I had my issues with Succession but that show makes it very clear the aging media mogul was right to be reluctant, his kids were fucking morons and the show ends with them failing to avert a hostile takeover and betraying each other immediately the second he dies and they get power.

Alo Presidente!

At the voting booth, about to press the button for President AOC when I think “wait … she doesn’t like billionaires … and Scrooge McDuck Is a billionaire!”

To be more broad about this, I think it's very bad so many left wing propagandists are creating propaganda that say "this children's show is secretly x" instead of making better left wing propaganda.

"Did you know (children's cartoon) is (this type of propaganda)!?" Is just a very tried and rote and honestly dumb way to engage with media *especially* in this day and age.

i think you can claim that you're a normal guy with normal politics or you can say one of your key national issues is that transgender women deserve to be raped if they get convicted of a crime but you can't claim both

every single one of these is an impeachable offense

Voters are a cowardly and superstitious lot

It wasn’t a very thrilling game but a real masterwork of defensive intelligence by Spain.

all future issues of our magazine will be printed exclusively from recycled paper from unread New Yorkers

So far only one football superpower that Spain could not defeat at this world cup- Cabo Verde

historians, what's the *factual* question in your period you'd most like an answer to? Not a matter of interpretation, just something we don't know but would love to.

systematic end of empire rot, I need to check if I live near any large gunpowder depots

every now and then I have to remind myself of how visually looney tunes everything has gotten

dog cat love is very pure and also weird

I absolutely love when Lestat says something like "I am not afraid of anything, I am so brave never afraid" and then a couple chapters later you discover he is afraid of large trees.

the windows fee is $12

this is like when Chinese media praises officials for only taking a 30 minutes lunch break instead of a 2 hour one.

thinking of offering a new exclusive subscriber service for the highest levels of Foreign Policy: we will come to your house and dispose of your excess tote bags for you.

CCP Settlers of Catan game.

as correctly disclosed in the thread, it is 'any St John's campus'

the tl;dr of Trump roomba theory is that Trump has a selected set of brainworms that his brain prioritizes until he hits a roadblock, at which point his staffers and his brain go off in another direction

I think there is a non-zero chance my screenshot of Eoin Higgins complaining on X about Bluesky users will get more likes and reposts on Bluesky than Eoin Higgins' actual X post complaining about Bluesky users, and that is beautiful

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

Care homes should be putting on the beatles and the stones by now. Sounds like a dig at boomers but it's not: residents would genuinely vibe with it more.

If you’re a Bruce fan, live in the larger Philadelphia area and think that a friendly black pittie boy could improve your life, Philly Rescue Angels has two pups who need a home. First, there’s Cork, a one year old who’s crate trained, likes dogs & super friendly www.instagram.com/p/Davgl9wEZe...

As somebody whose family is split between continents, a technological advance I value extremely highly is the ability to call my relatives anywhere in the world for free, for as long as I want, and to see them by video.

I won an award at Sundance years ago and Sam Neill, whom I did not know, tweeted to me “we’re all so proud of you, sweetheart”. I can’t even express what that meant to me. That our most beloved national treasure, a man I worshipped, would take the time to write to me!

Every elderly Republican senator's wiki bio is like: Famed for bipartisanship, he co-sponsored the Expand Education (1977) and Anti-Radio Monopoly (1986) acts. His later career was more controversal, with the Legalize Puppy Murder (2021) and Sex Island Tax Relief (2023) acts drawing some criticism

three children I know are alive and thriving because of our advances in premie care.

There is no "would" here. Platner did lose.

this is a historically inaccurate image. Each of them had three boobs like the lady in Total Recall, hence the name "Trinity"

Tyranny.

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

lol the fuck it does

Grok is also fixed to call any accusations of Musk being a racist or responsible for mass death 'blood libel' incidentally

I dunno man. If I were a law student of Prof. Wurman's at UMinn Law... I'd be asking for my money back. What happened wasn't "sue and settle." It was "sue an agency you control & have them provide you a massive economic win as a 'settlement.'" If I can figure that out, so can Wurman

i should have been allowed to tattoo this on myself in sleeping dogs

That feeling when you're reading a far right fringe publication from 1995 and it reads like a standard Twitter timeline or official messaging from the federal government in 2026. Don't overlook the ad for the health benefits of magnets.

Oh Jesus. I Just realized which AI is writing all those brand new mens' fetlife accounts. 😬

fox news read this live u cowards

"if i were gay i would be at the top of the gay power hierarchy" weirdly a more hetero thing to say than "i'm not gay"

I have discovered the outer bound:

enemies to lovers is getting out of hand

The French Nazis that Loyalists brought over to Sandy Row last night have spray painted a message of support for Gisèle Pelicot's rapist husband just in case you thought the "protect our women" brigade are anything other than human tumours

They're even have the same experience as I have with Total War: jumping in thinking it will be fun at the start, forgetting what happened the last time, and then realising that it just turns into a massive disappointing drag

TOTAL WAR IRAN 2.

If you post on X, you are an active participant in the richest man in the world’s far-right, racist disinformation campaign. But, you know, gotta get that engagement clout.

you say stuffed raccoon, I say new animal familiar for his troll magic that he's trained to stay very still in public