This article is so good. Coates is always worth a read.

"those without legs will also be at a significant disadvantage in the metaverse"

Between this, the WSJ, and the lack of understanding of internet meme culture, the level of damage done through irresponsible reporting is incalculable. You have a bunch of young men being radicalised through a toxic sludge of online brain rot, and these people have zero idea how to report on it.

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family? It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

the pundits trying to figure out the brainrot on the shell casings right now: "what is a furry sex meme"

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media

whenever I ask the question "why is this thing in the US so shitty? how did it become this shitty?" and I do a little research, it's honestly wild how often the answer is "because Reagan"

"He just couldn’t keep out of the classroom" JESUS CHRIST

ChatGPT and Meta next 😘

This article is soooo fucked up. I feel terrible for Cindy Bi's daughter from another surrogate, because she's going to grow up with a mother with boundary issues and when she escapes at the age of 18, she's going to need a shit ton of therapy.

Look. I know we were HOPING for it. But I'm just saying we can use this opportunity to make his life so much more miserable first.

If he's not dead or too ill to scroll, I hope he's seeing all the messages celebrating the IDEA of him being dead. The man already thinks he might be going to hell, so it's even more delightful if he passes after witnessing such wide, international "I'd piss on his grave" loathing.

I have to imagine that for Otis, finding a box that she fits into so precisely must feel the same way it feels for us to find the perfect pair of jeans.

Me five minutes ago: I'm not going to read the Prince Andrew biography, so I'll just read this article about it Me after reading these two paragraphs: LMAO GOOD GOD

I've been thinking about how the GOP put all their eggs in the basket of an unhealthy, senile septuagenarian. Trump's sucked the oxygen out of the room for 10 yrs. He has no successor. Anyone who comes close (Vance, DeSantis) are devoid of charisma and widely fucking loathed among their own party.

This isn't the first time I've heard this, and at this point, I'm a bit like...... the fuck are they even paying that massive tuition bill for?

I'm dying to know who told him he's going to Hell so effectively that it managed to penetrate his ego enough to speak like this.

What gets me is that Biden WAS this candidate. He was the middle of the road establishment candidate, and people "got the fuck over it" and voted for him. And because he was that sort of politician, it led to zero reform, hemming and hawing over punishing Trump, and people are now paying for it.

If anyone's written a long-form piece on the bizarre tendency people have of infantilizing conservative women, I'd love to read it, because I do not understand this shit.

Holy shit, I am old enough to remember when people were brushing me off saying Roe was "settled law", so you are not going to come out here right the fuck now and tell people they're overreacting. We are NOT doing this again. Jesus fucking christ.

fucking LEGEND

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

lol he's out here tweeting like Meghan McCain

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

FUCK HIM UP, GIRL

Being scolded for not using my platform to promote more positive messaging is funny because I'm literally just a girl. I'm not anybody's mom or representative or therapist. I owe positivity to exactly four individuals: my husband and three needy cats. Not Random Dude In My Mentions on Bluesky.

I'm going to hold everyone's hands when I say this. Citizen's United injected so much rich people money into politics that it has completely fucked American elections and everything we see has a direct line back to that decision. You cannot have an effective labour movement until it's overturned.

Sexual freedom and expression has been a core tenet of progressive spaces since forever. If men want to have this conversation with other men, go with my blessing. But women deal enough with male grievances and violent misogyny, while watching their rights dwindle. Call your own boys in.

If she'd won, Trump as a political figure would have been finished, and the Republicans would be scrambling to find literally anyone to replace a man who's sucked the oxygen from every fucking room for a decade. I will never forgive people for putting him back in power.

I don't know why people in the quotes are doubting this. CNN literally did a write-up 3 months before the election that mentions Geoff Garin advised the campaign to lay off the "weird" talk, and they (stupidly) listened.

It should be illegal to be this adorable

Oh, I've HAD it. These are the same people who kept saying "it's not a genocide, don't call it a genocide" and now that they're confronted with videos and pictures of starving babies, their main concern is "stop making me feel bad that I didn't care when the bombs were dropping." Jesus CHRIST.

I'm so glad S2 of Shiny Happy People is about Teen Mania, because ANY TIME I've tried to tell people about the impact it had on evangelical Gen-X/Millennials and that some have gone on to become politicians and lawyers and judicial clerks currently shaping the political landscape, I felt like this:

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU TAKE JOSH HAWLEY'S ADVICE

My stomach actually hurts from laughing

I'm old enough to remember that the report said they considered charging Trump's campaign officials with crimes, but they were too stupid to conspire. They literally got off by innocent-by-reason-of-incompetence defence. And then they spent years gaslighting people into believing it never happened.

this man looks like a murder suspect in a Benoit Blanc mystery

we talk a lot about how bad these people are, but we really should talk more about how they're also absolute fucking weirdo freaks

applying for jobs again

ohhhhh it's BAD bad, huh

This is an excellent article to make time for today. I know I'm not the only one who has been frustrated with this obsession with optics and focus groups instead of, you know, fucking talking to voters. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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I think one reason his candidacy hits different is because of how many politicians seem to loathe their constituents and do everything they can to avoid ever interacting with them.

Yes, we should do this every time one of these assholes tries to exist in public. they should never know peace and quiet

"He is an academic who opposes affirmative action and writes often about I.Q. and race" is a fucking wild way of describing racist pseudoscience and eugenics.

Happy to see the news from NYC! I don't think the Dem establishment realizes how tired people are of these dusty old Republican-lite dudes they keep trotting out. No one gives a shit who Bill Clinton endorses, and the fact that they fell in lock-step behind a serial sex pest is honestly insulting.

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I will never forgive people for voting for that asshole when we could have just ignored him and let him shout into the wind like a senile old man until he died miserable and alone