The catholic right loves to redefine “freedom” so it means “freedom to do what catholicism says you should” and they like to redefine “love” as “willing that someone does what catholicism says they should”.

Nostalgia is the mind killer

Social media isn't really about keeping up with friends anymore though - nor is it good at that task (algorithmic feeds etc) - social media is more analogous to watching TV, not socializing with other people.

Social media, meaning the spaces for people to meet and socialize globally, has been dead for possibly 10 years already. What we have now is parasocial media: a form of mass media where there’s illusion of relationships covering a high virality broadcast tool controlled by algorithms.

It’s so fucking funny that we’re still getting five NYT op-eds a week calling for the left to tone down their rhetoric

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

no but if you look at the engagement numbers this shit worked that's the horrifying part

The Trump campaign waiving jangling keys in front of my face was brilliant. And convincing! There were conservatives worried I wouldn’t stare at the jangling keys. But it was a ruse to get through the election, you’re allowed to do that.

I would just remind folks that Elon Musk is neither a rocket scientist, nor an automotive engineer. Sam Altman is not a computer scientist. Elizabeth Holmes is not a doctor. David Shor is not a data scientist. And Ezra Klein is not a trained public policy analyst. So this absolutely tracks.

Barkley Gaiden screencap

someone must have told gavin the game involves destroying hastily built shelters

BARKLEY. GAS PUMP.

hey man how's it goin

彼ら負け犬🎶 #huskerdust #loserbaby #HazbinHotel #ハスエン

This is a phenomenon that has been happening all throughout both creative works and culture at large. Concepts and works are increasingly subjected to rigorous sensitivity-filtering removing any complexity, controversy, or thought-provoking substance. It’s a mass shift towards infantilism.

i support women's wrongs #hazbinhotel #velvette

this web design is straight out of Time Cube

I don't give a shit so I _will_ name and shame here

Tell me what's "harmful to minors" again

Man, I wouldn’t even write this shit on a scrap piece of paper in fear of somebody finding it, let alone willingly publish it in a huge publication.

this is an all timer of a Florida Man story drunk Florida Man goes to the wrong house, breaks in, is immediately beaten up by an even purer Florida Man who does MMA

logging into twitch tv and providing my iris scan, social security number and bank account to watch northernlion flip a coin

"Passing ineffective law to satiate the public breeds contempt for the law and the political process. It also deters efforts to find solutions that really will work. Having already passed a law, the politicians can move on to the next thing, even though the law in question is ineffective."

"My reps are all conservative and do what they want anyway so I can't call about KOSA" This bill has died multiple times before and it's because people told their reps they don't like it, especially the red ones

there's this assumption by the admin that there is an infinite supply of buff KKK members ready to fill the ranks of the military and ICE and I have bad news for them both about the overall number of KKK members and their general fitness level

one of the most important conversations tech companies should have about every new feature and product is "how can this be abused" and in OpenAI's case they apparently decided to make that the selling point for their new app this is a million lawsuits and ruined lives waiting to happen

The size of the divide between the average American liberal and the average American liberal pundit on one of the defining questions of foreign policy today really can't be overstated.

An important function of Twitter was NBA posters (both normal and insane) sweeping away the days political news off the trending like the evening tide. the current posting ecosystem doesn’t have that equivalent.

Didn’t they lay off thousands of government workers already and are promising to lay off thousands more? I don’t see what the difference is

amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.

how exactly are these supposed to be contradictory

At the top level, this is the only comment that is required for basically the entire topic. I think I will end my own discussion on it here because the inner truth of the entire debate, with little flourish, is this cruel in its simplicity.

I finally watched Hazbin Hotel, have some Charlies

The most important thing to remember about Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl is that Puerto Rico is a colony whose residents are US citizens and pay taxes but don't get to vote for the president, have no voting representation in Congress,

Nothing will ever beat this tho

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

Marx wrote extensively about how letting annoying ass white dudes say the n word and call people slurs is the most effective method of overthrowing capitalism, don't actually bother addressing material conditions, just be a piece of shit on the internet

i feel like im going crazy bc housing prices are crushing me and every day i wake up and see the political convo being "is cantaloupe is woke?" "did TGIF change its logo?" "are we renaming new mexico to new america?"

Mini Hornets (which is your favourite?)

It is v interesting that the most culturally influential institution in human history have not managed make their politics popular at all anywhere. No one who’s not a priest, in any country, is an open borders prison abolitionist degrowther who thinks abortion is murder and gay sex is a sin.

this is a relatively new and bizarre argument in the history of book bans btw—conservatives have rarely if ever operated from the position that libraries are “government speech” (?) they’ve almost always argued on the grounds of obscenity and the public good

Hellaverse Satan is like Yosemite Sam crossed with Fire Lord Ozai

KOSA is now in red alert priority. Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA We need to turn out in numbers against this!

the website to cancel Xbox Game Pass subscriptions is overloaded

xbox fans since 2020 have been living the world's longest most drawn out humiliation ritual thirty fucking dollars a month

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

all stick no carrot means all stick no carrot

Trying to make a distinction from "this is art the artist makes to deal with trauma" and "this is the artist's very clear fetish" puts the privacy of real life victims at risk. I shouldn't have to give you a laundry list of all my triggers and traumas for you to decide my art has the right to exist