The magic of Trump - the thing that kept him viable even after the insurrection - was this central appeal: I’m a piece of shit and you can be a piece of shit too and there’s nothing anyone can say or do about it.

this would unironically be a much better argument, in the sense that "short form video" really seems to be how most people want to consume their news you can pry my text-based social media from my cold dead hands, but do you want to reach a real audience? make videos

Mr. Klion has a point. Serious journalists, pundits, and thinkers are entitled to deference and respect. To thoughtful people, the measure of a social media platform is not whether it has Nazis and pedophiles, but whether Nazis and pedophiles recognize the authority of the best of us. /1

This is really good

it's hard to explain to normies who are not plugged in on this just how thin the theories of anti-trans authorities really are. These people simply cannot believe that the NYT and The Atlantic would both push folks who are so full of shit.

Disertori e truffatori dello stato russo. In una parola, eroi.

Back on Twitter, long before Musk bought it, when it was perceived as having a lib/left cast, journalists were always ticking users off because it wasn’t “real life”. Now it’s X, a far-right site, they tick us off because it’s “the commons” and apparently we’re missing real life by not being there?

Lmao John Oliver was a deep dive on why people need to leave Twitter. Holy shit. Too perfect.

They also loathe the spirit of cheerful international competition within a system of rules agreed upon by all parties.

an ironic thing: China is considerably more corrupt than the U.S. in day-to-day life, but Chinese college admissions are one of the least corrupt parts of the system and U.S. ones one of the most corrupt parts.

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

I had a daydream this morning of Ariana Grande singing “Popular” to JD Vance in greenface

i love bluesky

Esco pazzo

Stray thoughts from occupied Minnesota: After 30 years in the workforce, I can tell you the volunteers in my community defense groups are the most dazzlingly hypercompetent coworkers I have ever encountered. Just thunderous excellence 1/x

Some of the people that I have met in the community since this began are the most competent, focused, passionate workers I've ever seen. This idea that anarchists/decentralized movements would be like herding cats falls apart immediately in this real world example.

The fact that 10% federal judges are Black, a group that compromises about 8% of law school graduates, show the corruption of DEI. The fact that two-thirds of the Supreme Court are in the Federalist Society, a cult that includes 5% of law school graduates, shows the triumph of meritocracy.

Firey stuff from Robert Horvath. xcancel.com/RG_Horvath/s...

if you’re mad that i profiled will instead of writing about what “really matters” in minneapolis, may i direct you to my 6,500-word feature on the mutual aid networks there: www.theverge.com/policy/87710...

"If you seized all Elon's wealth it'd only be like $2,000 per American." Do you know what a $2,000 'Fuck Elon' stimulus check would do for people and the country economically, emotionally and morally?

Will Stancil, man of the people or just an annoying guy?

I'm Jewish btw just thought I'd mention again

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

What odd timing! Feb 17: Bayer agrees to $7.25 B settlement over Roundup cancer lawsuits Feb 18: DJT signs an executive order spurring domestic production of Roundup’s active ingredient

Mar 24: Influencers get binders of Alien Files at Pentagon May 20: Hegseth announces "No more Alien Files" Jun 1: Elon posts "Trump is in the Alien Files" Aug 12: Khanna/Massie announce Alien Files Transparency Act Oct 24: AFTA passes Nov 13: Trump yells "We're still talking about the Alien Files?"

oh yeah 100%. the 'Miliband can't eat a bacon sandwich correctly' was one of the most obnoxiously antisemitic things I've seen hit the mainstream British press. and somehow utterly unquestioned?

Literally this m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji1X...

Cc @actualnames.bsky.social

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

Folks, I understand the impulse to lash out at all Russians collectively after reading stories like this, but you should resist it. Or, at the very least, don't vomit it my way.

The news cycle around AOC’s “gaffe” is, in my humble opinion, a clear manufacturing of a “gaffe” where there was none. But it’s indicative of the belief undergirding a lot of MSM that if one “side” is behaving badly, the other “side” must be positioned as doing something wrong, too, for “fairness”

Everybody still on there convinced that they are a special flower unaffected by propaganda.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

fucking your computer is the future. if you're not fucking your computer right now you're gonna miss the revolution. fucking your computer is going to change everything

okay you know what we're doing this why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...

AIPAC can’t touch us like Gojo (Gojo)

MA PERCHÈ CAZZO NON TIRANO

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

“The right” don’t seem that stoked about renewables and vaccines.

RIP Tom Noonan, a friend for 18 years. Often typecast as villains, he was an actor's actor, a unique playwright & filmmaker, a gifted composer, and a pianist with a sweet voice. My kids & I used to go to his tiny apartment for dinner (pizza). We'd have a few drinks & he'd start to play. Magic.

This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center. But that campaign is *never mentioned*.

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

Ecounter at the End of the Olympics (by Werner Herzog).