What makes the "if it came out in 2007" joke particularly funny is the tension between (1) how obviously overwrought that era was and (2) the fact that the inner 2000's highschooler in you *knows* that they would be straight up youtube AMV bangers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs0Q...

This post is almost perfectly crafted to match Bsky's general lack of reading comprehension and ability to pick up on context clues. It's magnificent.

remember all those 'project 2025 isn't actually real, you fools, you naifs' media pieces.

Me finding out @zohrankmamdani won. Captured by the great Faraz Ansari

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Woke II: pro-worker, pro-trans, pro-housing.

Duty is as heavy as a mountain, Alan

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You can easily sell investing more resources into the immigration court system to expedite case resolution as cracking down on asylum abuse.

Fred Forsyth's body lies a moulderin' in the grave, Fred Forsyth's body lies a moulderin' in the grave, Fred Forsyth's body lies a moulderin' in the grave, Enyi mba Enyi!

Seems like Platner is thinking about running in the Ohio Dem senate primary now that his Maine campaign is collapsing.

I emphasize this because I find a lot of people seem to find the idea that the rich are the ultimate parasites just intuitive and natural and it actually isn't necessarily a timeless historical consensus!

The underlying problem with means testing and enforcement is that it's not a question of efficiency but of maintaining popular support for programs. People hate someone getting something they don't deserve more than they hate the idea of someone *not* getting something they deserve.

All the talk about Harris entering the race ignores the clear fact that the next governor of California is guaranteed to be from Los Angeles.

Platner didn't join to get access to higher ed. In his own words: he joined for "adventure & to kill". His family is very wealthy. Grandfather is a famous architect whose chairs sell for $15k. Father is a wealthy corporate lawyer. Mother owns several restaurants. Went to $75k pa boarding school.

The only way this infographic works is if it was made based on a terminal weed addict with Vietnamese alcohol genes.

@ingloriousj.swifties.social So hear me out here: Brian Kelly to an HBCU.

I still can't get over the fact that the people who think Buttigieg briefly working for McKinsey is disqualifying are somehow caping for a blackwater mercenary with a death camp tattoo who said he loved to fight in colonial wars.

One of my biggest issues with navalists / Mahan disciples is that they never really question why the UK sued for peace in 1802 through the Treaty of Amiens.

There is a way to harmonize these two facts in that Harris ran as a prosecutor but voters didn't buy it because of extremely unpopular stances taken by a large swathe of major party figures in 2020.

New from me: Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong. This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.

Every Michelin star dish trumpets itself as "this flavor bomb will REVOLUTIONIZE how you conceive of food" and it turns out to involve an ocean of food waste and an entire laboratory setup, all for an end product that brings maybe half of the flavor of a two piece combo from Popeyes.

I still can't believe someone I considered a friend would just go out and commit gamergenics, potentially even gamercide, by posting this.

Little known fact, but Cookie Monster was actually responsible for the fires planning at La Malmaison in 1917, including the flooding of the Ailette valley with gas.

CNN confirms that multiple sources suggest Graham Platner knew his tattoo was a Nazi symbol years prior to launching his campaign — and is now blatantly lying about it. www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

I like Mamdani, but the "everyone should copy Mamdani to win" takes are ignoring the reality that he probably isn't going to break 50% in a deeply blue city.

Plot twist: the people failing the test are the ones answering correctly.

It genuinely is kind of heartwarming to see that people are soundly rejecting VTMB 2 trying to Weekend at Bernies the corpse of VTMB 1.

Amidst all the chaos and uncertainty, just know this. Eddington lost a ton of money at the box office. Reality and rationality is reasserting itself, slowly but surely.

Absolute gigabrain over here putting everyone who dunks on the white house on a blocklist.

Needle's Eye by Adia Victoria.

Overhyped for anything useful, cataclysmically horrific for society as a whole.

*To the tune of "We are Farmers"* "You're a LARPer."

Breaking banks, breaking scales, breaking hearts. Big Pappa P for president.

I get the impulse, but I want everyone to please seriously consider the chances of Biden actually being able to cut US support for Israeli anti-ballistic missile defense right at the peak of the Israel-Iran war of the cities. He would have faced a revolt both within DoD and the Democratic party.

Pro se plaintiff.

A lot of this is just the natural end result of the "optimal" app strategies for men and women combining into an extremely maladaptive process where no one gets what they want.

A reminder that the Constitution was written on the foundational premise that it would be implemented by a political class that was, to a fault, violently protective of their own individual standing and power. The idea that congressmen would surrender their power to the president was unthinkable.

The scariest thing in all of this is that this 366 pound monster actually had a pretty good cut once he saw the lane develop.

Elite media institutions and conservatives are like if crewmen in Alien were supergluing facehuggers to their face to make absolutely sure that they ended up birthing xenomorphs.

What makes Drake taking the L here particularly funny is that Kendrick Lamar absolutely intended to convey as a factual matter that Drake was a pedophile and the audience 100% took it as such.

This has been true for two decades, since the initial smartphone boom. The wider dynamic has been in place for even longer, e.g. the "Cabela Hunter" or "find the hidden object" games you used to be able to buy for $10 at Best Buy. The problem is that this doesn't apply to core gaming.

I love how half of Japanese youtube is "the most unfathomably large portions ever - could you ever dream of even challenging this?" and it's basically an average meal at the Cheesecake Factory.

IMO a lot of the Buttigieg hatred is that he is of the same age and from the exact same cultural milieu (down to being in the same graduating classes from the same schools) as a lot of the poasting verse, so his success over time is bitterly resented by his former classmates.

One thing to understand here is that most people never really notice that their student loan payments went away or diminished. They "knew" it happened but they didn't "feel" it. But they sure as shit felt when it came back. Anyway this is a phenomenon where people are brain stupid.

This is one of the most lifeless hook and lateral plays I've ever seen in my life.

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social - Do we know why the Ptolemies had a silver crunch? It seems like they'd be in a good position for a robust supply of imported bullion (grain trade, entry point for luxury goods from the red sea trade, ect.)

One of the biggest problems with the efforts to try and protect academia right now from the Trump admin is that academia has, and is still, apparently doing its best to commit institutional suicide.