SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

It was and is really explicit: Do Computer As Assigned and don't worry your pretty little head about the product or the outcome. In return, you will get status and money beyond generational hope

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

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This explains a lot.

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

thank you for the feedback!! adding clarification on the pricing really helped, big if you want to make your DIY legally recognised

Our Discord support agent was kind of annoying, so I asked it to pretend to be a 58-year old systems administrator from Ohio that wrote on forums a lot. Turns out -- this makes your support bot extremely competent. The quality of its support responses are now far better.

Employees are being ordered or pressured to: Perform activities without pay Pack and move with minimal notice Discard valuable equipment and flight hardware they have dedicated years to Have their personal property handled by others while not present

All the independent journalists out there need to save this opinion. It gives you a road map on how to handle denied or ignored FOIA requests if you don’t have access to a legal department to do it for you.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Chicago: Did you know that police departments in the Chicago area coordinate on Slack? Now that I know it's accessible to public records requests, request away: Their server is called CHI-INTEL and requests should be sent to the department that runs it, the Cook County Sheriff. Send away!

SINCE THIS HAS COME UP AGAIN... WHAT TO DO IF YOU FIND YOURSELF THE TARGET OF A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION.

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

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Happy exploding whale day for all who celebrate.

Folks, we need to have a little Civics #101 chat, because apparently the media no longer seems fit to explain to you whats happening. So quick review: The House passed a clean CR. The senate has not passed anything.

"On November 7, USDA notified the States that it was implementing full SNAP benefits for November, and would "complete the processes necessary to make funds available.” Basically, USDA pulled a bait-and-switch on the states, saying they would fully fund SNAP and then filing for an emergency stay.

Looks like this is real. About 40% of the flight at 8k feet, then bumped up to 10k, and then finally went up higher, but only to 20k feet. Much slower than normal flight and likely burned a lot more fuel. But the view out the window was probably impressive. www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

I don’t see the talks about this experiment ending anytime soon. /

Judge Mark Wolf resigns from the District Court of Massachusetts and writes why in a powerful piece in the Atlantic. One thing he doesn’t mention in his list of reasons but I’m sure is a factor: Erez Reuveni was one of his law clerks. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Happy trees ain't cheap! www.bonhams.com/auction/3094...

SNAP benefits are under attack during this government shutdown and food banks are picking up the slack. But they need your help. Here are the best ways to do that:

A good example is when you look at AI generated art. If every inch of the image is the same level of detail, it's likely AI. Real human artists tend to focus their efforts on the important parts of a piece and not exhaustively detail every flower petal. This is especially true with "anime" art.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Like literally I wrote about how my mom was spat at during the first Gulf War and that's the part they wanted me to write more about. I am actually so upset.

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

This might actually be THE point where Christian Nationalism starts either splintering...or the NAR literally just joins with Christian Identity and REALLY returns to its roots (I'd have thought the SBC/NAR widening split would have been the fissure, but a neo-Nazi/NAR split has been growing) 1/x

Receipts for folks asking:

@franifio.bsky.social I can't reply, but here's an archive of the CNN story of him publicly knowing about the totenkopf back in 2019. archive.ph/Vux4y Him knowingly keeping a Nazi symbol on his chest for over 5 years counts as Nazi deeds.

financially entangling myself with isaac chotiner until it becomes unethical for him to interview me

me out here pushing a wealth tax like

Not trying to pick on Gallego in particular or anything but when people ask me what the difference between a skilled on-camera performer like Mamdani and a charismatic, practiced public speaker but with no on-camera training is, this video is a good example of the latter

@slkollmann.bsky.social I can't reply to this, but your Alt-text is broken. It's a series of unhelpful website elements in one long column.

A not insignificant number of people knew the demolition was coming, including people at the White House Historical Association, and did nothing to stop it.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

Will Janie screw your kid by refusing to vote to make mega nonprofits like U. Penn pay their fair share towards public schools? Sure. But did you know that she's partnered with the electricians' union to hand out turkeys and fixings on your corner this November?

NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

mr trump as your comms strategist i can only encourage you to keep depicting yourself as a mad king dumping shit on people