Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Tough times for universalism

Well I've got a new intrusive thought this morning, thanks Ryan

One of these sweet babies is waiting for me at my local camera store, and I will be shooting it exclusively in low-res high-contrast mode.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Dear @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org: Please cancel your partnership with this evil company and stop pushing “A.i.” on teachers and students.

As long as it gets Golden out of there, I'm fine with seeing how '26 plays out. Dude is barely better than dead weight.

It's good that public sentiment flipped as soon as people saw the consequences of the things they thought they wanted, but we have a serious problem if we're going to keep cycling through this process forever.

I promise the billionaires that they won't like the immoderate path forward.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about, #warningsign edition

Hey, one more thing re: this discussion we were having earlier. Stop reposting from big accounts that merely curate reporting from others. Take 10 seconds and find the smaller account that actually broke the news. I'm trying to be better about this, too.

I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it

they're calling it the world's worst constitutional amendment

Which is why Russia and the Petro states, and the oil and gas companies, are doing everything they can to deny climate change and destabilize the world - cheap/free solar takes away their power.

It's important that everyone understand that Ross Douthat has never done anything *except* write slimy op-eds trying to smuggle far-right ideas into the mainstream. From college on. He's never had a real job. He has no skills, no expertise, nothing that would justify his position at the NYT.

“In 2029 we will use antitrust law to break up all companies that went through mergers after donating more than one million $ to President Trump while merger was being reviewed.”

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

A HERO for our times!

Christ, what an asshole

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

How exactly does one wear this dress? 🤔

This judge may be the angriest person in America. This thread blew my hair back.

Ellis says she is "ordering complete relief to the plaintiffs."

From ORTHO PLUS negatives to striking cyanotypes — see how Monika Danos created these beautiful Cyanotypes when illness forced her out of the darkroom. https://www.ilfordphoto.com/ortho-plus-and-cyanotypes/ @drmarsrover

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

String every last one of these fuckers up in a gibbet. Let the crows have them.

Regular reminder that when we are mad at Ross Douthat and/or the institution of the New York Times, we are actually mad at AG Sulzberger. Sulzberger is the reactionary centrist marketer who has essentially full control over who works at the Times and what is written about there.

The way my eyebrows shot up at the end of the third sentence

When I got to see @jasonj.bsky.social this summer we were talking about manhood and friendships, and I realized that a nonnegotiable quality I have in male friendships especially is being co-conspiratorial, feeling outside of and acting against bigotries. I do not trust men who shrug and ignore.

This is good, right?

As long as we're, "just asking questions," inquiring minds want to know: how much gravel could be poured into Ross Douthat's lungs before he suffered anoxic brain injury?

An extra special good morning from my neighbors' maple trees.

This exquisite enamel on copper, "Ascension of Christ", by Pierre Reymond, ca 1550, poses the question, what if Christ blasted off like a rocketship when he left Earth?

This is the way.

Gore Vidal said “It’s not enough that I succeed, others must fail.” That’s how I feel about the disgraceful gutter-bigot campaign run against Mamdani and the do-you-need-to-borrow-an-Ativan freakout about him. These people spectacularly undignified.

Smash talk gets a bad rap - and understand, I know there are folks for whom it's legitimately painful, and that's fine - but I am convinced that it is the social equivalent of fascia. It's that almost invisible connective layer that knits everything together.

I dream of a world with consequences for pundits. A hilarious failure like this should always be a career-ender. Nothing dire or violent, mind you. Just… never paid for an opinion again.

At last, my long-running feud with Morrissey approaches endgame.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

...I think this take could use a little more time in the oven, Jenny Holzer.

Here’s a fun fact: More than 1000 people have signed up at runforwhat.net to run for office since last night. 😈😈😈

This is why they’re seriously discussing cutting the library budget. This is why our schools are underfunded. This is why we can’t #PlowTheSidewalks Crime is down, way down, but the police are defunding our city. There is no rational way to justify this. It must end.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

God almighty, these fucking people