I've never seen a discourse about this, but I sense we all have a handful of mutuals whose reposts feel like a three beer buzz. You know you cooked something good when they choose to pass it along.

under normal circumstances it's because the pool guy fucked up. under these circumstances it is somehow because the president did

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

jaxxon, 23, furry porn artist (laudatory): it’s about the sanctity of art as a product of the beautiful human mind, something no billionaire tech ceo will ever understa brian, 61, acted in 3,000 hallmark christmas films: I DON’T WANT THE POORS STEALING MY JOB

"The Indian is my wife" i don't have much sympathy for usha vance but still the way he talks about her is wild

ME: okay, kiddo, I hope you have a great week at sumer camp! KID: don't you mean "summer" camp? UR-NAMMU: construction of the great ziggurat begins at first light ME: your counselor seems nice

i legit think the gulf petromonarchies are our most morally bankrupt allies. yes, even more than the ones you’re imagining

This is the root of the Soros accusations- the right wing chud aristocracy were actually all on the take from a shadowy network based out of Eastsrn Europe

And you know, if doing things this way *doesn’t* improve electoral chances, we’re gonna get wilder and wilder swings between elections that probably shake our whole structural foundation apart.

But as the gap between left and right widens it’s just a fact that there’s basically no votes for a center left party to draw from its right anymore, especially without losing votes to its left. Republicans realized (caused?) this long ago so they don’t even try.

Does that mean forsaking timidity and half measures will get you better outcomes electorally? No! I mean maybe, but there’s no way it’s a guarantee.

Assuming the @whstancil.bsky.social position about incumbents declining in popularity more quickly now than before for whatever reason, it seems like the conclusion is that power is for using, and timidity and half measures don’t buy you shit.

i feel like twitter / tumblr discourse was mild compared to any three of the things which happened on shakesville near the end

Finally, a perfect phone call

my favorite part of this in tech has been “yes you have to come back to the office, no you cannot have your own desk” deeply unserious policy

It is a reflection of our worst national instincts: the thrill of dominion, the decadence of hierarchy, the treatlerism. An island of lotus eaters floating on a sea of blood. We should have nothing to do with it but sanctions and secret networking with slave elements.

Genuinely hate all those Instagram reels about how great the UAE is because they don't have to pay taxes unlike us silly Westerners. It's from slavery, dawg. What they're glorifying is the master's freedom. UAE glazing is unironically a sign of moral decay present at the highest levels of power.

this is a load-bearing insight

significantly, religious adherence is positively correlated with the requirements of the faith

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

the same spirit animates the kitten “hang in there” poster and the people who say shit like “you don’t hate mondays you hate capitalism”

trying to think of a name for the reflecting pool scandal. thinking maybe 'Watergate.'

the difference between MBC and PEG is that PEG knows what mpreg is

”The Director of National Intelligence was acting at the direction of an obscure Hindu cult you’ve never heard of” is up there with “DOGE was led by a teenager involved in a Nazi-Satanist child abuse network” in terms of True Facts That Will Make You Sound Unhinged If You Say Them Out Loud

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NYT house style writing about Mamdani is like ... an inch away from using slurs

the president should not even know the name of the guy whose job it is to reseal the reflecting pool, and if he is aware of any of the details then someone has fucked up

I actually disagree this is even minor anymore. It’s millions of dollars of graft and corruption and they’re about to start railroading random citizens through the justice system with who knows what charges to cover it up. This would have been a major scandal ten years ago.

You (an idiot and moral degenerate): There is no objective function for calculating utils. Me (knowing that I have secured my spot in Valhalla at Odin's right hand by not doing a bunch of fish torture that I otherwise would have done): sure whatever you say bud

man, tsdf

okay well this is coming along. fixed the problem which was going on with runaway coherence at the 128x convs.

it sucks how these people have had their brain boiled by Twitter

I've often said that I felt like I understood most things in American politics but I never could figure out why Tulsi Gabbard in particular did things and "all her decisions were being controlled by a reclusive cult leader" turns out to be the reason

does lebanon have a right to exist

most of the money in the market is entirely passive, and if you can exit your position faster than a retail investor can, you can make money on the retail investor even if the investor is doing something you know to be real stupid.

just discovered that the Hebrew-language SCP Foundation uses "keren" rather than "mossad" for "Foundation," ruining a joke i made in SCP-1348. (the main character's daughter thinks he works for Mossad, because "SCP Foundation" in Hebrew is ha-Mossad SCP.) www.wikiwand.com/he/SCP_Found...

when i was put in charge of antifa's algae project, everyone told me it wouldn't go anywhere

They memed themselves into believing that the Republican in the race for MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, could only lose via election fraud. And several of them believed it hard enough to lose millions betting on it.

this is interesting because it reflects the strongest belief of the right: that disapproving of your antisocial behavior merits a violent response

i am a retail investor. my strongest belief is that the nonconsensual pornography machine the government uses to kill children is worth twenty five trillion dollars

me reading ur tweets

Growing up is finding out about people that make you understand why Socrates was killed.

SW is one of the shittier under the radar blue state Dems in desperate need of a primary.

jesus christ sheldon they kept bombing Lebanon, what is wrong with you

In all three cases, I’m not joking, but in the case of the planes it really is scandalous that it has taken this long to not yet complete the new VC-25As