increasingly forced to conclude that the united states is simply not a civilized nation

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap. (Bonus points if the fake band includes real musicians.)

like why are we pampering these dipshits we don't need ai we don't need to kill the world

this needs to be talked about more

If you’re a writer, write “I waited” without saying it. I watched the road and smoked three cigarettes as slowly as possible. I counted ten red cars, two dog-walkers, and three lifted pickup trucks going too fast, as they always do. Then I lost patience.

just fyi, this sort of development would make a significant impact on the drought conditions in the American southwest. It would not magically solve the problem (and insanity) of western water rights management and farmers using 100 year outdated irrigation techniques, but it would be significant.

*A new form of AI-skepticism is emerging which reads like: "This is very much like this huge, historical-analogy software/hardware mess that I once knew very well because I lived through it myself. Only it's much bigger and the people running it are nuts"

me at 25: I can fix her me now: she can stay in that ditch, idgaf

He said the thing! 'Immanentize the eschaton', as in, "DON'T..." from RAW'S 'Illuminatus.'

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

When The Man Comes Around: "It means blood. It means whole regions of this country deciding that the social contract is a piece of paper the other side already burned, and they’re under no obligation to honor a corpse."

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

W.T.F. Is Bluesky turning into Bluenose? @moderation.bsky.app please explain yourselves.

this. nobody is free until we are all free nobody can be assured of their human rights being respected until everybody’s human rights are upheld

Slightly increase a band. Sturdy Puppy Meat Beat Directive Cabarets Voltaire

Boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers which are in any way connected with the quisling authorities.

This is ICE. Complete immoral rot. There isn’t going to be some deus ex machina that neatly subdues them. There needs to be a Nazi manhunt that makes Jan 6 prosecutions look like small claims court, and which terminate in town squares.

Yub Nub motherfuckers

Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

@warren.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov I am delighted by your CLEAN Mergers bill, but please do not stop there. If you take your oaths seriously, there is still much more to do, like Bouie's point here. As Doctorow is saying, please give everyone hungry for justice reasons to vote for you.

The whole survivalist thing is just absolutely drooling for some day when they imagine the stock market crashing and government just ceases to exist so it's up to them to bring order and control this is why they hate America so much it's existence stands in the way of them becoming Immortan Joes.

To my beloved local golden-fronted woodpecker: I know that the sharp metallic cacophany from my fireplace flue, like a sudden, unexpected roll off a snare drum in mid-morning, is you, showing off your tough little beak to all the lady woodpeckers. I never see you, but I hear you. And I love you.

In a way I understand why the media is reluctant to call Trump what he is, because if you did, there's really only one solution American culture has ever proposed for that kind of person.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli.

Basically, the thing to understand why there are so many Tradcath converts in educated conservative circles is that there is intense demand there for a form of right-wing Christianity less embarrassing and low status than fundamentalist Evangelicalism.

Brendan Carr needs to go to jail. The FCC must be gutted and replaced with people who actually believe in free speech. No one who worked there under this admin should be allowed to darken the doors of a media-related entity ever again.

I was waiting for the generative-model voice to ask if anyone smelled burning hair.

Yeah man, you destroyed the institutions the normie institutionalists were assured would hold. You killed the reason they believed in a civil society governed by shared norms. Now you got teachers and office assistants talking about piling the streets with bodies. Good luck.

the apple’s on fire, and there’s no worm at the wheel

Were they tipped off by the fact that trans athletes weren't a problem for all of human history until conservatives started purchasing every major media institution in 2013 or so

Jenny Holzer, Marquees, Times Square, 1993

Jesus Humperdoo Christ. IYKYK.

The amount of shit i tht we had gotten past specifically in America that I have to fight all over again has me incandescent with rage This is supposed to be my boat in a bottle time but I guess I gotta lace up the fuck u boots and start kicking

Here we go

why are we printing lies in the newspaper?

Does Wiseman say "Team?" at the end like a Millenial saying, "Chat...?"

Very good. We need the curtain pulled back on these guys by people insightful, independent and incisive enough to cut them and their bullshit down to size. Not surprised a screenwriter fits the bill - really nice job by Noah Hawley. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

QT needs to reply-guy this and make everybody give credit to Sonny Chiba. youtu.be/8LYT4JC2dd4?...

If Bluesky's got a hangover or whatever the least they can do is wheel in the TV cart and put on an episode of NOVA for us or something.

This is how I talk to domestic animals, also.

They're so stupid, they don't know they can just pretend to not be the target of Leo's messaging. So their response of resentment says, "I resemble that remark!"