this phrase will feature prominently in my suicide note

the thing about having a very-to-extremely offline partner is sometimes you explain online to them & it’s like playing russian roulette but the gun is loaded with divorce. “and the pony’s name is aryanne” [click; silence] “haha yes i’m not on your *actual* last nerve yet! we ride again tomorrow!”

the January 6th pipe bomb guy was a brony who faved over 300 pictures of a nazi my little pony character on Derpibooru, the fandom's largest image site. @derpibooru.bsky.social

We will learn until the trial that they were all recruited by FBI agents who found them and brought them together and talked them into the whole thing

Sources say the terrorist leader may be this man, Hans Gruber. A member of the radical Southern Californian Turtle Island Liberation Front.

I haven't heard that. I don't know anything about that video. I didn't see that tweet. I wasn't aware of that conversation. I haven't spoken with him. I have no recollection of that. I’m not familiar with that clip. I didn’t watch that livestream. 1/3

I never received that message. I wasn’t included on that email. I don’t remember that meeting. I wasn’t part of that group chat. I didn’t make that call. I never opened that link. I didn’t read that article. I wasn’t told about that. I didn’t sign off on that. 2/3

I don’t recognize that name. I haven’t been briefed on that. I didn’t authorize that statement. I can’t confirm that happened. I wasn’t present for that discussion. I haven’t reviewed those materials. I don’t know who posted that. I have nothing to add on that. 3/3

Great story

i think we should all commit ourselves to, at minimum, a national 3 day party When It Happens. one bottle of champagne in the back of your closet is no longer adequate. be prepared

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

You can’t “fix” X, The Everything App by going back and posting there because the owner has this thumb on the scale of the algorithm to promote the worst ideas and people. It’s not a viable solution, you have to let it go.

What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.

A beautuful thread about Rob Reiner.

People now reporting Reiner and his wife were allegedly killed by their son, Nick, who has struggled with drugs and homelessness people.com/rob-reiner-w...

Oh god no. He’s one of the nicest men I’ve ever met in my entire life. The one day I met him he went out of his way to make me feel welcomed and valued. Please let this be a mistake

The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff

I mean, let me scroll past the news of the tear-gassed 1 year old and the Brown shooter and the Aussie death toll to see if Rob Reiner was really freaking mudered today. Fuck 2025

I was there and offered to provide legal representation to the two. They were denied access to legal counsel, ICE had no warrant and did not even know who they were. It was pure profiling. This must stop.

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

The credulity that some MPs - and some journalists - display in engaging on X is most worrying Most think they’re ‘not vacating the public square’ In reality their brains are being fired and their idea of what ‘the public thinks’ completely manipulated - which has massive potential consequences

In short - Section 230 as it stands is absolutely core to how the internet functions today, and removing it would generate absolute legal chaos and probably result in the end of all social media, all comment sections and lots of basic internet hosting services. The liability would be insane.

It’s very simple. Genuinely very simple. Until Section 230, it was the case that any website that allowed a user to publish any content of any kind could be sued if they said *anything* libelous or bad. That includes web hosts, blogging platforms, social media etc.

Bluntly, Section 230 is almost literally the law that the entire internet rests upon, it makes it possible for user generated content to exist on the internet, it’s incredibly important, and genuinely we must defend it at all costs. This place literally would not exist without it.

We live in the stupidest possible timeline. www.404media.co/unauthorized...

i often see things that make me say "this is the most Boston thing I have ever seen in my life" but i think this one might have swept them all

Construction has begun on AI data centers in Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook.

bsky.app/profile/pook... Hell, the last Dem in power bragged on video that he was the one to draft the Patriot Act, which was passed with overwhelming bipartisan agreement. And *then* bragged about deporting more people faster than Trump did in his first term.

People are showing more grace to the white guy who took 18 years to cover up racist tattoos than a Black woman who has been using her platform to fight inequality since she got here. This is #TheDoubleTax.

the way the 1980 US hockey team is fellating trump. mortifying.

what in the fuck

SHUT THE FUCK UP

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

our pig overlords absolutely going nuts stroking their shit when they find a new way to make people subscribe to something that used to be free

🧵 I've been a writer for my entire life, and worked very hard to get where I got by 2022. I was making a 100k a year, though I live in an expensive city. Suddenly it was just gone. I had three careers, really, and they all vanished because of AI, and suddenly I was struggling each month to pay rent.

okay, we can shut it down for the day—I don't think anyone will top this

The end of Section 230 would mean the end of all but the largest websites that allow user-generated content at all - and even the largest would be radically changed and locked down It would probably mean the end of your fav streamers' careers Call your senators and your representatives about this

The most important thing to oligarchs is that people come to accept chatbots as a source of truth. It’s the fascist imperative. This is the only way it makes sense to install these systems in spaces where they routinely fail at the ostensible task.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Trying to replace workers with A.I. is a grave mistake, Joshua Rothman writes—“not only because A.I. cannot replace those workers, but because it actually makes them more valuable. The businesses that figure this out first will be the ones to thrive.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/OlFB-m

much better

Fascist activist Bari Weiss is doing what her billionaire benefactors recruited her for: to turn CBS News into an ongoing infomercial for Hitler Youth.

This story is the place where two of the worst trends in journalism--"My job is to police anything that I can pretend is an excess of the left" and "Contrarianism is the greatest of all virtues"--meet, have sex on top of a rusty alley dumpster, and pass out in each other's arms.

BREAKING: Palantir Elf on the Shelf acquisition in doubt as Andreessen-Horowitz presents $638T bid to shareholders in hostile offer