NEW: The IE supporting Mayor Bruce Harrell just hit $1 million, obliterating Wilson's sub $100k IE. Will the election go to the highest bidder or will Harrell's opposition generate enough outrage over the naked attempt to buy the election to backfire? www.theburnerseattle.com/post/the-ult...

US media outlets ignore shooter's pro-Trump imagery in favor of "snapped neighbor" narratives boingboing.net/2025/09/29/u...

Welp. The LinkedIn "gaming thought leader" crowd is already suggesting that the Saudi Arabia deal will allow EA to get back to its "creative culture" without the pressure of being public. My kingdom for a LinkedIn consultant who understands debt, global politics, or the basic tools of close reading

on destroying the internet

all you have to do is look at Mr. Beast's face to know that he is not operating like a human being I watched Big Joel's video about his game show a while back and it was really interesting to see just how not an artist he is and how he does not understand media or his own creations

the sinclair charlie kirk tribute has 71K views nine days after it was supposed to preempt jimmy kimmel by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

Buying a company by taking out a massive loan, then making the company you bought responsible for paying off that loan, is so patently evil that it should be beyond illegal. The kind of thing that inspires enlightened societies without corporal punishment to bring back the death penalty as a one-off

Rolling my eyes at the weirdos who think I'm literally calling for executions. Listen carefully, you might hear the mournful cries of some grass in desperate need of being touched

I do not hold business entities as sacrosanct and don't really care if Toys 'R Us/EA/etc. disappear, but investment capital always destroys valuable services and products while leaving scores of people jobless. It makes life worse for everyone except the predators strip-mining their "acquisitions"

The fact this pastor is gleefully fantasizing about running people down with his car...

I’m starting to think the folks who think LLMs are God may have a point. They’re certainly demanding blood sacrifices and tithes like one…

if you have democrat rep/senators i recommend calling and reminding them you will never vote for them again if they bend the knee on this. shutting down the government is the correct choice. that is the exact phrasing in my 3 calls and it took 5 min total bsky.app/profile/pink...

if they cave on this i won't vote for a democrat for dogcatcher and i'll do everything in my power to make sure everyone i know doesn't either

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

While this is not like Congress is passing a law banning trans people from accessing our healthcare, I would like people to take a moment to think about how many healthcare facilities around the country receive federal funding for *ANY* procedures they do. That would be threatened with this. Scary.

After Seattle Police Officer Jonathan Goodwin allegedly pushed his fiancée down the stairs, she filed for a protective order. Her petition to the court paints a dark picture of an emotionally unstable cop prone to outbursts of violent rage. www.divestspd.com/p/seattle-co...

New from 404 Media: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. I was sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. Opt-out means no housing www.404media.co/landlords-de...

Please shut it down and become the most unpopular administration in US history because all of you have a super weird obsession with trans people that you desperately require to keep from facing the disgusting horror of your pedophilia.

100% tariff on Tron Ares only.

All because she didn't acknowledge him.

there is no fear in America that informs policy so profoundly as the terror that we might accidentally afford someone human rights or dignity without first determining that they have earned those things; and, by extension, the idea that those things must be earned.

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Democrats, for 7 figures I will go door to door in the congressional office buildings, with "polls" and "charts," and tell you that all you really need to do is nothing

I feel naive just writing this, but a president threatening to withhold funding to a city unless it elects his preferred candidate for mayor seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't be legal.

Yeah, this bit. "Vicitms" of communism, by way of their dumb asses trying to invade Moscow in Winter.

Last time I heard about "victims of communism" it was that Canadian memorial thing and it turned out the "vicitms" were Nazis that had been killed by Soviets in World War II.

1. Wut? 2. How, exactly, do you suppose this is going to work?

“there’s no real difference between an acetaminophen scaremonger like RFK Jr. and an anti-trans obsessive like J.K. Rowling. Neither are doctors, both have been poisoned by a steady stream of online propaganda and disinformation” When science is thrown out the window, everyone suffers.

Maddie Block, the 28-year-old daughter of New Mexico State Senator Jay Block, speculated on TikTok about why her father and other state-level politicians took what she calls a “propaganda trip” to Israel ⤵️

Hi! I borrowed $300m from the worst people in the world to buy your favourite thing! Now your favourite thing owes me $300m and sadly it looks like it can’t pay me back so I’ve taken it out back and shot it. Anyways, just wanted to ask… what’s your *second* favourite thing?

CNET rushed to adopt "AI" and then found it cost them more time and money having human editors fix the plagiarism and falsehoods than were worth the cost savings

My sister is a comms specialist. The agency supports the use of ChatGPT for 'first drafts': by the time they get to her desk for approval, she spends more time now fixing mistakes than ever before. LLM AI is dead. It's just that nit enough people have noticed yet.

Truly, his politics are a mystery and we will never learn the secrets that motivated this lone wolf killer with absolutely no connections to anyone else, certainly not in politics. Now, who wants to talk about improving mental health? No, not by funding programs, silly. Just talk about it. Again.

keep it 💯

Deplorable. Forcing people who want to live and work in the UK to undertake compulsory unpaid labour. This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative. Join me in building a welcoming country. join.greenparty.org.uk

New: the world of Ruby has gone completely off the rails over the past few weeks. Developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

if Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein are your two favorite writers, I’m pretty sure you don’t actually understand at least one of them

Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:

we're really never getting Sims 5 🫠

*sigh* goodbye New Mass Effect, goodbye Battlefield, goodbye anything Titanfall

"Fear not! Our pointless machine will no longer make your children kill themselves. It will now call the cops to do it for them!"

US military policy should not be outsourced to the most sadistic human being in the country, who has never personally had to face voters or even a confirmation hearing

Charlie Chaplin’s final speech in “The Great Dictator” is full of immensely quotable phrases, but perhaps none that I love as much as his description of fascists as “machine men with machine minds and machine hearts”

Dead-eyed freak is gonna kill someone and never see the inside of the cell.

Saudi Arabia in partnership with fucking Jared Kushner has just bought Electronic Arts I guess. I guess that's where we are

In the same vein, a lot of former Telltale staff are now at AdHoc working with Critical Role (!) and their first game Dispatch looks incredible. There's still hope out there, in dribs and drabs.