Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a politics poster to explain the mechanism by which their theory of politics is supposed to operate.

Speaking as someone who taught for two years at an elementary school on an Air Force Base: fuck you you fucking ghoul

This is what people mean when they say "this is not who we are". It's Midwestern police departments finding out even they have a limit. It's everyday suburbanites funding transport & relocation for trans women in danger. It's fighting to crush Republican supermajorities in red states this November.

Wake up, babe. New tiny dinosaur just dropped.

Religion extended to its logical conclusion: at the end of Time (and also way sooner) the Son of God, enthroned in glory, looks down at these people, scowling in divine fury, and (with canonical support) growls: "You. Took. My. CRAYONS."

I remember once during a study group (my second time around in college) someone started playing Cake songs, and I mentioned that I remembered them from high school. 18-year-old fellow student blurts with huge eyes: "How OLD is this SONG?!" Hey everybody? That study group was in 2014.

“this loudmouth dickhead wants his children to get polio because he sincerely believes it will make them stronger”, that’s called child abuse and we don’t excuse it when the parent sincerely believes that beating their children will toughen them up, which happens often

One of the best things @gregpak.net did tonight was to unite a shit ton of Bluesky nerds by getting us all to realize the sheer magnitude of people who loved this series as children and didn’t realize we had that in common.

I feel pretty strongly that it’s bad—tactically and morally—to knowingly lie about a political enemy. I’ll make only one exception, and that’s about JD Vance fucking the sofa. I make that exception because (a) fuck him and (b) he totally did fuck that sofa.

My first and middle name were chosen because my 20-year-old parents thought they sounded cute, so I have a very rural 80s birth name. I changed it as soon as I turned 18. Please do not name your children like this. (Though I kept the middle name.)

You should read the full quote and this thread before you share the incredibly dishonest “Newsom said he can’t read to a Black crowd” post

northwest burnside mcdonald’s come and claim your prize

It turns out seeing shrimp colors allows you to navigate hyperspace without the need for spice and long story short, you all had better start learning shrimp.

It's a short but powerful sermon and I never get tired of it. More, please.

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

Cat memes are one of the oldest uses for photography. Basically the instant that exposure times were fast enough to get a non-blurry picture, people were selling postcards of cats in costumes with funny captions.

the galaxy brain version of this is "it should be considered socially-unacceptable to NOT be providing bathing and laundry services and supplies as a public service" and, I mean, shit, I can get behind a soap-and-detergent social safety net any day of the week

That 59,000 too many, but I believe if we all work together we can mock the people who drive these things into leaving society forever.

What the FUCK

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

See, requiring they do more training *does* work to limit how much damage they can do! Enough mandatory training they’ll all be out on medical leave for self-inflicted gunshots before long!

i have never had faith, i have been an atheist as long as i can remember, but loud, performative, marketable atheism has produced very few gains and platformed a ton of very bad actors

why are you engaging with old literature, experiencing how texts can burn with humanity even across thousands of years, instead of just reading the latest trope-optimizing booktok fav

Pneumonia, age 6 But also I was fully vaccinated, so possibly earlier from something even more easily preventable now

For weird reasons, I got it in my head that I couldn't properly process the information from a car's mirrors and so I thought that I couldn't drive. Turns out that I just didn't have them adjusted correctly, which I learned when I was 37.

The kākāpō is awkward, flightless, fat, nocturnal, and a picky eater, so I feel a spiritual kinship with them from halfway across the world. Wishing you the best of luck, little eggs, I hope the number of extant kākāpō can be a 3-digit number starting with a 3 for the first time in my lifetime.

My opinion on the 2028 primary is that it's the midterms, be for real people. The insistence that we need to always be in Presidential campaign season is spiritually corrosive.

We're living in the future, but it's a dystopian version of Futurama

It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

"What you see in both Megyn and Jesse’s screeds is a sense that the people who make art are not meant to think or feel for themselves. They’re not really meant to be people as such. No, they exist to make things for the edification of a boorish set of elites." www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...

Many such cases

Third Rule of Acquisition: "Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to." Unless there's a meaningful difference in quality, cut costs. I sometimes think there's an inversion of Vimes' Rule of Boots: The wealthy often buy things that aren't better than what the poor buy, just costlier.

i think that using the term “consent” outside of sexual contexts specifically to bring implications of rape into a conversation is trashy and exploitative as hell. yes, it can mean non-sexual things but when people use it in the way they currently are it’s obvious what they’re trying to do

It's breaking my perception of bad things kinda being an outcome of distributed independent groups of people deciding to bee greedy assholes when like, no, apparently there's just a couple extremely monstrous people propagating evil like a cartoon villain.

real/not real status: bees: real sex: real cops: real the spider that lives exactly outside the edge of your peripheral vision and is always watching you: not real, but you have to wonder if i’m telling the truth about this

as an expert linguist Chomsky understood that technically it was hebephilia.

There's too many fucking people in the Epstein files. Need Yakko Warner to sing a song about it to help me get caught up

We have this thing called the "jury" in America A lot of procedure scholars have been kind of unclear, for a long time, about, uhhh, why. Why we have laypeople deciding all our legal cases. Well, turns out this is why! The whole bulwark against tyranny thing is super real!

Parenting has clarified for me that many of you aren't really upset, you're just tired, confused, and also pooping

if the play is “they get to shoot you for being rude,” they picked the wrong country to try taking over

If nothing else today, I got USA Today to print my analogy of the significance of ICE administrative warrants. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine

it'll be like a fidget spinner and a vuvuzela had a baby. you will be circled by plastic harpies that scream your most shameful secrets. you are huge losers and everyone hates you! be grateful it's just whistles!

bro whistles are the NICE option. do you really want to challenge 1,000 nerds with 3D printers to invent something louder and more annoying???

cops were actually invented by King Arthur to supprsss Mordred’s rebellion, which was righteous. before cops the laws were enforced by knights, who believed in communism and anarchism

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Shalom friends, Need to vent your anger at crimes being carried out across this country by fascists who are violating the constitution and terrorizing our friends and neighbors? SAME. Welcome to the Elder Millennials of Zion Ill-Wishing Hotline: ICE Edition. JUSTICE, JUSTICE SHALL YOU PURSUE

In trump 2 being banned from Posting is worse than having all your insignia stripped off in front of everyone before youre hung