Karl-Anthony Towns is the greatest athlete in human history who lacks the ability to move less than three feet in any one direction at a time

We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

That's not how I remember it, though admittedly I was grown up, awake, and paying attention at the time

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live TV On the radio (before gerard Smith died) Television OutKast LCD Soundsystem GZA The Avalanches Robyn Christine & the Queens Hand Habits Diarrhea Planet

Congrats to all those groups who got grants to build apps to “combat trafficking,” decades of letting DHS agencies take the lead in “trafficking” investigations—in your own small way, you helped pave the road for violent ICE raids like this: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"don't vote for cops" is some of the best and most broadly applicable electoral advice you'll ever get

To me, this is part of a broader pattern, where the second Trump administration has, from the beginning, ignored serious controversies regarding their employees, as well as requests for accountability from the public and elected officials. So far it's working. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The bigger challenge is we have a handful of sociopaths who can circumvent and undermine democracy. We have no bigger challenge.

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”

ME (if I had a pigeon coop anytime someone hurts my feelings): I must be with my birds

@cjzero.bsky.social lmao wemby saying "get me back in" after the chet dunk

This is the most right I've ever been

Try to imagine a Republican Party with a dozen or so staunch abortion advocates. A dozen pro-choice Republicans wrecking every shot at eroding women's autonomy, ruining every anti-choice vote. Can't picture it, can you? Yet we have to accept this kind of Democratic Party, for some reason.

The way the thunder are ahead in this game is the way a city "beats" Godzilla by just surviving him until it's time for the movie to end

At this point I expect wembanyama to just show up wherever chet goes to dinner, take food off his plate and pay the check on the way out

Every time we hear about how genAI has pushed another teenager to suicide, another person into committing a mass shooting, or generated CSAM of school girls used to blackmail their schools, remember we were told that what we'd be hearing about is a cure to every cancer, and global poverty itself

American style democracy is a joke. at the national level your vote is increasingly literally meaningless because of the Electoral College and gerrymandering. at the local level you’re supposed to vote for random party functionary offices you’ve got to be 9 levels deep to know what they even do

"stock indices are changing their rules to allow SpaceX to join almost right away and with fewer conditions, thus forcing investors who follow a passive strategy, like index funds and many pension funds, to buy the company’s shares." prospect.org/2026/05/20/e...

like fauci supporting lying about masking’s efficacy because they didn’t want to cause a panic by admitting they were rationing masks

AI-generated podcasts are also money-makers for businesses that generate hundreds, thousands of podcasts and make a profit if they get 20 listens per podcast. As Kate Davies has shown in her post on AI slop podcasts, this leads to disinformation at scale. katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/k...

And perhaps my greatest worry: Customised AI-generated podcasts like these have a target audience of one. They destroy the public sphere by isolating us.

it didn't even recoup its marketing budget

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

There's no "study," this is based on a crank manifesto with only four footnotes written by a bunch of health grifters. Why is the Guardian covering this like it has any academic credibility?

Technology these days is just a never ending list of things to disable.

I genuinely struggle to understand what these people think is going on

Half of Americans report being more concerned than excited about AI, and they’re particularly worried about its impact on creativity, mental health, and people’s jobs. trib.al/ad6qRtC

“They approved the single largest publicly funded, privately owned sports stadium in human history, which the NFL wants to reward so other cities do it next” is the actual answer.

JUST TELL ME THE FUCKING POST OFFICE HOURS JESUS CHRIST

The AI-as-fact-checker thing is something I hear a lot and still haven't heard a convincing case for. If you know you need to double-check its work, either you're spending more time on fact-checking as a result or you're not double-checking and just telling people that to get them off your back.

2 years ago, Congress held a hearing on anti-Muslim hate. There, a Republican screamed at the only Muslim witness: “You should hide your head in a bag." They ignored cases like Wadee Alfayoumi, a little Palestinian-American boy stabbed 26 times. Even with his mom in front of them. Now here we are.

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Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

The level of corruption is off the charts, and somehow beyond the ability of our supine opposition party and major media outlets to convey. The American people are exhausted, broke, melting in a climate-change heatwave that portends our future. Hard to feel much hope at this moment.

Seeing lots of theories about why the crime decline is continuing (phones, lead, both of which I think matter) and nobody saying the most obvious one: the opioid epidemic has peaked and was driving a lot of violence.

if someone does a coverup, that's consciousness of guilt and so Objective Journalists have an alibi for critical coverage. but if you just shoot someone in broad daylight, Peter Baker's hands are tied

like this right here. Trump is straight up looting the Treasury, no different than if he had bashed in Fort Knox and stolen the gold in there with his own hands--worse actually--but our precious professional norms forbid a clear description of what's happening bsky.app/profile/axio...

Wemby is literally doctor Manhattan

Bill Clinton used to have to walk across the street to use a private telephone to make fundraising calls so as not to violate the Hatch Act by using public resources for partisan purposes. Trump makes campaign commercials from behind the Resolute desk.

everyone always frames this as some overstepping of cherished norms when all it does is prove the norms didn’t mean anything to begin with. Biden should’ve told them to fuck off and forgiven the loans anyway

The Supreme Court said Biden couldn't forgive student debt

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

go ahead & call me a 'doomer' but as someone who watched the mass criminality of the Reagan and GWB presidencies roundly ignored by subsequent Democratic administrations I simply don't believe the participants in Trump's orgy of corruption will suffer any consequences

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

"for all practical purposes, this money has been awarded to Trump himself, by Trump himself, to distribute as he sees fit." - @redford.bsky.social defector.com/donald-trump...

"For the third straight time, a Dem president handed a GOP president an economy that was at the least pretty good...for the third straight time, the GOPer made things worse." Essential @mjtoma.bsky.social: Trump's policies are directly to blame in a truly rare way: newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Lmao this is the luckiest shit ⚡ MapTap Challenge Round - May 18 www.maptap.gg/challenge 87🎓 99🔥 97🏅 94🏆 95🏆 Score: 947 in 19.5s (5.9s to spare!)

The face of someone whose husband just called 911 on the black people who walked by their house