They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

I can’t believe we’ve rebooted James O’Keefe already.

is this Ben’s latest project, @blankcheck.bsky.social?

“We should make A.I. companies pay the costs for powering & building data centers, put in place A.I. child safety standards & prohibit the technology from being involved in tasks we can’t trust it to do fairly, like hiring & firing” This is the FLOOR of what we should be doing. x.com/rob_flaherty...

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

“Why on earth does music software include an option to repeat one song over and over?” —me, every day of my life until right now, when my toddler demanded the same song over and over on our drive into school

To ensure an inhabitable planet for my sons and future generations, I am committed to fight for and champion the Green New Deal in Congress. #GNDpledge

Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance

he's stealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money for his personal slush fund the most corrupt, criminal administration in history and despite how high a bar that is it isn't particularly close

Bayer may be the most evil pharmaceutical company to exist.

Wrote about the very unhelpful convo around gavin newsom. arguing over whether we all will or won't vote for him in the general is just helping him establish himself as the GE candidate. He's not even the leader! we don't need to pretend he is! www.everythingishorrible.net/p/we-can-bea...

when *every* Republican is George Allen, doing George Allen stuff is no longer newsworthy

Two decades ago, George Allen used a Portuguese slur in an impromptu comment on the campaign trail and it ended his career. Now, a sitting congressman can embrace prominent white nationalist slogans in their official ads and the corporate media just yawns about it.

Hawaii 5-0 was less of a tv show and more of an exercise in keeping one’s friends from LOST and Heroes employed, huh?

Toilet Snake Simulator ‘26

My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

Bullshit.

I have to travel across the US for work. I’d rather drive than have DHS funded rn.

Note the framing here: It’s “Democrats have refused to fund” DHS and not “Republicans refused to prohibit face masks” or “the two parties could not agree on how to reform the agency.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“Research shows that banks led by women were less likely to fail during the financial crisis, and companies with more women directors experience less financial distress.” Didn’t really need a study to know this would be true but I’ll take it! theconversation.com/are-women-bo...

a lot of "AI hype" discourse makes more sense when you realize that a lot of initial LLM/GenAI hype envisioned replacing artists and PhDs, and its actual impacts have been much greater on coders and other tech workers creatives/experts see "AI" as underperforming hype, techies see it overperforming

Anyone have a link to a 3D print file for ICE whistles?

I often believe that I don't understand the gaming space at all. We live in a culture where saying overwhelmingly negative things all the time about games that don't deserve it is the status quo, nothing gets said about the ones that do, all whilst people who love making games get pushed out.

Additionally, we must never forget what they did to our neighbors and loved ones. They murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti, shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg, and kidnapped Victor Manuel Diaz, who then died under ICE custody. 7/

“Eternal Sunshine” on a first date “Sideways” as a high schooler

I went to a “mystery movie” at a first-run theater in Detroit. Saw “Life of Chuck” not only unspoiled, but without knowing what movie—or even genre—I was going to be seeing.

Trump didn’t really TACO. Homan didn’t change tactics. They just wanted the media to look away

The explanation of a 10-day anti-drone test is such obvious bullshit that I can’t believe self-respecting military reporters are publishing it.

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

reading this thread, I've realized how much NE Ohio is a crossroads between other regional cuisines. I grew up with pepperoni rolls (W. Va.), Polish Boys (Cleveland), Buffalo Wings and Weck (Buffalo; BW3 founded in Kent, OH), sauerkraut balls (Ind.), Coney Dogs (Mich.) and chili on pasta (SE OH).

I just visited a bar in Arlington, VA that serves pepperoni rolls. I almost broke down in tears when I saw it.

see, also: Labour 2024 vs Labour 2026

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

"Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another," says the man responsible—directly or indirectly—for like 90% of the sad things that happened in the past year.

The ‘abolish ICE’ door is cracked open and every one of us needs to push and keep pushing. “Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”

As a botanist, this isn’t funny. Plants are sessile and only do this when they’re in extreme distress

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

The fans' and drummer's reaction to "mindfuck" is great even though we got it censored. The NBC version was scrambled, Peacock just muted it

Something to keep in mind the next time the city tries to repurpose parking and drivers complain that every last car is necessary at all times. The storm was two weeks ago.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

It’s been just over a year of Trump’s return to power. MAGA and its senior envoys in the trump-Vance administration *actually* thought a year ago they were headed for new territory of breaking the back of liberal cultural hegemony, even if they had to use the FCC and WH to help force it To say…

Ironic, as this was the magazine that referred to Pokémon as a "pestilential Ponzi scheme" in 1999, characterising its creator Satoshi Tajiri as a literal monster "His eyes are bloodshot; dark circles ripple beneath them... His monsters are a child's predelictions." He never gave another interview.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them