Plum Balloon Sinuplasty

Go into settings and turn off 'Smart Compose'. You can thank me later.

Been about a month now and I can honestly say kagi is worth the monthly fee. It's just a flat out better search engine than Google, Bing, or any of their derivatives, and I am *happy* to pay for the absence of ads.

Trump's low approval ratings are not as exciting to me as they would be if I didn't know most of the people mad at him would still vote for him again over any given Democrat, even if it drove them into extinction.

"Automate Everything" is the most horrific phrase I've ever heard in my life, and it's the main selling point of ai. Because the underlying question that's left is: What is the point of you?

The most likely conspiracy here is that the SS knew about Allen and chose to let things play out so they could make the case for building that tacky ballroom. Or they're all just wildly incompetent, which is frankly more likely.

Me, angrily refilling my water bottle and taking my medication:

It would be easier not to call the president a rapist pedophile if he wasn't one.

I'm sorry but I cannot morally condemn either Cole Allen or Luigi Mangione when neither congress, the courts, the cops, the states, either major political party, the international community, aliens or God are doing anything to stop these wealthy men from raping the world.

I uses to work for C2, and yeah, I can totally imagine a few reasons why the dude snapped. Take some of the most highly educated people in the world, and watch them try to survive the job market by tutoring while they apply for literally anything they can find in their respective fields.

John, dude, we all saw the video of you just chillin' in your seat, looking around like a rehashed Pulp Fiction meme. Front and center of what, exactly?

So, was it only the journalists who were traumatized? Everyone else was fine, but it was really upsetting if you had a press pass?

Was the wine that bad?

The secret service hitting RFK JR with a newspaper cause he's trying to nibble on the shooters body.

Yeah, I can't imagine how the state could ever abuse this extra layer of constant surveillance or use to for purposes other than what it was originally intended for. And of course the technology will be foolproof and not at all beset by false positives and mechanical errors.

It will be even more devastating when they give Trump a standing ovation, but, like, ironically

‘Communities Not Cages’: 200+ Actions Across US Protest ICE Warehouse Detention “Warehouse facilities are built for storing products, not people.” | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/ice-war...

AI issue aside, we have about seven months for the US to decide if the federal government still exists or if we're just a monarchy now.

What's more infuriating is that the companies refunded will keep the money they charged customers to pay for tariffs and then everyone will use that "windfall" to pretend the economy is stronger than it actually is because rich people are suddenly unaccountably richer.

In the absence of actual law, the investigation itself is the punishment. It's a weaponized interruption of life.

I've mentioned it before, but I have stopped believing in evil geniuses outside of fiction, partially because of the evidence of my senses, partially because of the nature of evil, and partially because I'm not sure I but into genius-as-a-noun.

I've seen AI folk insisting that the internet still existed after the first dotcom bubble popped, and taking that as a sign that there was no actual bubble then and none now. Which sounds to me a bit like saying a genocide wasn't a genocide if there were survivors.

What stage of capitalism is this one?

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig... The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

I'm on a couple of those but apparently not the one he followed

Evergreen

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

When someone posts something that looks like this. With airspace between every sentence to emphasize profundity. Even in sentence fragments. Because of concision. Which is the most powerful weapon we have. The likelier it is that you are reading some terrible overshared AI-generated crap.

So much of art in the 20th century was centered on the role of the process as part of the art, or even the process itself as art. It's frankly depressing to see people acting like the process is just the boring part you have to go through to get to the art.

YouTube suggested a video about a bunch of scientists who died. It took the woman who made it 30 minutes to get to alien conspiracy theories; immediately know the algo is going to decide I like that shit. Sure as clockwork, it just suggested her latest - an antisemitic Rothschild rant.

It is against BlueSky's moderation policy for me to say what I think about the people who created, operate, and/or use Kalshi and Polymarket. There's no ethical version of using those sites, and they don't even provide the nebulous value that LLM people at least pretend to do. They're just evil.

This is the exact opposite of what happened to me. I worked through the whole thing, and became incredibly galvanized by my experiences. I worked out more regularly, cooked more, became more active, and ultimately was motivated to go back to grad school. There's no universal takeaways here.

Shoutout to @people.com, which covered horrific abuses at the Everglades camp that the administration refers to as "Alligator Alcatraz," citing several folks (including me) who call it a concentration camp.

We're coming for you, Linda! We're going to turn you into a *spooky fingers* less wealthy millionaire!

Aside from all the war crimes, everyone in this administration is an embarrassing bitch-ass whiny piss-baby.

I think I'm kind of glad it took me so long to hear about Bryon Noem, because I know damn well this is going to be one of those things where cisgender liberals show their whole ass getting transphobic in the reporting, and it's going to make me tired.

Good. Keep feeling bad

In case you’re wondering what House Republicans are doing this week after a 2-week recess…. Passing a resolution honoring themselves for passing a bill last year. Seriously.

When your coalition is built on hatred it will inevitably turn that hate in on itself. Trump has been useful for all of these people because he doesn't actually have beliefs. As soon as he's gone, they'll tear each other apart.

"How could the Pope bringing his religion into politics!!!???" - a whole bunch of people whose entire ideology is about eroding the boundary between religion into politics

Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for government-run grocery stores echoes a long-running system in Mexico — one that delivers affordability, but not without trade-offs.

Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States. Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay. Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.

Why are there adult humans looking to 20 year olds for life advice?

Going to be interesting when Vance manages to become the first US official to be excommunicated

Confusing phrasing. Sneako is the one who calls for executing anyone who masturbates, just before he is punched squarely in the face.

They really are trying to make 75% failure look like a win huh?

I know, I know, it's old hat to say this, but now and then I really have to: Imagine Obama or Biden saying this, and how MAGA and the media would respond. It's absolutely maddening

The fact that he's still popular after everything is really damning of society in general. It's not just that people still support him despite his avowed antisemitism. These numbers imply that they support him *because* of it.