It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

solution to global warming? ballrooms. ending world hunger? ballrooms. cold fusion? you guessed it, ballrooms

An already unacceptably right-leaning press corps is gearing up to go further right because a bad thing almost happened near them; they were in that position to begin with because they decided access to fascism is more important that accurately describing it

oh no the pocket squares

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

Blow it up like the whale.

And in fact Republican states like Utah and Ohio have retained their gerrymanders in open defiance of successful referendums demanding non-partisan redistricting

it’s so cool how you just *know* this will result in republicans calling the election rigged because they’re too stupid to understand that every single vote cannot all be counted at this exact same time

Why this (the 20s???) and not another Gru film? Viktor Orban can take over the voice work since he's unemployed...

"The Strait of Hormuz can open if Mike Pence has the courage" - @optesterchris.bsky.social

Riffing on this a bit, natsec as a whole is way more like this than I ever thought it would be when I started out. Not just in DC. People write things down, sometimes, but being the person in the office who KNOWS WHAT FOLDER A DOCUMENT IS IN makes you some kind of skald or shaman.

When I think about packing light, the first thing I like to eliminate is the garment that takes up almost no space, weighs almost nothing and is essential to personal hygiene

As the prophecy foretold

Taking a break, friends. Be back in the Eastertide.

the median american opinion is basically "let hardworking people stay & get them documented so john mcwhitey isn't competing w someone being paid sub-minimum under the table, & also secure the border" and for some reason neither centrist nor leftist democrats could figure out how to message on this

I just used 12 AI agents to create 5 AI agents. And each of them used 7 AI agents to use 8 AI agents. What were the 8 AI agents doing? 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴. The transformative power of agentic AI is here. Get on board—𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱.

AND THE RENDING OF CREATION ITSELF

you've got to be kidding me, LLMs are even stealing good old fashioned sepirothposting from humans

"don't listen to those nasty liberals who tell you you owe the civic fabric of democracy anything" - complete losers and cowards

I mean, yes, it is quite simple. Lifestyle hygiene is self-centered. Moral issues require a perspective that is other-centered.

me: girl i am not wearing that, it's not my color marie curie [applying radium mascara]: we're getting rid of colors. it's going to be the only color. we're going to make you wear it.

99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off

Big tough dudes who cannot perform the simplest of tasks, eating carbs

What the fuck VRBO?

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Any time you think Donald Trump can’t go any lower, he somehow pulls it off. Cue Speaker Johnson and other Washington Republicans saying they know nothing about this, haven’t seen it, etc. They should be ashamed.

i also hate Google ai but when you're complaining about it reciting wikipedia because it is the most convenient way to do that it makes you look like a dick

The tiny podium* for four-year-olds 🥹🥹 *yes yes I know, it's a lectern

oh my god the woke mind virus was real all along but the only symptom is that it makes you cool as hell

do not succulent chinese meal the epstein files

The term “nightmare blunt rotation” gets thrown around a lot. However,,,,

twitter must be dead dead cause someone posted a rat coin purse that would have 2019 twitter losing its collective mind and most of the top comments are bots saying random words or people not nearly amped enough about the rat coin purse

Why? Because professional roles are defined by non-delegable duties— 🟩Lawyers verify citations. 🟪Doctors validate diagnoses. 🟨Engineers certify safety margins.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Damn.

it's just so much easier to fit all my eggs in this one basket

how do you have a world-class shipbuilding industry? turns out the answer is "pay for it."

Truly there has been no more avaricious and rapacious class than the Boomer homeowner. Pulling the ladder up behind them, and then keeping the ladder up there long enough so that they can give all their ill-gotten lucre to the long-term care industry

This is honestly more-or-less how Saint Augustine begins CITY OF GOD.

Grindset/hustle culture means that, in a workforce larger than any in history, each person has to be individually more productive than their parents or grandparents were while experiencing ever-increasing precarity. And yet people embrace this instead of rioting. Make it make sense.