ok normally i'm all for making fun of donald trump but this is actually the median american opinion on what the goals of our housing policy should be

I am brand loyal on exactly four things: Dr. Pepper LEGO Fender guitars and Nintendo consoles

There's actually never been a bad Nintendo system and that includes the Virtual Boy.

“It also takes a lot of energy to train a human” is diabolical

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

Sabrina Muppet Show got about 7.5 million views in 8 days. Similar to Knight of the seven kingdoms viewership

Whew, we made it! Thanks for your patience everyone, hopefully we can send you into Friday with these 5 star runtimes! amorecivilizedage.net/127-revenge-...

The Vatican should have an Olympic team. We should put cardinals in a bob sled. This is the new evangelization.

can't say which i find more appalling, remnick handing him a "fair enough" on the left and right being equally antisemitic or saying there was "no immigration policy" under dems. either way, super embarrassing for remnick to get steamrolled this hard by the right's pre-eminent midwit

We need communities that protect children

Hit that man with a hammer and he wont bother your young anymore

A lot of people predicted, based on his past actions & stated beliefs, that Trump would go full Hitler if nobody stopped him. We were called hysterical and told to calm down.

coldplay aint never made me wanna heavy pet

“Europeans hate this” bitch we also hate this

Can't wait to be blamed by AI grifters when the bubble bursts. "It's your fault there wasn't enough adoption to make it viable". Damn straight. It's 100% my fault. Lay all of the responsibility on me. I will eat it all. I will drink your tears. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

Everyone should assume they've internalized ideas that are racist, misogynist, transphobic... that they don't recognize as such because that pre-acceptance makes it easier to skip some shame processing and just move on to doing better

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

They are extremely unpopular, unable to significantly expand their forces (they are already poaching local police for ICE and reassigning significant percentages of FBI/ATF toward enforcement), lacking in organizational resilience and one bum ticker/blood clot away from total movement collapse

"Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name." -- the butterfly, "The Last Unicorn" (Peter S. Beagle)

“transgender isn’t real but there’s 100% definitely a red dude with goat legs, and anytime I think about breasts that’s his fault” and that describes like an actually sincerely held belief of like 50 million people in this country

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

the hardest things to investigate will be things that seem plausible on their face but have incomplete or contradictory information and which take a long time to give out that information, give unnecessary background or have unrelated tangents or hearsay/poor recollections of information

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him

Nobody who makes $500,000+ can ever be culturally normal tbh, much less this guy. Imagine thinking a trans person is culturally abnormal but being a rich zionist technocrat involved in politics is "normal."

This technology that people in school administrations and higher education are demanding everyone get behind because it's "the future" and "we just have to accept it," which is, nfn, the language of abuse.

I'm not going to re-write a whole piece I already wrote 8 years ago, so here www.vice.com/en/article/s...

Corporations like Netflix and HBO are going to buy and trade back catalogs of our most important art like they're Pokémon cards just so they can keep upping the price on streaming services, jam more ads into them, and use the library to make AI slop. Piracy is a more valid moral choice than ever.

Happy spotify wrapped day to all who celebrate. @emhahee.bsky.social once again in my top 2, I am begging you to put more songs out 😅

I *do* like That Hideous Strength, and holy shit it's so often on my mind the last ten (and especially five) years.

What Zoe says here is important: if you're extending sympathy to the student here, what good is that doing for the student and their academic future? This person is a psych major, presumably wanting to go into therapy. If you're not able to think well, how are you gonna help people with their needs?

I’m going to throw nuance on nuance here. Not all sincerely-held religious beliefs have a place in the marketplace of ideas. Some of them are offensive and should be called out as such. HOWEVER, these are bad faith actors pushing these offensive ideas, with aims that must be recognized

Even better: Would you want Sam Altman in your house with a loaded gun?

an ill portent (here for it though)

This is insane shit. Yesterday when I saw that Open AI response to the suicide was to victim blame, I really thought that would be the lowest shit. But here, Google acknowledges AI is bad for kids but FUCK IT deal with it, parents. Trash company. They don't need to do this shit.

No contract, no coffee. We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.

👏 WHICH 👏 PARENTS 👏 RIGHTS?

ahh, hmm.

When you default to assuming you're in the sky not on the ground.

the omission from this list of 'A More Civilized Age' tells me all i need to know

a mysterious man known only as "The Whale Whisperer" has arrived and is standing in the surf. everyone kind of parted to let him through. who the hell is this lol

i've been stewing on this for a few days (far too long for a Post), partly because "woke" is such an utterly meaningless term at this point, partly because i have been on the (far) left for so long that i no longer know what is and isn't mainstream. (1/)

Gavin Newsom is anti-trans and I will never, ever vote for him.

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

When you’re definitely the good guys

I don't think it's even right to say the voting public doesn't care. I think the truth is a lot of voters may generally find trans identity moderately confusing but also *none of their business*. on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.