Someone please kill me right now.
This all goes back to the death of Reader
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Someone please kill me right now.
tough way to start the day, for sure
30-50 feral ferrets
As I said some time ago Washington is a small place, and in certain circles it was not difficult to hear things about Biden’s condition. And this is from more professional and nominally united people with an interest in keeping it down. The ones up there now are a box of ferrets.
Back to School is an entire Season
Some anti-Western westoids were just telling me that BRICS is a coherent organization of allies.
I do not want to talk about how blessedly exceptional the Bay Area was this summer because RE is pricy enough.
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Moderna vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 2/2
Hey Taaaaaaaaper
In senior year, I took a self-defense course offered by my school that taught us how to gauge out eyes and kick lying down, and every time we learned a new technique, we were reminded of “proportionate response” and how we needed to use just enough force to get away, otherwise it was just assault
I thought both of these guys were racist af so is this intra racist violence fueled by their own ignorance?
It would be a shame if he died when the mods were asleep
I really wish I didn’t know this but he never shares links. I don’t think he knows how to cut and paste. This is so sus
Let's be clear all those indies were absolutely right to flee this shit
Obsessed with images of a giant promotional statue of King Kong that accidentally caught fire
80% of the most prominent groups leading the charge against anti-trans rhetoric and activism and pushing anti-trans and anti-homosexuality laws receive fossil fuel industry funding. They are literally funding a massive societal upset as misdirection podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
"Author Fran Lebowitz said in 2018: “You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”" www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Sound on for this one, the score is extraordinary
Is it too early for Sawn Lake on state TV?
Maybe — just maybe — fully funding our parks and libraries and community centers could be a more effective, more life-affirming, and less expensive means of ensuring community *safety* (and vitality!) than bulking up the police budget!
Seems gentle enough
Just normal president things
Don't forgot profiteer,
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Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
The classic "well I've never heard of it" disproof. Showstopper, every time
Two would work is they straightened the curves to look more like a fort, the Fort FAFO flag
Option one is knockoff Uruguay, two is tropical. Boston is not tropical. Three is straight pandering to Cambridge. There's not a serious contender among them.
I guess that's one way to make sure every state actually has, by necessity, a well-regulated militia
deeply infuriating to see the extent to which they are doing the opposite of the successful authoritarian consolidation playbook and having remarkable success anyway
If Sauron poured all his cruelty and malice and desire to dominate life into the One Ring, shouldn't he have been pretty chill after he made it?
To clarify, I don't mean the prosecution was unlawful, I mean this choad is - presumably - claiming it was unlawful.
Wait, there’s something D’Souza was right about?
Not sure I have any thoughts but boy do I have questions
Technical question, but how can you demand compensation for what I assume to be unlawful prosecution when the admission of guilt is a precondition of a pardon? It's a pardon, not an exoneration.
Who's worse, Dallas or the Astros? (stares blankly, stammers briefly, head explodes)
do it dot gif
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
Supply chains would be a bitch
You seem very sure of yourself, Chris, but are you sure of the facts? Questions have been raised.
If you're in the market for a writer / narrative designer, help a sister out
China cannot believe its luck
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
West Marin (super crunchy, *super* white) would beg to differ. BLM signs on the front lawn do not mean anti-racist at heart, making performative liberalism an empty threat when open fascists move into the neighborhood. As long as commitment to the local woo is real, it's go along to get along.
The class I taught the most often over my 22 year academic career was Intro to American Government. Sounds dry, but students definitely walked away with an understanding of the bottlenecks to legislative change and the range + limits of government power. That is my legacy, not my publications.
"I know y'all are super busy in DC, but we're going to need you back right away"
yeeeeah a guy who dated a 19 year old while in his 30s has ZERO business saying trans people shouldn't transistion until they're 25. i mean NO ONE has any business saying that. but ESPECIALLY that guy.
"Punishing Democrats" How it started / how it's going
Texas comes through in the end
Yes, but with none of these people wearing pants
Nods approvingly in Gen X
It seems to me one of the best arguments to the court is that if this is truly a national emergency, the president’s own party controls Congress but has done nothing to address it with legislation, so how can it possibly be an emergency?
Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, California, Nevada, Washington, Arizona, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, Georgia, Hawaii, and North Carolina.
The British Raj in India depended on the cooperation of Indian civil servants, bureaucrats, and soldiers who massively outnumbered British officials. This is partly why the Independence Movement, led by Gandhi, called for *noncooperation.* This is what’s we’re seeing and what we need more of.
He looks like someone who just realized he has the wrong face for the job
even spicier
that's the best illustration of the ridiculousness I've ever seen
The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
Just a thought. They're guarding the green crosswalk with 7 police officers. It would be trivially easy for a chalk-equipped group of civic-minded citizens to drop by each of the red-circled crosswalks in turn.
Talk is cheap. This is probably the only part of me that wishes I lived in Florida. A cop car fits, comfortably, 2 officers and 3 detainees. 3-5 cop cars is 15 detainees and 10 officers. It would take 30 people to make them useless? 50-100 to make calling for backup useless?
Anything more than 100 would be "we're calling out the national guard to and gonna start shooting teargas as people holding chalk for drawing rainbows".
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The Cohen to Trump to Vance lineage is truly a curse
I'm thisclose to buying a Dodgers cap which is an extreme state of what the fuck
You have no idea how painful all this California solidarity is.
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some people just have lower polygon counts but, like, spiritually
seeing that little bird just made me nostalgic, maybe that's why they haven't updated - it's just too tragic
"They were foundational to what would be called 'math rock,' so-named for the songs’ uncommon time signatures. The genre found the golden mean between progressive rock’s complexity and post-hardcore’s intensity...." I didn't know about the Don Cab-to-Battles lineage!
this is fantastic
hall of fame underrated skeet
Yeah, the more boring the task the more people like offloading it. It's why people opt for autopay vs. paper checks, stamps and envelopes every month.
I always get a laugh seeing this photo of Peter Thiel because it’s a crypto conference in April 2022. He said crypto was replacing fiat currency. He was then in the process of selling $1.8 billion of crypto before the crash of late 2022. We only learned about the timing of his sales much later.
His moonwalk was amazing tho
I do have to confess it’s a little funny to me when medievalists get upset about misrepresentations of most medieval people because they treat it as a trespass against the past. But when I see medieval Muslims, Jews, etc. being misrepresented it’s so clearly weaponized against those groups today.
You have to know how to hate.
Whatever the accuracy and value of “Democracy Indices”, this is truly remarkable and again shows the striking disconnect between the U.S. legacy media and U.S. political reality.
So, more qualified than Adams for sure
Pupwig Woofenstein!
That’s a load-bearing unless
SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!" RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...
Honestly, we cannot fucking wait. Nobody is scared of him and everybody hates him, the entire chain of command included.
Vance has gone on to realize that actually, being a really bad person can make you a *great* candidate, depending on whose votes you're after. He's not being unprincipled (at least not here), he's just learning on the job.
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Maybe he'll find out who Stephen Miller is. That should clinch it.
He is so *SO* close to realizing these are literal Nazis. Any day now, I'm sure.
Amazing
Yeah, Adams is simply trying to avoid prison at this point. Cuomo seems more like a genuinely disordered personality. I'm not 100% sure even he knows what he's doing at this point.
By dangerous, I mean trying to do this is a continent-spanning country with more guns than people. Assuming we don't turn this around, I would not assume we become Russia or worse. The second civil war seems like the more likely outcome.
The second is American's bone-deep sense of entitlement. The real costs and chaos of this assault haven't hit, but they're cresting the horizon like an incoming tsunami. Causing the costs of food, electricity, health care, and consumer goods to skyrocket at once seems like a very dangerous game.
Lots to read about competitive authoritarianism, and the dangers it poses here. All true, I'm sure, but there are two saving graces I can see. First, a decentralized a federal system where the majority-fascist states depend on transfers from the rich liberals states they want to throttle.
i think about the “do not split” principle from hong kong often
My theory is that they've run up substantial campaign debt and are financially obligated to carry on grifting until they can walk away closer to clean than wherever they are now.
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
We go live to Jake Tapper, who has the details. Jake? How's he doing? Dead yet?
The fuck he isn't. Do you think Jamie Dimon is scared of the little shits and grifters he's surrounded himself with? No, he's scared of the fact that Trump can decide, on a whim, that J. P. Morgan is an enemy of the state, that they deserve to die, and *nobody* will say otherwise, SCOTUS included.
No, this is wrong. For starters, Trump has been terrifyingly successful in doing more damage to the Constitutional order than any single human has ever done. That is MASSIVE competence. Secondly, traditional governing competence wasn't the key. The key was total, lawless insanity + charisma.