Donald trump meeting Zohran Mamdani:

I feel like I’m seeing a lot of people today (not people I follow) reading “4” and replying “this is false. If you look you will clearly see it is (1+1)*2”

Been driving for a couple hours. Just got online. Lemme see if I understand. US has been pushing a Ukraine plan for a few days. After some pushback, US Secy of State reveals that in fact it's a Russian plan that was presented to the US. Helluva a misunderstanding.

There should be tribunals

3,000 billionaires is a sign of a society not working properly, imho.

Ugh, I had totally missed that there was an AEW PPV now. That would have been good for a Saturday if I’d cleared time for it ☹️

Next president can solve the jobs crisis just by hiring people to investigate all the sideways shit that went on under this administration.

rhythm. percussion. melody. harmony. my grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when David Bowie kept the balance between the four groups. But that all changed when the Rhythm Nation attacked.

Ryan Lizza is doing with his Substack what YouTubers have already perfected: taking serious allegations they’re personally involved with and turning them into melodrama to deflect from any of their own culpability and wrongdoing and monetize the shit out of it. Not journalism plus it’s embarrassing

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.

Free birth is eugenic *and* it exists not because birthing people want their babies to die, but because there are so many horror stories floating around about doctors disrespecting birthing people in what is one of the most vulnerable states any human can experience.

Please hear me when I say that 1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements 2) they pre-date the age of social media 3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence

Why yes, the first thing I did on logging on here today was to repost something using the phrase “mass murdering ghoul Elon Musk” in reference to USAID

I also block anyone disphitted enough to blanket condemn USAID - no, you do not have to hand it to mass-murdering ghoul Elon Musk, actually

kennedys were a mistake

why i play so many tactics games:

When you've got at least three story parts worth of bamboo harvested from the tale you shared.

This made me nostalgic for Bluesky of early 2024 … which, you know, is a bit of the vibe tonight

lmao, lol, lmao, hahahahahahaha

You could read a lot of my TL right now and if you opened no links or images begin to suspect that Ryan Lizza had done something sexual and off-putting with bamboo

Look at this rectangular dog

I am very amused by how much of my TL now is a divide between “I was forged in the internet crucible, nothing you show me is new or shocking” and “I have just unfortunately learned some new terminology”

Can’t tell if somehow totally missed the (very distinctive) design for the English teacher in SANDA until now or if that was a reveal

It just occurred to me, as someone who used to work in a HIPPA compliant office, that Google's Gmail changes have almost certainly broken every significant privacy law in every country in the world instantaneously.

There’s another discourse happening on my TL which caused me to read this and think… And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

As I see this in my the TL time passed reads 4 hours and I thought of how there was still so much more to come

Three people in my TL have just post something to effect if “WTF Ryan Lizza?!” so now I have foreshadowing? Dread certainly

PLEASE, retail workers from a religious minority living under Christian hegemony year-round (factcheck: true) the public space stuff this time of year is a lot (though I'd 100% take public Christmas but w/national abortion access if playing forced choice, ofc) PLEASE DO THIS it is a kindness

every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

Okay, just to be clear *I* am not in possession of any monkey’s paws

After that meeting, I'm never playing poker against Zohran Mamdani.

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

Sooooon, actually soon, for real this time

we gotta start a movement Clooney on Leverage

Sure he’ll do it on The Pitt but we want Clooney on Leverage.

Today this applies more to dogs It still applies though

I feel gauche reposting myself multiple times in one day but I keep wanting to retype versions of this

Trump: so if I recite this 'shahada' and implement a bunch of social programs, I get into heaven? Mamdani: that's right, Mr. President Trump: and when do I get one of those cool rugs? I always thought those looked neat. like rolling out a little red carpet for yourself every few hours

DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do -- MAMDANI: Active perception check. DM: ...that's a natural 20 MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>

House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks

I did a smile and nod at the name of the hyena

Prompted by autocorrect annoying me… Would the movie Wicket be a cricket movie? Maybe an Ewok story?

I do not like those Wicked 2 red carpet pics I just passed in my TL. I am hesitant to say more because <gestures at self> not really my lane. But I do not like them

I literally think Mamdani went “you know, there was actually a President so popular that people kept electing him more than two terms” and Trump was like no way tell me how he did it

OH MY GOD

Shot + chaser

welp

reposting w/ alt text

you can read a 1000 word story on these mergers without the journalist EVER mentioning the fact that almost every merger like this has resulted in oodles of debt, layoffs, chaos, frustration, and shittier product they just don't think that's useful context to even mention