“Correct me if I’m wrong” what kind of friend do you think I am. I will embrace you if you are wrong, I will support you if you are wrong. I will be wrong with you. We will be completely wrong, together

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Kentucky politics are so weird. The democratic line is “this war is bad bc trump is a hypocrite,” repubs range from “war is bad bc America first” to “war is good bc protect Israel” (see. McConnell’s comments in the next post), and Rand Paul and Mitch were the only ones to mention the Iranian people

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re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera

I know Democrats are allergic to learning from their mistakes, but we have very clear and obvious evidence (see: Louisville 2020) that sending in nat’l guard only escalates already tense situations. No one has been held accountable for the death of David McAtee and that was 6 years ago.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

it's really good that Oracle bought TikTok, a business that only loses money, at a time when it took on $56bn+ in debt and $240bn in lease obligations for GPUs to rent to OpenAI, a company that will run out of money. This could all have the funniest ending ever

Working on my Australian/New Zealand accents and I’ve come to realize that they only have three vowels: o, u, and eeh

My dad (who is usually very stoic during basketball games): YO REFS!!! LEARN HOW TO CALL A GAME!!!!!! Me: you get ‘em, dad Dad (grumpy): I will! Darnit

The mental gymnastics people will go through to convince themselves that remaining on that hellsite is somehow right/justified is remarkable and should be studied.

My one and only memory of BotH was catching someone breaking into our van, freaking out, calling 911, and when the operator asked for my location I said “San Francisco” 💀 I ran to the door of the venue and the bouncer saw my face, grabbed the bat leaning on the wall next to him, and took off

this is the future of digital conflict and it will work.

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

I have creative projects that I've been struggling to finish for *years* that I would rather fling into a fire than let a computer complete them for me.

Going home tomorrow, but I got a lot of great photos in Louisiana this past week. Here’s a selection:

The exception is Kentucky, whose soda (Ale-8-One) is the nectar of heaven

Unsolicited writing advice:

My kingdom for a buc-ees between Birmingham and Baton Rouge (or for other truck stops to start carrying oat milk 😭)

Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/

if you want to actually push left-wing policies and build power you need deliver change to voters. if you're purely concerned with messaging to a handful of brain damaged twitter leftists you will never actually improve people's lives.

Sometimes it feels like people outside of the commonwealth don’t really give a damn about us—which is fine I know yall got your own problems whatever I get it—but it also feels like local reporters care extra to make up for it, and that’s a nice feeling.

it has been a good long minute since I read America Magazine but JD Vance getting schooled in a Jesuit publication is the absolute sweetest plum www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...

FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy

Good thread. I recommend finding your way to anticap without worshipping any one dude’s politics. Nobody in the past has ever gotten it 100% right

For people outside Louisville: one of the reasons this plane crash feels extra intense is because the airport is pretty close to downtown—meaning that nearly half the city was completely covered in smoke and almost everyone received shelter in place alerts. It happened in our backyard.

getting an emergency alert issuing a shelter in place order due to an “incident at the airport” and then looking out the window and seeing nothing but smoke is a truly surreal apocalypse vibe

Riff Raff and Slint bassist Todd Brashear finally linked up

I will probably never financially recover from coming-of-age during the great recession, but it was also an era where you could waltz up to the bar at a shitty club and buy your friends twenty bottles of PBR for a dollar each and, ever so briefly, feel like the king of the world

If the Geico Gecko started talking to me at the library I’d hit it with a copy of War and Peace

Reposting this after retrieving my phone from across the room (where it landed when I threw it)

The Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza right up to the limits imposed by international pressure. Over the past two months, Israeli soldiers have murdered well over a thousand people trying to reach famine relief stations. Support mutual aid in Palestine. Resist Israeli colonialism.

This, and it doesn't work. Now, it is possible to address the harms of mass engagement-driven platforms. But doing so requires pushing back on the core biz models of the platforms, not tinkering on the edges w surveillant 'solutions' that increase surveillance w/o addressing the root cause.

Former LA reporter here, how much time ya got

a lotta yall still dont get it orb holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single nitro so if you have 1 orb and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new nitros

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I have this recurring dream where VIP tickets to the Taylor Swift show are only $70 and they come with access to an open bar where Trevor Noah serves Tay-themed drinks for free The little stories my brain tells me at night are downright delightful

The funniest running joke with right-wing commentators on Twitter is trashing Bluesky for not having the free-speech, anything-goes ethos of Twitter, while also deliberately misspelling “Bluesky” to avoid running afoul of Twitter’s owner.

I hate hate hate Apple products with a burning passion they make it impossible to use them unless you join their cult and use exclusively their products it is some evil ass monopoly shit

Omg I love him. What a king.

Bombing a seed bank

Some Louisville UPS workers from Teamsters Local 89 protested Friday, saying they've been forced to work overtime hours in the triple digit heat.

Quand nos vieux tomberont comme des mouches pendant les canicules, que nos enfants suffoqueront dans des classes de 40 par plus de 40°C, quand on vivra volets fermés de juin à octobre, au moins on pourra narguer les cieux pleins des fumées d'incendies de forêt: "Oui, mais nous sommes COMPÉTITIFS"

Watching my only sibling spend over $400 on a sundress at a bougie New Orleans boutique exactly one day after my card declined at smoothie king:

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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.