It's frustrating these stories only get told about people who refuse to vote for leftists - whose feelings must be coddled and accommodated - while leftists are expected to be in a constant state of compromise, understanding it's our duty to vote for whatever shitty candidates the Dem party horks up

Any publicans/hospitality folk who follow me on here... Looking for examples of what you're doing to offset higher costs, including from business rates. Could be "good" things (new events, changing foods offering etc) or obviously bad, like cutting hours/staff. DM me!

For our members-only series Podcast Movie Movie Podcast, @jordanmorris.bsky.social and I watched “The Christmas Challenge,” a Christmas movie about a podcast. It was literally the worst film I have ever seen. I hope you will listen because otherwise the nightmare was all for naught.

An industrial corporation is shaped and to some extent organized by the logic of capital accumulation, but also by other principles. The useful forms of human cooperation that take place through the corporation should not be attributed (and were not by Marx) to a unitary system of "capitalism".

'You don't have to bake cake for gays, but you have to play "Cake" for Gaetz.'

Why on Earth would the basic duty of a "public" (???) artist be to perform for all people? I'd like the administration to point to even one other person in the history of this country making that claim. I don't care if it's a musician, a politician, whatever - I'm guessing there's not many!

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

Listen to our best long-form investigations, read out loud, on ProPublica Narrated. "Sick in a Hospital Town," produced with Theater Of War Productions, seeks to find out: Why are the people of Albany, GA, so sick in a town dominated by its sole hospital? 🎧 Start here: https://apple.co/3YfTuc3

if i had a chance to write a john madden screenplay, i'd make it a screenlife film of him selflessly programming the madden games all by himself as the ungrateful and ignorant public complains about their bugs and glitches

two things are true: in a remote setting, on a dark night, the deep sky is a truly profound experience that has influenced human philosophy, faith and religion for countless generations and that experience got absolutely rinsed by the first RCA 10 inch television

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

The replies/RTs on this are amazing. If you read the story, it's very obvious who else actually read it vs who's just getting mad at a headline (The headline is a tiny bit misleading but it got this story a TON of traction and is based on a framing by another writer, discussed early in the piece)

So, aside from this maybe not being a true statement in this particular case, is this not exactly how we would *hope* these things happen? Is it morally wrong to try to recruit workers in an open market, perhaps by offering higher wages or better conditions? Why is this being advanced as bad

In the new year, I resolve to redouble my blocking efforts on Bluesky. Now blocking accounts that: 1. Are pretending to be their pets, posting in the 1st person 2. Can't let a good joke stand, and must try to one-up it 3. Posts any political image memes that look like they'd fit in on Facebook

six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

NEW: Why enjoy Christmas Eve with your family when you can read a dry analytical article about Marxism and falsifiability? www.peoplesline.org/p/mailbag-is...

I think it's strange that people seem to have internalized the idea that "algorithms" put content in front of you because The Man wants it, while most social media algos are just determining what that person likes and will click on. "Recommended because you liked..." is not inherently pernicious

Andrew Tate looked cream crackered by round 4 of whatever that was. We should just make a new boxing division called "Media Personalities who could do with a slap"

Idk he seems to be really into certain “purity” tests bsky.app/profile/theb...

Wanted to share this with a link to Joel's video because I think it's so smart about something so many people get wrong Young boys don't like Andrew Tate because there's a vacuum of male role models or dating advice on the left. They like him because he's entertaining! youtu.be/jrkv85k8R0c?...

YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME. I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center. People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.

There's much to enjoy on this poster but I'm amazed that I still can't even see the name Dylan Sprouse without thinking "oh I remember him from Chicago Heroes" cc @limitlessjest.bsky.social

1. After the photo is taken, there's no particular proof that all those items made it into the sealed bag 2. Taking a picture of every to-go order arrayed on the countertop before bagging, then printing the image and bagging, would be a huge pain in the ass for workers and result in colder food

omg I had never read this bit by Megan McArdle before; I didn't especially respect her before, but any remaining respect I had for her in theory has been obliterated Like, even the shittiest service job in the world will tell you "do not attempt to protect company assets by confronting the shooter"

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I contributed to a gift guide with my friends at Put This On. IMO Jesse has the best suggestion: a Mexican movie poster. putthison.com/put-this-ons...

It is amazing to see people on Bluesky react to Larian's use of AI (to do things faster, not to replace ANY artists or writers or include ANY AI elements in the final game) in the same way that they reacted to the McDonald's ad that was 100% AI in every shot Like you just can't take them seriously

Shout out to the 1.1mn men who took paternity leave so far in 2025, up from 843k last year with one month to go in the year. Some good things are happening too! h/t @laurarosner.bsky.social

sir the rats released another tell-all about the sinking ship

Vance assumes that, by assimilating more into American "culture", immigrants would become LESS anti-Semitic? Has he met Americans?

Buy more storage? No. I will delete 10,000 unread Promotions emails instead.

episode 2 out tomorrow

picture used by Chesterfield FC to announce a Liam Mandeville goal assisted by Will Grigg in the match against Barnet FC

I thought I'd seen the worst of Bluesky, but I've seen several people talking about how it's low-key antisemitic to call the Bondi Beach hero a "hero" because he failed to save more people, and maybe he didn't even KNOW he was saving Jews so is he really a hero at all????

It's so funny that the Republicans spent the last decade constantly trying to repeal Obamacare and, apparently, it never once occurred to them that they should have an alternate healthcare policy plan on deck

im developing an app that just stabs you with a knife

Why is there a "but"? Our Lord is "sovereign", but also "just", which are somehow in such direct tension that it warrants a but? It's like these words don't have any meaning to her or her audience outside of being Christian Vibez

An interesting corollary to this: the Bennett sisters have very small dowries, such that if they attempted to live off them, unmarried, they'd each make ~roughly the amount that a coal miner would earn/year Which is still better off than the coal miners, since the miners have to actually mine, but

You're going to see lots of Jane Austen content this week, in the run-up to Austen's 250th birthday. But there's only place where you'll answer the hardest-hitting Austen questions, like whether or not Mr Collins really is a wrong'un: The Museum of English Rural Life

Do they realize how much this reads as "impeaching a President sounds like a lot of work, and frankly we don't feel like doing it"

Honestly it's kinda cool to think about the threadline from ancient Greek myth to political cartoon in 2025

Very funny how many people in these replies insist this is because the products don't work, but companies refuse to admit that and get a new one Rather than that the tech is evolving fast, and different models evolve better for different use cases

Every time I wonder how there are so many otherwise normal Republicans happy to be made fools of by this administration, one of them does something like this and it's clear that they deserve what they've brought on themselves

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Comrade Carpenter has no room in the brigade for coward blondes

It's very funny to see people pretending like Christmas is *not* a stressful time where people take on too much and do dangerous things to hang lights or drive home in time for Xmas Eve Dinner, just so they can be mad at McDonald's

I think this is a funny ad that was very clearly created with a lot of human creative and technical input (this was not created wholesale by an AI; AI was used to generate the shots). The fact that the replies are not only AI hate, but people just complaining about the content of the ad, is telling