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

An insane thing to say as you fail to punish someone for their crimes. Also, Coloradoan here - MAGA beliefs are either evil or stupid and should indeed be punished.

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

I am not in your stupid book club and if you keep trying to force it on me you will see just how annoying I can be with my philosophy degree. Smart people have been trying to prove god for a while and nobody’s done it. Your Jesus ain’t it.

Oh man I would lose my fucking mind for a Soul Calibur movie.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

Vintage Ronda Rousey performance. Feels like it’s 2013 again.

I want all the good things for Francis Ngannou. Let’s go Big Fran.

It’s very funny that this chud runs into the most handsome men everywhere he ends up.

There is no bottom to my disdain for white southerners. We could have an incredible country but for these backwards fucks holding us back.

Despicable

Let’s go girls!

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Breaking: President’s lawyer says he can do whatever he wants.

Read every @rovelli.bsky.social

Pothole Politics is an incredible bit of branding here.

Oh man the idea that Stephen Graham Jones has even better work to come makes me so excited. I just finished Buffalo Hunter Hunter recently and it was amazing. I didn’t think he’d top The Only Good Indians, but Buffalo Hunter Hunter was truly inspired. Now to see if I can preorder the new one 🤞

SCOTUS: ok so all the KKK members in the Republican Party have to do is avoid saying "I'm doing this for racist reasons" on television and they can redistrict away THE REPUBLICAN PARTY:

A Very Fatal Murder is one of the hardest I’ve ever laughed with my now-wife. Fond memories of crying laughing and drinking wine with her on the bed.

“I am going to become a data center” (2026)

Instead of getting a vastly more compassionate & egalitarian country, we are transferring vast wealth to private oil companies for *nothing* -- no national benefit whatsoever. And where are the fiscal conservatives? Where are the deficit & inflation scolds? Where's "we can't afford it"?

in essence he's right, he's firing multimillion dollar missiles at butterflies. and this is why your libraries are closed on the weekends and your grandfather is working a retail job at 80

Lol lol lol lol lol lol the man is addicted to baddies

Billionaires & corporations working alongside social conservatives, & the emergence of trumpism. Plus, the red wave on the state level in 2010. GOP gained 720 legislative seats, flipped 22 chambers, giving them control of 57/58 of 98 state chambers, and felt they no longer had to play nice w/ DEMs

We are sold individual solutions to systemic problems. Like how if you are underpaid, it’s because you don’t grind hard enough, not because the unions have been hollowed out.

“Buddha, Socrates, and Us” by Stephen Batchelor, “Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet” by Thich Nhat Hahn, and “Altered Carbon” by Richard K. Morgan.

Life on the internet now.

Threw some color over these X-Files drawings

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

One point about "vibecession" is that simple CPI numbers and the like do not cover what we all know: the American economy is filled with scams, bullshit, and engines of inequality. 99.99% of the population has good reason to be pissed off, and yet the other 0.01% is somehow the most hostile.

I forget the post that was like "Americans treat Trump like he's an inconvenience and the rest of the world treats him like the President of the United States"