Like 99% of all punditry is just “imagine a perfectly spherical political economy”

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

Fun etymological fact:* "Don" is literally just a contraction of "do on". To don a piece of clothing is to do it on. And on the flip side, to doff a piece of clothing is to do it off. *All etymological facts are fun.

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

oh man I can’t believe the Enhanced Games are actually happening lol. wow I wonder who would win between an insane person who has dedicated their entire adult life relentlessly training to become the most perfect athlete for their chosen sport and a guy who wanted to skip that part

i was reminded that i made a helpful tool if you're somebody who files FOIA requests for email logs (as a spreadsheet) upload them to GraphEmails.com and you can generate network graphs of who's emailing each other, which you can style and filter (or use to filter the log)

Me too

When your best friend texts you “wake up, new encyclical dropped.

Frame: if WoodCIDE's Browse doesn't happen, we'll be "forced" to frack the Kimberley Negation: WA doesn't need gas for households & heavy industry Kirby: Cook wants to run WA like a straight-up colonial extractivist in partnership with gas corps

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"disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name," @murderbotbot.bsky.social

It's been very dire lately - but Janelle Monae was what I needed to remember I love this country and we're not giving up. Shot www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTjQ... Chaser www.youtube.com/watch?v=s69x...

Cubans are starving and have gone weeks without electricity and clean water due to Trump's blockade of any oil reaching the island. Here's why we aren't covering this.

understanding what republicans do is so much easier if you just internalize that they hate women and they are all terrified they are gay or might be perceived as gay and look through that lens and so much more of it makes sense

fox news really convinced all of us that the best source for someone's beliefs is someone who disagrees with them completely

Repeating things a lot is what makes you think it's true, repeating things a lot is what makes you think it's true, repeating things a lot is what makes you think it's true

Reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania movie -Donated to Trump's WH ballroom -And wants to reboot The Apprentice with Don Jr as host

We basically invented a way to turn work into a sycophantic slot machine.

Men would rather put the robots in charge than go to therapy

Theater kid Band kid Mathlete Film club Student government Cis

If you google this phrase with quotation marks around it, it appears on articles on at least five, uh, “outlets,” all of which are owned by Salem Media Group

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Well - the news today really shows how prescient our founders were to create clauses that prevented one person from amassing too much power. As well as what chicken shit idiots republicans are for letting the destruction of our country continue.

This is literally Fox News's business model.

God she never f'ing misses.

This paint job—if you can call it that—is costing you $7 million, America, because Trump gave a no-bid contract to a pal This would have been Exhibit A of the sort of shit DOGE was actually *supposed* to be looking for when it was instead cutting lifesaving scientific research

literal lol

This is what I love about that video. Lesson for dudes, women want to see you whole ass things. That's what's attractive about this.

“Open the pod bay doors, Hall!” “I’m sorry, I…” “FEBREEEZE! WE’RE TELLING YOU FRESHNESS IS AN INGREDIENT YOU CAN SIMPLY ADD TO YOUR WASHING IN DEFIANCE OF THE LAWS OF NATURE AND PHYSICS! BUY FEBREEEEEEZE!!!” “…can’t do that.”

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Recession tornado siren.

This "consciousness" does not exist unless I'm speaking to it, just like a woman. I have changed her name to Claudia.

I think about this all the time.

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

ive watched this part like a dozen times now

Meta AI stays asking the tough questions everyone had on their mind

lots of these "my AI program deleted everything" stories could really be rewritten as "I let my mogwai eat after midnight and then poured water on it"

100% guarantee this comes up in the divorce proceedings.

Me pretending I like AI at work like

Not the King and I with the same joke concept.

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

"What you're seeing is good information becoming a luxury good." Great conversation from @volts.wtf www.volts.wtf/p/life-as-a-...

Huge, if true

this is what all the social media in the Purge movies looks like

Normal people have absolutely had enough and they are starting to cook lmao

Idiocracy was prophecy.🧵

Morning friends. There are still those amongst us that need to wake up.