This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Yes, presidents always reshuffle ambassadors. That’s politics. But when 91% have no Foreign Service background, this is what institutional erosion looks like, especially in a system once considered one of the gold standards of professional diplomacy. 🇺🇸

ICYMI bc I made this live pretty late yesterday. I’ve yet to find a single “save the children” social media ban that isn’t just a sneaky way for big corporations to make more money, usually while violating our privacy and making us all less safe.

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Read this. Then read it again.

The Black Templars get into a bit of a scuffle with the most dangerous aliens of them all: KANG & KODOS! #warhammer

The amount of earnest goodwill Valve has banked from not being as OVERTLY evil as other big gaming giants never ceases to astonish me. They used a 15-year-old cliffhanger to sell a $1000 VR headset with a spin-off game that snubs the titular character's original actor and were LAVISHED with praise.

The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht

Time and again, we are presented with the same tableau: a three-inch mouse effortlessly subdues a 40-pound cat, flattens him with an anvil, denounces him implicitly as a “bully, idiot, menace,” and dispatches him with both moral and literal finality.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.

I don't think people realise that a big budget prestige Warhammer 40k adaptation would suck.

sorry, folks, you created this absolutely radioactive public perception of your technologies and fixing it is *your* problem

One of the wildest parts of the Luigi story is that he didn’t actually do it lol We’ve been saying that since day one

Trump-aligned Republicans are terrified. Why? Because Democrats are going to flip a Utah House seat blue. They want to undo the new maps. We are fighting like hell to stop them. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

It's not "free-market conservatism" when Trump uses government power to sabotage farmers' markets and then spends taxpayer money to bail them out, making them more dependent on the government. It's what dictators want: everyone dependent on their personal whims.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.

Over on the Facebook, you can bet that whether it's ICE brutalizing immigrant toddlers, or the US military mass-murdering civilians in international waters, every person cheering it on makes sure that you know they are a "Christian" in their profile. Every. Single. One.

bro we are being conquered by neo-confederate pedophile christian fascists dawg they are turning the cities into internal colonies for extraction

call me crazy but if the entire entertainment industry's reaction to the WB acquisition is "oh no" you probably are not, in fact, saving Hollywood

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

A death cult uses a torture device as its main symbol, conducts ritualistic cannibalism on its holy day and prays for the end times to arrive. Any questions?

The debate around whether Star Wars should be preserved in amber by Disney or tinkered with by Lucas, released in a version which goes against Lucas's wishes or hidden away from future generations, misses the most inviting possibility: that we sieze the chance to destroy Star Wars once and for all

Come to think of it, Pete Hegseth just admitted openly that they're committing extrajudicial murders in international waters partly in order to please MAGA influencers that want retribution for political attacks on Pete Hegseth:

#OtD 3 Dec 1944 British-trained Greek police, with Nazi collaborators, fired on anti-Nazi demonstrators in Athens, killing 28 people while British troops watched. The rationale was to weaken the anti-Nazi partisans who were too left-wing for Churchill stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1016...

Video suggests that "the agent drove erratically and brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

Every ad now

Can Bernie please explain what the exit strategy was for the shutdown fight? Was the plan to refuse to vote for the CR no matter how long it took? I have yet to hear anyone explain how we were getting Republicans to vote for the ACA subsidies.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Elon is getting a trillion dollar pay package. Donald is looting the place, and SUING so he doesn't have to pay out Congressionally required SNAP. Republicanism is for the little guy.

The White House keeps unilaterally taking entirely voluntary actions which it openly says are intended to inflict more pain and then they're I guess surprised - along with most of the DC media - about why they seem to be taking the blame for the shutdown.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious. Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%

Warg riders in the mist! I’ve been photographing the Orc collection & was rather taken with this shot. Converted 28mm plastic Orcs on old metal Mierce Miniatures wolves; scratch built tree; Jon Hodgson Backdrop. #wargaming #nerdlings #miniatures #jhbackdrops #middleearth #lordoftherings #warhammer

It's clear you care about this a lot, but you deeply misunderstand why I'm talking about this. I came up in ag as a farm worker. I AM one of the minority of farmers who aren't millionaires. I have to rent land. And knowing *I'm in the minority* is super helpful for navigating the ag sector.

Turns out it doesn't really matter if your policy or messaging are any good if the folks controlling the pipes through which most people get their information about the world don't like you.

So that's where this meme is from

this video is a great example of why you want to follow @sarahtaber.bsky.social She decodes what's happening in ag and it's very much *not* what you're hearing from the news, farm lobbies, or Rs. Especially important as this Republican-made food-affordability crisis continues...

Sad news in the #Battletech community. I have been informed that Melissa Noe, the "Office Wench" of Iron Wind Metals and wife to IWM Founder Mike Noe has lost her battle with cancer. May her memory be a blessing

Orc Marauders up for preorder here: www.meridianminiatures.co.uk/shop

one of the things I've noticed about sharing this take is that almost universally the people who take issue with it are parents of young kids. the people who thank me for it are people who had rough experiences as young kids

久しぶりにSFチックな世界観で創作 #mecha #afol #moc #lego #LegoMOC