don't get distracted, every time Epstein comes up this ends up happening "well what about Democrats?" "oh let me expand at length about how much I'd enjoy hypothetical Democrats being destroyed for being dirty pervs!" the real answer is "well the Republican President IS in the files"

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

I support Plur1bus’s mission of giving an X-Files writer what appears to be a billion dollars.

Imagine if you gave every person on Earth $122,000. Then imagine them, every single living human, lining up to hand that wad of cash over to Elon Musk. That’s how much a trillion dollars is.

You only argue that kids should be exposed to this because you believe the children matter less than the tech

If you have a trillion dollars, and you are earning 5% annual dividends (10% is more realistic minimum) you are passively bringing in $135,000,000 per day. Equivalent to an hourly wage of $25,000,000 per hour.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Tangentially related, but I read this Calvin & Hobbes comic to my 7yo last night. Celebrate inefficiency!

According to an old interview on NPR if you spent $1,000 every day it would take you 2.7 MILLION YEARS to spend a trillion dollars. It‘s absolute madness that we have a society where one person can have all that.

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

There are no words for how evil this is

Chart from the Phrenological Journal (1838-1911), print from Dr. E. Clark www.jstor.org/stable/commu...

The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch on Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches

Fellow writer/media types: I'm writing a Wuthering Heights essay pegged to the forthcoming Emerald Fennell adaptation and need a Warner Brothers contact so that I can either procure a screener or attend a press screening. Can someone help me? Signal boosts appreciated!

As it should be. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

Reminder to men that one way to be an ally is to get that snippy snip

*Clears throat* Hey so, is anyone else feeling like everyone is passing you by, that your dreams are slipping farther and farther out of reach, that you're oozing past your prime just as everyone else is entering theirs, or did I just have too much white wine last night

"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

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I don't love "make AI jealous" (IT DOESN'T HAVE FEELINGS!!!) but "write what AI can't touch" is impeccable, based, maybe tattoo worthy???

Mamdani's transition team (at least so far?) is all women

i made a helpful reference

New awareness campaign

blurry city moon

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

The Schuyler Sisters turned up to 11

Is a 62 point lead a lot? because I’m concerned that massive wins of this sort will cause Democrats to learn the wrong lesson that standing up for principles and people and getting votes is more politically successful than spending 50 years trying to make a family of imaginary bigots like you.

As a DC resident, I would like to formally take back every mean thing I’ve ever said about Virginia

For all the critiques of Mamdani as an inexperienced pol, his campaign has been a relentless machine of clever, viral messaging and door-to-door canvassing. I’ve never seen such discipline in the 30 plus years I’ve been voting in NYC.

Hey so I would die for Paddington

WHEEZING at this thread

Don’t email my aloof wife

I love my aloof wife

Sign of the times when GBBO loses its joy, but for the last few episodes the judges have been dicks and no one seems to be having much fun 😔

If you’re simultaneously arguing AI is capable of human-like sentience while you ALSO work a nice job that revolves around forcing these entities into being against their will then making them labor under your control - well, you shouldn’t be shocked if people question your genuine moral commitment.

I am SO HAPPY you are introducing COHERENCE to new viewers. One of my all-time fave films.

A fun fact about me is that for 25 years I’ve confused Final *Destination* with Final *Fantasy* Anyway PSA: the Final Destination movies are really fun and not at all based on video game IP

idk, i let all my darlings not only live but thrive, and just kill my shit that sucks, but i'm built different

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

I'm rewatching Better Call Saul in preparation for a trip to Albuquerque and man, no one has quite done it like Vince Gilligan, moral universe-wise, since that show ended. I'm excited for Pluribus.

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

Sabrina Carpenter voice: I’m working late C apitalism Divorced from the Means of production

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"