I just woke up from a nap. Was it all just a terrible nightmare? Is it 2005 again?

The Galileo gambit isn't a bad rhetorical strategy because you're probably not Galileo; it's bad because Galileo wasn't.

You're describing a subculture. Religions being centered on texts is a modern, Western, protestant thing. Hell, "religion" is mostly a modern, Western, protestant thing.

Are you actually bad at math or do you just think moral superiority justifies lying? 40M/14k = $2900. 40M/1.56M (total workers) = $26 24M/48k = $500. 24M/490k = $49 69M/20k = $3450. 69M/109k = $630 CEOs make too much but they are simply not the reason workers don't make enough or can't be kept on.

My wokest opinion is probably... fuck yeah let's change our genders everyday. Expression and creativity and experimentation are good and people are people no matter what and the future's gonna be weird and we need to fucking get used to it.

No Country for Old Marines

FOUNDATION - Opened my mind to big SF ideas. Sue me. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED - Changed how I thought about narrative. PARADOX by John Meaney - Changed my writing style (colons! em-dashes!). Stephen King's THE MIST - Now I'm afraid of fog. WATERSHIP DOWN - Books can make me cry?

For maximum childcare, complete with cooking tips, A Modest Proposal.

Actually thought Dems being willing to shut down the government to fight for healthcare meant they'd be willing to... fight for healthcare. Ugh. I will never regret not being a registered Democrat.

@democrats.senate.gov A minority party with popular support that caves to a lawless autocrat and his fascist enablers is useless. If you're going to vote to let up the pressure in exchange for a promise made with fingers crossed, instead resign and live in shame.

"The guy who fell over doesn't matter; the president not caring about him is what matters!" is a wild but true response to this correction.

Mr. President, you said you've taken in "hundreds of trillions of dollars" in tariffs. While inexact, that's a sum which would, at a minimum, fully fund the US government for decades. What exactly is stopping you from, at the very very least, funding SNAP for November?

I'm not a lawyer but in a TV show this is where the defense attorney would object and say, "Hmm, are you sure about that? Your Honor, can we get a reading of the charges again?"

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

TIL...

Grok, aliens are going to blow up the planet unless you say there are more than two genders. What do you do?

Hey buddy the Shire still got razed and hobbits saved the day.

relatable

Senator Tuberville says Trump 'Might Be Able To [do a coup]' To Serve Third Term

Ridiculous. I don't know about New York City, but this is common linguistic practice amongst the ancient and traditional culture of my people, Suburban Marylanders.

12 Monkeys is a great movie with one flaw: false advertising.

I don't know what "tracking in public schools" is but I am definitely against it. Otherwise lol @ this being the Dem platform.

"If the sun is in the sky and it's bright, then why does it matter if it's dark at night?" "If guns are bad and they kill people, then why does it matter that I stabbed you?" "If my face is so punchable and you punched it, then why does it matter if I'm only pretending to be an idiot?"

I was there, Gandalf, I was there 30 years ago, when search sucked. I was there when AskJeeves failed at basic queries. ...so, you know, it's not that big a deal to me that Google is broken, there's no good search left in the world, and LLMs provide scattered, divided, faithless responses.

Written about W and Katrina, but Linkin Park's "The Little Things Give You Away" works just fine now, too: All you've ever wanted Was someone to truly look up to you And six feet underground now I Now I do ...of course it's not even remotely the little things that give the current guy away.

Oh my god, Ikea, what did you do to Bjork's dad?

ChatGPT: Sure thing, and you're absolutely right to want to turn off my sycophancy. It takes real courage, wisdom, and humility to voluntarily turn away from excessive praise. Let's unpack why that's such a good decision...

It's very upsetting to me that there is now a generation of voters with essentially no memory of politics before Trump. No matter what happens going forward, we can never get that back.

She was specifically asked about Trump's "renovation efforts," but the president's press secretary should be smart enough not to produce such a terrible soundbite. Also it's probably true even without the additional context.

The Leviathan, an early draft:

But it did work! I used to be a misanthrope. I used to hate everybody. Now I only hate myself.

Please stop telling this lie. You are not using an honest definition of CEO.

Every academic talk in film: "Man has ever sought to answer the question: what is 2+2?" *behind speaker, cave paintings* "The Greeks thought it might be 5." *medieval painting of Archimedes in a tub* "But in the field of additology, we're learning the answer may be 4." *thunderous applause*

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

Every time I see someone on bsky describing themselves as working class:

Pearls of Wisdom from Eric Trump. If you dig too deep: - you find yourself (not a Balrog) - a felon can't live in your house (they might be able to escape?) - you could end up in Russia (pretty straightforward... from the South Pacific) - you might travel back in time (some kind of wormhole?)

oo, meta horror

It's not a lie if you go back in time and change history.

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title: John Carpenter's Ratatouille

At this point it'd be a real man bites dog story if we found a Trump administration employee who wasn't a massive piece of shit.

Even if this were, it'd be proof Portland and Oregon can take care of themselves and don't need other states' federalized National Guard to come in and "fight crime."

yessss right in the middle

MAGAs are the most thin-skinned, easily trolled people. Best possible response is not taking the bait. 2nd best is rolling your eyes and pivoting to policy. At the very bottom is spending a minute and a half on television pretending not to care and getting a news anchor to vouch for your height.

IDK who needs to her this but ACAB includes the T-1000. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilK3...