I suspect Epstein managed to tap into forerunners of the same prejudices regarding the relationship of formality to power/influence that yielded Twitter culture or Zuck's hoodie

A man pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in January 6th - he assaulted Capitol Police officers with bear spray & a metal whip - has avoided prison for child sex crimes because of the president’s sweeping pardon, despite pleading guilty to soliciting what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex

Glad this story is finally public but also incredible that it is taking media so long to dig up what is essentially open knowledge in these communities rn.

especially dangerous considering the russian problem with windows

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

In terms of big disappointments, he gets honorable Manchin.

I'm going to have an aneurysm

i have complicated feelings here, as both someone who grew up playing 'old school' but also thought WoD brought welcome dramatic change to the world of gaming. i am more sympathetic to the grognards than many. but the fundamentals laid out here aren't wrong: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

that's probably not an ominous sign, right

this is what all you should be saying today, instead of "standing up to Trump wasn't working" you have the worst comms teams, I swear

That's it. I think it's time for a cover reveal. Welcome to The Way By! And, the upcoming sequel, By The Way, opening for pre-orders this December!

I dunno seems legit right

From street marches to court battles to the ballot box - we’ve challenged the power of this exceptionally unpopular president. The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.

data centers do not create stable long term jobs. sure, you hire a bunch of folks to build one and then string all the GPUs together, but then that's done. after that it's a skeleton crew to maintain and clean it. please stop falling for this.

okay fine, one of you can send me apple pie mac & cheese if you want

we live in an era where we are burning the legacy of civilization on the altar of men who don't want to do what their mothers told them when they were 6

for context

this is what all you should be saying today, instead of "standing up to Trump wasn't working" you have the worst comms teams, I swear

Deciding what to post this morning...

Their audience demands the conspiracy slop, but they also want Kirk’s alleged murderer fried so they have to balance a way to keep their audience engaged and they’re going with: We watched a lot of furry porn to get to the bottom of all this.

really appreciate Nate Silver giving us a unifying point during what is otherwise a pretty unpleasant couple days of Bluesky

what the hell is wrong with these folks

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

Important: Congress has a $79/day allowance for food!! And they get free healthcare!!

This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024. Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. American capitalism is off the rails.

make him serve it at Mar-A-Lago and see how it goes

Wonder why Republicans don’t talk about red state farmers reliant on SNAP benefits

let's just pause and think about the fact that a trillion is a thousand billion, or a million million. he could have given each of the 400,000 kids he starved to death a million dollars and he'd still have 400 billion dollars left from this pay package the shareholders just approved.

A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

Judge Stranch, an Obama appointee who wrote the 2-1 majority opinion on the panel (which had rejecting the appeal from the parents' group challenging the policy), writes the dissent for the seven dissenting judges on the en banc rehearing:

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

her entire strategy will be telling upstate white New Yorkers that she alone can stop Mamdani from forcing them to do the call to prayer

hey i know let's pay him a trillion dollars

this is hands down the grossest and dumbest thing I have ever seen

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

I thought he was just a guy from LI who didn't want to have to live in NYC under Mamdani. I was wrong, he's from NYC. He has financial ties to Israel and no firefighting experience (he was appointed last summer and uhm a lot was going on). From wikipedia.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

MrBeast hates Zohran because if people have access to basic necessities, it will demolish the Giving People Those Necessities As Part Of A Saw-Inspired Game Show industry

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

UPDATE: Lol they did it. Can’t wait to see who wins it, this year!

Republican by +1.2 "a mandate" Democrat by +35 "questions remain"

here's the thing: faced with a perceived problem, if one hard-line candidate says "we fix it by doing X" and the other moderate candidate says "doing X is unnecessary when we can just do 1/2 X" voters are going to conclude that X is still the solution

Pick-me anti-feminism is when women argue that other women are the problem because they have different political views, that they're one of the cool girls who doesn't even want the right to vote, and they're willing to take it away from other women because they have different political views.

one of the greatest brains of all time, many are saying so