I'm a fervent atheist, but sin is (a) real (ly useful concept) and among the cardinal sins are misanthropy, animal cruelty, and above all, gnosticism.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

this is just to say I have loosed  the blood-dimmed tide that you were probably saving for the ceremony of innocence forgive me the best lack all conviction while the worst are so passionate and so intense

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

Pornhub has released the top most searched terms in the United States and every state searched “industrial crane lifting a dark and dripping shape from an unquiet sea” bc America is going through it,

WE. DO. NOT. DONATE. TO. THE. BIGOT. BUCKET.

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

More of this nationwide please!

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

Jim Jarmusch SHOULD get a Star Wars movie

Everyone here in Nashville laughs about Comrade Taylor’s (Re)Education Center

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

One thing I have no patience for is "there is nothing to be thankful for" doomerism. If Americans were finding things to be thankful for in 1863, two and a half years into a bloody Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln formalized the Thanksgiving holiday, then I can find things to be thankful for too.

TEEN: you’re the only one who understands me danny. my stupid dad won’t let me go see billie eilish with gretchen AI CHATBOT DANIEL PLAINVIEW FROM THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Your father is a bastard. Fit for a hole in the ground. You will go with Gretchen. Even if your father must die, as a bastard dies

it is very much Lovecraftian cosmic horror bc the horror isn’t something “scary” as much as an sense of deep violation upon the contemplation of a sexual act between a woman and a strange creature from New England that non-ironically hates human lives

*Leonard Cohen* Everybody knows not to be close to a Kennedy Everybody knows they're magnets of tragedy Everybody knows that their invites are dire Like opening your home to a vampire Everybody knows with Kennedys, if you want to save your hide Never take a ride Everybody knows

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

I don’t want to hear about norms, I don’t want to hear about looking forward not back, I don’t want to hear about “bipartisanship” I want the filibuster gone, the court packed, new states, and a top to bottom cleaning of the federal government that ends with a lot of people in jail

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

Mamdani is going to implement Sheila E law. Everyone has to lead a glamorous life. When asked how much would it cost, Mamdani shrugged and said “it ain’t much”

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

I am hearing that on his deathbed Andrew Cuomo received the light of democratic socialism and unhesitatingly sang the Internationale. Even now he looks down on Bushwick from the gardens of Astoria. Truly there is no god but DSA, and Zohran is his prophet!

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

If you’re wondering what the future of the Democratic Party looks like, watch the young, brown democratic socialist on the TV right now.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio. In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory. CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil. +

This is a form of social prejudice that @svmiller.com and I find is empirically associated with weak support for democracy. (Will link paper below.) We’ve stalled on the book project but we document that anti-neighbor prejudice of this nature is corrosive to democratic values.

Honestly, the best antidote to AI nonsense and also a balm during fascism, is seeing a live show. Glorious immediacy.

obviously opposed to religious violence but I think if you are implementing an actual plan to banish the night then some kind of state-condoned moon priestess should be allowed to ritually sacrifice you, willing to be flexible on that one

I've always liked the demonological argument for not summoning spirits of loved ones: whatever shows up, may only *resemble* the loved one to an arbitrary degree due to torturing or surveilling them to mimic them persuasively.

Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary or an aging metal fan why he has a blackout sleeve, as the saying goes.

well i learned something i didn't previously know from all this at least

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.

The perfect protest sign doesn’t exis…….

Bedroom reno almost done.

LOL

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

Every god damned morning I wake up and do this

Redford’s last cameo was in Dark Winds for which he served as executive producer and champion of the series, originally purchasing the rights to adapt Tony Hillerman’s novels back in 1988 and spending decades trying to bring a respectful Native-led adaptation to screen. www.imdb.com/title/tt1501...