the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood. trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️ republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️ “sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️ naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️ villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️ powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️ list goes on

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

An entire generation has been convinced online that Kobe Bryant was “found innocent,” and I cannot express how much that did not happen. His victim stopped cooperating with prosecutors because she was getting so much harassment, and he begged her to settle.

A functional Dem party would run wall to wall ads with photos of the “mass deportation now” signs Which is why our Dem party won’t do it

a load-bearing part of Trump getting away with everything is that he’s generally faced with rational actors who do their best to steer around his lunacy but the people making decisions in Iran are a guy whose entire family we just killed and some random IRGC folks and they might just go “fuck you”

Vague unformed thoughts about how the generation that whined about Millennials “expecting participation trophies” also gave us “we can’t have effectual minority leadership because we have to give Chuck Schumer his turn with the senate leadership chair”

How to make yogurt: milk a cow, homogenize + pasteurize the milk, heat up the milk again, let it get back down to 110 F, stir in some bacterial culture, let it sit for 8-12 hours, add fruit/sugar to taste. How to make ultra-processed yogurt: Do all that and then add a drop of food coloring.

I mean I would hope anyone fleeing the draft could figure out the basic opsec of “don’t use the car connected to the cellular network to do it”

Achieving new frontiers in beverage goblining, from left to right: fiber, protein, water, coffee

Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.

Is this the first time he’s opened his mouth and a lie DIDN’T come out?

Hoist on their own RFRA

Deeply hoping somebody asks Chuckles how The Baileys feel about his new Palestinian citizenship

90s Captain Ahab: Thar she blows. Thar she blows again.

Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏

an important reminder that "hacking" rarely involves typing real fast as green text scrolls by and mostly involves asking people for their login info in increasingly sophisticated ways human psychology is a lot easier to manipulate than code, be very careful with anyone asking for credentials

I think people believe the point of progressive politics is to try to convince malicious, bad-faith bigots to not be violent, instead of defanging their movements and making them politically irrelevant. It's not about "saving the souls of the lost". It's about making sure their harm is mitigated.

One of the things I find fascinating about the "you need to learn to use AI or you'll be left behind" crowd is that everyone I know who has been forced to use it has said that the only way to use it in a way that actually results in time savings is to know the field extremely well.

you can't believe billionaires shouldn't exist and also that only billionaires should pay taxes. we need confiscatory taxation for the rich and broad taxes for the rest of us

I know people get mad at anyone criticizing Democrats when Trump is pillaging the country, but if you're looking around and thinking "what we need is tax cuts!" you lack the vision required to lead

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

I'm not even particularly wedded to the narrative about GWOT war being about oil. But I do believe that the lesson *Trump* took from Iraq was that you do war for oil, and then he looked at a big "countries with oil" map and circled the top 5 in gold sharpie

In quite literally the time between when I texted my roommate this morning with the gas price and a reminder that she’s got a commute and when she finally went out and got gas this evening it went up by 25 cents

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

Wasn’t most/all of that actually invented by women whose names we rarely remember?

Bernie Sanders is 84 and has filed to run for another term in 2030. He may not actually run again but I don’t hear any of his supporters demanding that he resign before then due to being “too old” either.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

I would like my hour back

Wait did he just admit that there’s way the fuck more than 6 dead troops?

Can’t wait until he never said this, it’ll be great

One apple per day can keep a lot of people away if you aim really well

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

But y’all couldn’t vote for Kamala because she was definitely gonna send us to war in the Middle East!

Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

I think if you’re OK with Graham Platner working for Blackwater, you have officially lost the moral high ground required to yell at anyone else for working for a military contractor or being in the military ever again Like sorry you gotta choose!

You know it’s dire when the first period highlights include the entrance through the shark head

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Everyone is still talking about this dork ass loser so i keep having thoughts too but the main one is I DON'T ACTUALLY CARE IF HE'S A NAZI IN HIS INNERMOST HEART. HE'S EITHER A NAZI OR HE'S NOT NEARLY HOSTILE ENOUGH TO NAZIS/NAZI ICONOGRAPHY. IDC WHICH.

“Invade Iran and a great empire will fall!” “Cool, thanks, oraclio!”

I would like gold stars for making the appointments for my annual physical AND my diabetic eye exam as well as calling my GYN’s exchange and requesting they call me to make that appointment I should not have to do any additional work today

I love this for Massachusetts and wish Santa Clara had the balls

Look you fuckers just because Johnson refuses to actually WIELD the levers of power his position puts in his hands doesn’t mean they’re not fucking there

I think we all understand that it’s the astroturfing and money that is pumping this guy up (and it might work!) but just once I would like a prominent Dem to consider that he might just be openly mocking how stupid they are for believing him, how easy it is to get these guys to betray themselves

The right got loud online about pride merch in a store where they already didn’t shop and they IMMEDIATELY pulled that shit but 13 straight quarters of declining sales and he can’t even say out loud that maybe supporting diversity was good, actually