John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Imagining Biden posting this and it's about a fifteen percent tax break on a public transportation initiative funded in an ombudsmen bill passed in a compromise with a fossil fuel and pharmaceutical manufacturers
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
"Lord, by this time there will be an odor."
Alex Arrelia (@alexarrelia.bsky.social) reposted
If fascists tell you to throw marginalized people under the bus and you do, you are just collaborating with fascists. At no point in history has appeasing Nazis stopped Nazis from committing more crimes, it is literally enabling them. There is no justification for being a craven coward.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
It was really brushing up to the edges of the fun we experienced when we thought COVID had smoked him.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Have we stopped to consider RFKs mad science is doing its job and he's been reanimated
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Carrying a big stick around to knock the shit out of people is kind of a red flag
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Daniel Carlson (@danielwcarlson.bsky.social) reposted
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
You're telling me the sheriff who beat the shit out of perps with a big stick also beat his wife and killed her?!
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
The couple is potentially too hot to be legally married. It's the basis of all RICO law.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Guy who's not a doctor making diagnoses with a passing glance for diseases that don't exist
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Hang it next to the no shredded cheese fajita lady
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Like a Prayer
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social) reposted
I DEEPLY FUCKING RESENT the Fifth Circuit and the Supreme Court for making me write this goddamn fucking news post
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, she is familiar with plagiarism
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Angus Johnston (@angus.bsky.social) reposted
Walz is a good speaker, but the approach he's taking in this clip, with a few tweaks here and there, is available to pretty much any Democrat. This isn't the language of the party's left wing. It's just the simple rhetoric of an opposition party in a time of domestic crisis.
Tyler, from the Internet (@tylerjameshill.com) reposted
Shut up about Newsom as your king or whatever your weird crush fetish is. You got waltz, JB Pritzker, Wes Moore, and Bob Ferguson standing up for people just fine without Adolph Mcconaughey and his I-need-to-return-some-video-tapes anti-human bullshit.
Matthew Jackson (@awalrusdarkly.bsky.social) reposted
People are shouting "LOOK HE'S THE BEST WE CAN DO" about the Governor of California, meanwhile the Governor of Illinois is out here talking like John Wick while *also* standing up for trans people.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Reading aloud from the necronomicon that everyone told me not to read from in the woods everyone told me to stay out of: boy this country air sure is pleasant
Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted
Oligarchs R Us Any democrats who take money from this or benefit from them should be dead in the water
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder if a federal agent slamming my head into the kitchen table like batman in an interrogation room counts as a kitchen table issue
Ken Tremendous (@kentremendous.bsky.social) reposted
It's like they think framing it as "local law enforcement" vs. "federal troops" is a clear and winning argument. How about: "Donald Trump is drunk with power, he's a dictator just like he said he would be, he's sending the FBI to attack citizens -- he's a tyrant and we have to stop him!"
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
"Do you know who my dad is?!"
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Kicking grandma's walker out from under her and chucking her carcass into the paddy wagon outside the Safeway
Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
"You are silly. Stop." The serious thoughtful person has posted
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Please quit masturbating to anime sir. We need you to breed teenagers on an uninhabitable planet.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Young Frankenstein is so elegantly done. Tight writing with a look that's perfectly old timey horror film. It's a 10/10 movie
Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted
Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Going to Sam Houston State to be the world's greatest podcaster
Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted
Folks, we've finally made it as a news publication: The Onion is doing a tote bag sale. If you subscribe to the print edition in the next week, you get this free Onion tote bag. It comfortably stores your drugs, drug paraphernalia, and baby books. Get one today. membership.theonion.com/totepromo/
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
How do these freaks keep ending up in magazine spreads?
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
look what happens when you actually speak to the people living in these neighborhoods instead of ventriloquizing them to make an ideological point: you get a good story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Content creators utilizing art processing intelligence
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
They might be making Trump mad, but Newsom has been throwing these at the press -- if you think these are beneath my office, why don't you say that when the president does the same thing? He's exposing that the media has a separate set of standards for Our Very Special Boy and that's good.
Alan Elrod (@aselrod.bsky.social) reposted
A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
No way to know they were officers and not random kidnappers without any form of basic identification. I'd run too
Sean T. Collins (@seantcollins.com) reposted
"I use AI because I want to draw but drawing's hard." I'm not entitled to be an astronaut or a sculptor or a math professor or a decathlete simply because I feel like being one and learning to do it is hard and maybe, for me, impossible. Dem's da fuckin' breaks!
Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Teaching the machine who the idiots are and how to own them
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
He sucks, but I'll take Ws from anyone who sucks less than the autocrats at this point
Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"The left must acknowledge that DC has a high crime rate" OK but the citations in your own article include this acknowledgement! Congratulations, you have the thing that you want. Can we talk about the authoritarianism now?
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Dynamic synergy collated with force multipliers for integrated creativity
Lindsey Boylan (@lindseyboylan.bsky.social) reposted
Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
If there's anyone who knows how to hold a fair election, it's Vladimir Putin. His people don't keep electing him by 98 percent for nothing
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) (@thetattooedprof.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Lets be clear: this is bad. But it's also a desperate move from a brittle regime finding out a large majority of Americans actually dislike being governed by 8chan nazis and unhinged jesus freaks, and are increasingly coming to the realization that Trump is all over the Epstein files
Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online) reposted
This really drives home that this isn’t a crackdown, or an occupation, it’s a propaganda exercise. Sure, it’s a terrifying one, but don’t let it get to you too hard - that’s exactly what it’s supposed to do.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
This cuisine kills fascists
Philip Bump (@pbump.com) reposted reply parent
Whenever I revive this thread, I get clever people asking what, exactly, Democrats are supposed to do. Beyond the column at the start of the thread, I would ask: is “nothing” working?
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
These dick bags bring machine guns to Walmart. They're totally conditioned to be scared of everything
Sam Brody (@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social) reposted
I must continue to insist that this is not a strong regime. It does not have the kind of pan-societal support needed to enforce Gleichshaltung. It has significant elite buy-in and a small popular coalition, but it is brittle and feeble and will collapse if pressed hard enough.
Dr. William Horne (@wihorne.bsky.social) reposted
Almost word for word how enslavers justified secession in the winter of 1860-61. If U.S. history shows one single thing, it is that conservatives have only consented to representative democracy when they thought they could use it (along with extreme violence) to seize unlimited property & power.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
On one hand we gave up some of our own resources. On the other hand, our adversary got exactly what he wanted
Thembo (@thembo.bsky.social) reposted
Wow, wild. Anyway, here's a photo of Atlantic Owner Laurene Powell Jobs having a nice time with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Alice in Business Casual
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Slightly diminish a bad: Bruce Springsteen and the Maple Street Band
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
You can't be a frothing at the mouth racist without being a huge dumb ass. The two go hand in hand
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) reposted
a lesser discussed reason that trump is so interested in loosing the national guard and federal law enforcement on primarily democratic-led cities is because every bootlicking, toadying, shit-eating, ball-gargling gadfly on tv will say “but trump does have a point about crime”, and he knows it
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
He also got a full vote in the Senate. No body filibustered his corrupt ass.
Dennis B. Hooper (@dennisbhooper.bsky.social) reposted
I think a lot of people are failing to consider the possibility that Usha Vance DOES hate her husband but is staying with him FOR the fascism
Brooke Harrington (@ebharrington.bsky.social) reposted
This guy should be our next President: he has the track record of turning around a highly corrupt & horrifically mismanaged government with a combination of fiscal responsibility & progressive policies; he's not only unafraid of Trump, he's consistently fought Trump (& Trump minions) effectively.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Giving up talking about anything except our living hell until all the worlds problems are solved
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Penn and Teller is an underappreciated classic
Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted
Translation: please stop talking about how we are covering up for pedophiles
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
Deleting a post about Israel “accidentally” killing international journalists because I missed that they had declared them terrorists. Everyone involved in this genocide needs to be sent to The Hague bsky.app/profile/yasm...
Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted
literally the only counter argument you need is “jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly inspect your childs genitals”
mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) reposted
Epstein Pedocons like Trump want people to be ignorant and weird about their bodies because this makes it easier for them to rape kids
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
How dare you, sir
Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted
its probably best that the people who are going to be weak on rights show their asses now and not before they win primaries etc
Erin Fogg (@criminalerin.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It's anti-human on a fundamental level to say any one of us MIRACLES of creatures & our children cannot freely walk about this ONE SOLE ONLY little tiny MIRACLE of a planet it is spiritually wicked to keep us from each other all across our ONE HOME, the only PLANET in the UNIVERSE known to have LIFE
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Some rich prick: how come we ain't got good artists like we used to Answer: Rich pricks hate artists and do everything in their power to devalue art
Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points (@therisingtithes.bsky.social) reposted
I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does: we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space
Steve M. (@stevemnomoremister.bsky.social) reposted
Democrats need to say this every chance they get. They shouldn't do what they always do, which is assume that everyone already knows what they know.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Penn's involvement in this campaign is good news for Mamdani
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Have no idea how World Cup and Olympics happen here
Rebecca Solnit (@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) reposted
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
I rode out the great recession in grad school. Let me tell you, that did not pay off
Tyler King (@tyleraking.com) reposted
For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
Sure seems like the President of the United States is going to pardon a convicted sex trafficker and serial abuser who ran a pedophilia ring with his best friend in the whole wide world.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
This guy has better messaging than anyone currently working for the DNC
luke steuber (@lukesteuber.com) reposted
lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner
Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted
the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Let's do Andrew's resume next. Why did you leave your last job Mr Cuomo?
dr. hazel 🐝 (@hazelmonforton.com) reposted
“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
Most women would settle for generally non threatening, kind of funny and fresh smelling.
Alice (@thealice.bsky.social) reply parent
The erasure of two and a half centuries of institutional knowledge is well underway
Iron Spike (@ironspike.bsky.social) reposted
Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell
Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reposted
The problem here is that a random Bluesky poster with 5 fake diseases can become the face of the Democratic Party while the actual president can say he's mad that Jeffrey Epstein stole his sex slave and he wants Barack Obama executed and people shrug.
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted reply parent
all i want are televised congressional hearings forcing every doge chud to confront their role in killing hundreds of thousands of people
Cathy Gellis (@cathygellis.bsky.social) reposted
Let's not forget that this seat was vacant because Islamaphobic Democrats wouldn't let Biden's appointee be confirmed. And Schumer let the clock run out.
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
Greg Greene (he/him/his) (@greene.haus) reposted
“Why aren’t most Democrats supporting law enforcement,” Cortez-Masto asked earlier (per @ericmgarcia.bsky.social). Well, since it’s question time: why didn’t more Democratic senators support a Democratic president’s nominee to our mostly Republican judiciary? Riddle me f’ing that.