it's ok to worship false idols ironically. god can see what's in your heart so he knows when you're doing a bit even if it's really deadpan. he can tell you're worshipping all like "check it out, i'm these guys: duhhh i love fake ass pagan crap!" god's up there going OOOOH like he's at a rap battle

i'm very, very tired of people treating mentally-ill catastrophizing as the height of political seriousness, not least because I am a mentally-ill catastrophizer.

I mean a lot of the problem with media elites is in a competitive media environment you’re locked in a zero sum battle for the 24 hours of attention everyone has per day. The incentive is to jingle keys, not inform

the thing is, though, that no matter how much hemming and hawing there was, trying to get them to really prioritize the greatest threat to rationality in America -- a political movement founded on pure rejection of it -- was like getting water from a stone

I posted this earlier in the morning on the day that Kirk was killed so no one read it and it wasn't that important, but it does explain this pretty well bsky.app/profile/anne...

you WILL be open to new experiences. we are no longer asking.

For sure not a wobbegong. Wobbegongs look and are shaped like sharks. This photo is probably a monkfish/goosefish.

A neocon whose American exceptionalism-special pleading implant isn't working is a Hell of a thing.

every addict both hates themself and thinks they're God's gift to earth. most addicts don't change until they are so desperate that they crack themselves open and learn that neither of these beliefs is true. you can feel bad for him, or not. I don't.

i had a bad dream i was a horrible beast and everyone was either angry with me or feared or abandoned me except spongebob

re 2) here is an analogy. Have you ever noticed when a right winger insults the beauty of a woman, there are lots of reposts in which the commenter talks about how hot the woman is?

Okay, this is a fascinating case of social media priming. So, this creator, Sarah Velush, basically has a channel devoted to deadpan lifestyle humour (a la Chef Tova). But because a progressive account takes it literally and says... this? Hundreds of comments assuming she's an evil tradwife.

it is very funny that after the second ghost Scrooge is like okay great I've got it. you can actually let me out here

galaxy brain: FPTP is bad because the name makes no sense. "first past the post" like it's a race to a finish line? what finish line? the "post" is fixed wherever second place ends up? it should refer to a system where whoever gets to 10000 votes first wins. i'd respect that more

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

That this SCOTUS used it to justify striking affirmative action bc it discriminated against WHITE people and now thinks their might be a colorable argument about the birthright part shows only that they are confused about whether the good team won the Civil War. (2/3)

great conversation starters for a first date: - what's your favorite Linear A inscription? - how did you learn Linear A? - would you like to establish a written correspondence in Linear A?

To expand upon this, it’s much harder for politicians to address these systemic barriers like housing and education because there’s a rentier class established by its continued scarcity (housing), or an ideological opposition to it as an institution (education)

the coherent argument is “the leftist organization makes me look bad, the democratic party makes me look bad, that’s why I stick with both. i know what I’m getting.”

“just $xx billion could <solve big problem> and <villain with more money than sense> wastes more than $xx billion on <profligate nonsense>” is a way to substitute shaming a villain for of doing work to solve the big problem. An excuse for apathy dressed as insight. And the math never checks out.

how to start deep state cabal such that if we reestablish democracy I can make open borders real

too many of us have built ourselves a mind prison. we torment ourselves because, on a deep level, that certainty of doom is more comforting than the uncertainty of struggle. and plus it gives you the thrill of feeling more righteous, more cynical, more knowing--even as you scare yourself sleepless.

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

My baby has started babbling. She wants to participate in the discourse. She yearns to produce content.

I think if you measure by “% of thoughts which are racist” the case is easy and almost inarguable. Like, Thomas Jefferson and Donald Trump are/were both racist pedophiles, but Jefferson at least had some other ideas rattling around in his head, too.

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

Rolling Stone: clearly documents a 30+ year long con job. A rural county's own leadership lined their pockets by helping ag interests destroy the water supply. Everyone who read the article apparently??: Amazon data centers did this in 2011 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

I think some democrats should probably say forthrightly that though Hegseth among others deserves impeachment and removal, the process is broken because the republican majority has forsaken their duties to the country, and pursuing it would risk misinforming the country that acquittal = innocence.

If The Ten Commandments were made today, it would take place in 2021

this was obviously a dumb reading by me, lol, but I don’t think my initial response was super uncommon. and it doesn’t have to be that way, patriarchal values are real and should be unwound, but they’re not some Venom-like substance we can be “free” of or “better” than.

Which is like, yes, that’s very good. The mainstream Dem position is now to expect criminal prosecution of Trump officials.

You know people who whine about Pluto are frauds because you never hear about Ceres/Sedna/Eris from them as well

Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.

I didn't realize law professors often have never practiced! I feel like an infant baby now.

Also they're just sick. They're killing people and whether you think it's justified or not (obviously it's not) that should mean something. Instead they're running around laughing like an axe murderer in some terrible horror movie. Completely broken people

dems should start saying that presidential pardons dont apply to international war crimes and in fact implicate the president, no idea if thats true but they should start saying it

“The Reconstruction Papers is an extension of our eight-year-long mission to provide the intellectual foundation for a liberal future, rather than wallowing in memories of a liberal past.” www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...

And it certainly isn't the fault of the most annoying people on Tumblr that the vast majority of conservatives who insisted that structural racism was fake/overblown but they'd stand up against real racism did no such thing. Trump is a powerful forcing function and the results are revealing.

every family has a beloved holiday classic called like, “Milford’s Marvelous Marzipan” whose pleasures remain forever inscrutable to their baffled, if supportive, partners

when you have had it with these iconoclastic snakes on this consecrated plane

Definitely something that should be brought in every earnings call of companies that gave to the Trump slush fund. Opens them up to having their federal contracts challenged and the next DOJ may go after companies for pay to play.

At this point the gods are just fucking with us

the Biden administration's mistake was passive aggressively treating the WHCA with contempt. they ought to be openly humiliated

anyone else VERY aroused

we have a Schrodinger's King. On the one hand, his pronouncements mean nothing because his word is meaningless. However, the fact his word is meaningless is forbidden for the press to use as a weapon against him

it's the runaway aesthetic of criticism - plenty of critique walks in with good points or observations the far enough back it's traced, but with enough time and reach it refracts into various social signaling expressions that coalesce and sort themselves into rigid, binary communicative meanings

We have learned that if the Amerikkkan people cannot have their burgers delivered piping hot for less than it costs in person they will collectively elect a guy who kills a million people in developing nations, so the creation of cheap burrito bots is one of the stronger moral obligations out there

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.