feels like a microcosm of what they're doing to all of us. at least he willingly volunteered to be ground up into the content machine and turned into internet soylent, i can't say the same about myself and my friends being targeted by it

there is no joke i can make mean-spirited enough to compare to the level of disrespect that the entire right-wing has shown charlie kirk by picking over his corpse, from the moment he became a corpse, to bolster their delusions of relevancy and importance it's telling about what the right-wing is

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner

this is too many big words and it makes my tiny thembo brain hurt but ill take your word for it

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm not the world's foremost expert on Christianity but I'm pretty sure the the man who told us to "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God" would not be OK with the use of the Lord's Prayer to glorify military conquest

Hi, I served in Afghanistan: this is an obscenity and a perversion against both Christianity and America. Fuck this shit forever. Thanks.

It’s such a moving tribute when the guy giving the eulogy starts talking nonsense about tariffs.

i feel weirdly optimistic vs. just a couple weeks ago. trying to make saint out of the guy you can't even show actual voice clips of isn't something a confident, succeeding regime does

.....how did they get that many people there, im genuinely asking

Editor: You get those photos of Charlie Kirk’s memorial? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin stupid just like you asked. Editor: what

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

i cant for the life of me recall who it was because my memory sucks, but i keep thinking about this one 2024 campaign ad where the person is babbling about being tough on the border or whatever... while standing in front of a *different* border

transvestigating is just irl amongus

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

exhibit 478 on why all the LLM-as-AGI stuff is nonsense, they are very impressive prediction machines but they do not think and they’re never going to stop producing bullshit

Replace ICE Jobs With Turbo-CPS Jobs 2028

literal baby brains

if you're gonna steal queer kids from their families because they're too supportive have no reason to not crack down on evangelical child abuse next time progressives are in power, as a starting point

Jesus Christ how are people like this semi-functional adults

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links 2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands 3. The whole app is open source This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site. We 💙 the open web.

Persecuting Christians: Me being able to buy a hamburger unmolested Not Persecuting Christians: This, apparently Fucking Republicans.

oh god the weebs are radicalizing

This is fantastic. I just checked the graphic novel version is the #1 best seller in its category on Amazon rn 👀

this is the most insufferable way to come out as nonbinary i've ever read

Woke 2 starts with angry Disney adults

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

i’ve read so so SOOOO much bad “i’m so powerful” poetry by humans and the thing about it is, aside from being super embarrassingly cringey, it always has a unique flavor to it bc each weirdo is slightly different this has no flavor at all this is LLM output

insisting how strong you totally totally really super duper are isn't what strong people do

love too have correction that looks indistinguishable from collapse

Who does InfantryDork™️ think he is? Thanos?

twitter is wild because the dumbest people are like "masculine and feminine find their weight again, steel and grace heading towards harmony" while the most poetic posters are like "my dog is a chonky boi"

i have an enby vampire character with an orchid mantis motif but im scared to ever do anything publicly with them bc without context it just sounds like a trans predator caricature

realized a story I was finishing up is probably going to have to be shelved, possibly for a while because it involved a character who's trans and used a gun.

on one hand, this is genuinely terrible on the OTHER hand, i'd be lying if "lmao, more for me" didn't cross my mind as an individual of sapphic-adjacence

i'm a "Zuck should go to prison until he dies, then we pour a salt circle around the cell to keep his ghost also in prison" person on Facebook broadly, just feel like the outright esoteric hitlerism shit is (was? again, not sure there's a distinction anymore) even worse

I mean the takeaway here isn't that I believed her, the takeaway is she cooked her brain on facebook and also the free crowlers of beer she gave me.

I had a waitress at a suburban brewery tell me that kids were shitting in litter boxes, I said it was fake, and then she said she was a substitute teacher and had seen it irl. She was otherwise libed out, facebook is crazy.

both suck a lot though and the more i think about it the less im sure a distinction separating them still exists at all

litterboxes...

see, in my gut i feel like surface-level slop boomers fall for all the time is somehow "less bad" than full on posting about the intracacies of phrenology on X with your dark enlightenment buddies, but then i remember we're in the middle of a decade-long furry panic that's very much the first thing

I also just object to the term "terminally online" because, like. We are all terminally online. All ages, all the time. Even if you don't even touch political discourse you *will* get politicized by the internet, and if anything, older people are much less able to catch the subtlety of it.

bnuuy

Seems wrong to characterize the Kimmel affair, as I’ve seen some people do, as “corporate censorship.” The but-for condition was a direct threat by the FCC chair; that’s state censorship.

Posting some old art that I don't think I shared here. I asked myself a theoretical question: What if Yellow Pikmin had floppy ears? #art #pikmin