Trump is gonna torch the GOP to smithereens for five minutes of dopamine and they'll sing his praises while he's doïng it.

yes, mister president, that’s right, let’s prepare americans for vietnam war II, a war which famously had no political consequences for anyone

i spent my whole life believing the president didn't actually have a big ECONOMY BAD/GOOD lever on the resolute desk but then this group of yahoos went and built one and then broke the lever off

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

There is a wider national conversation to be had here because it’s more than just on Waymo, it’s on our country as a whole. More bike lane enforcement, more protected lanes, and more discussion on why we need them. More tickets, more towing, and more license suspensions. Fuck You, America.

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

The icing on the cake in Trump/Abbott’s gerrymandering scheme will be when a couple of Republicans lose their elections in Texas in the midterms specifically because their districts were weakened by the dummymander.

The first step towards "feeling honored" is to conduct yourself honorably. The fact that dishonorable men are routinely lauded and rewarded does not change that essential truth, as shown by the most powerful man and the richest man both being profoundly insecure and self-loathing.

good to see that the war which isn't a war and that we've already won and will win any day now isn't having any impact on the strait of hormuz which is currently open and closed, otherwise, iran might be launching strikes from equipment that's been totally destroyed

So uh, that great thing I mentioned. The local couple that I’ve sort of been seeing these past few months asked me to be their boyfriend on Thursday. And I said yes. ❤️: @jasperhedgehog.bsky.social ❤️: @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social

The same goes for editing. Edit your work yourself, or get a professional editor to help you. AI cannot edit because IT DOES NOT ACCOUNT FOR STYLE OR CORRECT INFORMATION. Do the damn work.

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

ventriloquizing the dead is always unwise and not recommended, but i don’t think i am too far out on a limb in thinking that robert kennedy would be shocked to learn that his son grew up to become a staggeringly racist eugenicist

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

My boss has declared our workspace a barefoot-friendly space and we're having a coffee and tiramisu midmorning break soon, so I'm having a good Friday.

I don't know how much more obvious politico evangelicals can make it that, to them, "Christianity" does not include Catholics.

I don't know how much more obvious politico evangelicals can make it that, to them, "Christianity" does not include Catholics.

I don't know how much more obvious politico evangelicals can make it that, to them, "Christianity" does not include Catholics.

It's strange watching two convinced monotheists argue over whether they worship the same God.

This headline epitomizes the entirety of this administration. No real engagement with learning or scripture, no checking of sources—only what is received through media to justify violence. amp.9news.com.au/article/1ffd...

shit, openAI policy chief, that sounds pretty serious, maybe you should talk to the openAI CEO who has been responsible for a *majority* of these statement

Mewonders if these will become known as the Epstein Wars in the historiography.

i think my *most* old-coded opinion is that you can take or leave other people’s opinions, you don’t have to engage them if you disagree with them and you don’t have to engage someone if they disagree with yours, often times, “ok” is fine

Even I didn't have "Catholic VP lectures Pope on theology mere days after President posts an AI selfie-as-Christ" on any of these bingo cards I have here.

this *plus* it’s so monumentally stupid. you’re picking a fight with the fucking pope over the pope saying pope shit that literally every pope says, he’s just saying it in a chicago accent for the first time. how can this *possibly* be a good use of your time?

If this goes on much longer, I may have to creäte an infographic comparing and contrasting the Investiture Controversy, Avignon Papacy, and the Great Schism for friends.

Several folks in my mentions said they quit watching the new Count of Monte Cristo on PBS because it features Black actors. My friend, you are going to be shocked when you learn the ethnicity of Alexandre Dumas.

Trying to deflect criticism for his blatant violations of the 1st and 2nd Commandments, Donald Trump violates the 9th

I have just learned that chicken, gravy, and corn flavored jelly beans exist. No, I didn't try them. I learned those flavors exist.

"There is no subject so frivolous that does not merit a place in this rhapsody," weites Montaigne. I keep saying Montaigne invented blogging in the sixteenth century. In other random news, I became a Person Who Owns An Air Fryer yesterday.

Watching someone six feet tall worry about heightmaxxing validates me with all sorts of happy warm fuzzies.

Fox News, circa 2013.

over half of americans and one in seven republicans should have voted for democrats

My attitude remains, "That's droll, but wake me when they threaten a new Investiture Controversy."

Fucking internet all-timer here

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

In my first week here, my boss asked me how I would use AI to make our work more efficient. I replied that I didn't know how I would use it at all in our work, much less for efficiency. I was very relieved when she said that was the correct answer.

My ongoïng project to be witty, wholesome, and sometimes substantial without anyone yelling at me proceeds apace.

I'm laughing at the Avignon Papacy discourse as much as anyone, mesupposes, but wake me up when they threaten a new Investiture Controversy.

Are they gonna threaten to put Pope Benedict VIII on trial again? No? Well, then methinks they don't have the fulcrum they think they do.

"Wow, if I had a nickel for every time there was a 'War of Three Henries,' in history I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?"

"To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers." —Bene Gesserit axiom

anyway vance and his ilk sees the presence of any black (and most brown) people in elite or coveted spaces as on its face evidence of “anti white discrimination”

“I learn what can be taught; I seek what can be found; and I seek in the gods what must be prayed for.” τὰ μὲν διδακτὰ μανθάνω, τὰ δ’ εὑρετὰ ζητῶ, τὰ δ’ εὐκτὰ παρὰ θεῶν ᾐτησάμην #Sophocles

Today was a little triumph at work: a Farewell to Clippings. No more goïng through the collection page by page by page. We were thorough: all duplicates removed, lots of clippings photocopied, all sorted chronologically. Forty-nine boxes of mess reduced to eight boxes of well-annotated order.

the entire gist of the piece is that netanyahu played trump for a fool and the entire cabinet decision-making apparatus — all of them — sat on their fucking hands and stared at their too-big shoes rather than try to call it for what it was

I can't pretend to be appalled that an American President would threaten outright genocide in full public view—was it somehow /better/ when it was merely implicit?—but I can't help but wonder what the mood will be at those second annual peace prizes that were so eager to award him their first.

given how things have been going, the next dem president probably needs to set a new record

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Modernism—capital M Modernism—is a distinct and specific set of ideäs arising from specific historical contexts—mostly 1848 and its aftermath—and not simply an appreciation for lower-case m modernity.

conservative pundits, GOP apparatchiks and their various enablers spend 10 years insisting that racism is marginal to trump and trumpism trump: