Apple isn’t going to lift one finger to oppose Trump or his allies so long as Trump has unlimited power to tariff iPhones into oblivion.

Didn't end up getting the Bolt. Decided my next bite at the apple would be a year from now, when I qualify for a $1000 trade-in credit — and when, presumably, the new Bolts will push the 23 ones down in price. But at the rate I'm spending on gas & repairs, I'm no longer sure I'm better off waiting.

Not necessarily the best, but two I got last year that go together and gave me the most joy for the buck: a Pur faucet mounted water purifier and a Drinkmate seltzer maker

Wish I could say my year is at least off to a better start personally

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We spent a huge amount of money on bodycams so that next time the police gets away with murder we will have videos of it (that won't get released). Instead of actually trying to prevent the police from killing people, because that would be an insult to our amazing police department.

jfc it's been 5 years?!

AI didn't invent slop, it just made it worse (bad) and drew our attention to it (good)

asking for an AI summary of moby dick so i can learn from ahab’s hustle mindset

If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.

It's very very hard to argue with this now, to a shocking degree.

I need a mood booster, let's talk about capybaras. Here's a capy demonstrating one of MANY ways they can move through the water: running along the bottom. They're 'semi-aquatic' mammals, just like hippos, seals & beavers. They LOVE water. (📷: Fernando Maidana)

They split the infrastructure and welfare bills, didn't pass the welfare bill, and "internet lefty" AOC predicted the effect with complete accuracy. Now the world's smuggest idiots pretend we already tried the eft wing strategy in an attempt to avoid confronting their own failure.

This is one of the best of these I’ve seen. It really almost got me.

These headlines came 25 minutes apart

Why is everything horrible, cut that shit out

y'all i think you should all stop harassing women on here until they delete their accounts. i think that's bad to do.

Yes. Republicans are surely more shameless than Dems, but from the outside looking in, the disparity is magnified when Dems whiff on opportunities to shame Republicans. They tell themselves Republicans are beyond shame, anyhow, and that things like *tying Republicans to CSAM* aren’t ~~persuasive~~.

Hot take: this is a company that truly understands its own brand. Like, this is literally the most Microsoft thing of all time.

My mom is not gonna have any idea what this is

Good morning from the #cambma City Council Inauguration. Chiefly a ceremonial event, but we will see them voting on who shall be the Mayor in perhaps an hour. (Some might say that, too, is ceremonial.)

It’s Pasta Anytime (2000-circa 2005): A line of shelf-stable, single-serve, microwavable pasta and sauce dishes. Originally developed by Borden under the "Classico" line, then sold by Kraft after a 2001 buyout. Available in several varieties of pasta/sauce combos

your feed has been blessed by the 3rd rail anti-icing work train. RT if you too are anti-ice

I've been thinking a lot about whether Assigned Media should be worker run - and it's more complicated than you might think. (This is going to be a thread, and I'd very much welcome input.)

Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.

I've seen eagles (adult and juvenile) at least a couple of times a year for the past decade or so, mostly around this time of year. I think they come into the city when bodies of water to the north and west are frozen. I've seen them both at Fresh Pond and along the Charles.

This is a good time to remove your children's faces from the internet if you are responsible for putting them there.

Jake Sullivan never speaks again challenge

"We've always been at war with Eurasia"

i hate it here (existence)

My mom has informed me that 60 Minutes is "totally different now," and that they don't plan to keep on watching. Wondering how many Boomers across America have come to that conclusion. Hopefully more of them than not

my strongest social media belief is that threads isn’t real

I would think it's the doxing trucks, death threats, and the Trump admin going after international students but that's just me. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Clinging to the difference between 28 and 30 years like my life depends on it

Huh. I think my follower count ticked up from 4.9k to 5k even though no one new followed me

LOL. LMAO even.

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

These people are calling themselves "Europids"? I've heard a number of terms for white people in my day, but that may be the first one that feels like it could be an effective slur.

NO. NO. WE ARE NOT DOING THE "ASYLUM" THING AGAIN. I CAN PUT UP WITH QUITE A LOT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, BUT HERE I DRAW THE LINE.

Jesus fucking Christ talk to people you know in real life talk to content creators talk to brands talk to ANYONE you know there and get them the fuck out of there or make them own that this is where they choose to stay

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Some of you have never read a @solomonmissouri.bsky.social thread, and that's a shame

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

Very proud of myself for the inspired idea to take the *next* couple days off

Reminder to delete your fucking X account.

"if you're making $25,000 a year, you can't afford treats" or, you know, a safe place to live unless someone else is helping you out they love to leave out that part

If your bar for success is "stopping a superpower led by fascists" then you're only setting yourself up to fail. It's a form of doomerism. Instead set the bar at "how can I get 2 of my friends involved to do 1 positive thing together". We win because there's many of us, each playing a small part.

I agree with this, though I also wonder where a hatred of oppression comes from without a personal stake, at least in the past.

Senator Cantwell is some on the nose naming

This is how the #Massachusetts State Police train recruits to see the public. This doesn't seem like a very public-service-oriented worldview! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/15/m...