Strange, the bully is kicking my ass even though I've been telling everyone how much I respect him. Maybe he hasn't heard

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

Nice post you got there, it'd be a shame if I deliberately missed your point so I could be tedious about it

Everyone could use a reminder that the idea behind our system of government is that we cede some of our power to it in exchange for it working on our behalf. When it stops doing that it becomes illegitimate and must be changed. The idea that the people can "betray" a government organ is perverse

One thing about the "It's legal for the president to commit crimes" Supreme Court ruling is it's also functionally legal for everyone the president employs to commit crimes. In my opinion that's Not Good

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

You gotta admire how dedicated to corruption these guys are. It's the weekend and they're still hard at work churning out impeachable scandals

Checking the "No food poisoning" box on DoorDash but it raises my price by $2 so I frown and uncheck it

Used to be you could get canceled for all kinds of things, it was too complicated. Now things are nice and simple: you can only get canceled for being nasty to our big beautiful president

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Important point I think. We're being governed by amoral nihilists with no virtue and no principles. Cartoon villains are running the show. Paid pundits can find a comfortable niche in that world, that's what they do. A citizen's job is different

I've decided I'm just not doing jobs anymore. If I ever get laid off I'm just going to get a young person haircut and become a youtube microphone jockey

may I speak with the primary poster in your household?

His brand of it is particularly garish but all authoritarianism is basically government by spoiled child. No capacity for or interest in any principles. People who are nice to me get treats, people who are mean to me get abuse. I get what I want or I cry and thrash. Embarrassing

We're the only ones into free speech so unfortunately Bluesky is the intellectual dark web now

As someone who'd like to see liberal democracy triumph over fascism it's troubling to me that there seem to be so few forceful, persuasive advocates for it. I see more insightful and sharp rhetoric from random people on this app than from political leaders

Telling the bully that I'm volunteering to preemptively kick my own ass in the hopes we can come to a mutually beneficial understanding

I love to download a software update and spend the rest of the day researching how to undo all the bullshit they changed for no reason

Cooking tip: if your sauce is too watery throw a paper towel in there. If that doesn't help throw in another one

If you think the president is a tyrant and you're running for office to oppose him the only platform you can have is "Give us enough votes to impeach and remove this menace." Otherwise what's the point of electing you?

My wife & I tried role play but we kept fighting over who would be Mr. Bean

These damn cats yell at me even though there's food in the bowl until I walk them there personally like a waiter. Anything else sir. Would you like to hear today's specials

Me: Can I have one of those blue milkshakes that symbolizes Grimace’s blood? McDonalds Cashier: (offended) We believe every beverage symbolizes Grimace’s blood

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

The idea that there is a "Left" in American politics is an absurd right wing fantasy, which of course is politically useful to them, but unfortunately it's also useful to centrist media figures who need it to be true for their somber above-it-all commentary to make sense

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

The power is out on our street and everyone is outside talking to each other. They should do this once a week

Time to turn the tables. If you're a corporation who does business with me you are now subscribed to my email updates. Every morning you will hear my most horrible thoughts

Oh I'll definitely be using this

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

(scrolling through job postings for 20 minutes) Maybe this doesn't matter. Maybe nothing matters at all. Maybe the industrial revolution was a mistake

Mouse was spotted in our home last night and guess who was NO HELP

It's not possible for my empire to have problems. My courtiers are always nervously smiling and telling me everything is great

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

(seeing posts about that British guy with the giant head and suddenly getting serious) Please stick to criticizing his ideas and not how big his giant noggin is :/

All of this was basically said during COVID but what they're asserting is the right to kill other people, not just themselves. They want the freedom to get sick AND the freedom to participate in society without limitations, where they can make other people sick. If you don't like it *you* get out

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

Everyone has a second full time job being mad at the government now

Like the old quote goes, anyone who would give up their liberty in exchange for security will live happily ever after, both free and safe

Every poster has a weird guy constantly whispering in his ear "Remember, Bluesky is dying"

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

Millennials are middle aged now but not me. I stayed young somehow

Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss

Chatbots killing their users suggests that big tech has transitioned from simple parasite to parasitoid, indicating that keeping the host alive is no longer essential for their evolutionary strategy