back in the day they used to just toss a clump of parsley on plates to make food seem fancier than it was which looks so funny in retrospect I remember this from when I was a kid in the late 90s but it seems to have died out circa the early 2000s

bill clinton getting a blowjob is an impeachable offense if I remember correctly

tramp stamp idea

convinced nyt reporters just empty out their brain like a bucket every time they sit down to write and fill it with whatever trash is floating on top of twitter that given day

every few years I get an urge to pick up The Sims again but opt not to because I don't wanna buy $500 of expansions to have the full game experience there is something just really enticing about the prospect of a game where you can just live a life with constant, predictable upward trajectory

I Was Going To Be Mayor But I Got Reborn As A Villainess?!

need a shinigami eyes addon but to brand journalists that are stupid as hell and write articles like this

girl who wants to be famous because she's "really into fandom" but completely misunderstands what the word "fandom" means

very unfortunate that despite the artillery witch being goals material the game doesn't really seem appealing to me tbh

Musk doesn't really care if Twitter turns a profit, Bezos has no reason to care if WaPo continues to function going forward; they just wanted to silence their critics, and in that way they got exactly what they wanted. This is no different in the end, which I think a lot of people are missing.

anti-tech trans girl who insists she has manual gynophilia

the transsexual discourse is really funny to me just as an abstract because like...weird transmeds are not going to have good luck trying to cordon off usage of a term that everyone else uses to mean transgender and basically always has

this is the second instance this month of a court randomly deciding to force a case through an appeal in order to obtain a more right-wing far-reaching ruling

This sucks, but a silver lining is that this loophole gives us a great opportunity to just physically tear down the supreme court if the opportunity presents itself

Starting to believe the ballroom is just a plot to steal copper from the walls in the white house given how brazenly the admin is just looting everything they can touch

Wild to come out ahead on this and decide the proper course of action is to go "look at my Nazi tattoo" to a podcast instead of getting it covered up

insane to me that this story has so much traction when it's just "every other post on twitter/facebook/etc" it's good that people are reacting to it, don't get me wrong, but has everyone's head just been in the sand? they've been saying and supporting this kind of stuff pretty openly for a while

feel like there's a decent ground for even normies to start harassing senators to eject Schumer as head of the Senate Dems at this point who is going to believe the party stands for anything when they all cower behind him shrugging and voting for regressive bills

republicans are gonna be straight up saying "we need to genocide the left, just completely purge them in a series of American concentration camps just like auschwitz" within a year or two and people will still be mumbling about how it's probably just a metaphor and we need to compromise

what is a streisand effect anyway

bsky's approach is similar to reddit's in that it's a hell of a lot more profitable to just avoid ever doing moderation and have volunteers step up to do all the labor of curating everything for the userbase the thing is, reddit gives those weirdos their little subreddit fiefdoms, bsky has nothing

there is a hole in society that the black panthers knew how to fill

seems bad that the only people being 'fooled' by the administration's antics are the people whose job it is to inform the rest of america what's going on

if *staff* are referring to someone as "the <name> issue" then maybe it's time to consider why the rules you guys made are written in such a way that they're allowed to be such a continuous issue

They're kidnapping people based on their appearance and disappearing them to facilities where they mysteriously go missing. This is a genocide.

there is no more appropriate sentiment coming from the administration than indicating that they intend to terrorize people because some of them might be feeling good about consensual sexual activity they disapprove of

Love that the lack of safety for trans people on here is a fucking punchline to Jay

This is good, however a lot of these states have guardrails for this stuff they're refusing to enforce so it's kinda hollow. The IL Human Rights Act is not being enforced on hospitals that refuse to continue trans care in IL, for example, the state the lead writer is the AG of.

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The mainstream media shift from just using someone’s gender pronouns like normal to always clarifying that “this person is trans” and that this is their “preferred” pronoun is weak ass shit. Go take a beta blocker you nervous rats.

hakeem jeffries hard at work trying to earn the respect of the washington post it seems

this is a good message, however- trans voters are concerned about their rights, and they need you to come out and explain why you voted to strip us of healthcare under Biden, and are going to be worried that you'll do it again

Where's the Dave Matthews Band tour bus when you need it?

what views could these be, I wonder

cisgenderism is a danger to society and it's frankly shameful that we've let it go on for so long

hmm

Weird how this *remains relevant*

it seems a little ominous that the tariffs are ramping up on innocuous goods, political enemies are being charged and the president has released a statement declaring anyone who opposes him a terrorist in the wake of a mass military meeting

But let’s be clear: every day, masked ICE agents are acting violently against our neighbors, illegally abducting them, holding them in cruel and inhumane conditions. Treating them as less-than-human, and not deserving due process.

very true, there are stats! the NYT treats trans articles as something exclusively for cis writers and commenters to pontificate on; they refuse to allow trans writers to write/comment on trans-related articles and do not seek quotes from trans individuals in articles written explicitly about them.

"writer for the economist" yeah that tracks

I never really felt comfortable stating how awful PP's HRT program was in my experience given that it might reflect badly on the vital work they do elsewhere but they're really sprinting towards being useless for everyone now huh

from the article on Buttigieg's response, it does not seem like this decision was made nearly as amicably as Harris is trying to say I don't know that Pete would've made the best choice but jfc the gall putting down in writing "yeah I didn't wanna pick the gay guy it seemed controversial"

"join Charlie" campaign aimed specifically at getting hyper-religious whackos to...you know,...

I kinda feel like we need to fix this though; not in the way that we designate spokespeople but like, we should look out for eachother and forgive eachother more and feel confident that we have eachother's backs, because clearly nobody else in the world is going to be reliably like that for us

feel like it should be a scandal when outlets put out articles contemplating whether or not trans people deserve medication/empathy/rights and just don't consult or quote any trans people ...does the economist even have trans employees?

creating AI slop of Charlie Kirk arguing in favor of progressive causes until conservatives get confused

The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.

I have seen it floated that both he and kirk's killer have some pretty substantial grounds for dismissal of their cases based on prior case law which will be really interesting to see how the motion here goes

did she just sit down to write a book about how much she hated her coalition the moment the campaign was over, this is like the second or third reveal that rekindled my "kamala sucks ass and should never have been anywhere near a ticket" sentiment from like 2020