there will be a time when democrats regain the senate and have a chance to kill the filibuster, and they wont. It just won't happen. This counts as dooming in some corners but it's just true and we all know it.

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Men will literally go to therapy instead of riding 40 miles with 2100 vert on a crisp autumn afternoon

bought a flannel. Might become a flannel guy this season. @murderxbryan.bsky.social is this a thing

real ones know

I've been incorporating reverse lunges into my workout routine and i feel they've been amazing for knee stabilizer imbalances. They fucking suck and i hate doing them. 10/10

I added the comedy song "I Own a Car" by Ninja Sex Party to the four years old's playlist and it's his favorite song now

tbh if someone could develop an algorithm such that I never have to see or interact with the kinds of people angry that bluesky is implementing An Algorithm this site would be a much nicer place

you can tell I'm a real consultant because I've had two (2) coffee shop meetings today

I refuse to become invested in a debate over a primary on the other side of the country, but the phenomenon of people who disdain this platform posting solely to farm negative engagement for their cool kid buddies elsewhere is funny and a bit pathetic

i wish for the nazi tattoo discourse to end. No new arguments are there to be made, let us all quietly deliberate in our own homes henceforth

Rewatching Honey I Shrunk the Kids and not to be all RETVRN but it's wild how much time this movie spends establishing its characters and allowing the stakes (increasingly haywire shrinking machine) to quietly escalate in the background.

today's experiment with "what can and...err...cannot... LLMs do" - take this RFP and expand it into a bulleted scope of work identifying specific methods commonly associated with each task ❌ - condense the SOW into 3-4 line-item budget summaries ✅

Denver is a fraud. Great Plains-ass sprawlville cosplaying as a mountain city

"No Kings" is good branding but tbh Trump's governance, such as it is, is more akin to the mafia: extortion and threats and looting and violence all the way down. An actual criminal enterprise entirely in control of the whole government. Feels bad, man.

Today's youths will never know the terror of being a somewhat sheltered kid experiencing the horror movie genre entirely through VHS covers at Blockbuster

I know we're all in a "normie libs will save the country" mood but i just read the IG comments on a local news article about a proposed hotel development and...idk man

"Ghostbusters is conservative because it makes the EPA the bad guys" shut up, just shut up no it doesn't. The EPA guy is an antagonist because he has a stick up his ass and he sucks. This is movie logic, not everything is a social commentary.

turbo cancer be like

Willett isn't in the the same universe of awfulness as JK Rowling, but there's a similar social dynamic at play between them being radicalized into their respective and, importantly, totalizing anti-yimby/anti-trans worldviews, around the same time, on the same social media site.

I think it's sad that "Temu version of x" has replaced "dollar store version of x" when dollar stores still exist and suck.

the four year old is currently narrating his car play to the tune of Sleater-Kinney's Oh! so I'll be accepting my parent of the decade award thank you

i'm sure raw denim is cool but the hobbyist pitch is so funny: these jeans cost $500, they'll feel like shit until you wear them daily for a year but you can only wash them every 6 months. Also doing so might ruin them permanently and you'd better guess the size right because they'll shrink

i took this evocative as fuck picture this morning, i call it Showdown at Dawn

we've progressed from "the older kid shits his underwear daily" to "the older kid refuses to poop so every third or fourth day he's constipated and still shits in his underwear" i love my kids but ngl even if this isn't the worst thing we've dealt with it's by far the most fucking frustrating

well if you hear Salt Lake City and your first impulse is to make a polygamy joke I'm going to throw a shoe at your head

*rubs temples* we really gotta have an internet-wide HR training that "death threat" is, for very good reasons, a more expansive category than posting "I personally will imminently inflict lethal harm upon you"

tbh they problem with left punching is that a substantial plurality of what passes for the left in online spaces deserve to be (figuratively) punched nearly all the time, but actually doing it is usually a waste of energy

the main thing about the LLM debates on this site is that to an even greater degree than usual they're completely disconnected from the real world.

I don't really pay attention to Taylor Swift lore but my wife put on the new album and on first listen it was mostly just boring, [random guy on a third-tier social media site giving advice to the most powerful woman in media this side of Oprah] I liked Red, you should write songs like that again

bluesky is gonna bluesky about this but i don't see how anybody who's worked in a typical office enforcement and been forced to work with other people's spreadsheets will find this any worse on net

tbh i am slightly surprised that a Trump truck flag guy would fixate on Mormons but I'm not surprised that a Trump truck flag guy would do something like that in general.

the last game that really got me in a profound sense was Outer Wilds. Stellar, 10/10 ending. (only slightly undercut by the fact that i had to look up how to get to the end game and thought "how the fuck was i supposed to piece that together myself" but then again i am very dumb)

this could just be a local thing but i feel like we're living in a golden age of good-ass municipal playgrounds. The 2000s era of cookie-cutter plastic slides and tubes were an overreaction to 1980s death traps, but now I can take my kid to what's effectively a free outdoor climbing gym for kids

i don't want to get all political but I've always been more of an ibuprofen guy

the trick to seeing the Truth is to have 75% of your media diet be regular mainstream media, 5% niche/far left posters, and 20% deranged revolutionary libs (aka the Bluesky power users).

Charlie Kirk was never afraid to stick his neck out for his convictions. He showed that success is no long shot when you're up to your neck in hard work. A straight-shooter to the end, Charlie was neck and neck with the great minds of our time.

I'm not paying for strava but steady progress on the steep 3.5 mile bastard climb i like to challenge myself on few times a year is neat

under woke 2.0 we can roll our eyes at academics gurgling out this shit and say shut the fuck up man, nobody cares

People say Silksong is frustrating but have they ever tried to fucking potty train a goddamned four year old who knows perfectly well how to pee on the potty but still has an accident every christfucking day and don't even get me starting on pooping

tbh i think we're all susceptible to this, sometimes I'll think "man the timeline is going crazy for racism in the Gundham community today" and it's like two guys retweeting ten other guys

i don't want to be too flippant because, like, my fucking mother was at the Charlie Kirk event... but it's weird that the menu of choices seems to be "shoot up a school" or "assassinate a right wing public figure"

not to exonerate FBI ineptitude but I'm pretty sure "killer got caught because he told somebody who turned him in" is how it happens a lot of the time

♫ When you eat my eggs hope it gives you hell hope it gives you hell ♫ ♫ When you fill your plate hope it gives you hell hope it gives you hell ♫

Very funny that what people on Twitter think about Bluesky is actually Threads

i would simply make the whole league out of Buffalo-Baltimore

I have a theory that the reason so many reactionary centrist types fixate on Jamelle Bouie (and Michael Hobbes) is that both of them actually do substantive reading on their respective topics of interest. But their haters are lazy: they don't read, they don't actually know anything. They Post.

only complaint about Silksong after an hour or two is that my sense of direction in these games is dire so i know I'm gonna miss out on fun builds just because i can't function with the compass

I don't like Spencer Cox but the way people are talking about him because he was at the Abundance conference is pretty funny. Dude's not a far right foot soldier. He's a moderate business Republican who strategically sells out to fend off a much more right wing state party.

one thing that brings me comfort is that in a world of constant digital surveillance and privacy violations, ad retargeting is still kind of lousy. i just bought a set of adjustable dumbbells. no i don't want another one... that's the whole point of them