No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Sorely needed.

The media should be PRAISING these athletes who know and understand the importance of public health. These articles should be about how they are setting an example for EVERYONE. And how we should all take their lead. Instead their positioning is: “look at these fucking weirdos”

I have strikers marching in front of my house. It’s technically not crossing a picket line if they’re actually protesting the school down the block, right?

I am suddenly wondering if any of the kids I dismiss from class at the end of the day are quoting my "Go forth unto victory!" or "Now I must cast you into the outer darkness" farewell lines. I mean probably not, but if they are, I hope it's amusing their parents.

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

I'm not saying ONE SPEECH is SOLELY responsible for 3 HBCUs, an anti-racist town, defeating a federal detention policy or creating one of our greatest poets All I'm saying is: If all this happened literally the FIRST TIME white people listened to Black people... Maybe we should try it again

Read the whole thread. We will never fix the problems people complain about with illegal immigration until we implement a more humane system for legal immigration. Anyone who successfully applies to come to the US should be able to stay unless an impartial judge finds cause to terminate their visa.

It is always wrong to say "an irrational number of people told me [...]" but "a number of irrational people told me [...]" is always correct.

Big mood.

Oh so NOW Trump wants to keep Epstein away from teenagers

Celebrity chef update: José Andrés shoveled his sidewalks, Gordon Ramsay didn't bother. (24 hours after snow stopped)

cannot even count how many friends I've made because I asked "is there anything I can do to help clean up?"

We should do this with a Court of Judicial Ethics as well. The Constitution says judges "shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour", but it doesn't say impeachment is the sole remedy.

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.

A number of states have specific laws about clearly displaying name & badge number whenever cops have to cover their faces for any reason, so that's an option, not one they'll actually be forced to do, but it's not like it's impossible to figure out alternatives.

ICE should be prohibited from obscuring their faces. They’re lawless thugs who are killing people in the streets because they know they will get away with it. But please be wary of bills that ban masks. Many disabled people need masks to survive. Covid isn’t over. Don’t leave us behind.

This is so brilliant because it’s a very useful PSA but it’s also basically a hype video for local government, like “here’s what we’ll be doing and also it’s PRETTY COOL HOW WE DO IT” By a guy who just genuinely seems to really love being a New Yorker

It hardly seems possible for an amateur to write FREE! on a cardboard box with a Sharpie. I'm not sure it's even legal to do that without a graduate degree in logistics.

In 1941, Democrats urged Black people to accept segregation while the party fought what they considered more important battles. It was wrong then, and the party's refusal to back trans and immigrant rights now is equally wrong.

when Spock does the neck pinch, even on bad guys, he always catches them and sets them down very politely. letting this guy fully just drop, leaving Jim to try to awkwardly scramble to catch him, is Vulcan for "it is always morally right to punch Nazis"

On the social interaction between language and perceptions of disability: read the whole thread.

No matter what happens, forever after, the people of the Twin Cities will know that when the time came to answer the question, "What would you have done?" They didn't just do as well as the Righteous Gentiles, the heroes of the Resistance. They fucking did BETTER.

A thread about reverence.

the woke mob is giving He-man pronouns

This is a very grim measure of how bad things are: Every year, some amazing federal public employees receive awards. This year's winners were not asked to speak. The organizers "wanted to protect them from being singled out by Trump administration cost-cutters." www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...

(unaired) 1975 segment of All in the Family, in which Carroll O'Connor makes a not-disapproving reference to gay marriage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvrI...

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Ban ICE from wearing masks designed to conceal identity, that is. N95s are fine and I would even encourage them.

I’m guessing they’re immigrants.

When I was a child, this was a major part of what we meant by the American Dream. We were proud that people from all over the world eagerly came here to improve their lives. I want to bring that back, to make America a beacon of hope again.

Further appreciation of Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social ) since while checking out his best of the year list, I was inspired to check out his Superman (2025) review, which is great and moving and worth your time if you haven't seen it. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/07/supe...

#SomethingBeautiful Look, scaffolding at the side of the Duomo. The director of works at Koln cathedral was asked if he had a daydream of seeing it one day without scaffolding, and he said that wouldn't be a daydream it would be a nightmare, because it meant people would have stopped caring.

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

ACCIDENTAL ALIEN LANDSCAPE (2016) Acrylic on Mat Board - 17” x 17” Week 34(!) from the first Leftovers & Palette Gremlins gallery back in 2016. I set out to share a painting a week, and it ending up being mostly new work except for a couple older pieces. 1/3 www.michaelwhelan.com/leftovers-pa...

Go further: ban above-market stock appreciation for members of Congress. When any member or former member of Congress (or their heir) sells stock that they held in office, any gain over that of an index fund is forfeit.

the idealism of the superhero is that someone, given incredible power and not held accountable by anything except their own moral code, will choose to do good things and help people. because that is, honestly, what most people do when given power and held accountable only by their own moral code

Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.

I think we could even take this in steps. Step 0: If you get a loan against your equities, then you are taxed on the FMV of those equities on the day you got the loan. Tired of people who are stock kingpins borrowing money against paper wealth to do terrible stuff.

For people who believe in signs from God, they can be really dense.

Interesting thread.

I decided to move to San Francisco, based on tolerable weather, near family, finding a pleasant neighborhood. I considered Tucson and Portland for affordability, looked at Seattle, reluctantly ruled out Chicago and Minneapolis (where I have friends) for weather. whereidlive.com?p=N4IgrgziBc...

What a useful word, worthy of resurrection. I pledge to use "overmorrow" in appropriate contexts.

I once had very slow service and got my dessert so late I was only able to eat about two bites before rushing to the theater because my waiter was hovering around Paul Newman's table, eavesdropping, the whole time we were eating.

A DM once grabbed a D&D module and gender-flipped all the NPCs, which meant the entire village had only women in speaking/interacting roles. The characters went nuts trying to figure out "what happened to your men???" Of course they never demanded to know where the women were in other adventures.

you can blame your jew-hatred on israel all you want but if you're attacking diaspora jewry because we exist in relation to israel, it doesn't make you any less of a jew-hater.

if you're shooting jews at a jewish social event in the diaspora, you're not targeting the state of israel, nor are you targeting its policies, nor are you targeting anyone with the power to effect change in israel's policies. you are just targeting jews.

This @schiff.senate.gov is what makes you, and @schumer.senate.gov look ineffectual. Don't make passive statements. Don't "think we ought". "I will move to bring".

Apocalypse World is profoundly important work. It has shaped the landscape of roleplaying games for over a decade, and with this third edition, I'm sure it'll continue to shape it for a decade more. Clever, gripping, and human. There's still a few hours to snag your kickstarter copy!