Were you there when they skibidi’d my lord

So this Walter Reed thing started with the Krassensteins. You need to stop letting yourself be tricked by the Krassensteins. That's humiliating

I always just assume my phone will emit a sound like an amber alert to let me know.

did It Happen? no, of course not but the periodic weekend “maybe It’s Happening” rumor mill is an important mental health salve, carry on

I would just start citing to this cite in all my briefs if I was a counsel fighting the government here

Even if these "he's gone" rumors prove wrong, it's nice that we can share the hope like a family

This is absolute trash. Kids are submitting their original art for AP Studio Art classes. Claiming copyright over that work is genuinely evil.

Median voter baybeeeeee

Hey, just as a reminder: Duke blew what seemed like a lock for this Final Four with a hilarious epic collapse last weekend.

James Carville when he's texting you for money

I like my dumb little car but everyone involved in selling it to me should be in jail

➡️ GamerGate YouTuber defamed a lady journalist ➡️ Journalist sued in New York ➡️ It's *exceptionally* hard to win a defamation case in the US ➡️ Court said "before I decide the merits, you need more to prove NY is the right venue. Go get proof." ➡️ Letter outlines proof + the YT guy is deeply boned

For years I've been looking for the right guest to do a pod on this. The car-sales model that is dictated by law in the US -- you must go to a dealership & suffer for hours in order to buy one -- is one of the most nakedly anti-social special interest giveaways in history. Needs to be killed dead.

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

i think there is an aspect of this which is true but honestly i think the *real* reason car dealers hate EVs is more boring: they all mainline fox news and talk radio and facebook all day and sincerely believe false negative things about EVs that oil companies have propogated through those channels.

This really is the thing about right-American Catholicism. It wants to be its own continental religion separate from Europe. Which is to say they’re not Roman Catholics. They’re costume Catholics. They like the tradition and set dressings because it’s all very proper. Not so much the actual rules.

I think everyone would agree that the police and MPs shouldn’t be shoplifting.

why don’t u just tell him susie

I am a medieval historian!! The world always is in a state, it has never not been in a state, joy and delight and beauty is what humanity exists for

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Queen Elizabeth ate bananas like a baked potato: split open on a plate, with a fork and knife

dropping a falklands-shaped nuke on the discourse with "americans are the indigenous people of the moon"

pope, go on hot ones

The obscenity of a budget that cuts the forest service to fund the re-opening of Alcatraz as a prison.

It's the colonizer energy. I cannot imagine converting to a religion (even if it wasn't at the behest of Peter "I love the book of revelations" Thiel) and 5 years later writing a memoir about it. FIVE YEARS IS NOTHING

I'm trying to express why I have such contempt for that man's expression of his so-called faith. I think every faith tradition has shitty people (and some shitty people were raised with no faith). But to willingly adopt another faith and publicly twisting that faith's interpretation such that /1

That two successive heads of that faith - in an intensely hierarchical structure - publicly call you out the way that you are misrepresenting that faith, and you 1. think this is subject for debate and 2. keep doing it and 3. monetize it in a fucking book. Yeah... I'm going to feel a kind of way

oh you want discourse YOU WANT DISCOURSE? everything fell apart after apple discontinued the headphone jack and made us buy those damn dongles

Repugnant clown.

I take it back the Nyt rapid response account is good 🤣

I'm not defending large corporations, I've got *plenty* of stories there but man the small businesses run by little captains of industry are fucked up

A significant portion of small business owners really are the backbone of American fascism, petty little tyrants

Wage theft, especially when it's from someone who you interact with on a regular basis face to face, is honestly one of the most psychotic crimes that has been normalized

But the oversight power is “subject to several limitations.” And it is particularly limited when Congress directs the oversight power against the President, because unenumerated powers to regulate the President cannot be lightly inferred consistent with the separation of powers. Man, what??

"When it comes to legislation directly targeting the independence and autonomy of the President, moreover, Congress bears a heightened burden to demonstrate the basis for its action." no, no, that's not true! that's not how anything works lol

Started/Ended

The problem with platforms is that they're always advertised as "true freedom" Which always devolves into folks being assholes. The best moderation is 1. Treat everyone like adults, but you're not going to harass people. 2. None of us are dumb, so don't play dumb when given a temporary ban.

If you're under the age of 54, you've never seen a picture of the earth taken with you on it.

I’m about to book a trip to NYC and I will do it with the same bus company if it will save Bluesky

this would be an amazing way for It to happen

Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,

I dunno if prologues and epilogues are part of the main story but I do know a publisher should never own your IP. They are purchasing the right to publish your work as a book and that’s it and those rights should always revert back to you in the end and also no compete clauses are bullshit too.

I dunno if prologues and epilogues are part of the main story but I do know your publisher must be contractually prohibited under penalty of damage payments from utilizing generative AI during the production of your book in any way, including and especially editing and cover design/creation.

I dunno if prologues and epilogues are part of the main story but I do know your publisher should be contractually required to notify you when and where and how your book is going to be discounted online and you shouldn’t just see Amazon giving it away one day out of the fucking blue.

I dunno if prologues and epilogues are part of the main story but I do know that as the sole product originators in a multi-billion-dollar industry, professional organizations for authors should exist that have collective bargaining power with entities like Amazon and offer real health insurance.