“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

First M’s home playoff game pregame festivities: 1) the Sonics play a scorching Hendrix-style national anthem 2) they follow up with “The Witch” 3) Etsy witch throws out first pitch youtu.be/KCLEzIdxPZY

An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)

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Can’t believe we got this before robot umps www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Notes on a nonexistent crime wave publiccomment.blog/p/notes-on-a...

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

Didn't hear a single freaking gas powered leaf blower while I was in Europe, either

Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.

Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.

Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.

Me and the family when the delivery drone arrives

it took me awhile to realize this but when I ask my 10yo semi verbal autistic daughter how her day was she'll sometimes do the David Byrne "same as it ever was" gesture from the Once in a Lifetime video to let me know nothing important happened and I fucking love that

Have you ever bought a record twice by accident (“this is cool, I should get this” followed by “wait a minute I already own this”)? I got too excited and pre-ordered two copies of @coryhanson.bsky.social’s new album “I Love People.” Gifted one to a friend and we both love it!

It's a weird day for those of us who were only allowed to watch PBS as kids.

Pick up a skateboard or a guitar who cares

Trump's executive order banning "woke AI" is a blatant exercise in top-down ideological bias. Tech companies should be fighting back. Instead, they're celebrating the Trump admin's "big fat green light for the industry." From @stevenlevy.bsky.social in Backchannel, his revamped weekly newsletter.

Trump says he's "getting rid of woke" in AI although maybe a higher priority should be getting rid of MechaHitler, just a thought. from @knibbs.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/presid...

“The American people do not want woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models.” It’s incredible that policy is being enacted by culture warriors with literally zero knowledge of how anything works.

A super pleasant experience tbh, production values be damned

I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

Yeah

You have got to be kidding me, got an alumni email with this as the main story. Unbelievable.

Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful."

Cannot believe that we're still doing "vaccine skeptic." Exactly like saying "gravity skeptic."

this is only adjacent to the topic but I really hate the "this person will kick cancer's ass" style of discussion about illness. cancer is a tsunami. you might get lucky and survive it but you don't fight it. you get lucky enough to catch it early, and to have a cancer that we can treat, or not

Nick Lowe’s 1974 song (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding youtu.be/Ssd3U_zicAI?...

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

In spite of the fact that a significant portion of the youth population remains ineligible for service due to health, education, or legal issues, the Secretary of Defense wants to kick out loyal patriots already serving their country with distinction. Idiotic.

The average American has three friends

it really is that simple

I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.

Literally how dumb is the president?

Free speech zealots always turn out to be the opposite specifically because they have thin skin. The principle itself is meaningless to them

The runner up trophy they just gave Alcaraz at the Barcelona Open is so comically small it looks like it came from a gift shop, ridiculous

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

The longitudinal study about the poor kids born to these pronatalist freaks will be sad. "The Collinses also employ corporal punishment in disciplining their children, which is based on Simone's personal observation of lions and tigers during a safari trip." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_...

The whole fucking point of "due process" is that everyone gets it. Everyone. All people. Timothy McVeigh and Mark David Chapman and Ken Lay and Harvey Weinstein and also guys who stole candy bars from 7-11 and ran stop signs. The worst monsters on earth and the most angelic sweeties. Everyone!

I realize my bsky feed isn’t representative of the zeitgeist, but it’s interesting how many posters qualify this with “unironically, this is good” as if there’s so little good happening that one needs to explicitly note the lack of tired irony. fwiw, I also unironically think this is good!

Now, then, forever

sorry in advance for airing out this pet peeve of mine at such preposterous length defector.com/neither-elon...

Mind boggling and illegal obstinacy. Literally just get the guy, put him on a plane to the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh apnews.com/article/mahm...

Becoming a challenge to choose stock photography conveying novel expressions of shock and dismay daily on the faces of stock traders.

Do these guys do the Mr. Burns “excellent” thing with their fingers on purpose?