Was pleased to hear others also recoiled at the suggestion that Elon Musk knew a thing or had a skill at any point in his stupid career.

you don't have to cheer a fascist just because they start a fight with a different fascist, you don't have to consider them a part of your "coalition", you don't actually have to do anything except root for injuries on both sides not complicated imo

I am annoyed by the persistence of 'resist libs are tired of resisting Trump' line. No Kings put record-breaking numbers of people into the streets, specials/off-years are at D+10 or more. I don't think the resist libs are tired. I think some writers are tired of writing about resist libs.

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

The US is at war with Venezuela. No Congressional authorization, no public debate, no clearly stated goal, no casus belli, and a gradual ramp up rather than big opening, so many haven’t noticed (or deny it). But this attack removes the ambiguity. US is at war with Venezuela. With no end in sight.

What if we spent more money to get people less care?

This is everything good in the world

Art.

I guess I'm just old because I don't know anyone who talks like this--I thought we were still getting our slang from young Black folks and gay men...

Keep saying this because it keeps being true: Everything is so fucking stupid...

it's like one of those 'heartwarming: toddler raises lunch money' stories but actually good this time, this is what electing Democrats should get you

May I present the Chortlemuffin Effect bsky.app/profile/sonj...

the internet: where you can find the guy who knows this

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

My opinion of the New York Times is distinctly outside the mainstream among journalists. Most think NYT is mostly excellent journalism with some flaws and blind spots, I think it's mostly a vehicle for laundering right wing propaganda with some excellent people who put out good work.

Tell me you've never been to the Bronx without telling me...

It’s very weird—and telling—to treat politics as something unimportant that’s wrong for people to act on, while treating a jazz concert as an issue of public concern so serious it calls for legal action.

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

and they put *Britney* in a conservatorship...

Don't think I've spoken to a single artist who didn't struggle this Christmas, and I spoke to a lot, so even if it's not my work I'd really encourage people to try to support a local artist that you like instead of big corporations - every single sale makes a real, tangible difference to their life.

The AI industry in a nutshell...

Just say only white men and people with permission from white men are allowed to engage in public life and stop pretending you have a point, this is taking forever...

Creedal American sounds like a punchline from mid 90s "political correctness gone mad" discourse. Anyway, we already have several terms for people who call themselves "heritage Americans", some of which are acceptable in polite society, and so I don't think we need a new one.

Especially perverse to argue that formerly enslaved people--some of whom will have been biologically related to the people who enslaved them--would be subjected to a provisional citizenship as "adoptees" into the "American family"

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

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A perfect encapsulation of the “male loneliness crisis”

Rogan telling us he surrounds himself with people who love Nick Fuentes is a real "when people tell you who they are..." kind of moment

My guess is he was visited by three ghosts, woke up the next morning and shouted, "I'll teach those bastards not to mourn me..." before reaching for his phone.

Bewildering how the US developed a concept of masculinity that somehow celebrates shouting dumb shit into the loudest microphone...

We join CAIR and 42 other organizations to urge the Wikimedia Board of Trustees and @wikipedia.org editors to reject and block the efforts of Wikimedia co-founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger to deny the inescapable conclusion that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza.

Tech bros out here drinking the blood of the young when Michelle Obama could have shown them all they really needed was a good resistance workout, ample melanin and to not be the kind of person who drinks the blood of the young.

In 2021 I dressed in full PPE and held my phone to an intubated 45 year old man's ear while his daughter said goodbye to him. I truly don't believe in hell but sometimes I wish I did.

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

Is there an explanation for the attack on nurses? Is it because someone dared suggest more men enter the field?

happy hogswatch

Farm workers are hard at work in in Fresno CA harvesting pomegranates. They earn minimum wage and spend their days filling sacks that weigh up around 60 pounds when full. They then dump the sacks into the bins. A tractor hauls the full bins to cold storage. #WeFeedYou

Every noisy toy my little brother got for Xmas mysteriously stopped working within hours. My mother wouldn't have had the heart to do it but she also didn't interfere...

okay!!!

Tech and government joining forces to tell us all, "we are building a bleak, soul-crushing future in which you will have no agency and no rights for your own good why are you being such a whiny bitch about it?"

One of my mother's favorite Christmas songs was The Little Drummer Boy and thinking this morning about how the line "I am a poor boy too" contains volumes and how it feels like art/writing that expressed that kind of sentiment is in such short supply.

Archivist Bluesky is easily my favorite

People have historically, and rightfully, seen the evil of Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, and now CECOT for what it is, but I wish more people would also see the evil in our domestic prisons too. How we treat our most vulnerable, including prisoners, really sets the tone for our whole society.

these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election. we are in december of year one.

Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...