A year after relaunching The Onion as a newspaper, Collins visits Uncanny Valley to talk about why “going into something and not ruining it is bravery.”
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A year after relaunching The Onion as a newspaper, Collins visits Uncanny Valley to talk about why “going into something and not ruining it is bravery.”
Since Michael turned off replies and quote tweets, like any good journalist seeking the truth would, I'll point out that people like him, Nate Silver, Matt Yglesias, etc. say shit like this as cover for the fact that THEY DO NOT SUPPORT THE POLICY AND THEY WANT IT TO FAIL.
WHAAAAT??? But in the MOVIES sheriffs are all such HEROES!! How can this BE?? HAVE WE BEEN MISLEAD???? ABOUT COPS??? BY THE MEDIA????
This is one of the strangest things I've ever read, I'm not even sure what it's about. Is any of this worth burning billions of dollars for? Is this really anything truly remarkable? Is this person really what anyone would call "a tech skeptic" in any meaningful sense of the word?
The former president is stepping back into the spotlight to confront his successor head-on.
The dismissal of the Domestic Terrorism charge against Marsicano represents the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the state as it moves forward with its expansive effort to prosecute those who mobilized to '#StopCopCity':
ok I synthesized a few ideas and I think I figured out how to explain basically all goth music
THAT GHISLAINE “I WISH HER WELL” LADY SAID SHE NEVER SAW ME DO ANYTHING INAPPROPRIATE! CASE CLOSED…BUT FAKE NEWS MEDIA WONT COVER IT. THEY’D RATHER LISTEN TO THE VICTIMS AND NOT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE! SO UNFAIR! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER - DJT
start packing your spf 12 billion sunscreen
You're going to see more and more shit like this as The Plot to Enslave America continues to be implemented. More luxury spending for the rich while the middle class increasingly hammered down into lower class precarcity and the lower class into servitude.
"Take it from me, Jim Jordan... I know a few things about covering up pedophiles." 🤫
"Take it from me, Jim Jordan... I know a few things about covering up pedophiles." 🤫
By one estimate, Elon Musk owns more than a quarter of all active satellites orbiting Earth. Though his fantasy of becoming emperor of Mars probably won't happen, we have to scale back the unchecked power of deranged Bond villain types like Musk.
Exclusive: First human screwworm case in US traced to person in Maryland who traveled from Guatemala, sources say reut.rs/4lP6XAV
h8 da weaponized nostalgia but as a matter of taste i rly do dislike this longterm trend of consolidating aesthetics it strips away sm personality and sensory connection the latter of which is y in software i deeply miss skeuomorphism
Community is the antidote to fascism.
Heatwave that fuelled deadly wildfires was Spain’s ‘most intense on record’
J.D. Vance’s vision of a blood-and-soil America involves taking lots of vacations.
the children yearn for democratic centralism
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Sandwich throwers assemble!
The idea of “unleashing the police” is seductive to politicians like Trump, Elliot Currie, a professor of criminology, says, because it can result in a reduction of certain types of street crimes...in the short term. But, in the long term, it does next to nothing.
It couldn’t possibly be that it’s great and hilarious content…
Study Finds Fewer Americans Than Ever Believe In Snoopy https://theonion.com/study-finds-fewer-americans-than-ever-believe-in-snoopy-1839328096/
DoJ has 30 days to get an indictment for sandwich guy from a federal grand jury. It's been 8 days.
Having the Severance brain switch whenever I enter a grocery store. I know I'm supposed to be doing something here but I don't know what or why
This is pathetic, man. Does Cuomo really think “Trump wants me to win” is gonna be a positive for him? Is he trying to do WORSE than in the primary?
ICE starts fire and shoots protesters putting it out
My essence captured in a gif:
It’s wild that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is now the idea of a tech founder being told their creation will enslave humanity and they decide to destroy their product & company.
Trump's Alaska gambit was a massive failure And Putin's greatest success.
We’ve been so frog-boiled that most of the press refuses even to acknowledge that the president of the United States is the largest single node in Putin’s international propaganda machine.
"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it. AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement. www.reuters.com/investigates...
Piece of shit ICE fascists are swarming Little Tokyo. Posted up outside the Japanese American Museum threatening people with internment. Impossible to overstate how disgusting these people are.
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Nazis were big into collective punishment after acts of civil resistance. The Israelis have used it widely in Gaza and the West Bank. It was even a major plot point in establishing the heinous villainy of the bad guys in Red Dawn.
Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped. Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
I had to watch a Bill Maher episode from front to back for the first time last week, and I'm still pissed at Will about it, but I had a lot of fun on his show!
We’re getting our Deborah Bix moments with his top aides already.
At the Kennedy Center, Trump told reporters he plans to send a “crime bill” to Congress and will seek lawmakers’ approval to extend his administration’s control over the D.C. police in an effort to “combat crime”.
oxycontin was so much less toxic than this shit
*watches big tech light tens of billions of dollars on fire yearly* no one can stop this juggernaut of profit
basically a preview of my next column youtube.com/shorts/xhIW6...
Memes shared by the White House, DHS, and ICE have used catchy TikTok tunes to normalize mass deportation and Christian nationalist narratives. Experts say that's the point. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
😆 @gavinnewsom.bsky.social’s comms team is good at this
Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb says Metropolitan Police Department officers must follow local policies that govern their policing, even as President Trump vows to crack down on crime.
Why is nobody talking about the STEM job market completely collapsing as "elite overproduction" and them being a bunch of whiny posers who want to live off a useless degree? Maybe it wasn't such a useful concept after all...
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Having taken over the US capital with the military, the US President is publicly repeating his threats to takeover cities whose elected government he disapproves of: New York and Chicago. www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/p...
"I feel like I have discovered some new kind of sin that I did not know about before."
Feds Used Local Cop's Password to Do Immigration Surveillance With Flock Cameras 🔗 www.404media.co/feds-used-lo...
The extent to which the American economy is being transformed into a machine for scams and outright bribery should be spoken about more directly. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/scams-and-...
For years, democratic socialists in San Francisco have been passing Zohran Mamdani–style policies in the city legislature and through ballot measures, only to see them blocked by Silicon Valley billionaires and powerful real estate interests.
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RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid
Go away Aravind nobody cares
Quelle surprise.
Gavin Newsome inviting Trump on the podcast to discuss the nuance in strategy of rounding up homeless people to be turned into food
The summer tour of National Guard Standing Around On Their Phones continues!
"Alien: Earth" creator Noah Hawley tells WIRED he imagined the planet’s future based on his fears as a parent about the present, from dystopian capitalism to the “moral horror” of growing up. www.wired.com/story/in-ali...
FBI moves to dispatch 120 agents to D.C. streets as Trump vows crackdown on crime
"So we're getting this information from multiple sources [...] within the mayor's office and within Metro Police Department, that President Trump, come tomorrow, will deploy the National Guard along the streets of DC." www.wusa9.com/video/news/n...
i personally feel neutral from a safety standpoint because FBI agents suck at doing all those things but i feel bad for D.C. residents, absolutely
Don't need no god-damned fascist power grab here in DC, we're all good thanks.
Don't need no god-damned fascist power grab here in DC, we're all good thanks.
Entertainer founders hand over control of UK toy retailer to workers reut.rs/4owtG7s
Say what you will about the DPRK but I bet they don't have to hear a song about ass wiping over the radio three times an hour
...ok then. Take it up w/ Websters. 🤷
Ok man, sure. But if multiple strangers reading this keep getting the opposite idea of what you're trying to relate, maybe the issue is not with the readers. 🤷
Maybe don't use the term Luddite? Common parlance has degraded its meaning to be someone who is backwards and hates technology and progress. Maybe don't get so bent out of shape when the term you choose to use suggests the opposite of your point. 🤷
The president’s familiar with uprisings, just not with being on the receiving end of one.
No pierogi's for pedo's
📸 Jeffrey Epstein, seen on his private jet in 2019 wearing an IDF sweatshirt, in a newly released photo published by The Telegraph. Epstein “loved life too much” to kill himself and was confident he’d secure bail before he died, his butler of 18 years reportedly told the paper.
"Using AI in listing photos should be illegal."
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Is that when it finally gets good?
If you dislike AI, it doesn't make you an AI Luddite. Using the term "Luddite" ambiguities your point.
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Violent crime is down in DC, but facts don’t matter to this aspiring dictator www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/p...
Raisins: what if grapes but worse in every possible way?
People still misunderstanding the Luddite movement. It was about jobs and the value of human labor, not about a fear or hatred of tech. 🙄
People still misunderstanding the Luddite movement. It's about jobs and the value of human labor, not about a fear or hatred of tech. 🙄
the new War of the Worlds movie rocks
It turns out Wizard Kash’s “smoking gun” was not only ridiculously fake (as Durham concluded), it actually blew a massive hole in the Trump/Patel “Russia hoax” theory. ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-kash-p...
‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest group
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This quote gives me life.
Lmfao
impressing me right from the start tbh
90s forever... Raves haven't gotten shitty yet and LSD is still $5 a hit? Sign me up for a battery pod ASAP.
Administration that sues American news outlets pretends to be worried about censorship in EU. That's the real headline here www.reuters.com/sustainabili...