Me, normally: red-blooded republican Anglophobia is our proud heritage as Americans, 1776 forever, get out of here with your silly costumes and established church Me, Falklands discourse: ♫ GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS KING ♪♩

i'm sorry but your life is better and richer if you read this

Rejected Powerwasher Simulator DLC: Asmongold’s room

First time I experienced this; during the peak of the B.C. pine beetle epidemic in the mid '00s. Most of my vacations were taken out there. It hit me a good fraction as hard as losing a close relative. It's every other year or so now. Doesn't hit as hard anymore. Not sure what to do with that.

If Danielle Smith wants to weigh in on municipal bike lanes, maybe she'd be happier as a councillor than premier. I know Doug Ford would. Sheesh.

No. This isn't an accomplishment. If you haven't taken a sick day in 50 years, you've been some combo of: -incredibly lucky (never incapacitated or hospitalized) -incredibly reckless (jeopardizing your health when you should rest) -incredibly inconsiderate (you've absolutely gotten colleagues sick)

OK, politics is depressing and all, BUT Look at this little bunny with its bunny puzzle I mean, he hasn't got it yet, but he's on the right track

I mean, church and religious attendance has been on the decline since like, the '70s There's nothing mythical about that

*sigh* 'tis the season The West has been largely spared thus far, but I gotta assume that's not gonna last forever

Robert Pape was far too subtle, he should have titled his book "BOMBING TO WIN DOESN'T WORK YOU FUCKING IDIOT"

"But they wouldn't have collective interests?" Have...have you looked at the EU lately? The War in Ukraine is, at this point, nothing *but* Middle Power bandwagoning and they're handing Putin his shiny Russian ass.

part of the reason we see people taking a second look at Avi Lewis (which as a Dipper, i think is good) is the fact that a lot of Canadian voters, both on the right and left, were socialized in an era where the LPC were primarily in line with Trudeau Jr instead of a Blue Liberal PM

The US Naval blockade on Iran has officially started as of 4 PM ET

Taking a hard line against "Video games, even bad ones, are cultural history" is just truly baffling to me. Like, what social process or structure is so essential that it's worth being draconian about IP to protect, here? It's a rhetorical question, but I'm open to an answer.

Common sense governance

Make sure you're not leaving anything unsaid in your 300 character thoughts, folks. Run it past your editor first.

This kinda seems like the second most popular flavour anymore

Amusingly, this doesn't seem to have very much to do with Rath's separatist activism (though @3cityyimby.bsky.social correctly noted it's bizarre he practices aboriginal law while doing that). Just plain old fashioned grift.

Future historians listing July 13 as the date of resumption of hostilities against Iran will be cowards, just saying I expect, nay, DEMAND our future scholars to have a comprehensive and insufferable case for the 12th or 11th, at a minimum

we effectively cured AIDS and have a pancreatic cancer vaccine that just passed phase 1 trials

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can EVADE the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

I'm still adjusting to the fact that sentiments like these are not, in fact, crankery Will ought to be out to lunch saying shit like this, but instead he's just correct

Yeah, I think a lot of people are falling victim to this kind of thinking. I don't even think most actually believe this so much as some deep-seated part of their psyche desperately wants it to be true, and is doomed to be disappointed.

I feel like it's lost on a lot of these people that there's no mass movement to primary Cory Booker. Point of fact, he was acclaimed. There's some stuff about Booker's brand I could critique, if I was inclined, but I don't think anybody would dispute that he's quite good at it.

- McMaster interim appointment will serve until current term expires on Jan 3 - No special election - Graham will be replaced by a special primary as the GOP nominee for the regular 2026 election

it rocks that Lindsey Graham lived to see the US lose a war with Iran and then immediately died lmao

They're saying his last words were "Mitch McConnell still survives"

Lindsey Graham has passed away after a brief illness, his office told me tonight. The longtime senator and staunch Trump ally had just returned from Ukraine. Will have more in a story soon.

Leisure Suit Larry copy protection was ahead of its time

I fantasized about doing this the first time I was on a plane, as a kid I gather from the description it was less fun than I'd imagined

We need Broken Windows theory but just for white collar crime.

Look...

In one of Sam Altman's few lucid moments, he made a comment to the effect that an AI that realized the promises boosters make about it would essentially break capitalism Not that I think OpenAI is anywhere near doing that, but in the universe where they are; he's essentially correct

yeah there's something about the disintegration/discrediting of low/middle/high brow that's been particularly impactful in sports

I'm leaning towards believing the fact radical political thought lives in a space that can't really be shared with conventional social norms is more of a problem than not www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I wish people in SV would get out of their asses long enough to see that this guy doesn't have special insight and isn't anything special

IMO, Obsidian does their best work in double-A, to which New Vegas is a notable exception. It would be exciting to see them back on that franchise, but not under these circumstances. I understand why they took the XBox buyout, but in hindsight, I wish they hadn't.

Eat less beef, please Thanks

Something that's reinforcing my priors today is that people like Naomi Klein are willing to sincerely admit that they made an awful mistake, and apologize. I'll let people decide for themselves if that's enough, but at the least, it's not nothing. People like KenK, on the other hand, uh...aren't.

“Disintegrating shame” treats people as stigmatized, as beyond the moral community, incapable of sharing values or recognizing their own behavior. Integrating shame restores, disintegrating shame incentivizes shamelessness and hardening.

Silicon Valley is basically a bunch of Slaaneshis who think they're Tzeentchian

Well, we haven't degenerated to 1978 levels yet, but there's still time

If even Hasan is abandoning ship I'm pretty sure it's over.

He’s already taking about quitting. That means the allegations are credible.

While I'm morbidly curious to see the direction parasociality takes with genAI, I'm pretty sure Tilly Norwood isn't the correct vector to get people to sign on for it

Bolivia World Cup bid plz

IMO, this is sufficient cause to formally summon Hoekstra for a rebuke.