Two of the most counterproductive political system choices you can make, which increase corruption but sound good, are: 1) low salaries for elected office holders and bureaucrats 2) term limits for legislators

To be fair, it is one of the more mockable things that NTs find strange about us.

Why does this keep happening?

It says something about Kris Kobach that my first question was whether Gov. Kelly was suing him in his personal or official capacity. (It's professional; Kobach is using his office to block lawsuits by the state against the Feds except in accordance with the wishes of Trumpland)

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

an arc where the former governor of NY loses increasingly inconsequential elections until the series finale is him trying to run for senior class president at a local high school and getting his ass kicked by some 17 year olds.

Man, I don't want to learn the difference between Gestapo and Stazi; I just want to say secret police are bad

I didn't feel like I could end two lines in the same song with the phrase "bumblefucking douchecanoe" so now the song ends with a crowd chanting "fuck you."

Can I tell you about someone else whose followers included adult content creators

This motherfucker was supposed to be communing with the alligators by now

No leave me alone I do not want to be perceived

James Talarico just became my favorite 2026 up-and-comer

Tech bros reading a poem: "Fuck yeah, Ozymandias rules."

More of a "were you born before 1985" checklist

Oh so only 15-30 times the fair valuation

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And I strongly recommend that every non-Black and non-Native person at least consider this journey of unraveling and extricating whiteness. At your own pace, of course. But sometimes the universe intervenes and a time of The Tower forces the issue.

Most white people over 40 cannot manage the movement towards 0% Nazi, because you really do isolate yourself. ...from whiteness... ...and then you realize how liberating that is. And the chosen family and community you find? Fills all the holes and heals the trauma. Amazing stuff.

Here I'm reminded of Graham Platner's Totenkopf and Bernie Sanders' indignant support of it. We don't do that here.

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it

I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.” Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.

Jared Golden is bad at his job and belatedly decided to stop doing it. If you want to give me credit, I'm fine with that; but the political violence problem in this country is not on the left.

Guillermo del Toro remade a Mel Brooks movie but left out the jokes?

Me. Plus @brynna.bsky.social and @robinwrites.bsky.social. Not @ashmcgonigal.com. #ff

And we will use to "elevate" billionaires out of the solar system.

Occasionally I look at the Wikipedia article Space Elevator Economics to see what the current price of building an elevator to space would be as compared to what we're wasting our money on down here. OpenAI's losses would pay for a space elevator in just over 9 months.

news: 'Schumer offers to end shutdown in exchange for a spoonful of healthcare' me: * blinks * news: 'Republicans say get that spoon the fuck outta my face'

The thing about a negotiation that must come to yes is that you have to leave enough room in your offer for the other party to come back with a counteroffer that is less than you offered but still acceptable. If you offer "you can completely fuck us over" and they say no, what else is there?

If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.

The "I took LSD and had a profound discovery about life" story was so much better than the true "I got high and stole a woman's notes" one.

What did Watson and Crick discover? Rosalind Franklin's notes.

Down by 4 with the clock ticking down, Democrats pushed the ball all the way downfield to make it first and goal. Schumer quickly calls a punt.

So no commitment that a dollar is spent as intended but funding gets approved for Trump’s secret police?

God, a thousand times this. That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis. I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Being a conservative while studying law or the humanities is the easiest thing in the world, provided you don't care what your peers think of you. Profs will think your perspective is interesting, and administrators will be afraid you'll tattle to Chris Rufo if your feelings get hurt.

The act of a woman who knows she's going to be a pundit in 13 months and needs some friendly press that isn't crackpot TV before the contract negotiations start.

I would much rather have people using LSD than ChatGPT. Including myself.

My husband’s uncle is suddenly hospitalized and not expected to make it through the night. His daughter is now trying to fly across country. Fuck every Republican specifically for preventing people from getting to see their family members one last time.

It's a bit of a hacky line, and I'm sure it's one that he thought of a pithier take on by the end of the interview. But what he's sayin here is that we're ALL real New Yorkers. That there's no bar to entry, no hierarchy of citizenship or belonging in our city.

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Omg. Ok folks. You need to do this—big feeds, please amplify ( @kevinmkruse.bsky.social maybe you can too)

Joke explainer: Sam Altman (face) and Elizabeth Holmes (body, hair) are best known for making hyperbolic claims about the useless products they sell. Holmes was indicted for fraud in 2018 and convicted in 2022; Altman is still at large.

I will never stop dying on the hill that so much of this would have been avoided if the response to Obama is a muslim had been "so fucking what" instead of the utterly dungbrained "OH YEAH EXPLAIN HOW HE LIKES BACON AND BEER THEN" nonsense that we were force fed for 8 years

This is just about setting the defaults so that ‘high value’ / high profile users and corporations don’t see people yelling at them for being shit.

Laughing at the American Enterprise Institute guy who has the utter lack of self-awareness to believe that he's better than a drug pusher.