We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

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Getting really fucking sick of tech reporters throwing in one cutesy little aside about how this piece of tech is going to further cook our children’s brains and further destroy the social contract and then keep on reporting as if they aren’t ACTIVELY ADVERTISING THE PRODUCT! Quit your job!!!

It'd be one thing to watch democracy slowly collapse because some evil geniuses took over, but we're literally being forced to watch a bunch of people with more power and security than any of us can imagine in our wildest dreams just crawl on their bellies and beg to be kicked in the face again.

I think what is most upsetting right now is that this administration has not had the skill to do much of anything they are trying to do. They crumple and scurry away when people stand up strongly to them. And most of the richest & most powerful people in this country just rolled over like cowards.

What a time to be alive.

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every NYT op-ed is just "now is the time to grab the knife by the blade just to ensure it can still cut the skin" interrupted only every now and then with a "maybe its time to admit you're more of a spoon guy anyway"

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Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.

It’s extremely clear that the exact opposite will be true. Smartphones and the internet have made us all significantly, measurably stupider and the people who wear these regularly will come across like lobotomy patients to the people who don‘t.

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

I refuse to deplore "political violence" when it is made so explicit that it is the adjective, not the noun, that troubles the people so openly weeping and rending their garments right now. Either we all have a ticket in the Victim of Gun Violence Lotto or none of us do.

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Keep picturing Patel dropping the casings in terror after reading “if you read this youre gay”

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The media's bowdlerized eulogies of Charlie Kirk are rightly noting the lives ruined by yesterday's events, at the expense of the surely hundreds more lives ruined to get TPUSA over the viral hump on a random Tuesday.

I’m also not interested in litigating what is or isn’t “political violence” with people who willfully refuse to consider the quotidian violence that defines this country as political, or to entertain that the very idea of violence itself is ipso facto political. sorry but no thanks

Gavin Newsom would sell out every last constituent for a pat on the head from his conservative peers. He has no inner light, no guiding ethical beliefs. He's just an empty receptacle for donors and clingers-on. Voters really do just go with whoever has the best hair, though, so here he is.

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

Will be interesting to see which news outlets omit his years of violent white nationalism. I'm guessing practically every single one.

One way to avoid people making fun of your death is to not make a career of gleefully proclaiming other people’s deaths are necessary for your enjoyment of life

Gen Z in Nepal burned down the parliament, burned down the homes of government officials, forced the prime minister to resign, and paraded the finance minister through the streets nearly naked.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

you really cannot be surprised that a lot of people are turning into hardcore AI haters when they're subjected to a constant barrage of examples of America's worst people using it in incredibly stupid ways to ruin the world

lol

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

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Evil. *This* is end-stage capitalism: Genocide for profit.

For the past few weeks instead of reading the news i have been making a handheld game console. It has a 1.7" display and a 400Mhz CPU. The front is a trackpad. It does not go online. It does one thing (plays Go), and hopefully does that better than anything else that fits in a coin pocket.

Melvin

saw the Plans 20th anniversary reunion tour the other night

Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.

U.S. Defense Secretary promotes interview in which Christian nationalist Doug Wilson says women shouldn't have the right to vote. Hegseth goes to a Wilson-affiliated church and sends his kids to one of Wilson’s schools. 1/2

I got one of them new ESP32-P4s and taught it to beat me at Go. A low bar to be sure, but not sure there was a cheap microcontroller that could run a Go engine at an acceptable speed until very recently.

Melvin

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

you have GOT to be fucking kidding me

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what a gross time to be alive

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It is very funny that the right wing legal structure rushed in to try to spin a web of bs to argue denaturalization *might* be Constitutional as an extraordinary penalty for serious criminals, only for him to say the first target will be a celebrity rival for the crime of Being Annoying.

Melvin