John Kenneth Galbraith on conservatism. funny dude wist.info/galbraith-jo...

let's be fair to Larry Summers: there may be other reasons why he hasn't been called upon as a pundit so much of late

I gave an interview recently about the importance of making nightlife more affordable for young people, and some of the feedback was, what a woke interview. And I think: so much of the current moment is just indulging people who don't want anyone else to have nice things.

I will reiterate the point made by @jamellebouie.net : if you really wanted online political influence, you’d be making vertical video. you’d be learning how to do little booty dances while talking about political theory. you’d be mastering doing BTS fan-cams while talking about anti-capitalism

"Is Green Eggs and Ham Rape Culture" - the greatest thread in the history of bluesky, locked by the OP after 12,239 replies of heated debate

hmm. yeah changing that one back was a good call

‘can i afford the tax? yes. is it going to deter me? no.’ cool well no further questions, thanks for answering the only relevant ones

While the regime tries to suppress the vote everywhere else, Hawaii just passed automatic voter registration AND completely banned corporate donations in state elections. A massive win! Hit❤️ to thank Hawaii for leading the way, and read how they pulled it off: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

Income tax brackets in 1980

China is winning its language war in Tibet. thediplomat.com/2025/03/chin...

It will always be my mission any time a Roy Lichtenstein theft appears in my feed to remind the world others did it first and better — in this case Russ Heath, artist for the story "Aces Wild," written by Hank Chapman, and published in All-American Men of War #89 (Jan-Feb 1962).

Happy Mother's Day

White House rolls out an obvious distraction and here’s the most powerful Democrat in the country clapping like a seal

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

TPM covers these stories!

in this household we support only one Odyssey adaptation

"A common way out is of course a retreat into vaguery, slogans, ambiguity, and a general refusal to be pinned down on policy—as for instance in 'Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor,' which is forty pages long and never gets beyond metaphors." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...

Epidemiologists Confirm First Airborne Transmission Of Mar-A-Lago Face

"I voted for strength. The Emperor projects strength. That’s important. But I didn’t think strength meant a planet-killing battle station this close to my planet. I assumed deployments like this were for Outer Rim situations. You know, for lesser things, like Jawas."

a vanilla soy latte is a variety of three bean soup

like "oh no! a big monster that runs real fast! and has claws!!" guys i have got news for you about all the big monsters that run real fast with big claws: we wiped those suckers out with spears twenty thousand years ago

the basic problem with like 90% of science fiction combat these days is authors radically understating how lethal modern militaries are

Congratulations to the person at @vulture.com who got to write this headline

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Yeah I mean I think one of the core issues with bluesky is how it's full of subcultures who believe that, since they're vulnerable, they have an unlimited license to be as violent, abusive, and obsessive as they want. Their own (very real!) vulnerability becomes a permission structure for abuse

The New York Times did this

I’ve been seeing a lot of negative commentary on Michael Jackson lately so I went and watched a movie about him to find out what the deal was. But as far as I can tell from it he never did anything wrong, so I’m not sure what people are complaining about!

Happy April 28 to all who celebrate!

Engineering at the edge of possibility. JPL has nursed Voyager 1 (16 billion miles) and Voyager 2 (13 billion) for almost 49 years, getting science data daily, while power and systems degrade. Original nuclear batteries. How are your fifty year old electronics doing? www.cnn.com/2026/04/27/s...

What I dont get is why in this period anyone would put any money on these markets WITHOUT having inside info! You're literally gambling against people who can pick their own hand.

I wanna play this so bad. LMAO "Players will embody a disgruntled Karen who's been denied service to her satisfaction, leaving rage to be the only acceptable response. Wreak havoc across the local mall, speak to managers, and destroy everything in sight with physics-driven attacks."

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

During WWII, the US understood the twin powers of morale and propaganda from portraying themselves as obscenely well-equipped. This is why they had ice cream barges in the Pacific, stocked so richly that they appeared to have unlimited supplies.

Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 16, 2026 ~ a hard wind "... we now need a 'Category 6' rating for hurricanes with winds of 193 mph (311 km/h) or greater, because global warming is expected to cause significant increases in maximum potential intensity." yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/glob...

Voting for these goons is like hiring a mechanic who thinks you should be riding a horse.

It's true.

My UMN colleague Rob Warren just published a groundbreaking paper in @pnas.org. Flouride in drinking water during childhood has no effect on cognition and brain function in later life. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

From @kimlanelaw.bsky.social “lots of lessons here for the US - in particular that Magyar went to Orban strongholds for years and persuaded Orban supporters in person that their lives could be better. He knew he had the cities -- and he needed the villages to win this sort of victory.

I have a long-running Claude session just for talking about Iran war news/economic shocks from the blockade. I shared the latest Trump tweet and it told me that it can no longer keep role-playing this fictional scenario because it's becoming concerning and detached from reality. Love this timeline.

Oh "one yearns," does one? File Sohrab's latest under "Too Late, Dipshit" with a copy to the "We Told You So" folder.

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

I love ALIEN’s vision of the future. Yes, everyone is still working shit jobs for shit corporations for shit pay. But the good news is they’ve successfully made robots full of milk that are bitchy little fruits