my hot take on gooning discourse is that nobody who posts frequently on bluesky can criticize anybody for spending hours a day masturbating.

This is, like, a *little* bit of a shitpost, but only a little. I very much mean it. Over that time we see “the American dream” morph from “have a steady job and provide for your family” to “have an infinitesimal chance of world changing unimaginable wealth.” That’s participation v domination.

anyway if you're anonymizing something strong recommend that you backcheck it by doing at least this: feed it back into a naive LLM to see if it can crack it

my crank view on this is that most Western parents should do the Asian thing where you train the baby to poop on command when you whistle.

Just looking at the Canary's pitch for its upcoming print paper and fuck me, it is truly ugly hot antisemitic garbage www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

Harry Potter makes more sense when you realize it's an updated version of "Wizard! Harry Saves the Day!", a 1934 school serial. to us the stereotypical ethnic names might seem clumsy, but Anthony Goldstein was actually a very progressive inclusion for the time.

if it saves lives i think it's okay for europeans to invent a slant where they're somehow dunking on americans by installing air conditioners. "you american pigs with your coddled central air systems could never compete with our graceful ductless mini-splits" something along those lines

Here's a note the area's ANC commissioners wrote to MPD on this. It underlines a key point: MPD wasn't on scene for any of this. Chief Carroll has repeatedly told the council he wants to continue collaborating with the task force so stuff like this doesn't happen...but it already is.

vibecoding an additional button on bsky that just posts "it is not my problem you can't read"

An unusual request in the name of archaeological science: Would anyone happen to have a Shetland or Exmoor pony that wouldn’t mind sending some fur samples to me? We’re trying to compare a potentially preserved fur specimen but there’s (perhaps unsurprisingly) few sources on fur fibre diameters!

This, by the way, is the hidden compact that allows stuff like fan fiction and Artist Alleys at comics conventions to survive: smart companies recognize they hold the copyright anyway and are happy to turn a blind eye to stuff that isn't a direct, suicidal challenge

are there a lot of five foot five guys out there who get deeply offended whenever anybody says the median U.S. adult male height is 5'9" because it doesn't reflect their lived experience.

I'm convinced that a major aim of DOGE was to eradicate Black women public employees as a class. (Side point, but I wonder if I'll ever stop seeing that particular visualisation of US states as a really weird periodic table?)

the contempt for children that radiates off the modern Y.A. industry is really something

This is, to note, almost entirely as a direct result of Trumpism and DOGE. Totally wilful destruction.

bear in mind Rosenbaum is the guy whose book on the seductions of AI was just exposed as having multiple examples of false quotations made up by AI

The story of all actual data is that America is a very unequal place where most of the population exist in a level of wealth and prosperity that is unparalleled in history and most other countries. Separate to that, there’s large numbers of Americans who exist in a state of poverty and precarity

again, the 'most Americans can't even afford an unexpected expense' stuff comes from *online surveys by payday loan companies*. it is a publicity stunt *by one of the most exploitative parts of the financial industry* that is nevertheless spread enthusiastically by online communists.

“They don’t have to do this!” Yes they do. TM law is really silly. I did this for a living.

The British Museum has postponed a lecture on ancient Israel for Jewish Culture Month, for fear that the event would be disrupted by protesters. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

rewatching Mad Men and I know we get a proper explanation for Bob Benson but I prefer to believe he is a tulpa manifested by Don Draper's unconscious.

This might be slightly out of hand

They will need to appropriate minimum several hundred million dollars just to get the white house back to some kind of normality and sweep it for hidden cameras and listening devices and the media will cover the expense as their first scandal

Richard Hanania taking a halfhearted swipe at rebranding as Maybe Not Entirely Racist, and then discovering he has surrounded himself with racist tools who hate him now and who consistently abuse him, is one of the funniest things ever.

Hi folks — Yale's Paul Tsai China Center is hiring a Research Assistant in Beijing to work with me and my wonderful colleagues at the Center. This is a one-year, full-time position beginning this summer/early fall. Please share with anyone who may be interested.

Eva, it seems, is variously portrayed as an astronaut, an Army sergeant, a Navy commander, an astrophysicist, an airline pilot, a mercenary, a Cambridge prof, and a spy. She--along with some recurring colleagues--appears in dozens of unrelated stories, all ostensibly by completely different authors.

Today, while reviewing submissions to the AbSciCon 2026 Creative Writing Contest, I discovered a new tell for gen AI. Now, I had assume that gen AI, when asked to write fiction, would at least come up with unique character names. Turns out, I was wrong. Let me tell you about Eva Rostova

"Now you've got to ask yourself, pardner. Did I fire six genders - or only five?"

Let’s get Thorne a job, hey?

Katie Miller is beefing with my fiancée on twitter and it has backfired badly for Miller because — and this might not be popular to say on here, but — my fiancée is way hotter

“Had Lenin not died so early the USSR would have been spared Stalinism and taken a more benign path” is a common bit of left wishful thinking but Kronstadt and the Cheka suggest he wouldn’t have been much better.

Israel wasn't mentioned once in this clip. Calling a Jewish member of Congress "Israel first" over *this* is conflating Jews and Israel in a very problematic way.

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

I am both immune to and actively hold in contempt all the dumb arguments from people who are addicted to losing about how marketing and sales are somehow inherently evil or are practices equivalent to lying.

They can't win and they know that but it's amazing to watch this many legal careers willingly thrown onto the bonfire of one special dipshit's vengeance

CNN: The DOJ has launched a new criminal investigation into one of Trump's enemies, E. Jean Carroll. The source is telling CNN that the investigation now is focused on whether she committed perjury during her two civil lawsuits against the president.

Woah: Feds arrested a Google employee today, who they say made $1M+ betting on Google-related Polymarket events. Here are a few of the markets the account allegedly belonging to the employee wagered on. abcnews.com/US/google-em...

We’re so close to “very positive”! Play Amberspire and if you like it- give us a review s.team/a/3350750

This is a great bit but multiple Archbishops of Canterbury have cited Aslan and one of them wrote an entire book www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

GRR Martin: hey jirt did you hear JRR Tolkien: what? Martin: you got quoted by the pope Tolkien: i got quoted by the pope? Martin: yeah Tolkien: THE pope? Martin: yeah Tolkien: the pope in rome?? the holy pontiff??? god's ambassador on earth????? THAT pope??????? Martin: yeah

It's because they believe that morality is defined by what you abhor and not by what you value. Whatever they do is forgivable, their heart is demonstrably in the right place because they hate the sort of people it's good to hate and that makes them loved by god.

"Hamburgers are becoming a luxury item" - is this true? Is that real? Or is that just miasmatic doomerism you made up out of thin air?

The Eurmal list of aspects includes "the Murderer" and "the Rapist" as I remember.

objectively very funny that all the republicans crying about talarico eating a potato and egg breakfast taco have already pledged their undying loyalty to an enfeebled new yorker who survives on diet coke and the phantom of the opera soundtrack. not that it matters. not that anything at all matters

there's a kind of Republican Christianity that exults being a sinner without demanding any of the repentance.

conservative pundits (sneering): actually our christianity is more a set of ideological views about race and gender than anything resembling faith or observance everyone else: yes we know, it's not a secret

tony blair and tony blair's caricature in TRANSMETROPOLITAN are basically merging into one. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

ok on the one hand this is revealing of a fundamental rot at the heart of power but on the other it is very, very funny. a whole parade of red flags. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

“actually, loving your neighbor is less christian than taking bribes to free convicted pedophiles from prison” man shut the fuck up