Everything about this headline is hilarious. And the YouTube views are a reflection of how wildly the right has overblown the number of people paying attention.

In the modern day, the person closest to going through what Spinoza went through isn't a comedian who couldn't get specials for 2 years for raping someone, it's Mahmoud Khalil

Every municipality needs to understand that data center jobs do not exist. There are no people in data centers. When people need to go to data centers they usually come from some big tech company HQ, or from some contractor hired to shove servers into racks. They are built by nonlocal specialists.

I would never think to say that a migraine makes me actively dumb, yet here I am confused about where I parked the car yesterday when I didn't go anywhere but to sleep

Mostly the radio (he was much more up to date on pop music than I am) but I have the most vivid memory of this cassette youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Which is one more thing I love about The Lord of the Rings. - The Ring *cannot* be turned towards good, and even wanting to can corrupt you - Evil is actually derivative and dumb, no matter what cool posturing it might do - It's the little, every day acts of good that are most important - Etc...

Get you a man who gets up betimes to hasten to get things ready for your coming.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

The Flyers should stage a fake assassination of Gritty, and then have a huge star studded Gritty memorial service and then right at the climactic moment Gritty leaps out of the coffin, reborn and perfected, too important to take home to Heaven just yet when His Love is still needed here on Earth.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus uses histamine receptors as an additional means of cellular entry (and possibly the primary means: there are some VERY recent papers, like within the last few weeks, that suggest it may be the primary mechanism). bsky.app/profile/raha...

BUT you should still buy/read/distribute On Tyranny (by historian Timothy Snyder). Theres even a GORGEOUS graphic novel version. Other than this one lit crit oopsie (and a call-out to HP 🫠) it is a BANGER, and THE handbook for our times.

it's pointless anyway. journalism isn't dying because of online or because people don't care or whatever. it's dying because it doesn't serve the interests of capital. this is yet another thing that we've been conditioned to blame ourselves for doing through some sort of negligence but it's not

Just unbelievably evil and lawless.

that is one hell of a photo

i did your chart

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Did a spotted lanternfly design these shoes?

Great thread! Esp since I didn't have the appetite to go digging into why/how it blew up this weekend

It should be illegal that the migraine I get from Weather Approaching doesn't always go away once said weather arrives

a timely reminder that anyone in the US over 16 can join the league of women voters to help educate and empower voters and protect and expand voting rights www.lwv.org

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so "the common good" is actually a v powerful framework in social justice/social gospel Catholicism, which in its inception meant things like "what if everybody had enough to eat and a place to live, no matter what religion they are" it's not the idea's fault that Douhat is a theocratic asshat

let me live my life with the boundless joy and delight of the baby on this bus, who is tapping any nearby surface and managing an approximation of “knock knock”, and let me live it also with the tender and endless patience of her mother, who says “who’s there?” every time

ON TYRANNY has been a staple on Tiktok Shop recommendations (often with no discount) for about a year but I've never seen so many people actually posting about it there before

Your mom was right. Buster is a freak

FINALLY other people are waking up to this

Mom told us once she was afraid of Buster Brown shoes as a kid because of the pictures of Buster Brown in the shoes and I always thought it was so funny bc what but today she produced a picture of Buster Brown that predates her by a bit WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS

they’re just afraid of him. People with the power to do something about the clearly declining man inventing stories are afraid of him and they are afraid of his supporters. Every “let’s get you to bed, grandpa” moment is being repackaged by the media as competent leadership. It’s infuriating.

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Good news to wake up to this morning.

It really is like Nixon live blogging Watergate and the journalism establishment saying eh, what can you do

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

Wait, who calculated the Rapture date this time? Because I haven't seen any countdown billboards when driving I-75 through Georgia, which is of course the long-established standard for communicating advance notice of the Rapture.

I’m sorry are they saying that the US government will have control over a social media site including the black box algorithm that determines what content people see? And it’s in the hands of a man so thin-skinned he celebrated the removal of late night comedy hosts?

I would actually insist on a working Barbasol shaving cream can with a false bottom

It almost does not matter the context at this point. Every day 5 impeachable, serious offenses against the law & country.

*taps the sign*

hey, there's a thread linked below about why this shutdown matters for trans people specifically & why senate democrats need to hear that, yes, a shutdown is worth it & people only don't hate you when you actually fight for something. read @ericmgarcia.bsky.social; read the thread. make some calls.

I’ve been working on this for a while. (I tried to find Bobbie more than a decade ago and failed.) Please do give it a read.

It’s the same “culture war” they’ve been waging since Reconstruction.

Before WWII, Germany was the center of the scientific world. Germany had more Nobel laureates than any other nation. German was one of the required languages for scientific discourse. Brain drain is real and a natural consequence of fascist, autocratic rule.

15 years ago you could trust that off-brand products would be almost as good as brand names because retailers had buyers who stocked good stuff. This is no longer the case. Thanks to the internet’s disintermediation of retail, you have to buy the brand name or take a real risk of getting garbage.

I just think that it’s bad if bipartisanship means adjusting your own noose so as not to appear uncooperative in the eyes of your executioner.

Another artist told me once to go see the full-size Muchas because you can see all the errors. I did and damned if she wasn’t right. It was a weird relief.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

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