Arguably if a group were able to rig the 3,244 county elections in the US in a way that was at least convincing enough to allow your partisans to hang a hat on it, they are demonstrating a level of state capacity that argues maybe they actually can govern.

[People who bring their untrained dog in public with them] Oh he's fine, Billy pumpkin, come here, he's fine, c'mere Billypoo Billypumpkin:

50 year mortgages: finally, a solution for people who want to rent, but also want to be on the hook for the roof, furnace, and hot water heater

Oh thank god, a good rejoinder will get us out of this

Man Paul Verhoeven just came to the US and read us for filth for fifteen years

"Andor" opened the door to the idea that there are commercials in Star Wars, but it wasn't brave enough to show us what TV in Star Wars looks like

"Star Wars" would be better if it was a thing I liked and pitched specifically at me

No insurance company can stand up to the bargaining power of millions of completely atomized consumers.

Bernie Taupin is absolutely rock's worst lyricist, an impressive feat in a genre that features a guy whose songs are about how much he wants to fuck a hobbit

I absolutely cannot believe that Trump is going to the Supreme Court in defense of [checks notes] denying legally obligated food assistance to US citizens. Truly astounding political development.

This should be interesting

Hey, normally I'd say we're all just having fun here, but this guy is kind of an asshole, so I'd appreciate it if folks could report this for impersonation

Alright, Bluesky, it's five o'clock. Get plenty of fluids, don't stay out too late, and wrap that rascal

but I don’t want to taste it

Palestinians have absolutely the worst "allies" in the world.

I guess you can flex your moral superiority by consciously aligning yourself with Anton Chighr, that's certainly something you can do

WHAT I WANT IS Some sort of MTG-like card game on my phone that I can hold portrait style with one hand and that looks more like Win95 Freecell than "How to Train Your Dragon."

We need a word for the kind of posters who obsessively talk about politics but don't know a damn thing about it.

It's become very common to bemoan the Garland DOJ for not having gotten political in the face of Trump and I truly don't know how you can look at the Bondi DOJ and think that would ever be a desirable outcome.

"I don't recall saying good luck"

Your incoherent hatred of Schumer is blinding you to what is actually going on

You people are stupid.

It is okay to have opinions about the relative attractiveness of famous people but you do not actually have to vocalize those thoughts, and arguably you shouldn't "I think Sabrina Carpenter loo--" shh, shh, there's no world in which I want to hear the end of this sentence

How many more weeks are these soft as fluff BCP guys gonna be able to stand on the roof of that facility in Chicago?

One thing that always seemed weird to me about the whole trolly problem thing is that unlike a lot of intellectual thought experiments, it seems to me like there's an unambiguously correct answer, but I am not a philosophy person by inclination.

One problem with the "trolly cart problem" is that for most people who talk about it, this is the actual scenario they're imagining and are judging you for not picking.

This is a level of divorced science thought was unobtainable

We've become a nation of cowards

The ivies should be expropriated and turned into a national network of public universities and community colleges.

Warms my heart to know the Newport is still a going concern. RIP Little Brothers.

Take a bow, true crime

Members of Congress, the president, and basically all government staffers should be making multiples of what they're currently making.

Bring back Digits you cowards

Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones coral are made Those are pearls that were his eyes Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Turns out, it's a "Neon Golden" kinda day

I think at some point we're going to have to have a reckoning on how the memefication of "genocide" and "genocidaire" as extremely bad and harmful for pretty much everyone except Trump.

Windows 95 desktop

"No one else has had the courage to think, 'Why don't we close a bunch of flights in major hubs right before Thanksgiving?'"

Man I figured they'd wait until he was sworn in to start laying track to turn on Mamdani

A persistent unwillingness to take our own side in a fight at the risk of being seen as cringe is absolutely hampering our ability to affect change.

It is incredible to consider that multiple parties pay Osita Nwanevu to think about and opine on American politics and this is still what he's putting out there.

Everyone has taken off today and Monday because we have Tuesday off for Veterans Day, so I didn't do either because it's basically two free days anyway.

Toenails range from way-too-big to way-too-small, and it's frankly unseemly

Who ever invented the blanket was a real one

He said this shit and then he ran

Feel like I'm going to have to subscribe to Netflix for that Garfield series.

This is the content I need

Got a new stove and it appears the induction cooktop control board is faulty. Great news for me, a person who just wants to not move the stove around any more