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Look, yes, sure, Bari Weiss is a sociopath and an incompetent writer, and she lacks the basic mental equipment to know what an idea or a principle might be, but set that aside and focus on the question of whether she has any idea of what news journalism is or how it works (the answer is no)
least surprising heel turn in history
Cuomo's colluding with the Trump administration to clear the field in order to go one-on-one against Mamdani, but still no Jeffries or Schumer endorsements. the Democratic Party needs a deep purge.
It felt like @drhastings.bsky.social really threw a bone to me and @alifisher.bsky.social this episode, like when a DM finally fills a dungeon with Thieves' Cant for the one rogue who's always looking for it
Thick
Yikes
It’s like H H Holmes moved to Scottsdale
It surely didn’t Happen but doesn’t the insane 3 hr cabinet meeting of compliments make more sense if someone was about to go in for really iffy surgery
He suddenly has the hands of a 20 year old
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
I put together a little trailer for our Steam store page. The project is basically done at this point and I'm super stoked to finally release it soon! store.steampowered.com/app/3775050/... #b3d #godotengine #gamedev
Kiss me at the Legoland 9/11 memorial
we never thought we would care but today we do. not shedding a tear, just shedding our detachment. love is cool. no recording tonight.
Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw
how about you go fuck yourself, how about that
A duck is a bird that likes to fly, and is also known as a *mal-lard* 🎶
This image could kill Daniel Day-Lewis
I’m voting Zapdos
I bet if Robert Durst was a very helpful houseguest he’d be like “the laundry? Folded it all, of course.”
Listening to Bolero at 2x speed. Let's get this over with!
Lol
I've talked to artists from Europe and it's so wild, they'll be like yeah I just got the grant that pays me a year's full living expenses to write a novel, I'm very lucky, the government only gives out 100,000 of those a year.
Trump raiding people's homes in political retribution BUT the target is John Bolton
“I’m sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but he’s the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trump”
I feel so bad for this child’s condition and I’m sorry his mother’s a stooge but I don’t know why her insane point of view merited column inches
This motherfucker
If only Bluesky wouldn’t censor our mountains of NSFW Light Eater glamour shots
Tim asked me "if there was a Light Eater image" for this post, like I just have those lying around. Anyway then I dropped everything for thirty minutes to make this in photoshop.
Y'all are gonna be absolute freaks for Melma Badalamenti
Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars Theo Von: Yeah Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money Von: Right
The missing piece of the equation explaining why so many critic positions are being eliminated is the little AI summaries at the top of Google results, which reduced click-throughs drastically. Once again, a tech company has stolen human labor and monetized it and doesn't care about the impact.
need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive
"It’s kind of weird, right? Why would my mind make me recall that the Russian Revolution was largely ignited by a devastating economic crisis, social inequality, and the ruling class being aggressively out of touch with the suffering masses?"
Say what you will about Gavin Newsom, but he’s a fighter, whether that’s against Trump, trans children, or his own constituents with nowhere to live.
Not true, for most of my life the president has been a guy born in summer 1946 and that’s how it always should be
Oceans Are Now Battlefields
If you're door-knocking for Mamdani, it would not be illegitimate to tell people in rent-stabilized buildings that Cuomo is coming for their apartment. They're waging war on rent stabilization. That's what's happening.
BTW I've seen a number of NYT comments like this. People who actually live in NYC know rent stabilization is a lifeline for them.
Jeffries makes a lot more sense when you realize he represents all of the Extremely White Gated Brooklyn Beachfront Neighborhoods They Don't Want You to Know Exist
Truly never seen them try harder to Find Something On A Guy
The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.
One of the best things to ever happen in an X-men comic and that’s saying something The bad guy responsible for this laughs his ASS off
this is the only way I have ever seen anyone put on pants!
this is Bluesky's best GIF demonstrating how it's done
1st thing i gotta do is be faux humble about working w the best writers room of all time @bransonreese.bsky.social ! @kibblesmith.com ! Sean O'Connor! Edgar Momplaisir! Miles Woods! Emma Del Valle! @tamis.bsky.social ! Lauren McGuire! Andrew Mueth! i was so scared of all of them the whole time
fuck. I thought Zohran had it, but this is basically a death knell
No problem with the Kelces or Taylor Swift but the fact that the question is asked about it being the most WATCHED podcast ever is the entire problem. We used to have podcasts done by people who should never ever ever be filmed and the system worked dammit.
The average person thinks things are going badly and the only strategy democrats have had for a decade is to say “No, they’re not. Things are going good. Your concerns are not valid.” Meanwhile their opponent is going “Things are FUCKED and we ALL KNOW IT. Here is WHO TO BLAME.”
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
stop showing me ai stuff. i know it sucks i know it fails. stop generating it
*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane
This looks like a deleted scene from Fateful Findings
I don’t know if anyone out there still does Redactle but I got today’s in 4 guesses 💅
Give millions upon millions to all the consultants in the world but dear god don't you dare give one cent to a graphic designer
In the interest of transparency, we will acknowledge that while apologizing Tim spilled his bread bowl and got chowder all over his pants
Silk Bitches rise up
This is my fav ep of Nethermurk
Don't listen to haters who say there's no money left in podcasting. I make $80 an episode on my series Postmates Mate, where I bring a not-famous comedian on my deliveries and ask about their favorite color or whatever.
Zendaya is Meechee voice: Labubu is Pazuzu
Newsom will not be able to win national office, no matter how many marginalized groups he throws under the bus. Cross him off the list now so it doesn’t come down to him as the presidential nominee. We can and should do better!
Floored me when I read that the colonies had the highest standard of living in the world at the time of the Revolution
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Wondery fired 110 producers today. The latest in a bunch of cuts that have decimated long form narrative podcasting. I have noodled for years now on the way forward and I really see independent shows as the only way. Some of my producers lost side gigs from this. It’s really hard out here!
Imagining a goblin that is so freaking NASTY right now, you couldn't even handle it lol
incredibly ghoulish to try and resurrect a dead kid and give him all the vitality of a Civ III leader screen
Bread: *Taunting me about how it will never be sliced* Me:
Taylor Lorenz is braver than the troops for taking this on People with 0 newsletter experience insist it's easy to make money with an alternate platform. I tried it. I lost money. My readership tanked Leaving Substack again would not hurt Substack but it could easily lead me to getting evicted
Stirf got legs
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Honestly if there are sniper holes in the foreheads of children, I don’t care if your own reasoning allows you to sidestep the G-word, there is no logical parsing that can justify these acts, there is no gentlemanly symmetrical warfare based on some colonial guideline, this is mass human hunting.
LeGuin wrote about the desire for 'unassailable safety' as one of the deep roots of evil, and I think about that a lot.
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Huh I wonder what effect Stop And Frisk would have had on the guy openly walking down Park Avenue with an assault rifle in his hand
My "favorite" Kessler "fact check" was when he called Bernie Sanders a liar for correctly noting that "Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America." Kessler's argument was that it doesn't count because "people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth."
In recent months, animal rescues and shelters across the country are reporting sharp increases in animals being surrendered, with several of those organizations telling CNN that financial hardship was at the root of those owners’ decisions.
The only Happy Gilmore two I’m interested in are Lorelei & Rory!
Hearing from the front of the line that they are running low on hard rolls but they have a fresh batch that should be done hardening by 5...🤞
[Boldly standing up on a hillside of people like the end of Spartacus] porno
God the lines are gonna be freaking bonkers now that PB&Js on a hard roll are back 🙄🙄🙄
#1 Piss Pig accessory.
This guy doesn't exist but I did have a prof in college who went on at length about how the college he went to did not have grades and how wonderful that was, but since my college *did* have grades, his hands were tied and he had *no choice* but to be an absolutely brutal grader
The Brooks Brothers Riot was one of the most successful coups in history. Almost entirely bloodless. Multiple elections at many different levels have been tainted because of it. Three of the masterminds were rewarded with lifetime judicial appointments. Decades and decades of legislation undone.
They shouldn't be allowed to call it this! Harry Leland didn't sacrifice himself for haughty mutants in Regency outfits to be swept under the rug
I feel 10,000x better staying offline. Brain continues to secrete posts though. Cryptkeeper dressed as Billy Joel: A bottle of DREAD, a bottle of FRIGHT
Finally the episode where Lemon becomes
Hey!!!
shooting from the hip but I nailed it imo
I'm sorry about this but I don't think there was a Legion solo series until the 2010s...
For once, something has happened in Rhode Island
This is such a bizarre angle. Is this really a story about a failure to address a “power vacuum” and “allow new governance structures?” Or might it more accurately be described as a story about “Israel bombed Gaza into dust and is now shooting starving civilians”?
surprised Anita Dunn landed on the shitlist so looked to see where she ever split with the Bidens and it got an lol from me www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/p...
I think the story was that Claremont was friends with them in real life, and they personally gave him permission to put them in x-men
