Astonishing. The goal of our war is now to undo the effect of the war we started. Gosh, if only we could rewind to, say, four weeks ago when the Strait of Hormuz was open and normal!

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

If you overpay for Ohtani you still get champ change.

RELEASE THE CONAN/SINNERS OUTRO! #oscars

Conan O'Brien's Oscars Cold Open.

My 3yo just declared she “took a shit”.

I do think there's something smart to be written about how all of our traditional ways of being transgressive have been legalized or normalized, leaving people with shit like this as their outlet. Used to be you could smoke weed to be a little bad, now that's for dads.

I don't know how this will all play out or what happened but I can tell you that what Hegseth is hoping is that you blame "AI" and not a department whose leadership believes that the reason we don't win wars is we care too much about collateral damage.

Conservative MP for Powell River–North Island, Aaron Gunn, is, uh, well he’s being trolled a bit for his condemnation of land acknowledgements yesterday. Message from K’omoks, Klahoose, Homalco & Tla’amin Nations: “Chillax, bud.” #bcpoli

Crazy video of 20 Tomahawks flying through the Iraqi Kurdish mountains near Sulaymaniyah (filmed by someone standing *above* them), seemingly fired from Navy vessels in the Mediterranean

We've quantified the long-standing media narrative that Carney's gvt feels like a "PC gvt". There's some public agreement - but the people most likely to agree are those who have the least experience with actual PC governments: young people, Quebecers, and British Columbians.

Kīlauea is doing its thing in Hawaiʻi and you want to see it. 🌋

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!

Lawyers bend over backwards to preserve privilege and realtors will just say “Here’s a screenshot of a text message from my clients saying their actual bottom line.”

Some folks didn’t watch Ender’s Game.

“And they’re going to be celebrating my death very strongly. A lot of people are saying that nobody’s death can provoke jubilation like mine can.”

It’s psychopathy but it’s *also* word salad.

I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath

It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”

I am starting to get the feeling that the weird social media dynamics around this are downstream of a bunch of millennial dudes snorting cocaine together in DC

A similar line, relevant to Trump’s new love of militarism: “America has always been imperialist” and “America has always been pro-war crime.” All you are doing is normalizing Trump and Hegseth’s abuse of military power.

ending her career lying about an orwell quote while the entire room is getting news notifications about how she’s been fired and clearly doesn’t know it, perfect

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

It’s the Dance of the Seven Veils for middle-aged white people.

The Instagram process of just starting to take pictures without your spouse, then a lot of pictures of your kid, then photos with some random other person in the background is a funny way of telling folks you got divorced.

friend sent this over from the other place and unfortunately I did laugh

I don’t know about full repeal but possibly (probably?) a switch to Standard Time.

Another one.

Remember when people thought she didn’t have the energy and stamina to be president 9 years ago?

A real monkey’s paw wish.

sure is just as well that no big name law firms immediately capitulated to these unlawful actions, thus signalling both their cowardice *and* incompetence. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Ah yes, the great theories of international relations. 1. Realism. 2. Liberalism. 3. We have never before reached the FO state of FAFO and are thus supremely confident we can keep the FA up indefinitely with no consequences whatsoever. Plus, shit exploding is great content. Let's fucking goooooo!

Seth Rogen accepting Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for The Studio #ActorAwards

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

Booker T Washington, Cathy Beecher, Guy Who Hated Both Black People and Women

When you target my LLM your assessments may be based on volume of writing about someone and Ahmadinejad was a recurring character on SNL.

The Rock (film) is 30 years old this year AND FUCKING HOLDS UP!

The problem with the war in Iraq was that George Bush was an idiot. With the Iran situation, we've got... [checks notes]... oh jesus christ

The 4% Dem is because they polled Jon Fetterman.

I understand this approach but ultimately it comes down to “There are two parties that mostly agree on this one issue we fundamentally disagree with so we will punish one of them to the benefit of the other.” I’m not smart but there’s gotta be a better way.

the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:

The way I watched the pilot getting progressively pissed off about how the law works only to have the show call me out in text and call me an uptight nerd 👏👏👏

who did this

U.S. men's hockey with Curt-Schilling-in-Boston levels of good will squandering. A 25-mile lead in the good will marathon and they tripped on their dicks right at the finish line.

it's important to note for the discourse on bsky, the Liberals Arguing With Liberals app, that the effect here is concentrated almost entirely among conservatives and independents there is not really evidence here of a specific "liberals becoming conservative" effect of the x algorithm