they're playing with fire doing this right before democrats take control of a bunch of swing states, and the impact on house control will be relatively low; but republicans have a doctrinal opposition to black people having elected representation, so of course it must happen immediately

incredibly funny how the outbreak happened after the two main countries involved, the united states and argentina, completely obliterated their public health and regulatory agencies for insane kulturkampf reasons

*squeee*

"Backwards" really does describe the Trump era. Back to Jim Crow, back to the time when any higher education that wasn't purely vocational was mostly accessible only to the elites, back to back-alley abortions, back to robber baron monopolies...

How I feel every time I think about Comixology

For all my ongoing problems with money, I am so happy I finally have a job where day to day I have to do things like go to Reddit to ask for help with a Latin translation.

I see that Matt Taibbi, who just lost the defamation case he filed against Eoin Higgins for criticism of his hackery, is one of the featured speakers at FIRE’s “Soapbox 2026” “celebrating free expression, fearless debate, and the courage to dissent.” Very free. Oh, no doubt.

It's nice to be happy about summer again for the first time since I was a kid, even if the only reason I'm happy about summer is that the students at the university I work at are gone so it will be much easier to get to the single-occupancy bathrooms.

this is incredible. i guess one thing i love about shit like this is that the kids just simply do not have an iota of time or respect for the sanctimonious fake piety Republicans have over things like this

We should build a statue of the spider

I wish I could commit to anything as much as members of the Trump regime commit to stupidity and evil.

This video is a very good primer on the history of the NHS and why it's in crisis now that fits with a lot of stuff I've read. Also it gives a good look at how governments and media can subtly undermine even popular public services.

Twitter is saying Elon posted as his mom while trying to post as his dad

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

the median Democratic voter in 2028 is Jean-Luc Picard

I am not seeing nearly enough people talking about Elon accidentally revealing his own mother’s account was just a sock puppet he posted from to talk to himself

My boss treated me and a co-workers to a Greek food festival and the priest there was kind of hot and I got invited by a YouTuber I follow and like to participate in a session of ULTIMA ONLINE using the version where everyone can kill each other, so hopefully it will set the tone for this week!

"What would you do if Halford was here?" "I'D JUMP HIS BOH-NES"

It's cool that "The guy who was President and had four years to do things to try to stop an obvious threat from a fascist movement might be at least somewhat to blame" is a controversial opinion around these parts.

Also, the problem is that Republicans genuinely are quantifiably stupid. Like, we have studied this. It isn’t political science’s fault. You can be conservative without being stupid. Bismarck wasn’t stupid. Churchill wasn’t stupid. Lee Kuan Yew wasn’t stupid. But Republicans are literally stupid.

This is a common misconception, but in US political jargon, “hindsight is 20/20“ means “leftists predicted this outcome at the time, but I find them personally annoying so I didn’t listen, and it’s actually their fault that I didn’t listen”. see also: climate change, every war ever, etc

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

Stop using Chrome. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent.

Really sums up a favorite right wing grievance: what's offensive here aren't my actions, but your accurate descriptions of them

These creeps want to do ruthless, lawless power grabs but also to have their delicate feelings respected

Not to toot my own horn (I actually hate myself and expressions of extreme confidence are really a form of humorous self-depreciation, I swear) but I think this is what gets at my core problem with certain pundits and commentators on here.

Actual “AI” literacy would involve explaining why it's not and never will be a reliable source of information nor will it ever be a replacement for research or creativity.

Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should. And we shouldn't here. AI is a giant data-stealing plagiarism machine. Nothing more.

In multiple recent cases, the Supreme Court has ruled that federal district and appeals courts lack the authority to issue nation-wide injunctions and must limit their decisions to the parties involved in a case. A trio of right-wing judges just issued a nation-wide ban on mailing mifepristone.

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

hello everyone. it’s time for one of those posts. i got laid off in October and my unemployment runs out next week. i have years of experience writing online long form, short form, and scripted video content and am very looking for more of a chance to do that for money again. can send samples

Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my Big Cartel shop? Jeremy Creatures are designed and hand-sewed by me, and they take many hours to create. Here's a pic of everyone currently available. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Oh this one's easy. LAST JEDI is a decent film *technically* with an awful script. But between the rush to defend it from incels and marketing that the movie's many anti-climaxes and other script-level flaws were artistic "subverting expectations" the movie gets a huge undeserved pass.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani skips Jeff Bezos chaired Met Gala. Honors instead "thousands of workers behind the scenes—seamstresses, tailors, retail workers, delivery drivers—whose immense talent and dedication deserves to be celebrated," i-d.co/article/mayo...

Broke: Vibecession Woke: Dying mall vibes

Imagine if Democrats were half as competent and ruthless as Republicans think they are

Legends of 1999

I don't have an unhealthy hatred of Bill Pencils, I have an unhealthy hatred of everyone on this site who promotes "vibecession" discourse, there's a difference.

I know that Shudder is doing pun-filled ads to help promote Tales from the Crypt's debut on their service, but I think they should just stick to this style of branding forever

I'm so tempted to hate-listen to this, but best case scenario I die from an aneurysm, middling case I black out and wake up covered in blood that isn't my own, and worst case I literally turn inside out and my flesh and bone becomes the gateway for the Great Marquis Shax to enter the mortal world.

Now the boyfriend is suffering from an infection that's causing his face to swell up and he's still not seeing a doctor unless you count antibiotics his boss gave him (?!?!?!?!). Is this the price I pay for being attracted to "straight-acting" guys?

I always appreciate that time every few months when my music playlist reminds me of the existence of Crispin Glover's "Clowny Clown Clown." www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6b...

I'm getting really fucking mad at all the people in my feed saying shit like "the bullying of Stancil is unjustified" because no it isn't. He says massively offensive and wrong shit all the time, and sends his sycophants to harass anyone who dares disagree with him.

Job ads for something like "Proofreader" or "Content Writer" that require you to be an expert in multiple niche software programs are such bullshit.

I genuinely find it so ridiculous how Democrats obsessively say they do not want to just focus on Trump. Great to have things you stand for too but he is a massively unpopular child rapist that tried to violently overthrow the government. Also most of the country wants him removed from office.

It's been an awful week where every aspect of my life, even the time I waste on this hellsite, had some kind of nightmare. But I managed to stave off depression for the most part, so chin chin for that.

we’re in s political climate where blue state university presidents are pulling down pride flags and running into students with their cars, and then going to budget meetings like “I don‘t know why enrollments down?!“

“Reconstruction plans imposed on Palestinians with the implicit aim of destroying Palestinian life in Gaza demonstrate the reason Lemkin reserved a place for architecture in his conception of the crime of genocide.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

At least I have the not so quiet satisfaction of constantly being proven right about Bill Pencils and his fans.