I am mostly disappointed with the way the future has been turning out, but just look at this, god damn.

honestly, kudos to him for this

1. The first glass of rosé in the spring 2. Wind whooshing through trees on a breezy day 3. Little kids dressed up for formal events 4. Old movies on Sunday afternoon 5. Being trapped in place by a purring cat

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

I gave into temptation yesterday and made a frustrated comment on a tiktok post that was glorifying Whatshisname's "debate all comers" posture. I got several angry replies, none at all related to what I wrote. Bsky is better, but really we're all just talking to ourselves on these platforms.

Take it from some who teaches about drone strikes, “I shed no tear for that guy” and “this is bad, it shouldn’t have happened” can be normal reactions to have simultaneously. Opposition to political violence isn’t about personal sympathy for an individual target per se, it’s about society.

You might not know it from a casual perusal of social media right now, but personally grieving Charlie Kirk or dancing on his grave are not the only two options for how to react, and here is an excellent example of an alternative:

I'm re-watching Mad Men for the first time since it came on and I didn't remember the fingers-on-chalkboard quality of the arguments the various couples have. "Emotionally immature" doesn't cover it; they're not even proper assholes, just miserable, hateful children in suits and dresses.

and yet, yesterday —>

I like how one of the long-term fuck-you's of the Bush II administration is that 20 years later, action movie heroes waterboarding the baddies is just a cliché that we're supposed to enjoy as part of the show. I remember not knowing what waterboarding was, that was nice.

I often say that one of the only good things about social media is that it taught me that normal people can be really fucking funny and the comments in this thread are a great example, I can hardly pick a favourite.

trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream

On one hand, libs getting biscuits and gravy in the national divorce is a pleasant surprise but on the other hand, Jesus Christ, don’t these goons ever get tired?

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

The "Dexter" franchise fascinates me. The premise is morally grotesque and the execution very often cringey. Lots of bad acting, and good actors wasted. But in a horrible way, I kinda get how "what if serial killer, but good" was something a lot of people wanted to watch.

i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

If only I'd had a telephoto lens... | 'Hätte ich doch ein Tele gehabt ...' #FotoVorschlag #Photography #Ocean #Surf #Dawn One last time, before summer ends.

folks, I think we have a new Pete-Wells-reviews-Guy-Fieri here. This is some of the best hate prose I have seen since then.

I'd like to go into stasis until the world values expertise again. Experts who are here to make life better for us all. Not experts in profiteering, war, hate or selfishness, but expertise in helping each other be better, safer, healthier & smarter....not looking likely in my natural lifefime.

A study reveals the effects of Florida's new public university post-tenure review: * higher rate of faculty departure * younger star faculty were more likely to leave * new hires were less likely to be stars * low-performing faculty didn't increase their performance papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Original Trek The Wire (or maybe Homicide Life on the Streets, whichever has more viewing hours, I'm too lazy to look it up) Mad Men The Muppet Show The Andy Griffith Show (black & white years)

Remember, you're not pirating media, you're scraping training data for your brain.

This is push for AI from tech billionaries must be stopped. They are starting to immerse us in a false reality. Images are created by machines, news stories may well be fiction, and algorithms judge people and art. We are paying the price by burning the planet with fossil fuel pollution.

Right wing evangelicalism is not in any way a religious movement- it is 100% a social control movement.

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

I don’t want to read about a former President’s mental decline because a journalist got a book deal. I want to read a report about the current President’s mental decline by a journalist brave enough to speak out now.

human language is for intercourse between human brains; machines are useful for many things but they can't have this

“When it comes to .. sniffing glue, I want to be free to form a relationship with a local gluemaker, look him in the eyes, pet his polyvinyl acetate, and then decide if I feel safe to sniff the glue from his glue factory.”

The American scientific enterprise is the envy of many around the world. The deliberate butchering of it is hard to comprehend. 🧪

Lots of commentary here about Horowitz's connections/influence on the right (Stephen Miller, Bari Weiss, etc.) but it should also be noted that he was an unhinged and exceptionally nasty piece of racist, homophobic work. I'm surprised a man as continuously angry as he seemed to be lived this long.

Well. Conclave was quite a lot of fun, and I totally didn't see the twist coming.

Jesus H Christ

excellent thread

Saw a funny post by an account I've been following since the (my) beginning here but comments were blocked and quote-skeets were blocked and I get why people will sometimes need to do this but when there's no way to engage with an account I don't see the point in following it.

hiccups should not be a thing that adults have to deal with come on (*hic*)

People need to understand that this senseless destruction of US Science is something like deliberately scooping up as much American topsoil as possible and dumping it into the sea. We have some great, lucky advantages, and we are wasting them over nothing, and they can't be retrieved afterwards.

are you seriously telling me I have to stop talking shit about Bill Kristol, Harvard, and now David Brooks too? There are SO MANY reasons to hate Trump and this is three more

Jesus, that Eulogy episode was a lot.

hey anybody, what's the IPA symbol for when an East Londoner says "Fuckin' Hell" except the second word sounds more like "'Ehw(l)" like with a hard W at the end and no real tongue-on-teeth "L" sound? How d'ya write that sound?

It is becoming unbelievably difficult to stay both informed and sane

To everyone that liked the sign, I uploaded the files to a google drive folder and it's multiple iterations so that y'all can download and use it to fight! OG idea:@tomscud.bsky.social Colab with Steve (deleted the account) drive.google.com/drive/folder...

so many gems in this thread

Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

I hate being (collectively) Putin's bitch. Hate it.