3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

I went through a protracted interview process for my last job, which involved skills tests and a lot of other rigamarole, and it was by far the worst company I've ever had the displeasure to work for

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.

I'm not thrilled that they aren't feeling shame over stuff like DHS harassing and kidnapping innocent people or crashing the economy and wiping out what safety nets we have--but this is the one issue I've seen that finally causes Republicans to feel a little embarrassed

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

Every single day, the 900,000th worst thing a Trump admin employee might do that day is a thing that the right wing media would dedicate a news cycle to covering if a democrat did it. A tweet like this would have been used to indict the entire democratic party as slandering "real Americans"

this guy died lmao

Hiring a skywriter to spell out “damn that’s crazy” over a major metropolitan area

there's a certain kind of scoldy posting about relatively low-risk actions like permitted protests & walking school buses that's like the leftwing version of EDC guy bullshit. Honestly, I think it all comes from the same macho attention-seeking bullshit as the rightwing EDC stuff

this is absolutely fucking nuts. these people are cartoons

Please remember the initial claim was that Trump wasn’t in the files at all

hot take i think we should ban sports gambling before someone gets shot

publicly imploding, visibly both exhausted and defeated, and our senate gave him a release valve; i simply cannot stop thinking about it. even if they held out for just one more week instead of forcing a panicked weekend vote.

When newspapers couldn't just link the documents

no idea how you'd study this without running into a correlation is not causation problem but i wonder if every extra few minutes you spend driving to the polling place increases the odds you're going to vote for republicans by 1%

The mods here seem like dipshit tyrants (it's Jack-era twitter after all), but we're on like the third moral panic over "WHY WAS THIS PERSON SUSPENDED" and it turned out they posted something like "I will commit murder using a gun to kill you with"

I generally like More Perfect Union, and to be fair, MOST of their content is not like this, but I know the exact video this is referencing. They had another similar one about ranchers who were "betrayed" the other day. Sometimes I see their stuff & say "I'm supposed to feel sorry for this idiot?!"

Disappeared? People talking like this about social fucking media? Touch grass is cliche but I'm guessing some people need more than a 72 hour break for their own well being. There are people in this country actually being disappeared every day.

i hate it when politicians hand over their office to an anointed successor, but let's be honest: she's only doing this to distract from her voting for the Republican bill to reopen the government on their terms

KEEP HONKING I'M LISTENING TO THE HONEYED LIES OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER

Catherine Cortez “I hate Muslims” Masto versus Brian “posts on BlueSky about fighting, then voted for the Republican bill in March and disappeared” Schatz

a crossing guard being killed by a driver the day before we yank speed cameras out of school zones is super on the nose

Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit

apart from the obvious racism here--trying to legislate or moralize about where people "ought to" live is the last or only resort of people who have given up actually trying to address the housing crisis. There is no good reason to stop migration, and no real way to stop it except by brute force

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

i will not be satisfied until all of these people are rotting in prison

what

It rocks - absolutely so - how much Trumpland elites in recent weeks really thought or at least kept saying they thought Trump had survived the Epstein stuff and the worst was over and it was no longer prominent in the media and politics anymore and that the admin had gotten a handle on things….

LA: - black mayor - majority non-white DC: - black mayor - majority non-white Chicago: - black mayor - majority non-white Charlotte: - black mayor - majority non-white

You wonder if there's ever any self-reflection, ever a moment of thinking, man, that was rough, that I had to say that as part of my job, that just sucked

they’re saying on the news goku is sick. they’re saying he ate a box of sunmaid raisins and they’re poison for him like for dogs. the camera cut to the weatherman for the forecast and he can’t keep it together. everyone in this town loves goku

jd vance 2015: has anyone seen #Archer? #ThatsHowYouGetAnts lol! jd vance 2025: I'm not saying it's necessarily good to be molested - no one is saying that - but if you are going to be molested, obviously you'd want the President of the United States to do it. Why do we pretend otherwise?

This really encapsulates all of it, doesn’t it? Transphobia is so reinforced by propaganda, that if you were *assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein as a child,* the kind of people who raped children alongside him will make the story that you’re a lying slut and you’re the disgusting party for being trans.

Today is the 9th anniversary of the day Maggie stole an entire pecan pie and got drunk from all the sugar. Happy Purloined Pecan Pie Day from our family to yours!

Epsteins actual financial advice must have been like “u ned 2 itimize ur diductshins”

Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it. Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators. Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.

JD Vance is basically Millard Fillmore in the 21st century, and not just because he's an unpopular second-banana to a president who might die

everyone keeps dancing around it but JD Vance keeps trotting out the “immigrants are taking our housing“ because it’s a nativist blood libel he’s engineering alongside eg “they eat our pets” but, more specifically, it is to legitimize the dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population.

Demi overheard a British woman in Japan. From bigsofttitty.png ep 352 - I crave release

"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!

People have been way too kind to Perez honestly. I see people praising her all the time but she’s legitimately just awful.

both were elected in part because they were probably the most experienced politicians in the running and were considered relatively inoffensive to the party nominating them. and they both fucked up catastrophically in different ways

thinking about it now: i've said it before but the argument gets more reasonable by the day that joe biden should be (and will be) historically viewed similarly to buchanan for his complete inability to respond appropriately to trump during his term. he had one job and he fucked it up.