I don’t even think there were drugs on that boat
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I don’t even think there were drugs on that boat
hEy bri@N WHy hAvEnt u Ever jOinEd the DeMoCratiC pArty?!?
First day of school in Winnipeg. So many kids biking, it’s amazing
Could you be wrong about Gaza?
there is a way in which this is even an explicit repudiation of the constitution itself, created not to pass some european idea of "nationhood" down to posterity, but to pass *republican self-government* down to posterity.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
I really don't know how this gets resolved peacefully
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
1) That’s a fantastic tweet 2) He was actually 56
Of all the reasons I have to dislike UNC, BB doesn’t even crack the top 5. But this is glorious.
Happy Labrador Day, I hope your day was filled with Canadians and dogs (listens to earpiece) Sorry, LABOR Day, I hope you passed a small human out of your body in a relatively non-punishing way (listens to earpiece again)
Putin yucking it up with Xi and Modi while his agents try to bring down the leader of the free world’s plane is a foreboding juxtaposition
Every time I see someone post about how blue sky is just a bunch of wokescolds, I think about all the fun stuff on my feed So...skill issue?
I went almost four weeks without buying gas here, and that includes the drive from Grand Forks
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
Losing My Religion Everybody Hurts It’s the End of The World as We Know It
I mean…for all of us. But still.
Take heart. It literally becomes more likely every day.
It’s probably because I just finished reading The Stand so it’s fresh on my mind, but this thread really reminds me of the part near the end when Flagg realizes he could lose. I know some people don’t like their monsters demystified like that, but I think it’s a good reminder for the real ones.
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Absolute demon, plotting destruction, reveling in chaos
If I’m being honest I don’t want him to get off so easily
Just the Void reaching for him, no big deal
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
When I said he was going to kill more people than Bush I wasn’t being glib
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...
“It’s a case study in how labor, science, and regulation can still stitch together a community and economy.” (I wanted to post the preceding sentence as well b/c it’s beautiful, but consider that your incentive to RTFA)
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
A new license for Clean Core Thorium Energy to sell its fuel to India could revolutionize the nation's nuclear industry.
I’m about halfway through @scalzi.com’s Starter Villain and now every time when I’m walking my dog and I see one of the neighborhood cats I’m like ”I got my eye on you buddy”
RFK Jr. clearly gunning to take the title of “dynastic failson with the highest body count” from George W Bush
With the AJC dropping its print edition, I feel compelled to share one of the greatest moments in print design history
Having grown up in the southern ‘burbs of Atlanta, occasionally it’s really distracting for me when a movie I’m watching was very clearly filmed there. Latest example: Weapons.
It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/
They made a better Hellraiser in Space, they just called it Event Horizon
Malevolence tempered by incompetence
Everything says it’s 90 minutes I’m pretty sure I’ve been watching for several days. I am roughly 2/3 through
If you want to experience time dilation may I recommend War of the Worlds (2025)?
Every reporter in that room that fails to ask him what in the bloody shitting fuck he is talking about is really falling down on the job
I'm so proud of the work @mike-eagle.bsky.social and I are doing at @pastduepodcast.com: Interviews with actors, musicians, writers, YouTubers about the truth of making a living as a creative class. But it's relevant to all of us. The creative economy is the leading edge of all labor trends. /1
Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok
Sure would love to be a fly on the wall for any conversations between Pritzger and the Adjutant General of IL National Guard right about now...
I feel like it’s a potential tell of someone scammy or bot-y now. Not on its own but that + overly elaborate bio + following a lot of accounts sets my spidey sense a-tingling.
I’d probably base this decision on Ireland’s mix of power generation (both current and in development.) The more it’s tilted/ing towards renewables (probably mostly wind there) the more likely I’d go electric. (Assuming you mean to stay in Ireland.)
Yeah, definitely agree. Almost got a migraine at the beginning trying to read both the English subtitles and the very detailed location/character intros. But after a while it just sort of washed over me.
And…I’ve been coming here for 23 years with my wife (she’s from here) so as far as adjusting goes it’s pretty painless
Ha! It’s all good, I don’t expect anyone to hang on everything I post here. It’s great! The move was many months of paperwork and waiting, a couple of weeks of backbreaking labor, and now I’m just kind of hanging out in Winnipeg waiting for our furniture and my resident card. The break is nice!
Hey, Toronto, the racists are rallying on September 13th. Show up and tell them hate has no place in Canada. #yyz
I’ve been an immigrant for 19 days, yet for some reason I cannot help but think I’m not likely who they’re objecting to…
There was an interesting question I saw from someone recently that was asking why there are no historians writing "for the other side." Essentially, why are there no "pro-Trump Heather Cox Richardsons?" The answer lies in our training.
Saw Shin Godzilla on the big screen y/d. Definitely worth it if you haven’t had the chance, and good cross cultural pollination b/c it was very much made for the Japanese audience. Also, the most terrifying version of the nuclear breath!
“snark feels like resistance if you are terminally online” Carve that in stone and put it over the door!
JD doesn’t acknowledge how WWII ended because he thinks the wrong side won
Prairie, dog
The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
🧵 I’m left to conclude that the operational definition of “Democrats” is “college kids that make me uncomfortable”
Seriously the only thing I find more tedious than language policing is people who think language policing is The Problem
Y’all are gonna make me mute Nichols again aren’t you
The last Democratic candidate bragged about owning a gun and featured police as speakers in their convention.
Another possible explanation: millions of dumb, selfish people were deliberately lied to by a billionaire-funded right-wing propaganda apparatus with the explicit goal of enraging them & hurting the Dem administration. Dumb, selfish people believed lies. Doesn't that ring a little more true?
I was locked out of this account for about 36 hours…no idea why…could still see everything but couldn’t interact. Had a bunch of stuff I thought about posting, and by the time I could, none of it seemed important anymore. Yeah, so…gonna try and remember that
ICYMI, @samthielman.com wrote the best, most thorough & most honest eulogy of James Dobson you’ll read:
Even rewatch Dukes of Hazzard today and see how this hick-splotation show was very much anti-cop. The dredges of white lefty rural organizing in the pop culture imagination
No seriously though! I had no idea how much of my 80s programming was a post Vietnam war critique of crony capitalism. You rewatch A-team, magnum PI, First Blood — I missed all of that. Wild to rewatch as an adult.
if you are ever tempted to write off the residents of a "red" (i.e., gerrymandered) state and say "set them adrift, let them secede, they deserve what they voted for", you are missing all the thousands of stories like this where the human beings in those states are pushing back every single day
They're going to spike everyone's energy prices. Your energy prices are going up and it's Trump's fault. Plain as day.
Well, you know the streets of DC are truly dangerous if they're letting the president go out at night for a photo op.
You can still imagine it
Ok I really need to get on it with 86ing my US phone # so I can stop getting texts from Gavin Newsom
LOL tell that to the Viet Cong and the Taliban
Good
Not cool!
Farewell to James Dobson, the voice of the '90s conservative Christian family and the primary driver behind a stricter sense of purity culture and anti-LGBTQ parenting -- responsible for so much suffering and suicide and sexual shame today. I hope God is a gay woman up in heaven.
Dobson is probably responsible for much of the child abuse in the Southern Baptist ecosystem. Good riddance.
woke up to soooo many text messages about Dobson’s death. that man ran a “positive eugenics” social experiment on millions of children and most people have no idea who he is. rest in pieces, asshole 🪦
i was feeling a little bad but then i saw that james dobson died and i remembered that rush limbaugh is also dead. feel a little better
James Dobson was a monster who enthusiastically promoted child abuse on an industrial scale. I hope he rots in hell and if I ever have the opportunity to visit his grave I’ll use it as a toilet.
I’m not suggesting anyone do this but it seems like it would be very easy for a group of committed individuals to approximate the prevailing “uniform” and public presence of the secret police and cause a lot of trouble in so doing. Less so if the secret police, you know, identified themselves.
(It was a big room)
This fucking guy. I was in the same room as Schmidt *four months ago* when he was saying the superintelligence was 5-6 years away.
Or not? Guess they’re working on it
Yeah it seems to be ok now
Anyone else’s OnlyPosts feed stall out about 24 hrs ago?
the most predictable things are happening and I cannot emphasize enough the need for thorough prosecutions with varying levels of clemency for people who are willing to roll and rat. these people will begin eating each other alive to avoid life sentences.
When they start talking about covering Earth with data centers, it becomes clear that this is a quasi-religious movement that posits humanity's teleological purpose as creating a machine imagined to be superior to humans. It's a very anti-humanist post-humanism, in a way even trans-humanism isn't.
Im eating whatever she cooks
The only explanation for this is that’s some kind of practical joke, where staffers sneak in and replace normal objects with a gold-plated ones everyday until the room is too blinding to even enter.
Agree 100%
Weapons felt like a perfect horror movie, not because of the premise, but the immaculate and unusual execution. Wonderfully written, cast, shot, and structured, the movie also has a wild streak of dark humor that escalates as the horror escalates, helping the film immeasurably. Go in knowing nothing
This is the rant of an aspiring dictator telling you he is going to fuck with the next election every way you let him
I fear we are in the process of discovering the impossibility of achieving durably liberal ends through exclusively liberal means. I hope I am wrong.
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
Exactly right. As crazy as the US looks from abroad, it’s changing even more rapidly from within, none of it for the better. Hard to capture and convey all the ways. There’s a whole lot of combustible stuff accumulated all over and a bunch reckless idiots running around with gasoline and matches.
Too much attention in Europe being paid to Trump's incoherently futile diplomacy and not enough to his dangerously destabilising actions in US domestic politics
They left out Greetire.
Excellent prices on South American cabs at my neighborhood store
The market for flattering reactionary sensibilities is, apparently, boundless
[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Took a break, felt cute
