Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I've been playing the "Which one is Octavian" game
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I've been playing the "Which one is Octavian" game
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
if he dies on 9-11, and we don't party, then the terrorists win
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
scroll down the replies. he also thinks the answer was good.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Care to explain why?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
They're not even propping him up at a table to sign stacks of blank papers like when he had covid.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
for a game show host?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe the whole "rudy saves abused woman" story changed the day's plans. back to work to rehab his reputation! and I don't think he ever got off the highway. i think they tried to merge from the median and the other driver was distracted by the emergency vehicles and didn't see them pull in front.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
still unclear. did they get off the highway and re-enter using proper exits and entrances, or did they try to cross the median from where they had initially stopped?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Look, cinnadust is here to stay. Either get with it or be left behind in the new economy.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
did they try a u-turn on a highway?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
In my day, ten years ago, when we attended a sporting event, our jersey's just said "The Fundamentals."
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
So "ten years ago" is when "we grew up"? I'm in roughly the same age bracket as Cuban and this is some old-man-yelling-at-cloud non-sense.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Where's his hair?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Biden attending the funeral will be hilarious.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Not only does the constitution not give POTUS "explicit" power to manage elections, it doesn't give him implicit power either. The president has no role in elections BY DESIGN.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Beware everyone. Today's doomers are tomorrow's collaborators and snitches.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Getting glossy mailers every day with some form of "Cheating is wrong no matter who does it" pablum
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
i've seen nothing since that photo this morning. that was hours ago. i think he's dead.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
One of the main reason you couldn't make Life of Brian today is that George Harrison is long gone so who's going to fund it?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
An urn full of ashes showing dong? Groundbreaking.
lastpositivist.bsky.social (@lastpositivist.bsky.social) reposted
Could it really be evil if it's convenient for me personally?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever. And then imagine that human face saying "Excuse me Mr. Boot but I disagree" -- also for ever.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
All fascism is dumb fascism. That people think it isn't is because of Leni Riefenstahl and the fantasy of the well-oiled political machine. Likewise, Mussolini did not get the trains running on time. There has never been a fascist regime that wasn't just a gang of idiots with a monopoly on violence
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
sometimes a post-scarcity utopia just isn't enough
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
really earning that "debate lord" label
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Loved it. It's a great showcase for Andy Daly and a wonderfully evil James Urbaniak
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
From the product description: These Vagina-shaped soda can lids that are sure to bring laughs and make your party stand out. Ideal for bachelorette parties or any gathering where you want to add some humor.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Is there a Ralph's around here?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why they want to stop mail-voting. No use having a goon squad if they can't intimidate people going to the polls on election day.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Cable news has always been obsessed with "now" to the exclusion of any attempt at context. If only we'd flip on and get a detailed account of Teapot Dome as it relates to our current situation. But cable new is the endless succession of nows with little time spent on anything that came before.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel Dig Their Own Grave
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Stay in your lane, Putin.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
(coughs) Mussolini (coughs)
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
It ceases to be a "debate" when the boots hit the ground.
Thembo (@thembo.bsky.social) reposted
Leftists simply don't understand politics. The way to win is to immediately promise Newsom your vote three years early without asking anything in return. This is called leverage.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
oh so a guy is part of one little putsch and now you want to ban him from your beer hall?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social)
Increase a band Superb Young Cannibals
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Finally AI will allow us to move beyond such artificial limitations as the algebraic properties of equality. This revolutionizes middle school math. Linear equations with one solution are obsolete. Numbers are whatever you want them to be.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
economy is SO GOOD the rate must be lowered NOW!!!!
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
it's a perfectly cromulent theory
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
people have been drunk dialing since Alexander Graham Bell
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
"innovate?" congratulations, Mark. you've invented trickle-down economics.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
personally, i think telling Mark Cuban to shut the fuck up is very constructive advice
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah. He was always going to militarize DC and do it well before midterms. This is why it's important that we send idealists, not careerists to D.C. No one is going to take to the streets to defend the careerists when Trump throws them in military prison.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Like sort of a nationalist socialism.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
or let's just tax the billions right the fuck out of you
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Close your eyes. Exhale. Extend your arm, fingers forward, palm down. Open your eyes and you should see your lightsaber hilt jiggling in the snow.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Wouldn't that give the senate to dems?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Do young people today even know that fame costs? Do they even know that right here (tap tap) is where you start paying in sweat.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Putin will bring nothing but demands. Trump already bent the knee by allowing the meeting on US soil.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Funny. Because Mamdani just sitting back letting Cuomo exhaust himself with these weak-ass jabs is Ali's rope-a-dope strategy.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
this is why i tend to give them a wide berth
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
he was born in '57. he's a boomer
Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted
I reject fatalism [a form of moral disengagement]. What happens next is not predetermined and depends in part on us.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
coding error? you mean something like this? constitution -= congress;
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
"Everyone knows that pulling funding for mRNA vaccines is a mistake. What this article presupposes is: what if it's not?"
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
this is assault not vandalism.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
sorry captain, i ctrl+x'd then when i tried to ctrl+v i accidentally ctrl+c'd on the empty teleporter pad. they're gone
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Too bad Ron Silver is gone so we can't get a proper follow up to "Reversal Of Fortune." But I think Ron Silver would have become an absolute nightmare if he had lived into the Trump era.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
"But how does one 'avoid the Noid' when the Noid is but a reflection of our own darkest impulses?"
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
and what is happening with the billions collected at the ports. has it been deposited in the treasury? added to the budget? appropriated by congress? because it really sounds like the tariffs are going into a secret slush fund for Trump and the rest of the kleptocracy.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
If Trump wants to emulate Ceaușescu I say we help him.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
waiting for anyone to explain to me exactly what is happening with the tariff money collected at the ports
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
"When you asked me not to pull your hair out in large, bloody clumps, I agreed this would be an undesirable outcome. And you are right to call me out on the fact that I did pull your hair out in large, bloody clumps despite your initial instructions and repeated protests while it was happening."l
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
no, it doesn't. unemployment numbers only count people who seek unemployment assistance. when a person's assistance runs out, they are no longer counted as "unemployed". likewise, if someone is deported or incarcerated they do not count as unemployed.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember when people thought that "The Colbert Report" was pro-right wing comedy disguised as lefty-satire to own the libs. Then he hosted the WHCD and put that talk to rest.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
dig
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
when Reagan won, his only qualification was that he had been the SAG president who enabled the blacklist
maura quint (@mauraquint.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I have re-read this line 17 times. "The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming 'the technology is not advanced enough for that'."
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Going to hold off judgment on that Billy Joel claim that "everybody was drugged out" at Woodstock. Does he have proof?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
2020-2024, every time dems had the gop on the ropes the centrist chorus would chant "we must help the GOP. we NEED the them." to that end, the entire jan6 hearings were aimed at convincing "good" GOP to reject the "bad" GOP when it should have been convincing all Americans to bury that fascist org.
Keegan Osinskeet (@keeganosinski.bsky.social) reposted
Saw someone call AI users “botlickers” and that is very funny
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
the rapture
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Just went down a rabbit hole. It's "real" but sloppy. Lots of typos. Little to no sourcing. it appears to be owned and operated by this guy who founded it to go after his Maltese political enemies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ca...
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, the source just says "confirmed" but fails to explain who confirmed it. Just that "video is circulating" of the drone attack.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
"researchers race to decode their inner workings" it's math, ya all. just math. their inner workings are math. math that we programed them to do. the words are incidental.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
the book was one of the first I read that felt "adult." most of the plot hinged on a factional power-struggle among the rats. The movie got rid of that and added magic. I liked it because I was a kid and it was a movie, but it was the first time I realized the deeper experience books can allow
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
we also had the ewok movies. the first being about a little girl trying to reunite with her family. spoilers, she does! then the second ewok movie starts with SPOILERS the little girl's entire family being slaughtered before her eyes.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Secret of Nimh was the first time I got to snobbishly say "the book was better"
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
The cartoon commercials were a real scam. It's illegal to make a 30m ad aimed at kids. but it's not illegal to make a comicbook about toys. so all those toys --GIJoe, transformers, he-man--produced a comic book and then the shows were "based" on the comic and not the toy.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
As others have pointed out we had stuff for us--Inspector Gadget or glorified toy commercials--but it was all so cheap looking with formulaic plots and jokes. Disney in the 90s--after their late-80s film revival--really started investing in new TV for kids. Whole TV channels catered to elder mils.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
pop cultural kid's programming, mainly. for Xers, we just got whatever the silents and boomers had laying around: sitcoms from the 50s-60s, cartoons from the 30s-60s. for elder mils, Disney and WB started producing new stuff. I have no affinity for Goofy, for example, but elder mils love the guy.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Rahm could never elicit the same pity as Jeb did with "please clap"
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
living up to the "bluedog" name
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
He's a non-white person trying to fit in white-supremacist circles. So he clownifies himself. Mascotification. He shows his willingness to being the butt of the joke. He thinks because he laughs along with the nazis that he is accepted. He isn't. They'll turn on him when they've tired of the joke.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
even listen to him from the '16 campaign. he was saying stupid shit, but it was coherent stupid shit.
Amanda Litman (@amandalitman.bsky.social) reposted
Three competing “autopsies” - none of which want to talk about the actual problem - is peak Democratic Party. The leaders that got us into this mess are literally incapable of getting us out of it. We need a new generation in power in every sense of the word. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
OP says "the work is mine" "the text is mine" or "I did the work" OP never says "I wrote it".
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
"Now, uh, someone told me you're having some trouble with your water?"
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
personally I would've earmarked that money to build rockets that don't explode
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, turning off my AC is uncomfortable--and a serious health risk living in an area that frequently has heatwaves over of over 100f three out of the four seasons--but it's a small price to pay knowing that the chatbots are thriving.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, Muad'Dib! You Devil
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Marjorie Taylor Green is a hobby?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
In 2022, Dark Brandon, eyes glowing red, shoved Obama, Hillary, Comey and Brennan in a room, shouted "write those damn Epstein files," then slammed the door and locked it.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social)
December is the only one I don't recognize. If it's an evil nun, even if she's magic, I think I'm okay. My everyday life doesn't often intersect with Catholicism and I've got no beef with this nun and won't stand in her way. If it's something else more witchlike, then survival might be trickier.
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
"what if your watch could not only detect diseases but communicate directly with the death panel to flag you for resource reclamation"
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
how about i (as in the square root of negative one)?
Jeff (@jeffedwards.bsky.social) reply parent
Within 5 years they'll all start masking.