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Superb work by The Journal. It badly needed to be put on record. This joke isn't funny anymore.

How I arrived on BlueSky.

Here’s hoping that Greyscale is an actual thing.

Seanchartún le haghaidh Seachtain na Gaeilge

If he's charged I'll be a bounty hunter

I genuinely cannot get over him launching a war from his house in Palm Beach.

Like this is an insane thing to say right?

Micheál will still go to the White House to kiss the ring, won’t he? I ask again, what is the line that the U.S. would have to cross for Irish politicians to say, “Enough!” It doesn’t exist, does it?

Apparently hope *is* a strategy. 🙄

Alt text as a literary art form. Superb!

The corruption is so complete that we don’t even bat an eyelid when a cabinet secretary’s official statement includes product placement for a company owned by the president.

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

literally couldn't care less what a bunch of slavers—and people who were cool with hanging around slavers—think about literally anything

For anyone who has read ‘Project Hail Mary’ and eats chia seeds in their oatmeal, picturing astrophage as chia seeds is inevitable!

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

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Bro is gonna be mayor for 9 terms

This is the most measured and important thread I've read all day

The whole Tourette syndrome outburst at the Bafta's is SO complex and really harmful to so many involved. But So many people are missing a huge amount of context in comment sections. Here's my thoughts having done some research and listened to lots of voices.

This building sold in 10/24 to a Russian oligarch, Andrei Sharkov, connected to Putin’s inner circle. It sold for $26 million. In early Feb, DHS bought it for $130 million. Closed in four days. $ 100 million over price. Sure was fortunate Sharkov bought this and 47 won. Prescient actually.

Not trans. Not a drag queen. Not a brown-skinned immigrant. Again.

I did a lovely long classic cross-country ski today, listening to some music. Everybody Wants to Rule the World came on, and at the line, “all for freedom and for pleasure, nothing ever lasts forever,” I immediately thought of this performance. It transcended.

ever think "hey, remember NFTs?" and then laugh a little

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

We'll never forget the tragic fire at the #Stardust nightclub in the early hours of #ValentinesDay 1981. The families, friends, survivors & community are foremost at this sad time of remembrance

I'm still thinking about this. It does bother me that I know that people are going to question my integrity. I've publishing so many words about this. But most people still aren't going to see any of that thoughtfulness before they randomly run across the part where I said something they don't like.

Immigration is one big PSYOP. It ain't some poor immigrants robbing you. They don't own the Energy Companies, the Supermarkets, the Banks, the Housing or the Healthcare. No it's the billionaires who rob you, and they blame immigrants to distract you.

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Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

my opinion on the Bad Bunny halftime show, and non-English music in general, is that i think a need to “be able to understand the lyrics” displays an embarrassing shallowness of the speaker to appreciate the voice as an instrument & to appreciate music as something other than a lyric delivery system

It's also an origin story. Sugar cane is why enslaved people were brought to Puerto Rico

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Bad Bunny just abolished ICE through relentless fuck you pride and joy

I am so thankful for this. I can now make peace with every awful politician who feels the need to say “God Bless America”. I will think of Bad Bunny and fill in the rest.

Great halftime show. Bad Bunny reminding us once again that without Indigenous, African American and Latino culture, the U.S. would be about as interesting as a bowl of white rice.

This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

If you haven’t watched Judi Dench and Ian’s Macbeth, you’re in for a treat. It’s just so unbelievably good

As well as being funny, it shows that the arts & cultural sector (unlike so many other sectors and Nikki Minaj 🤡) have largely refused to capitulate to Trump. Remember that.

Since I'm on a tear about "Don't touch the tear gas/flashbang grenades thrown at you", this is more excellent advice. Tear gas is an area denial tool. So just step out of that very localized area and take people with you. You aren't holding ground in a war. Listen to HK... be like water.

The lady in green standing immediately downwind of the president shitting himself was fighting for her life not to puke. Skip the first 30 seconds.

“Great question! Jocelyn?” Catherine O’Hara’s comedic timing was a marvel throughout Schitt’s Creek. Her delivery of these three words had me howling when I first heard them, searing the scene into my brain. youtu.be/mR3Plv8HuNk?...

Pretti stepped up for a woman who’d been assaulted. He exercised his rights in the face of actual tyranny, not from a podcast booth. He seemed moral and decent. His valor reminds pus stains like Patel, Berry, & Watters that their macho shtick is sad and hollow. *Of course* they celebrate his murder.