Point: it's very bad news for a functioning society to excuse what was undeniably an assassination based on a man's cheekbones. Counterpoint: if guilty y so cheekbones

“We have made a technology that creates nothing but will ensure you have no future while we get richer and richer wait why are you boooing?”

I dunno which Zutara needs to hear this but being an anti about Reylo, Dramione, Darklina, or any other enemies-to-lovers ships and trying to say how different Zutara is from all of them ewwwwww won’t protect you from antis’ harassment

Graham is a spineless coward who shows his belly at the slightest pressure and assumes everyone else is the same

This is so funny to read. As all millenials know, the job and housing market was incredible in the late 2000s and we all got our dream jobs with our liberal arts degrees in nyc /s

jfc did xi take his lunch money as well

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Wow, Gen Z is managing to buy houses in their 20s while millennials didn't during the *checks notes* Great Recession and collapse of subprime mortgages (side note: after watching all that, millennials are way more likely to look at interest rates and say "fuck no", while Gen Z is rolling the dice)

I'm willing to test this theory

My current take on the horseshoe: your extreme-right person leans into the hypocrisy of kindness to individuals (the "good ones") while happily being cruel to groups. Your extreme-left person leans into the hypocrisy of kindness to groups (the "good ones") while happily being cruel to individuals.

Congrats, @ziibiing.com. What you did was amazing.

i was just thinking that there isnt a single person involved in this in any way who is currently in jail

frankly I have come to believe techies are illiterate. science fiction isn't about the future, stupid. it's about the current political situation but set in space so no one gets mad. duh!

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

No: there IS a clear reason why it skyrocketed this year. People protesting ICE often raised the new flag as a demonstration of local pride and resistance. Public refutation of the flag is a wink-nod to say you're pro-ICE without using those words because minivan moms will kick the shit out of you.

It’s so cool that we have a pejorative epithet for using actual data to inform our judgments about the state of the world.

This thread is an important read from top to bottom, and is extra-interesting for being the exact same playbook run by Antis. Fandom behavior went fully toxic during peak Tumblr, moved to Twitter during the porn purge, and jumped containment to IRL politics. There's a PhD thesis in there somewhere.

It's hard to believe, but this really is the official position of our country's Very Serious Financial Analysts: "it would simply be too horrible if the strait stays closed, so ... [closes eyes tight, taps heels together] ... it won't!"

The 2020-2022 bout of inflation had multiple causes, only a few of which related to domestic decisions, and only some of those domestic decisions related to Biden's term. The 2026 bout has one main culprit, unambiguously. #Econsky

"arguing with a person they made up in their minds" is a plague on society, an absolute cancer of the republic, i am not exaggerating

We see them in St. Paul Midway today too, roughly around Fairview and University. Stay sharp.

It wasn't anyone's *favorite*, but I think from an iconic cultural standpoint The Millennial Song is probably "All Star"

my god they color-coordinated with his tie

The biggest lesson that social media has taught us is that powerful people really really resent when normal people talk back to them in ways they don't approve of, and this is that lesson incarnate: look at how WOWED she is that her bullshit A.I. platitudes aren't being rapturously received

this healed my sciatica and made my skin glow

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Around 80% of that behavior can be explained by this quote. The other 20% is severe untreated mental illness

"We need to invite Marjorie Taylor Greene into the tent but a campaign stop with Liz Cheney is a bridge too far" is real "I'm going to become the Joker" stuff for me.

Moment of silence before the Lynx game for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Some Fuck Ice yells after.

horrifying

This, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.

history books are full of guys who thought “surely the people will tolerate this forever”

I am extremely troubled by the amount of standby pay issued to MPD officers during Operation Metro Surge. MPD data shows some officers were paid nearly 24 hours per day for 32 days straight, while dozens were paid 8-12 extra hours each day while we stood out in the cold protecting our neighbors. 1/

Who knows but this seems like a potentially profound misread of the situation by the GOP, much like the more-radical-than-thou leftist scolds who are somehow still lecturing the center-left about how The Courts Won't Save You. The dem base of 2026 is a lot angrier than the dem base of 2017

This is literally what I want to do - help people understand. It’s just so weird when people construct this version of you in their heads that resist all evidence to the contra.

I think taking seriously that the president is an honest-to-God deranged gangster, and every lawful institution meant to stop that from happening has failed and has no real prospect of functioning, is so unsettling that a lot of folks have just decided to retreat into fantasy as a coping mechanism.

the rule still applies

I love this for them. Please, continue to respond to every question about gas prices by reminding the country Trump's actions are to blame.

Sounds like this hantavirus strain only spreads from close contact so I'm not that worried but it does highlight how you don't really want a Secretary of Health with a documented history of messin' with dead wild animals

Counterpoint: Iran figured out they don't need a nuclear weapon to bring the world to its knees, they just need a couple of mines in the water

It’s weird because I would have said something like “corporate PowerPoint” instead of “college seminar” if the point is clearing out gobbledygook. In my experience the latter is more about conveying information and the former more about making you impressed by the speaker.

I want to throw a story out about why I think the block button is actually kind of a bad thing. 🧵 Many moons ago, there was a controversy in the Reylo world about a purported act of racism by a prominent member of the community. (The specifics of the act are irrelevant to this discussion.) 1/

I think Barack Obama knows more than I do about how to get swing voters to vote for a Democratic candidate.

My first Star Wars memory was being sick with the flu and watching ANH, which my mom had gotten on VHS from Blockbuster, from under a pile of blankets. They didn't make it off Tattooine before I fell alseep.

I don't think this is quite right. What people want is for Democrats to be genuine, rather than focus-group tested automatons. For some Democrats, that means speaking in their natural "professors at a college seminar" cadence, because *their* version of "plain English" is clearly focus-group tested.

if ai ever works as it’s been sold to us, the most easily replaced employee of every company would be ceo and as far as i can tell theres never been a single article written about that

I don’t exactly know what’s going on here, but it seems appropriate to invoke the First Law of Elon Musk: In any given scenario involving Elon Musk, the most pathetic explanation is almost certainly the correct one.

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.