The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

The human brain has a strong negativity bias. It's so important to remember this. It makes so many other things clear.

okay cool kimmel got his show back can GFM get her DC comics run back now

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

For whatever reason, I'm feeling "I Don't Want To Change The World." "Tell me I'm a sinner, I got news for you. I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you!"

Perhaps ironically, it was the Harris campaign that made me realize that hardline party voters simply believe whatever they want. Being caught up in the feeling of momentum, and having an opponent to pin all their dissatisfactions on, is powerful enough to override any couterfactual evidence.

If Coca Cola engages in bad business practices, someone should simply start a competing soft drink business and defeat them in the free market. I am very smart

If you claim not to have seen JK Rowling do or say anything problematic, but you keep or have access to a database of dirt on anyone who ever criticized her, you know damn well she's done something wrong. Also, what you're doing is unhealthy as hell and you need to seek help.

It is supremely annoying that liberals think the point of the trolley problem is that it's an easy question with an obvious answer, or that it's normal and natural to regularly encounter trolley problems in real life.

"My ideas are great, but my art skills suck." Your ideas also suck.

i'm stuck on the analysis that conservative media functions as a hyperreal simulacrum so that whenever anything real real (one of the fonts of hyperreal getting made dead) punches through it all just goes especially crazy

I can't join Mastodon. I don't know what an instance is, no one has successfully explained it in a way that I can understand it, and, at this point, I refuse to learn.

It is worth mentioning that, in the United States, open antisemitism was common and the government censored early reports of the final solution because they worried it would make the public more sympathetic to the Nazis.

One of my favorite details about this painting is the old man sitting by the guy's elbow. The tangent of the chin and jacket makes it look sort of like he's nuzzling him.

I suspect even if you as a voter hate trans people, the fact that someone like Kamala Harris has so perceptibly turned the transphobia knob back and forth while looking to the audience for approval, showing she does not actually believe in anything, is way more offputting than the supposed wokeness

that's fucked up. only regular powerless people whose identities don't align with christian white supremacy are supposed to get death threats

Most things don't need a computer chip in them.

I'm getting pretty sick of powerful people explaining to me why it's very important that we kill hundreds of thousands of people, like there could possibly be a reason for it

People confuse "progress takes time" with "all you have to do is wait," then they confuse "all you have to do is wait" with "all you should do is wait"

Some years back, the Redford Theatre did a father's day screening of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, on a 1969 print that they'd borrowed from a private collector. It was pretty beat up, but... it'd had a life, you know? In the era of digital replication, we've forgotten the beauty of uniqueness.

"sexual harassment tells you everything about someone’s relationship with power" Carve this into the front of every government building and into the walls of every workplace

Alan Moore really nailed the way the world's most powerful people think about the rest of humanity, all the way back in the 1980s. (If you didn't read the text bits in Watchmen, you missed out on getting your brain cooked the way mine did.)

Not many people know this, but his real name is Robert Zombert

virtually attending a workshop tonight and instructor mentioned using chatGPT to search for something if google isn't helping and i do not care that i am insufferable anymore i have simply accepted i am the insufferable guy everyone knows when it comes to this shit

If you're a white leftist who wants to be an organizer, the #1 way I know coalitions will fail is if you're snide to Black people online. Calling marginalized folks cowardly and stupid for trying to keep themselves safe while protesting? You don't have what it takes.

I feel real bad for everyone who's been struggling to care for a delusional family member, watching whatever progress they've made get annihilated by ChatGPT in an afternoon.

It is actually insane that the medium and the industry are still defined by children's fantasy characters wearing colorful spandex. Imagine asking someone their favorite movie and they automatically assume you're talking about footage of a train pulling into a station

One of my favorite living guitarists. An illuminating practitioner of funk and dance music, in addition to being an all around cool guy.

The balls are the ass of the dick

See also: guitar gear This isn't a Boss subtweet Well, it is, but it isn't just a Boss subtweet

An anarcho-socialist candidate who runs for president while cosplaying as Trump, as a bit (His running mate will obviously be Italian Elon Musk)

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

If you boycott Disney, which has been on the BDS list forever, it will cover your Kimmel and your HBO Max boycott...and I say this as someone who loses money when Disney gets boycotted

National day of remembrance for Charlie Kirk motion passed the Senate by unanimous consent. Zero Democrats objected, which would have stopped it. Tommy Tuberville is presiding — and smirking. www.c-span.org/networks/?ch...

When elected politicians post that USians “should be alarmed” about x, y, z without adding what THEY are doing about said thing, it’s infuriating.

The thing about streaming services is that their bread & butter are households that sub and forget - ppl who go months w/o actually using the product but enjoy having the option at their fingertips. They're the first to go in a boycott (it costs nothing to cancel) and they're the hardest to get back

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

For the people that feel it’s safe to register for a protest, let us know what kind of arrest training you have? What kind of protest training do you have? Do you feel comfortable leading a training for your peers? Do you feel comfortable without a list of what to do next in case of an arrest?

Keep in mind that Kimmel’s monologue did not mock Charlie Kirk, but pointed out how Trump was capitalizing on a murder to push a false agenda, and showed how Trump himself was more interested in his ballroom when asked about Kirk’s death. Framing this as “comments about Charlie Kirk” is a lie.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

Gregory Bovino, leader of Trump’s LA and Chicago raids, personally testified that he saw a protestor strike a Border Patrol agent. The jury did not believe him and the protestor was acquitted. The Trump admin is losing these cases left and right. Their credibility with jurors is virtually nil.

In honor of Jimmy Kimmel get suspended in part for saying "And by ‘statistical fact’, [Vance] means ‘complete bullshit’,” in response to Vance's false claim that most political violence is from the left, here's the DOJ report showing the opposite, that the DOJ conveniently just memory-holed:

While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

screw the screaming services. buy yr favourite data hoarder a couple of hard drives.