"All Americans have equal rights" is a concept so foreign to today's Republican Party that they think a Democrat saying as much is a major gaffe.
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"All Americans have equal rights" is a concept so foreign to today's Republican Party that they think a Democrat saying as much is a major gaffe.
The learning curve is real, but Python + Matplotlib can read in CSV / XLS and produces the most beautiful / customizable plots I've seen yet, eliminating replicates should be easy. Free, but admittedly not a spreadsheet program.
Seconded. Justice for Katerina and Ignacio (and Alexander Clamilton and the rest)
Based on the endless stream of previews, so so many. As someone outside of this particular fandom, it feels like the entire set is just going to be wall-to-wall spider typal.
hmmm yes, trad wife implies the existence of guerrilla wife, wife of attrition, and the dreaded total wife. jokes aside, I’m very excited for the next episode.
I’m just waiting for the twist; the medical ailment they’re rushing to hide from the public is Cotard’s syndrome. He’s convinced he died months ago.
Exactly this. I’ve got a folder of all-time top skeets as screenshots, just in case the ship goes down and I somehow don’t notice til I fail to login.
I’m saving this thread just because everyone is chiming in with their favorite lightweight bulletproof no-nonsense utilities and I know someday I’ll need each and every one.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Obama is my primary example of how Democrats *should* be campaigning but generally aren't. People are desperate for hope. Enthusiasm does in fact drive turnout among our core voter demographics. You have to tell people better things are possible, not make a list of rights you're willing to abandon
Wayne’s World, Waiting For Godot, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Beavis And Butthead are all part of my favorite genre: two stupid guys that are occasionally very smart by accident.
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
Everyone on Bluesky is poised like we're waiting for the DVD logo to hit the corner of the screen
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
you're telling be the guy who ordered donuts by saying “whatever makes sense,” isn't relatable? isn't brimming with all the character and intrigue of a room-temperature bowl of tap water?
@smbccomics.bsky.social I think "glasses glints or beady eyes manically looking back to panel 1" guy might be my favorite character so far. Least hinged to date.
I still regret not getting a selfie with the unhinged rant the owner of the Airbnb management company left on their front door after the government passed new short term rental laws. It was like if Luther was hammered instead of the theses.
The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.
[To the tune of 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' by The Beach Boys] 🎵Wouldn't it be nice 🎵To eat a Minion 🎵Holding up a towel to hide from god 🎵And wouldn't it be nice 🎵Though quite forbidden 🎵Savouring the yellow flesh of Bob
Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States. Democrats are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation — and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
🤘⚡️Lightning is stored in the balls⚡️🤘
Where is all this tariff revenue going? Where is the corresponding announcement for lower taxes? Is anyone asking? $360 billion is equal to 17% of all income taxes paid by Americans in 2022. Shouldn't our tax burden be lowered by 17%? Are they just stealing it?
I feel that. I was holding out hope for a sequel or DLC for ages. Only thing that scratched a similar itch lately was Expedition 33.
Of course, LGBTQ = lagoons, gyres, bogs, tangles, and quagmires.
I’m begging, begging some gaggle reporter to just once hit him with the, “Gonna need a source on that one, chief” when he says the craziest shit they’ve ever heard.
I’ve been meaning to build Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin for ages, first one that popped into my mind.
Came to say the same thing. The same data on a reasonable scale doesn’t show the same dramatic response. Doesn’t mean it was a good idea, or without consequence, but a definite chart crime.
Agreed. It feels like most of the respondents answered the question “what set made you angry recently”, because the only reasonable answers on here are Fallen Empires, Homelands, and Dragon’s Maze. Still haunted by drafting packs with three clue stones in them.
new horror bookstore opening in Brooklyn www.timeout.com/newyork/news...
CRYPTKEEPER: Wait just a TICKET. If I let you leave without a scary story, now would that be FARE? Here's one that gets RAIL frightening, about a dark and stormy night, the kind where you just might get caught in the TRAIN. That's right - the bone chilling tale of AN ADULT MAN WHO RODE THE SUBWAY.
“The left needs to stop policing language! Here’s a list of words and phrases they should no longer be allowed to use.” is how the entire Third Way statement reads to me.
I'll take all the good news I can get this year
While this admin isn’t uh.. known for competence, I’m choosing to believe whatever they’re concealing simply demanded a full eighth inch of makeup to hide and is just that horrendous.
it'll be funny when the news is like "a nation is mourning" and then can't find a single live shot that doesn't include people very clearly partying their asses off
Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Happy two years to some of my favorite journalists! A decade ago I wouldn’t have imagined a small group could make it this far; turns out there’s plenty of demand for reporting that’s thorough and fearless. Here’s to many more years!
For anyone else with early internet nostalgia poisoning, the WinRar bag is back in stock!
The idea that anyone in the Democratic party hesitates on backing this message is wild. These are the sorts of stories we ought to be telling, showing the improvements can be made in people's lives, and highlighting what we need to do better going forward.
I’ve got more thoughts but I’ll save it, god knows how many of my followers are not here too. All this makes me want to overhaul my personal website, bring it back to the old HTML and webring days. For the time being I should at least bother to update it!
Humans are slow compared to bots, and occasionally even thoughtful. An Internet built for humans looks very different than the one we have today. There are plenty of modifications that would be almost unnoticed by humans, but essentially fatal to bots and the business models that rely on them.
Similarly, we see AI slop being pumped out endlessly and nearly instantaneously, hoping for a viral spark. But what if there were a human-scale rate limit? Perhaps one video per day on YouTube? It’d be the death knell of a particular type of creator, yes, but “polluter” is a job I’m okay seeing die.
A thought today; we need more friction on the internet. Aggregated from conversations over the last decade really. A friend suggested once that emails ought to cost 1 cent per recipient, but it would get refunded if they actually opened it. Negligible for typical email, instantly fatal for spammers.
YES. I think you’d like it, given the other games you’ve vibed with.
we recently did an episode of ill conceived about james dobson (BOZO DOWN) if anyone wanted to learn about him and his evil ways
Personally, I think we should focus on what James Dobson got right. For example, I also hope there's a hell. Because I want James Dobson to burn in hell forever.
It’s not enough that Cracker Barrel revert to their old logo, FOX won’t rest til there’s an oldy timey white dude in suspenders in every logo. Only then will they focus on real issues, like if drinking from straws makes you gay.
It’s wild how consistently conservatives use classes of people as a measure of crime, even while the actual crimes are at historic lows. People without houses? Crime. People without status? Crime. People with more than zero melanin? You guessed it, that means crime.
I’ll be honest, infrequent surprise secrets is a way better pitch than “newsletter”. Worked on me at least.
wait did I really never post this one
It’s nice to see people going LucasArts adventure mode now and again.
Huh, the mechanics of that overlap quite a lot with playing brass instruments. I wonder if a natural experiment is possible, looking at apnea rates among trumpet, trombone, and tuba players? There are enough out there that correcting for age, weight, etc ought to be possible.
We are, in a roundabout way, coming back around to Magic as Garfield intended. At least the “primarily discovering new cards when your friend plays them” part.
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
Holy hell, there’s of course plenty of classic schlock but there are some amazing all timers there too. The Changeling jumped out immediately! Thanks for sharing this
I know it means Strange New Worlds, but my brain still confidently reads it as “Snacific North West”. Can’t be helped.
I've heard great things about Astra Platinums too, some prefer the feel . After my supply of feathers runs low I might give them a try.
Here, all we get are a few specks of time where any of this actually makes any sense.
Way back in the 2010s I got into safety razors and tried 7-8 different blades. The Japanese-made Feather blades were far and away my favorite, been using them ever since. It's possible the landscape has changed since, but they're still available and affordable.
My tepid take: Avatar set looks mechanically interesting, but far enough from my jam that I'll sit it and Spiderman out. Honestly it's nice to have a breather and sock that budget away for going big on the return to Lorwyn set come 2026. Besides, I'm still loving EOE, just want more of that.
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My absolute favorite part is that Loomer is so stuck on the idea that Bill Maher (of all people) is involved, that by the end even the person asking the questions fumbles his name into the mix.
Man, if the US had a shadow cabinet, we’d have some incredibly effective press events happening right now. Is there an established reason we don’t do that here, or is it an intentional on-going choice that’s being made?
folks I put together a compilation of hilarious clips from the short lived series Manimal, wherein a rich playboy solves crimes by changing into different beasts. here it is for your viewing pleasure, unless you don’t want to condone this sort of behavior (if so, fair) youtu.be/117fdJaHa68?...
I watched a ton of this when I was a kid, late night reruns given when it originally aired. I still love the awkward cuts to a tight shot because it’s just really hard to get an animal to hit a button or pull a switch.
DC statehood shows Dem weakness goes back a while. Occasional lip service, but barely even that, and effectively took the stance that hundreds of thousands of US citizens should be disenfranchised because it’s unfair that they’d elect Dem Senators, which would make the Senate less disproportionate.
I’ve turned 35 today! The best present for an artist is their art reposted, and I’d be grateful for that too ) especially since I’m currently open for new opportunities :3
it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a dude in possession of an axe, must be in want of a band. doesn’t have to be good.
I’m split between FDR taking office on Dany 26th, 2917, only to travel back in time and die in 1922, and the fact half the faces belong on a chart titled “Warning signs of stroke”
At this rate I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t offer Alaska too, just to sweeten the deal.
bro just one more GPT bro. just one more you dont have to read or write emails anymore bro. one more GPT will fix everything bro
I really hope there will be some counter-programming to all this. Tanking the economy and making "secret police" the most accessible employment is pretty damn bleak. Big shout to @404media.co for their reporting on this and so many related stories lately.
My partner subtitled a few two-hour foreign films manually years back, it took ages. The crazy amount of time it saves just having a program transcribe, even badly, while hitting the correct time stamps is insane. One of the few actually good uses.
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A year is forever in these hell-times, but I can’t help but remember the poor woman who realized her husband used ChatGPT to generate his wedding vows rather than think about them himself.
"we will take the people who make your phone unusable by calling 12 times a day and hang them in the town square" would win 70% of the vote
Completely true, and yet the first thing my brain reached for is this clip.
"Mr. Mamdani’s Jewish supporters said they resented the implication that they should back a candidate for local office based on how strongly that candidate supported the Israeli government." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/n...
The fact that nobody around him has told him this isn’t how numbers work shows you how afraid of him everyone who works for him is.
Somehow I made all these years before learning about tinted sunscreen. Now I don’t have to look like a mime every time I go outside for more than ten minutes. (I know sheer chemical sunscreens exist but I haven’t found one I don’t hate)
In my mind, a big reason dems are so wildly unpopular right now is there’s no indication they’re interested in fighting back in ways that matter. Just gaining office so they can keep the lights on til the next wild rightward swing can occur. A clear vision, candidates with fight in them, then maybe.
My (maybe tepid) take today is that Dems need some public-facing document a la Project 2025 laying out their vision for the country. Not duct-taping institutions back together, but the big transformative changes the left flank have championed. Of course it’d require leadership that WANTS change.
That’s an excellent refrain I’ll have to keep in my back pocket, “If I wanted to know what ChatGPT would say, I would’ve asked it. I asked you because I want to know what you think.”
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
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There's a real market opportunity for anyone willing to make beautiful licensed albums with enough slots for an entire release (EOE, EOC, EOS, SPG), for the set collector sickos (complementary).
Niche complaint: Why do the officially branded UltraPro binders for every set hold 360 cards, when that's not enough to collect the entire set? I know it's down to the explosion in variants, even without the commander cards and extended arts, EOE reaches 419 cards.
I'll admit the first time I encountered pedocon theroy (feels like at least a decade ago) I didn't immediately bite, but man.. Red states pushing for child marriage, GOP dudes that turn out to be predators, now all this? Paints a pretty compelling picture; many such cases, as they say.
I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds
Still one hour left in Bandcamp friday, finally found a hot second to buy a fresh pile of albums for August. This should make for a great time. #BandcampFriday
Just a reminder that tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday, when they waive their revenue share and give all proceeds to artists! I'm already poking around and making a list, including this album that gives me big Savatage vibes. dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/album/vermin...
A throwback to the pearl-clutching 2011 FOX graphic showing how many poor households had a refrigerator, as if keeping food for more than a day was some decadent luxury.
Immigration Attorney Receives Taco Bell Phone Number from ICE Office
I feel like we need to bring some of these Scottish journalists over to the US. We need someone popping up during press gaggles with a pleasant brogue to ask the most blunt and unabashed questions possible.
This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover
