"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

there's a lot of specific overwhelming and massive crises happening at once and every single one has at its root elites who did crimes and never suffered consequences for it.

Every last one of these motherfuckers needs to die in prison.

The Pedo Wars were a series of armed conflicts fought by the United States in the early 21st century as a means to distract from the fact that their president was a pedo.

Guess Trump decided he wasn't unpopular enough yet. There probably will be peace marches this weekend. It's not much, but there's very little any of us can do outside of mass action geared to building an unstoppable wave in November.

"it is stunningly unlikely to achieve its objectives; it will undermine the U.S. position in the Middle East and elsewhere; it will be unpopular at home [and] runs the risk of catastrophe for limited upsides at a certain cost in Iranian, Israeli, American, and possibly Arab lives."

The State of America is: the President and Secretary of Homeland Security are building concentration camps, Democrats are fighting back but also kinda saying they’ll pay for the camps if they have good security cameras and are LEED certified, and the normiest local communities are saying fuck no.

Spotted on Facebook: I love a lot of things about the Brits. Like when they say "urm" instead of "um." Or "cuppa?" instead of "would you like a cup of tea?" Or how they "arrest pedophiles" regardless of social status instead of "making them president." All really cute stuff.

Five women authors I've read at least 5 books by. Beverly Clearly Anne McCaffrey Diane Duane Diane Carey Gillian Bradshaw

Is this even satire?

THAT'S MY STATE

This is what kills me about the AI zealots: okay, you got to 95% accuracy. Those are impressive numbers for a college exam. Those are "things go boom" numbers in chemical manufacturing.

This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.

Conservatives aren't even remotely "originalists" when it comes to interpreting America's founding documents. Progressives are.

Did they outsource the editing to AI as well? Did any actual people even LOOK at the ad before it went out?

Fundamental category error: there's no reason to forgive information dispensers for dispensing incorrect information, any more than I'd "forgive" a ticket machine dispensing the wrong ticket & charging me a million quid. We forgive humans on an ethical and emotional basis, not informational.

sucking at something is the price of admission for being good at something eventually

This is creepy invasive technology rife with potential for abuse – but honestly, as the guy who tends to forget names instantly *and* has difficulty recognizing faces, my first reaction was "this could be very useful in social situations."

This is a safe place! Post a #Superman

Happy Valentine's Day!

i often think about this review

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

Gotta go, my ride's here

No clue. I checked Wikipedia for my school, and the "Notable alumni" were people I'd never heard of, other than a couple of politicians whose names I recognized from brief prominence in state politics decades ago. I'm sure someone is the "most famous" on that list, but I have no idea who.

I watched the whole thing because it's astonishing

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Remember if you watch this show or buy this merch, no trans person will like or trust you ever again. Sorry but those are the rules.

My take on Trump ordering the removal of the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument in NYC is that he's a pedophile and rapist who is actively covering up his role in a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children and doing everything he can to distract from that cover-up.

Age verification? My elementary school newsletter was mimeographed.

"If we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files, the whole system collapses!" Pam Bondi Good. If prosecuting predators who target children collapses the system, the system deserves to collapse.

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

I'm in the "Progressive American Professionals" cluster, which is reasonably accurate.

Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way

"I will pledge myself to destroying the Epstein class. There will be no rocks for them to scurry under" is such a winning campaign slogan.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Transphobia as political strategy is a bust.

"We don't need one perfect strategy. We need dozens of imperfect ones running at the same time."

I deeply enjoy that National republicans started a conflict they cannot win

Using a jet pack while wearing a tuxedo (but no helmet) after several martinis.

Being chased by two bald men (who you mistook for a smashing pair of bristols), a bobby and a vicar on a tandem, a nun who you accidentally revealed to be wearing a corset with thong and stockings, some NHS nurses and a fat man... all while a saxophone plays a merry solo.

Life with autoimmune disease induced brain fog. Complete essay at link. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I absolutely burst out laughing

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Nobody made the GOP do this. The GOP fully, deliberately abused power in ways that turned the US against them. With their eyes wide open. Nobody needs to take their scolding & shouting seriously ever again.

Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)

Tesla’s Wile E. Coyote Moment Is Here But how long can Elon Musk keep running on air? Potentially quite a long time. buff.ly/b9ms1i6