We love our lady patriots, don't we folks? 🫡

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Up to the minute cultural take: 'Rick and Morty' is very funny.

do you embarrass yourself on the internet every day, or is this a one-off

I don't understand why so many people in positions of power are letting fear blind them to opportunity. Half the US is BEGGING for someone to rally behind. An American Pope touring America explicitly behind the cause of moral righteousness? On the country's 250th birthday? It'd be unstoppable.

the bluesky devs need to apologize for not fixing my mental health issues

Honestly impressed by Oman's ability to get the bag here

Capitol Hill Seattle-specific post, but what is the deal with people revving their engines on random neighborhood streets at all hours of the day recently? It's all Mustang-esque muscle cars. It seems like there's been a massive uptick in the past week or two. Has anyone else noticed it?

Everyone should have their names and how I know them tattooed across their forehead.

I’ve been saying this for a while, but Trump won because he quite literally speaks a (variant of the English) language that non-morons cannot actually pull off

Being extremely likeable is a sharp knife

Tangentially related to this, but I think "so bad it's good" media is a topic of underrated study. Stuff like The Room that gets just enough of the foundation of filmmaking correct that it's watchable, yet fails at every other decision in such an unpredictable manner that you can't look away.

Saw a dude by the Convention Center wearing a "submissive and breedable" t-shirt, on this, the day of our Lord's resurrection.

The genius of this song is that each time you expect it to slow down a bit, it taps the accelerator. youtu.be/CMcffdmrm5g?...

It's about finding joy sleeping in a race car bed

Vampire Weekend makes the most quintessentially New York City music and there are no good counterarguments to that fact.

"pedo-con theory is real" makes more accurate predictive claims than a good portion of the perspectives commonly represented in major media outlets.

Broadly liberal democratic parties across the globe need to start thinking seriously about how they can cooperate across borders to stymie right wing threats like this. Something like, when in power, legislating predefined and automatic retaliation against allies that do democratic backsliding.

Stopped at a gas station in rural north Florida yesterday to go use the bathroom and a guy cut me off while pulling into the parking lot. Undeterred, I walked inside to see the same guy pissing in the single occupancy restroom with the door completely wide the fuck open.

This is true, but there's a deeper reason to not give an inch on issues like this: once cruelty becomes something you're willing to compromise on, it infects everything else in your worldview.

Who said generative AI can't make art?

I'm so urbanist-pilled I initially took this to be a correct assessment of the risks of traffic violence

I would cut off my thumbs for an elected official that displayed the moral clarity of Ms Rachel

Not that anyone needs anything new to stress about, but the recent heat wave and coming water issues in the US Southwest seem... really really bad nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-p...

I am not a stoner. I live in that sweet spot where, when someone asks me if I'm high, it only takes me a second or two to confirm with myself that I'm sober.

There are very few things I believe more strongly than this: If you orient your politics around things that you know are not true, or don’t care if are true, whether because it sounds good, or you think it’ll impress people, or any other reason, you are planting the seeds of your own destruction.

Beyond the point being made here, it's interesting that respondents with strong left/right ideologies clustered around "Strongly Disagree", while respondents with more moderate ideologies clustered around "Neither".

I don't know much about IL-09, but Kat seemed like a good candidate and I'm happy to see new faces. Bliss also seems fine. I'm not posting this as an insightful take, I'm posting it as a humblebrag about achieving inner peace through selective ignorance.

The amount of latent demand for a politician willing to say "my priority is to put as many of these people on trial for treason as possible and pursue the maximum sentence" is huge. The affordability people are going to be caught with their pants down when someone finally steps into that lane.

I hate what's happening right now. With every fiber of my being, in a way I will never forget

there's surprisingly little writing on how "MAGA" is basically a subculture in the same general way, like, goth or theater kid is a subculture

I think we may have done something catastrophically stupid.

"We love our [blank], don't we folks?" and "that's OK, I'll still keep drinking that garbage" have reached Borat-voice My Wife levels of being burned into my neural circuitry and I hate it.

there are two ways for a neuron to say "idk." one of them is by making noise. the loss function hits you for making noise. the other one is to send your signal to a place where it has no causal power.

Dear future historians reading bsky to study what it was like to live through Everything: We're all pretty fucking shell shocked tbh.

Goddammit I made it 2.5 hours into my day without finding out we were at war. It was such an optimistic morning.

it's also notable that historians, scientists, non-fiction authors have thrived here while journalists often *haven't*. I think there are many reasons for that that are not journalists' fault, and some that are.

A gas station pump ad for chewing tobacco in Montana said to me "it lasts longer than your mom's boyfriend".

Why does the architecture in Spokane go so gd hard?

I would love to read an in-depth account of wtf happened to Facebook. Like, how did a company let its flagship product rot on the vine so thoroughly?

This is um... wild

Yeah, I support Newsom. I appreciate the harp, and I think she and Andy Samberg are just such a power couple

Emotion leaves structural fingerprints in writing independent of meaning. If you strip away the words and just look at sentence length and punctuation, anxious writing looks different than excited writing, even when discussing the same topic.

Posting this, despite the fact that he must know it's unlikely to be a popular take with his audience, speaks very highly of Chris.

nobody talks about red state regulatory dystopia

You can just say "George Bush did 9/11". You don't have to believe it. Just let the words roll off your tongue. It feels good to say doesn't it? Feels right.

This is also an argument in favor of harshly punishing information sources that get things wrong. If your source isn't exposed to negative feedback for incorrectness, find a new source. A Poster should be Followed based not on their best skeets, but by their worst.

The prospect of even a minor victory in mlps feels like a big Exhale moment for society. The world in which Decent People lose or stalemate that battle is much darker than the reality we live in.