It is AMAZING how many “anti-capitalists” refuse to engage with the inevitability that some people cannot work or work as much. All of a sudden it’s “nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty” instead of “nobody should be living in poverty.”

not now, concrete dome holding 120,000 tonnes of contaminated soil and debris from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests

Congratulations Donald Trump, oceans are now battlefields

Sorry to get political again on the silly Nintendo fangirl account but hey gang: when do we start really worrying about this shit. Are we there yet? Feels like we are there.

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

extremely excited to see what happens to palantir under woke 2

sorry basically the problem of my life is that i internalized and believed a lot of stuff people said about valuing children and loving your neighbor and living in a society at the exact moment that everyone in power decided all of that shit was fake and gay and not a way to make a living

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

Seems like this happens eventually to everybody who debases themselves before Donald Trump thinking it will be a ticket to wealth and power. He demands supplication but doesn't respect anyone who does it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/w...

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

This is the state of municipal services in America in microcosm. People not getting the help they need and dying because all the resources are hogged up by the police to deal with problems they themselves caused.

If your Oil & Gas Megacorp isn't already aggressively pursuing this then you're already falling behind.

A THAAD missile costs about $15M and has a 4 to 6 year manufacturing timeline from order to delivery. Lockheed currently produces ~100 a year. An advanced attack drone costs maybe $30k max and can be assembled in weeks. Iran has spent years stockpiling them. This was never a sustainable strategy.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

When Mark Zuckerberg says “we want to bring masculine energy back to the boardroom” and then their first major product launch is creep pervert glasses for surreptitiously filming women without their consent, it’s because he thinks masculinity is synonymous with being a sex pest and a predator.

meanwhile the actual stealing:

If we're being honest, the aesthetic route to radical politics is super common, especially people who radicalize young. That doesn't make this political aesthetic value neutral. Whether you get a "frisson of transgression" from communism or race science says something deep about your character.

it's so cool how in the us the closest you can get to affordable healthcare is employer insurance but also your employment is at-will and your employer can just fire you whenever they want and without telling you why and completely ruin your entire life

tough look for a man with a line of antiperspirant deodorant

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

The Democratic Party is directly enabling the war by praising the assassination of Iranian leaders, refusing to condemn the aggression, and approving massive military funding.

calling every minor inconvenience a distraction from the epstein files

Operation Epic Fury [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass. It's not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

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Happy Mario day!

He's counting to five, you guys.

Christ. Mining the Strait of Hormuz is like the single most predictable thing Iran would do in the event of a war. I can understand being surprised by the degree to which they were willing to attack US interests indiscriminately in ostensibly neutral countries. Sure. But this?

This is what most fascinates me about fully internet-churn-colonized kids who live in a cultural blank - they're not automatons, but operatically miserable psychotics who lack any and all psychological insight - they're not just mind-blind to others, but to themselves, which is what makes them prey

People say they watch Love is Blind because of the extreme novelty of people getting married sight unseen but really they watch it because it's the reality show with the least qualms about casting obvious sociopaths.

AI providing incredible new video game experiences like 'getting groomed by the guard in Skyrim who took an arrow to the knee."

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

The problem isn’t dating apps, it’s humanity. Collectively, we have evolved into garbage people. 🧵 We’ve become so conditioned for convenience and gratification that we would rather be love bombed by someone disingenuous than see what happens with someone who is open about their imperfections

So many of the best, kindest, smartest, most talented people I know want to die or don’t care if they live. What a disgraceful indictment of our present system that it has no place for people of integrity or whose talents bring real joy, use and comfort to people rather than more wealth to the rich.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

"hey Claude, I thought you said this would be HIPAA compliant." "You're right. I said that. I made it up. I take responsibility. Blah blah" "Okay, so you're liable for damages now, right?" "Haha! This service is just for fun. You're still on the hook if you take me seriously."

So much media is made about people who are, in an objective sense, extremely wealthy. Yet it's very uncommon for these stories to be ABOUT extreme wealth in the way that stories featuring poor people usually center their poverty. Wealth is treated as a normal, expected, and basically neutral fact.

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago

IT'S FINE, YOU CAN HAVE IT, I DON'T WANT IT. ONE LESS HOUR TO BE SAD ANYWAY.

international women’s day

We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.

Hitting desalination plants shifts this from targeted warfare to something closer to intentional destabilization through genocide. These countries get something like 90 percent of their potable water through desalination and imports. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

This should be a much bigger talking point than it currently is. Foreign press is reporting U.S. casualties ranging from 500 to over 1000.

ME: 20 years ago we had No Child Left Behind. Now we have None Pizza Left Beef. Is this anything MY FRIEND WHO LIVES IN A BUNK BED IN A GARAGE WITH ME: None pizza left beef was also 20 years ago OWNER TEXTING US BOTH: Can you keep it down I'm recording ASMR

It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for. Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.