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We barely have punk *bands* because people couldn’t afford instruments and rehearsal space even if they had the time around their three jobs. History is gonna be horrified by a lot of our present society that we don’t even realize is bad because it snuck up on us.
Yes, it would be great if we revived physical gathering spots. But we’re in an economy that couldn’t do a better job of grinding us into a pulp if it tried. Coffee shops and punk clubs require time, energy, and money we don’t have if we want to buy both shelter and food. So this is what we’ve got.
Twitter and Facebook were MAGA’s beer halls because Trump spoke fluent Twitter and used it to build a base. And unlike old physical gathering spots you can buy the virtual ones, so they consolidated control to slam the door behind them. All that’s left is Bluesky and, like, Tumblr. So why stay away?
Re: “Blueskyism,” for a lot of reasons—mostly bad—social media is the American social gathering place. Instead of the bar, church, lodge, etc. we have Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky. And social spots develop dialects. Fascists saw that early and learned to speak some, the opposition still refuses.
People who don’t want to hang out in a Nazi bar are the real problem here lmao.
Correction: What's left of Donald Trump will be awarding what's left of Rudy Giuliani what used to be the highest civilian honor.
I've said this before but he's the reason I have a career. Back when it was called econometrics and only used in finance and baseball he showed that the tools could be useful for news and now I'm a data journalist. But being first doesn't mean you're good, he was a baseball guy who tried a thing.
Be sure to pass along a message to be good at football for the sake of my bragging rights at family functions.
Nate Silver: The secret to a winning campaign is igloos. Igloos are the kitchen table issue of the year. I have $10k on the over for mentions of houses made of ice in the debate. Everyone: He must be right, he called an election more than 15 years ago because nobody else used data analytics yet.
My fantasy draft is done, so it's time for everyone to tell me what an idiot I am. Be aware it's a 12-team league so by the last few rounds pickings were slim.
No. NEXT QUESTION.
Man, how bad is he doing if he didn’t get his daily coat of paint?
Why is California’s high speed rail system so expensive and why does it take so long? Because California is bigger than the entirety of Japan. It’s like building Japan’s high speed rail network from scratch.
I didn't see this in a timely fashion, but it's definitely when @bayareadata.press and I got to do Luke and Joe Present: Bloody Pit of Horror. www.rifftrax.com/iriff/luke-a...
The entire length of Tokaido Shinkansen is 50 miles shorter than the distance from me to downtown LA, and I’m about in the middle of the same state. Spain has the largest high speed rail network in Europe and if it was all one long track it would only make it to Chicago from here.
Meanwhile, I would never see or interact with the news ever again.
This is the kind of thing you post at 6:54 if you might be dead.
MRIs, beatboxing, and AIDS.
I have the exact opposite opinion.
This seems like the most logical thing in the world to me. Just put a job site generator under the hood with a 10 gallon gas tank and wire it to an otherwise normal electric car with a ~50 kWh battery.
I’m just now catching up, has anyone confirmed it was a DUI yet?
Did he just rip off Big Balls’ story? Because there’s no way 1) he was driving himself anywhere, 2) he stopped when a woman waved him down, 3) he rendered any sort of aid in his recent condition, or 4) an angry partner would chase down some old dude who stopped and not, you know, his victim.
Obviously we all knew Gruden’s racist but I didn’t realize he was works for Barstool and golfs with Trump racist.
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
honestly ?? I’ll take this. If we don’t take it, we end up with less healed and changed people. Less allies. It doesn’t make sense not to just say “ alr, thanks for live laugh learning Snoop Dogg” in my humble bisexual and transgender opinion
If you really think about it, is there anything more Berkeley than someone who always seemed like the cool free spirited type turning into an insufferably entitled RFK fan who swears by ayahuasca retreats?
Is the Micah Parsons trade Biden's Katrina?
There is a Jakobi Meyers on the Raiders, named after the commercials.
we can just keep saying he's dead and refusing to credit or acknowledge anyone who refers to him being alive, this will work, trust me and just follow my lead
So I guess everyone expected a guy starting his first ever road game in front of over 100,000 people would look as good as his Hall of Fame uncles against the reigning national champions?
Like, do you need to sign something saying you'll never see them again? How is that choice in any way enforceable?
I haven't watched an episode of Bachelor in Paradise but I just saw a commercial where Jesse Palmer of all people says the final test is love or money, get the prize or get your… romantic partner I guess. My question: What's stopping them from taking the money and staying in the relationship anyway?
It’s an especially silly thing for him to say when the only reason the movie got made was because George Harrison put his hand in his own pocket to pay for it… because… the studios weren’t interested!
My grandpa was and my dad is this kind of guy and it's fantastic, but my dad's guys are all retiring. I aspire to be that kind of guy but it's hard to when people can barely afford rent if they gouge everyone, the whole system requires free time and some level of stability.
I can
Yo @Wendys how many reskeets to get RFK Jr fired?
It’s like the Anti-East-West Bowl.
I’m watching the Hampton-Jackson State game and I swear every player has an all-time great name. Ja’Quan Snipes? Jacobian Morgan? Isaiah Freeman? Donerio Davenport? Maxwell Moss? Every single one sounds like the protagonist in an action movie.
You should call your Senator and demand action.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
Joe Don Baker deserves better. The Rock does not.
My next big project after my grill is refinished. (CC: @brynna.bsky.social)
The look on that fish’s face really speaks for me.
New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc
[S] We'll know he's gone when the MAGAsphere starts explaining why it's fine, and even preferable, for an AI deadbot to lead the country.
the haters and losers will say it's foolish to indulge in wild speculation but you can't deny it's extremely funny that they have to write headlines like this
People should do whatever makes them happy and I’m by no means criticizing anyone’s appearance, but it is a little ironic that the woman who sang “All About That Bass” jumped on the GLP-1 train. Undercuts the message a little.
The latest Manning, the Arch-Manning, is making his college debut. He’s already in commercials. After society crumbles and we’re all watching shadow puppet shows on cave walls occasionally a Manning will walk in to tell us to buy something.
So is he still alive or what?
He's also a plant by Peter Thiel, the Heritage Foundation, AND Opus Dei, because every single organization looks at his physical and mental softness and thinks, yes, this is the man who will unquestionably do exactly what we say every time.
This is 100% true and why he's there. The lesson Trump learned from Pence was to never have a VP with any sort of principles or spine so he intentionally picked the most swaggerless pushover in America and Vance is the last to know. He's gonna get rolled by everyone foreign and domestic.
It's like, yeah, that'll do it. I mean it hasn't done anything yet regardless of how many tens or hundreds of thousands of people joined in, but this time, this is the time it will fix everything. These people truly unlocked it.
Wait, WHAT?!
Then of course you have to tell me, I need the pick-me-up.
Tina Turner in Beyond Thunderdome, Meat Loaf in Rocky Horror AND Fight Club, Jack White in Walk Hard, and Josh Groban in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
Well then what good are they?
Why there? Because it's the only national quadripoint so no one (or two) nations could claim some sort of moral superiority or political capital from contributing land. Also putting every intergovernmental body in Europe or the US got us here so we should try something else.
One of my hottest takes is that the UN should buy a few square miles around Kazungula from Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe and do what the US originally intended to do with DC. Designate it as not part of any nation and put UN HQ, ICC, Interpol, and all the other IGOs there.
Oh for the love of god. They're gonna move UN HQ to Geneva, aren't they?
There's lots of reasons. The evil, for example. The boundless, unwavering evil.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Taken is always appropriate. It birthed a whole genre. All-time movie. RESPECT TAKEN.
That's impressive. Love a good euphemism.
On a scale of 0 to the second verse of "OPP" how many synonyms we talking?
Hey now, according to an evil thumb cursed by a wizard to live as a man he's one of the world's foremost experts on public health!
We'd like to wish a happy engagement to Jonathan Wallace and Wallace Johnson of North Dakota, NE. Everything on your wedding registry has been recalled except the KitchenAid mixer and, let's be honest with ourselves, nobody you invited has that kind of money.
…beg your pardon?
I mean, this is less good.
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why did 'Weird Al' Yankovic abandon musical parodies for a decade before his LA comeback?
realistic Star Trek
she said that “black” with a hard r
Hmm. Hmmmmmmm.
What, did something happen at Arizona State?
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
Man, there's no way I'm gonna be able to memorize a new one.
Maybe on urinals.
I mean, Ryobi.
Chuck Grassley's name comes from the fact that he was born in the mid-Devonian period before trees evolved.
In college I'd make a "salad" that was a little lettuce covered in a handful of shredded cheese, a handful of croutons, a handful of bacon bits, far too many sliced black olives, and half a gallon of blue cheese dressing. Apparently that doesn't count as healthy.
My compulsive need to question and test any authority makes me a very good journalist and very bad at not hurting myself despite being warned not to.
[Nic Cage voice] I’m going to steal and play with the CPSC’s lawn darts.
See also: Journalism.
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.” -actual, literal Jesus
I’ve never regretted watching a V/H/S and that says a lot, I don’t like all of anything. There’s even a Metallica album I hate.
From a member of NewsGuild-CWA Local 39521: Welcome! You’ll love it here.
The relationship between Scott Free and Big Barda is one of my favorites in all of comics. They've got the most Jack Kirby backstories, with gods and aliens and evil orphanages, but now they live a quiet life in the suburbs in Connecticut.
Does he, though?
The fact that they back down any time there's pushback is why it's so unforgivable for any Democrat to refuse to push.
I'm a firm believer that if two people come up with the same lede that means it's a really good lede.
So now they’re literally burning it all down in the name of racism, huh?