yeah there is a 95% chance that each of us Finds Out via shitpost. which is why the natsec crew can either be upset about sports or cryptic but are not allowed both at the same time

Now that I'm no longer building the app at all ‒ not managing, not creating releases, not writing features ‒ I can finally ask something that's been bugging me for a while. What's javascript

My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

A useful experiment would be for a campaign to hire Carville, get detailed feedback, and proceed to do the exact opposite at literally every step.

Imagine being disappeared in one dictatorship, making it to America, and then being disappeared again

If you enjoy the SCP universe at all, or just good scifi, I highly recommend qntm's book. This was one of my favorite reads in a while.

There is one political party lining up to oppose Mamdani for blatantly bigoted reasons, and people of good conscience should vote against it at the local, state, and federal level

Very strong #NoKings showing in Lexington, MA

I told you we’d be back

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

Siri, play “Bad Blood”

Curiously, my very deliberate, ponderous method of speaking truth to power seems to have left me speaking truth to the previous set of people in power, which just so happens to align me with the current set of people in power. What an odd confluence of events!

Unfortunately there are no current issues that demand courageous honesty that challenges our leaders. But if there were, you can trust I’ll be there, speaking truth to power (in two to five years).

Hey, I’m a prominent national news figure and I’m here to promote my new book, in which I tell you I’m boldly taking a contrarian point of view on an important news issue (of 2022) and standing up to powerful men (who have already retired). If only liberals would have courage like me!

A reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely.

a big part of the reason i am in favor of accelerating and affordable housing development is that we need more room in the world for fuckups

I'm her constituent and after seeing the results in South Carolina, I voted for Biden because I cared far more about party unity than any particular candidate

And Palestinians

Some advice to the doom and gloom crowd who wanna speedrun straight to armed rebellion/dystopic hoarding - if I can’t trust you to show up to city council meetings and give public comment, what the fuck makes you think I’m going to trust you with a weapon at my back?

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

you'd think that "the man we are giving complete and total power to on every other subject cannot be trusted not to immediately cause a depression if we give him this power over this one last thing" might prompt some introspection, but no

A lot of people don't react to things, they react to their impressions of things, e.g. "why do you hate waffles". With regard to politics, it's metastasized.

As a viewpoint, this is basically just Trumpism. The point of disagreement isn't on whether the president should rule us like a king, it's whether that king should be Donald Trump

just read the updated user agreement and wow. every time you reskeet a post you are actually entering a drawing to win best poster on bluesky

Trump doesn’t trick people. He gives them permission to lie to themselves.

[learning about clair obscura] huh, france should make more video games [googling ubisoft] france should be illegal

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a bold, modern artistic RPG that dares to ask the question: what if Omori had a budget? I will not be elaborating

Zuck: The average American has three friends

We have a word for someone who talks to famous people, repeats what they say, and does everything possible to retain their access. That word is paparazzi.

Stephen did more prep for this than the entire Trump administration

A few of my favorite signs from #HandsOff Boston

In the same vein, "relax, Schumer knows what he's doing" has acquired the same connotation to me as some of my relatives going "relax, Trump knows what he's doing"

This does not seem quite as ill-advised as opening the Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar on the site of the old temple on Dagon Street on the night of the winter solstice during a lunar eclipse, but it's up there

A ton of people are carrying trauma from the COVID shutdown and don't realize it

"Personal responsibility" used to be a major GOP plank, dropped like a hot potato once Trump entered the picture. I've been itching for Dems to take it over and rebrand it for years

@pfrazee.com Seeing some invalid handles on the timeline