Dream blunt rotation

one thing that's great about Bluesky is when there's new Chotiner piece we all meet up like fans of a band for a surprise listening party

Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

Smells Like Mean Spirit

also how dare this group of bigots claim the cascade name

I really need people outside of Seattle to know how much Krist Novoselic sucks

Honestly it's very sad that it's normalized in San Francisco, a city that was pretty chill not all that long ago

El Rinconsito has opened its first Seattle location, taking over a former Starbucks storefront in the Rainier Valley (2921 Martin Luther King Jr Way S).

My kid's been saying "Seahawks" in a very cute way so I asked them what sport the Seahawks play and they said "catch da ball!!!!!!" and that's all I'm calling it now (honestly makes a lot more sense than football)

"It's not sexist. Roger Ailes used to tell us that." 😭

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

I have no idea what possessed Spinotti to talk to Chotiner but I'm sure glad he did!

“Imagine [if] I would have died... What the government would have said.”

As Marimar Martinez, who survived an assassination attempt, bravely testified today, DHS, Border Patrol, and ICE agents are rampaging through US cities, brutally targeting working people and activists who stands in solidarity against their violent repression. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The first one absolutely broke me.

Gaza’s photographers have been forced to capture violence no human should ever witness. What does it mean to repeatedly record a blinded boy or a father mourning his children? Huda Skaik asked eight Gazan photographers to share a photo of significance. https://bit.ly/4bBF8L6

A Cybertruck for kids?!!! Yikes, this is going to give me nightmares!!💥

grace for the ordinary and wrath for the powerful

Naah, I want them on trial.

CURSED MARKETPLACE

In no functioning country is this allowed.

Stretching the DOJ beyond its capacity so judges don't have enough time for habeas corpus cases seems very much by design www.fox9.com/news/federal...

When you're worried about you and your allies keeping your energy up, don't lose sight that those you're resisting have to do this without capable organization and more importantly, moral sustenance.

Ive been passed over for many jobs (including a VP of internal tech at a major bank) simply because I was honest with my interviewers that AI systems dont actually work and we need to be careful before we implement them. My PhD is in AI. They opted to hire con artists with business degrees instead.

Me in June 2024 trying to tell everyone that OpenAI was going to run out of money

centrists' brains are so broken that they can't view strategy outside a left to right scale

Exactly. The choice isn’t “everything is antisemitism and every dollar must be spent to prevent it” or “invest only in Jewish identity (as defined by Bret Stephens).” There are other choices!

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Harvard professor Robert Trivers tried to get Jeffrey Epstein in touch with Norman Finkelstein. Instead of accepting, Norman sent a reply calling Alan Dershowitz a pedophile rapist and saying Trivers should be ashamed for defending them, and both should be strangled instead

The most recent ones: sick of the Bohemian mines, Norwegian orphan with nothing to lose More distant past: being Quakers, a lot of miscellaneous religious stuff, a lot of ???

Periodic reminder: When someone shares news with "BREAKING" and they aren't a journalist and don't link to a news story, it's probably not the best source for people to be resharing. It might be trying to get rage reposts, even! Better to find a news article that is accurately describing facts.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Reminds me of Capitol Hill in 2020—even people who stayed inside their homes the whole time got gassed

Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died." But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.

“One cop we talked to—he appeared to be a lieutenant or commander—about babies being gassed said in response ‘that's too bad.’”

Yes whenever I pick up my metformin prescription my first instinct is to send an email to my shittiest friend about it

I hadn't heard of Lutie Stearns (1866-1943) before this but dang what a badass.

After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting. But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:

Unspeakably grotesque.

you really expect me to believe the titular "animal planet" the television channel was created to document has been earth all along? nice try but not falling for it

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

It’s 2029 and Donald Trump died of a heart attack three days before Inauguration Day for an unconstitutional third term. Half of DC’s buildings have been demolished and are being rebuilt as Trump-branded properties. JD Vance, calling himself Donald Trump II, dutifully applies bronzer to his face.

credit scores are such a horrible capitalist racket. i know, the sky is blue, etc., but every time i have to interact with my credit scores, even directly with the bureaus, they try to upsell me on so many things. for just like, the thing that controls my ability to get really basic survival stuff.

Ripping up every government contract with these companies should be a priority on the same level as abolishing ICE.

Can't be exaggerated: every bully believes themselves a victim. Even Hitler! Even US slave owners! It's part of the psychology. There is no amount of power or privilege that can ameliorate it.

Dang @volts.wtf what a perfect encapsulation

“As someone who desperately needs this technology to work out, I can honestly say it is the most essential tool ever created in all of human history.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ple...