"Teenage passion Middle-aged despair All the pregnant thoughts Linger in the air Am I by your side? Am I on my own? Do I dare to speak? Will I die alone?" youtu.be/m8FUtMI8644?...
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"Teenage passion Middle-aged despair All the pregnant thoughts Linger in the air Am I by your side? Am I on my own? Do I dare to speak? Will I die alone?" youtu.be/m8FUtMI8644?...
At some point in the past two decades American journalism made the decision that “framing” the news was more important than just laying out who, what, where, when, how. Now it’s doing the same with simplifying & framing academic research. Opinion journalism has come to dominate the “reporting.”
At the bare minimum we’ve all forced the White House into doing a potentially really embarrassing proof of life thing by making jokes online and I think that’s pretty neat
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes. They lobotomized it *for this*.
Ever see a trust fund baby get a financial advisor and then because they did something goofy that they chose to do with like half their fund on a wildcat, greatly increase their wealth and then everyone acts like this asshole suddenly knows investing and is smart that's Nate Silver with stats.
I feel like, while every new generation of earnest lefties discovers this anew, the dynamic itself has been true for many decades now. Remember, eg, Joe Klein? "I was a progressive until activists yelled at me" is an old, old game. Contemptible, yes! But old.
We need a Hakeem Jeffries of the right.
Fact that the same Corporate Media obsessed over the previous president's health AND the transparency of his inner-circle over his health, only makes a terrible situation worse. SaneWashing is full blown fascist collaboration.
All kidding aside, it is so *insane* & *shocking* & *dangerous* that Corporate Media has collectively decided to completely bury objective fact that the President is uninformed, confused, and physically & mentally deteriorating.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Death of Stalin is the movie of our age. Not because "haha morbidity" but because it most wholly captures the complex of sycophants who jockey around a powerful dipshit they fear and leech off of.
Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future
Nate Silver is a toxic bro & has long been one. He also reflects a pattern of men who started in data journalism or analysis & became all about vibes: him, Yglesias, Leonhardt, & others.
And it's only like the tenth Nazi thing about Elon.
the alpha energy of a president who looks like a 3000-year-old creature that just wants to die
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
maybe we stop electing 78-year-olds to be president idk
Nah he just got his latest marching orders from Peter Thiel.
he means people who care about trans rights and genocide
There are 79 working days left in 2025. If you write 1 1/2 pages a day, every working day, you can finish a script before New Years. If you write 3 pages a day, you could complete a novel. 1000 words a day, roughly 4 pages, and you could write three scripts. A page at a time comes together quickly
from a distance Nate Silver appears to be a long sad story of assimilationist brain, that’s all I see going on when he says he’s the prototype regular guy and people just have to be brave enough to prove it
Not to mention 40 years of classical scholarship obfuscating matters because many philologists like to take ancient elite opinions as universal fact (looking at you, Foucaultists). There's a lot of mess to cut through in order to at least rhyme with history (the goal of most historical fiction).
I'm working on a #historicalfiction novel based in the Roman empire (2nd century) and having to wrestle with 1) accurately portraying ancient sexual mores and 2) keeping the novel appealing/sexy to modern readers. Boy howdy did the Romans think of and do 🥒🍩🍑 things differently. 1/2 #amwriting
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JUSTICE FOR THE EM DASH (from @ellecordova.bsky.social) youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...
So much of Covid revisionism conveniently leaves out which party was in power during early 2020 when the actual Covid pandemic started.
Every person, without exception, who claims they voted for King asshole “because of the economy” is lying. All of them. Not a single person voted for that criminal asswipe because of the economy. They voted for him because they wanted team white man to win and be in charge. That’s it.
Let's call it what it is: pundits who punch down at Bluesky do so because they view it as an existential threat to their milquetoast brand of centrist political contrarianism. They know they can't build the audience to be relevant here simply by selling the same drivel they pander over there
It's going to be hilarious when we eventually find out what he was doing in New Hampshire Saturday night
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
The flaw in everyone who makes a Bluesky bad post is that they come to the conclusion that making the site better involves importing people with centrist politics to talk politics when the actual truthful answer is that we need less politics and more goofs but that’s difficult when the world sucks
Boy if we didn’t have such a complicit press maybe they’d be all over whatever the hell weird stuff is going on here….
The Atlantic will always, ALWAYS carry water for Republicans. Bonus points if they can do it while shitting on a black woman. It’s been a rag for some time.
I'm just gonna flip on some corporate media really quick... ABC: ads CNN: ads Back to CNN: Trump's Chicago "immigration enforcement" MSNBC: Protests in Chicago Back to ABC: A "federal judge getting in the way of Trump's immigration crackdown" Back to CNN: Weekend travel Nothing about Trump MIA
Think about it. "Dems were too zealous in trying to prevent the spread of the virus" is, in US politics, a greater disadvantage, a bigger problem, than "Republican lies got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed for no reason." Just a pathetic fucking country. Pathetic.
But it's always like this. Democrats try to do the right thing. They fall short, like humans do. Everyone teams up to shit on them. Republicans don't even bother pretending. They lie, they smear, they destroy lives, they get people killed, & they face NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
But the entire Dem professional establishment was desperately *trying* to do the right thing & be responsible. Contrast: immediately upon the arrival of the virus, the right started spreading insane conspiracy theories, attacking public health officials, & refusing to act in solidarity.
A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.
21 days to go... youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...
a Dem that's not afraid to call an invasion what it is 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
21 days to go... youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
Rudy Giuliani has been released from hospital after doctors realized he just looks like that
Republicans are despicable and evil and there's absolutely no bottom for them. They're responsible for all of this.
Brilliant
Ok but hear me out, what if we taxed the fuck out of really rich people
If he really does kick it, do not let the gop blame this all on him They wanted this too
The President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called the orange felon a Russian asset in a live televised speech. Well done, this is how you do it. 👏
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
ten or twenty years from now there's going to be a lot of people saying they were just following orders and asking for forgiveness and I never ever will
News media are just following their rule: Always find nice things to say about Republicans, and only have criticisms for Democrats. I mean, I don't make the rules. Mainstream media do.
Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
White people have completely altered "woke" to mean "thing I don't like" and it's really pretty telling of what whiteness does.
It’s really hard to do insightful satire of right-wing weirdos because almost any ridiculous stance you can come up with, they’ll just express freely without a shred of irony.
I think your politics are bad if it’s “someone was mean to me online so I’m gonna vote to harm people”
Eugenics and fascism go hand in glove, my dude.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
See what a difference a headline makes? I far prefer @hyperallergic.com’s coverage. hyperallergic.com/1031310/home...
You'd hardly know the Guardian had partnered with an AI company 🙄
Absolutely essential Millennial history. But also kind of just a 90s house song with skinny jeans youtu.be/ESXgJ9-H-2U?...
And it’s one single shot!!! ❤️
Still stunned how Trump humiliated himself and the country—and the press couldn't manage 1% of the accuracy or outrage that occurred after his Helsinki flop, which wasn't nearly as consequential.
We get outraged over children dying. They get outraged over Cracker Barrel changing the logo. We are not the same!
The editorial choices over at The NY Times are just there to carry water for Republicans. That’s it. Always.
when he does finally go i will demand not just the death certificate but the long form death certificate
my bluesky
I don't know what they have on Tulsi Gabbard, but it's gotta be so bad that she's dedicated the rest of her life to following orders and thus ensuring it never sees the light of day.
Bonus video now on Nebula: debunking “they weren’t using the land” - a lie colonisers used to justify land left in the early US, which philosopher John Locke contributed to nebula.tv/videos/philo...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
His supporters are just such amazing citizens www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bar...
Because the owners and the editors/producers of Corporate Media are absolutely fine with white supremacy and fascism. They're rich, white, and cis so they think they'll get a pass.
Republicans want us dead.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
“you should work more and have less time off, peasant” is now gop canon
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
What a ridiculous person.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
There are no good republicans
gays these days really don’t talk about Elizabeth Taylor (or Kim Novak) enough. youtube.com/shorts/oFosV...
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
She was a traitor then, is a traitor now and she will always be in the future.
Vonnegut was a lion
I haven't read the book, but the movie of Thursday Murder Club is a massive pile of twee shite that wastes three wonderful actors and Pierce Brosnan, and I had to abandon it after 10 minutes, because I feared my teeth would rot at the syrupy awfulness of every single atom involved in it's making.
Guy who wrote a book saying his mom is a junkie slag and his people are lazy trash thinks that everyone else should be more grateful
"Trump and Republicans are going to cheat to stay in power. How do we fight back?" This should be the question Democratic leaders are asking privately, and publicly, they need to sound the alarm and provide solutions. Or they can keep attacking Mamdani
Is it good when the proof of life pictures seem somewhat inconclusive?
I really really really want to support Firefox but then Mozilla goes and does shit like this on the regular.
Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:
Too much hope for the future relies on old white men dropping dead.
Because the editors and owners of the NYTimes, post, cnn, etc LIKE the white supremacy and fascism. They support it, so they will ignore the rotting health of the 🍊💩
“When President Joe Biden ran for reelection at 81, his age and health were subjected to persistent scrutiny … In Trump’s case—the oldest person to take the oath of office who regularly fabricates stories and misremembers names—the bruises and swelling have barely merited a wire-service brief.”
Look if people insist on electing 80 year olds with bad McDonalds habits as President, we will all have to play the very silly game of “dead or not dead” on the regular.
"Why is gay culture so sexual?!?!" Because we are literally oppressed for specifically our sexual behaviour and developing a culture that is sexual without shame is liberation from that! Hope that helps!