As I’ve said before, I think Oct 18 may be a day of great historical significance

What's the over-under on these people starting to beg for federal dollars when they can't find a private builder for this pipeline to nowhere even as they scream "sOcIAliSm!" and "Fuck Carney!" and undermine federalism at every turn?

This the man some people think will save humanity. He doesn't even care about his own kids, let alone yours.

we are governed by Facebook Grandpas who passionately and irrevocably believe that AI images of five-boobed ladies are real

a strong case could also be made that if you were confused by why Bill and Ted would cast themselves in WAITING FOR GODOT, you might also not fully understand Bill and Ted

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

What the actual fuck??? This is a really scary situation. This family is already facing death threats which is why they are leaving. Because Dr. Bray is a scholar of anti-fascism.

In addition to Comey, Trump’s DOJ is supposedly about to charge John Bolton, and is in the process of investigating Christopher Wray and John Brennan. It seems like they’re trying to go after any former official from Trump’s first term who has since become a critic of him.

They’re really and truly gonna do a civil war

"we are going to murder americans without due process" ~pam bondi, US attorney general

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

We're at, uhh, this stage of fascism.

a good maxim for whatever comes next is: "what's the stupidest possible thing you can imagine this admin can do? now imagine that it was more stupid somehow"

Preach, Angry Hank!

Wow, that looks seriously bubblicious. The velocity of AI $ is now in a league of its own. Nvidia and OpenAI tangle web of deals are “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Sadly accurate. #Democracy youtu.be/QCphS4_Rp3w?...

This should be a good discussion, featuring Paul Krugman, Zeynep Tufecki and others.

Living in Ontario is just an endless groundhog day with two press cycles: 1. Free the cars 2. Booze www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

There’s so much going on here, none of it good.

Here are some of the automated speed enforcement tickets given to vehicles assigned to Ford cabinet ministers. #OnPoli Story ▶️ globalnews.ca/news/1146373...

Do they increase productivity at scale? No. Will investors recoup their massive bet based on results to date? No. Are LLMs capable of being anything other than fancy prediction machines? No. Are we in a climate-destroying, economy-crushing bubble? Emphatically yes.

We blundered into a lot of problems because we were so impressed by the potential upsides of something that we didn't pay enough attention to the perils. But that's not the case here. The perils are so obvious and the upsides so minuscule. We are doing this because it feels inevitable. That's it.

*literally only eats undercooked steak* I think what's slowly killing everyone in my family is spiritual

Portland never stops being Portland.

It appears that the federal agents occupying Portland have people embedded with them charged with the task of producing stories presenting the government’s version of events. Ironically, this was the sort of work JD Vance did in Iraq before he decided he was against that war.

Begging everyone to think just a little bit about the explicit goals of tech companies before buying the lastest 'innovative' product

What you’ll never hear from PM @mark-carney.bsky.social nor Min Champagne : “With global oil and gas demand projected to peak by the end of this decade, Canada is vulnerable and ill-prepared to adjust to the impending decline. Up to 66 per cent of future www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/o...

America is never coming back from this.

Ha'aretz: John Oliver's presentation tonight on Netanyahu and his Gaza war has been banned from dissemination in Israel, with no explanation being provided for the action.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

I do weird grocery budget accounting because I'm a dork and my mom taught me to do so growing up and my groceries were up 16% total this week compared to the last time I bought each item, with the oldest item on the list from 5 weeks ago Incredibly glad I stocked up on meats in my freezer

you cannot be out here arguing with the whole userbase even if you hate them and think you’re 100% in the right you cannot do this

Oof. The best time to log off was yesterday. The second best time is now.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

thread you should read if you're feeling bummed out

Who says the Crown Prince has no sense of humor?? Amiright??

Pete Davidson just became the only victim of 9/11 to get reparations from the Saudi regime.

Chat is this good

Even though this was always the plan, I somehow didn't expect to see the drowning in the bathtub to be so swift and wholesale.

I have to admit: That the noble Italian people would be on the frontlines of preventing Israel's genocide in Gaza - putting much of Northern Europe to shame - was not on my bingo card. Rome is rising once more, but now as a moral superpower.

Antisemitism is real and vile and must be fought. www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

Confirming what I think we all intuitively knew, Pierre Poilievre credits his time in high school debate club as being one of the most formative experiences in his life

Oh the US unexpectedly lost another gazillion jobs? S&P to the moon! (I know the stock market isn’t the economy, but it also shouldn’t be completely untethered from it.)