Call me crazy but I don’t love the idea of them controlling ways to escape.
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Call me crazy but I don’t love the idea of them controlling ways to escape.
I really need folk to understand that perimenopause is real but doesn't last 15 years and is just the medical communities' new "hysteria" and "wandering womb". Insist on blood work and scans anyway but ESPECIALLY if you are under 45 with no family history of early menopause.
I remember when the Columbine massacre happened and very serious media and political figures deliberately hid the fact that the shooters were neo-Nazis and claimed that they did it because they were bullied (they weren’t) and that they wore black clothes. Just thought I’d mention that
As I’ve pointed out, Christians United For Israel is a lobbying group 10X the size of AIPAC, so before you bother random diasporic Jews who are having a conversation about something else, I’m going to need to see receipts that you bothered 10 random Christians first.
YES MORE OF THIS PLEASE
I have just learned from this that i might need to get a slingshot for this specific purpose
Also this is underselling it, because for instance in one of these polls he's winning Jews by 17 points (great!) but among Jews under 45 he is winning by 56 POINTS.
Hands off my Booty #JLMart Hand inked then digitally colored.
Where the hell do I find a community where people actually LIKE each other. WTF ya'll ...
There are Four Lights! @revisedangel.bsky.social
6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”: ‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing’
it's so deranged how rich business owners have demanded for decades that they be called "job creators" despite the fact that every single person i know has experienced a rich guy buying out an existing business and firing everyone and usually completely bankrupting it before cashing out and leaving
This emphasis on universes, real universes and imaginary universes, being a disgrace to all universes, it comes from a Magic the Gathering subreddit from 2022.
The funniest thing about how absolute dogshit journalists are at their job, is that when you see a chatbot regurgitate strange sounding phrases the *only way it could do so* is by having stolen them from somewhere. Searching for those weird phrases, yields the source the chatbot stole.
Couple of new NGOs in Gaza you might know about. Vetted through people I trust: www.thechildrensvillagegaza.org
the same thing is true for all of them. looking at something and saying "that's stupid, that'll only hurt them" is missing their goal. they are smart and evil and the sooner we accept that all available evidence supports the hypothesis that they're cartoon supervillains, the better.
i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
Obviously yes you should read Andrea Long Chu’s latest for all the usual reasons (thrillingly blistering assessment of worthy target) — but these two somewhat standalone paragraphs exploring the true nature of American free speech left me absolutely gobsmacked www.vulture.com/article/post...
Trump only got 56% of the vote in Texas this last election. Romney got 57% GWBush got 59% and 61% Reagan got 63% in 1984 Nixon got 66% in 1972 LBJ got 63% in 1964 FDR got 88%, 87%, 80%, 71% In the Solid South era, Dems routinely did >70%. None demanded the prize that Our Special Boy wants
Maggie fresh from her spa day
Party establishment failing to meet the moment ever since Nixon.
After the Musk incident, some left-of-center donors said they’d stop giving as long as ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt remained in place. “Most of the past and present regional leadership and donors no longer have confidence in Jonathan,” one million-dollar donor wrote in a letter I reviewed. (2/x)
I see they are getting ready for an even bigger eugenic set of policies
i just found out that if you want to look at a titty in the UK now you have to send a selfie to the king first
One of the most dangerous tropes in political media is how the only Jewish voices that matter are the most right-wing ones, hence the ease with which reporters assumed Jews are scared of Mamdani. (This is also how Jewish protestors were erased from the discourse about antisemitism on campuses.)
You're going to start hearing a lot of talk about moving in to crypto as a way to bypass payment processors and what I need all of you to understand is that Anybody Saying This Is Trying To Scam You. They Have Potentially Millions Of Dollars In Crypto They Can't Cash Out Unless You Buy It From Them.
In the world of A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES, data can be borrowed, shared, and stolen, for a price. As we get closer to the Canarviers’ grand heist, I am sharing some snippets that mean a lot to me. The thieves arrive September 30th! www.penguinrandomhou... #aphilosophyofthieves
Never forgive men for treating programming as a meaningless thing your secretary did while women were inventing and developing the field, then, once they realized it was going to be important, shoving women out of it and claiming only Male Logic Brains could perform it.
Do not fear that I abandoned nerdery in the last 4 years for while I am attempting to garden and was convinced to start a business I was still playtesting a tabletop RPG & did learn how to use discord a little bit. Its still not safe to play MtG without masking but I trust my masks more nowadays
Let me tell you how much ARENA is NOT good for relearning cards/strategies/what the heck is going on with complex cards and walls of text.... Like what the heck was I thinking ...
So on a completely different dystopia: I haven't been able to play Magic the Gathering with live people for 4 years, Phyrexia isn't any of the things I like, and every single PW I cared about got killed, maimed, heelturned or desparked. But I miss Magic & Edge looked like a good place to reenter
So.... the Di Caprio story seemed weird - so I looked it up to verify it - DiCaprio staked some friends 10% in 2018 and Israel took 7 years to approve the project. The investment predates about 4 failed governments that Netanyahu kept bringing to collapse then chose genocide to break the cycle.
Let's be clear about what's happening here: "Gets hassled" is a euphemism "gets detained under threat of armed force by secret police"
Buying redemption w/ eels wasn't just a medieval English thing. Oh, no! In 1500 the Duke of Ferarra wanted nuns in Florence to pray for him. But that kinda thing ain't free, & to get his prayers the duke had to make regular payments of eels to the sisters. Soul food, y'all. 🗃️🧪
I wrote a short news piece for Hipsters on it this morning, but because our preference for news articles is to provide facts and context I didn't provide too much editorial. We want people to know the difference. And I didn't want anyone to misconstrue financial advice. But I do have opinions...
A short discussion on Hasbro's Q2 earnings, because you should hear it from someone who's been covering this for a long time, not some random redditor who has no idea what a goodwill impairment is. www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2025/07/fina...
I’ve come to believe that making genocide a legal framework has allowed the intellectual class to distract people from the morality of things like “children starving to death” and “people being slaughtered at aid distribution site” and instead engage in endless legal nitpicking
And i think THAT use myth would make a lot of folk try to bond harder with online groups that accepted them so they weren't "the only one without a bond group" so they assimilated into a group and that groups norms would be a higher point of inflection for coarse vs interdependent social norms.
Like honestly - i never "found my tribe" which was the big sell of the internet in the early web2.0 world - there were interesting folk and things to do and good friends but that "no matter how niche you'll find someone like you" lol nope & i suspect there's A LOT of similar stories
I do think hi/low behavior is more the fact that communal norms are more porous now. So transversive or taboo & ironic statements or things with tone or inversion become "seen" outside the groups they were performimg different work. Its more surveillance effects +puritanisms than media encouraged
My real concern was the Voice type shows interacting with cell phones at the same time I saw with Obama and later Sanders the idea that because if being a small donor or a person who called 4 times that the person they supported was literally owned by them. And the anger when they didn't.
New, from me: until recently the big question was “what happens when Trump defies the courts?” The answer, as it turns out, is that SCOTUS will support him. The new question is what are the consequences for American democracy and governance?🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-youre...
All right - this is just randomly on my feed and I'll deep dive why and what it is later- but this describes the thing I've beeen trying to say since reality-TV "voting" shows and Web 2.0 flooded western culture. Its so much more succinct than I ever managed.
“The algorithm rewards what spreads, not what builds” is a great turn of phrase that I’m absolutely stealing.
People exploding this false messaging that I voted for a bill + funding that I quite literally voted NO on. The threat environment this morning is scary. Doesn’t help anyone. Drag me for the position if you disagree but don’t lie. It’s out of control. Saying I voted for this funding is false.
In light of recent events, I stepped up to support @yoman5.bsky.social's 50 new decks effort. Many of us benefit from his work every set. Give him a follow and show some support. I'll be playing several of these decks during the Streamer Event and the following week on my YouTube channel.
In a Christian society, a philosemitic defense of The Jew as idealized figure can all too easily coexist with disdain for most actual Jews who fail to live up to that standard.
Honestly the "consent" critique as a way to attack it/jenkins/Diana was one of the performative bits to me. Its a CURSED item - every use of it was corrupting - for EVERYONE even Diana. That was the corruption - very comic plot feeling. I liked their Maxwell Lord arc.
I really hope a "newer version" manages to leave him (Steve Trevor) as a cameo on the third movie Gunn's version features in. I honestly think Jenkins was not given the grace a whole bunch of male blockbuster directors were given to be nostalgic for their actual youth/fandom as a lens.
I like Gal Godot just fine - i have never been able to just appreciate her without having to tense up because she's literally the only Israeli alot of folk can identify & its always been a discourse problem i HATE every Steve Trevor but Pine's. A 3rd with Steve would have been upsetting.
He's doing the thing again-the one where he just tells the truth about the con he's running. What he means is he's setting up Jews who STILL primarily DO NOT vote for the GOP to take "a lot of the blame" for whatever he intends to not take the blame for. And probably deport 'em for the nationalists
I liked WW84. A lot. I am however a person who became a Wonder Woman comics reader in the 70s-80s and it felt EXACTLY like comcs from that era but better. And frankly I find all of the hate around it on the internet and towards its participants performative AF.
Here is access to the article that isn't blocked by a paywall. archive.ph/rXclN
Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
I am just gently wading back into both social media and Magic after a long break but - I'll think about it while i'm sorting my cards (so. Many. Cards)
NPR had a quick, upbeat mention about how farmwork could function as healthcare with people "prescribed" to do it and it feels maddening that a significant swath of elite opinion seems to be trying to soft relaunch serfdom.
i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf
i’ve seen nothing but rave reviews for bibi’s products, and i’ve been eyeing some of the pins and compression products for a ages. her shop is really worth checking out.
New article up! edhrec.com/articles/ms-...
Finally sees the two white suits from the Met Gala - whispers into the ether "those are two COMPLETELY different suits that may have shared a similar starting inspiration" The ether chuckles knowingly as we side eye fashion "reporters" saying anything else...
Illustration for an omnibus hardcover of BLUEBEARD'S SECRET by Sarah K.L. Wilson The winter landscape was a nice change of pace to design ⛄
The funniest possible outcome to all of this is that they picked the closest guy they could find in classic idiot lazy cop fashion and ended up with a uniquely charismatic thirst trap to be a patsy for a crime that has broad public approval.
The Met Gala raises money to support the Met's Costume Institute, the only Met department that must entirely support itself (which is its own worthy subject of conversation). The Met's Costume Institute is an ongoing marvel.
So you'd be Dolly Parton!
after this last few months I think I am now in critical support of all weird ultrarich people hobbies. take that horse dancing class. I love that yoga retreat for you. tighten up that golf swing. search the ocean floor for ancient shipwrecks. anything that keeps you in your business and out of ours
the story all but says it but hegseth is very clearly trying to purge the leadership of the military of black people and women
Valorize him for being consistently generous to others while being a political prisoner of the state seeking to kill him. He doesn't have to be the vigilante to be honored for how he's carried himself while being framed.
Now *this* is what AI is good for! This is an expert system developed by applying machine learning to a specialist, selected dataset, is designed for a specific, technical purpose, refined by human experts. And does not require the wholesale theft of creators' copyright intellectual property.
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.
He's going to lose this one in court like he has the other 1960s laws he's tried to EO out. But you have to watch out for congress critters
@revisedangel.bsky.social how the hell was i not following you??!!??!! I hate platforms
I could absolutely use having a mint julep and your company right now🌞
RFK Jr blames diet, lifestyle & vaccines for chronic illness. Dr Oz says it’s a “patriotic duty” to lead a healthy life & be fit enough to serve in the military. Neither of them are pushing for Universal Healthcare, basic income, an end to food deserts & inequality, clean water etc. It’s eugenics
This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.
That would make Peter Thiel, the money-man behind Vance and a good mate of Musk, very happy
oh you mean like every other time they've tried this? everywhere else in the world?
This right here. This is exactly it.
BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
I'm just chatting with Heather and we were talking about things i wouldn't bother posting on these platforms anymore and it made me think "i wonder if we are going to go back to blogging again." Video is ridiculously time consuming TBH.
UNPOPULAR OPINION: You will not learn to prepare for 2025 martial law in America by studying HUNGER GAMES or V. You will learn to prepare for 2025 martial law in America by studying HOGAN'S HEROES.
They really are setting things up so when the consequences of being a tyrant or oligarch show up they can just "blame the Jews" for every anti american, extralegal, thing they do now & get pogroms to run next. And frankly from this minute, it looks like it will work really easily.
New: Though the Rabbis & later commentators crafted a narrative in which the Exodus was one of "just us,"-- for, by Israelites-- a closer look reveals that this was never the case. Our liberation has always been collective, has always been about who else comes with us. On solidarity in the seder:
Funny how that works for Trump but didn't work for Biden bsky.app/profile/mobu...
This is also true but when bullshitters have poisoned a term (that was always a little inaccurate and aspirational anyway) the answer is to dump the term. Professions change lingo for HR reasons every 5 years anyway. Describe the useful bits as different from the AI fakery with new terms.
so far I'm seeing a lot of universities respond to grant terminations with "oh I guess now we don't have that grant anymore" instead of "your assertion of a grant termination is executive overreach, see you in court" So, universities: respectfully, what the fuck?
I made this pay what you want, with a suggested $3, cause I want anybody who wants to read it to be able to, but also both my husband and I just lost our jobs, so if you do want to kick in a few bucks, that'd be wonderful, and thanks to everyone for sharing my stuff, I really appreciate it!!
Do not for the love of anything you hold holy use "AI" for any kind of home school teacher substitute. Use perfectly acceptable proven "learn at home" static lesson plans and pedagogies - no one can follow how the AIs "communicate and teach" each other 3-4 gens in. You can autodidact without AI.
Cutting off Social Security suddenly is how you kick off an event that history books will refer to as the “Grey Revolt.”
Dachshund #19. I'm drawing a dachshund every day until THE LISTENERS comes on June 3rd. This time Degas is getting the dachshund treatment.
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
They still hold elections in places like Russia and Turkey. In fact, Erdogan just threw his main opponent in jail this week. We’ll get to vote. But it’ll be for guys like Chuck Schumer who pose no threat to Trump when things get dicey.
Zuck said Meta is in a "partnership" with White House; Google is following suit. They are all that stand between you and Trump admin data grabs. Here's a resource collection of non-US services to replace email, search, docs, music, video, backups, and more: www.wired.com/story/trump-...
And this is why you cannot use AI "for research" You don't know what you don't know. You won't be able to tell anything at all is wrong if you think AI "just summarizing" It takes info in nonlinear ways and then outputs like a translation
A president cannot restructure a Federal Department to a Cabinet member. Only Congress can do the thing he wants done. A president cannot control federal spending or make laws or declare war. They can't do any of those things. Report that too.
