honestly think this is as much a fetish thing for elon as much as it is a racist thing
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honestly think this is as much a fetish thing for elon as much as it is a racist thing
The press wants to turn us into the UK *so* bad
As someone who suffered from both educational neglect and social isolation due to homeschooling, it is fucking crazy-making witnessing the right suddenly pretend to be mad about the terrible effects of keeping kids away from public school
The right is pushing this narrative because itβs the only place they can blame liberals β their actual goal β and gain purchase among elites. The *actual* mistakes during the pandemic all originate on the right: lax lockdowns, weak mitigations and low vaccine uptake
Yeah, like how much of this behavior was her reflexively sabotaging her daughter from being able to develop autonomy and a separate life? I really hope she can get enough space to realize this isn't what "love" should feel like.
It immediately had the vibe of this moment from The Good Place: Michael: "Let's not get all caught up on who lied to who or which one of us created an entire fake reality in order to cause eternal misery for the others. That's ancient history." Chidi: "It was happening until 20 seconds ago."
yeah I think the enshittification of the old mass-platformers is a kind of collapse of the tower of babel/fall of Rome moment: no one will ever have those first mover advantages, and hence that size, and hence those network effects ever again.
trump finally achieving god emperor status of everyone being uncertain if hes dead or alive and artificially preserved
This βblue states closed schools too longβ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but itβs arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
"Itβs not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
Griffinβs definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalismβspecifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existedβremains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
Sometimes I just can't stop thinking about how not only did a huge portion of our society fail in possibly the easiest and most obvious test of ethics and judgement ever devised ("should you support Donald Trump as president?"), they have failed it multiple times over.
new thing
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the βpathological irony of crisisβ: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
Bluesky is livejournal plus tumblr coded
manβs never met a press camera he didnβt want to be in front of and has been calling into every right wing radio station and cable show to rant for decades, if heβs doing neither, something weird is up
@gluesenkampperez.house.gov this is what your coddling of the GOP's racist and nativist policies have led to: children being shoved onto a plane to a place they said they were afraid to go to, because no one cares what happens to them. How do you sleep at night enabling this?
Rudy Giuliani just set a world record in the field of Statement That Invites More Questions Than It Answers.
Idk if this is a full on glozno but I think we should make the effort to make it so
I think itβs so awesome this has broken containment
It's been less than twenty minutes, and the comments are already doing the thing
the βoutsidersβ in question
RFK Jr. is not a vaccine skeptic. He's a vaccine denier whose anti-science extremist views and actions are destroying one of humanity's greatest scientific achievements. He's going to kill a lot of people, and those deaths are on the 52 Republican senators who confirmed him and those enabling him.
I like the continuity of knowing exactly what youβre getting with a cop named βPatrick OβHanlonβ for like a century
Speaking as someone who used to spend time in their chats, SO much of US contemporary fascism is a function of men assuming that the way adulthood worked was, you got a job and in exchange you got a woman to be your mom plus your sex toy. They are ENRAGED that they have a job but no sex mommy.
You don't NEED Freud to understand this. These guys thought they were entitled to a labor continuity from mother to wife: warm meals, laundry, housekeeping, emotional soothing on demand when they feel dysregulated. They also expect a sexual labor bonus on top of that as a reward for adulthood.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
team βhe deadβ rn:
Snowden is exactly the person all the shitlibs claimed he was and like every time the shitlibs turn out to be right about one of these guys all the cool kids have just memory holes their years of support for him and pretend they never defended the guy.
Ed Snowden was the exact kind of paranoid, low trust person who is easily swayed to Trump and a skill that everyone needs to cultivate is the ability to sniff those kinds of people out and disregard them, because they arenβt good sources of information.
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You know how medieval lords put up beautiful tapestries all over their homes? That but a Really Good Quilt.
youtu.be/-e6lS_AvYO8?...
I know just enough about coding and am just bamboozled enough by edm that when I see stuff like this i fall to my knees and venerate it like the monolith from 2001
former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
three day weakened
it is so profoundly weird, yet in character, that sheβs decided to die on the hill of βnot letting kids scroll TikTok brain rot in math classβ
Ok is she too careless to realize that the blanked out word here is βJewsβ or is she fully over the edge?
Theyβre radicalizing us all now.
The year is 2025. I am parsing the mad kingβs scrolls to ascertain whether it was written by him or by one of his scheming viziers.
βexploit the AI to steal vibe-codersβ cryptoβ is a perfect summation of our modern tech environment, well done all around
The day It Happens I'm gonna drop my "fireworks are the worst" position for a day, fuck yeah hand me that roman candle, light the mother fucking beacons
[WaPost's coverage of WA state story] Border Patrol Arrested Firefighters As They Were Battling A Wildfire By @partlowj.bsky.social and Brianna Sacks Veteran firefighters worried a DHS raid on the Bear Gulch fire in Washington could make it more difficult to find contractor crews. Gift link!
1. Iβm not a politician. Iβm a writer, reporter, and civil libertarian. 2. Majorities have been oppressing minorities for all of history. 3. Polls follow effective leaders. Shitty leaders follow polls. 4. Cuomo is also wrong about the polls.
Luxury/imposed surveillance dynamic in one paragraph.
Once again @propublica.org deviates from its usually excellent reporting standards to completely faceplant when covering Autism. Not ONE Autistic self-advocate consulted in this article, just the allistic scientists who just want to figure out why Autistic people exist for Definitely Not Eugenics.
Oh brother lmao was her research looking at the environment autistic kids live in and discovering that they have autistic parents or was it all just more stuff about trying to find out what's "poisoning" us with "the condition" of "being one's whole self at all times" So we can be "cured"
my father-in-law is a βI know a guyβ Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because itβs not about βwinningβ a deal, itβs about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
Give your body to the algorithm. π
just to confirm, this is fully accurate. what the actual fuck, mozilla?
ICE forcing firefighters to stop battling a wildfire and make them all show their papers, then arresting some active firefighters and pulling them off the line shows there's no bottom. As @aselrod.bsky.social pointedly argues, it's nothing less than an "active assault on virtue wherever it exists."
They perversely see Team Breaking Things as fulfilling their part of the social contract and Team Fixing Things as violating it for not fixing the mess.
The electorate breaks things to protest the fact things are broken then has more broken things to get mad about, causing them to vote to break things in protest. Many such cases!
As always, there's a Helluva Boss clip for this moment
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says βCan I help you find something?β βIβm looking for the obituaries.β βThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.β βNot the one Iβm looking for.β
Look, we'll know for sure it happened when they accidentally add a journalist to the "EMERGENCY POTUS DEAD" secret Signal chat
evidence for: - multiple comments musing about death and the hereafter - bruises - weird cabinet three and half hour praise session - vance saying he's ready to be president in an interview section about trump's health - no public appearances in two days and none scheduled for labor day weekend
If we post hard enough we can get them to drag him out to prove heβs alive. I believe in us.
Live your life such that everyone doesnβt spend ten solid years planning the rager theyβre going to throw when you die.
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: β virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing β against increasing the minimum wage β buys foreign imports because they're cheap
Even when they cut off their children they still feel the right to correct & admonish! They only absolve themselves of any reciprocal obligation. It's all their discretion to exercise
when it happens, it's gonna be like the end of prohibition for a week
what a terrible day to be literate
Me every time @gluesenkampperez.house.gov promises her constituents that she's "closely monitoring" something and that she'll "keep your input in mind if related legislation is brought to a vote in the House."
For all the talk we have about Democrats' need to "be authentic" or whether Kamala Harris was "authentic," the next big thing in the GOP is a guy who compared his boss to an opiate and said he risked becoming an American Hitler before he changed his mind on everything.
@gluesenkampperez.house.gov oh look what a shock the "brave heroes of ICE" kidnapped a firefighter and put us all in danger for no reason but to be bullies Why won't you protect us from this modern gestapo?
Important reminder for anyone who writes code or software: good documentation is designed to be understood by someone who is not you.
i sincerely donβt think vance believes in anything; you could put him into any political system in history and he would gravitate to whichever group he thinks he could squeeze the most power out of
And if you invade Persia, a great empire will fall.
Mark Zuckerberg just told the Swifties:
This is Marie Speakβ’ for "You'll never get anything you asked for and instead have to watch me rant about Headlights Too Bright for the 362nd time."
Marie wants veterans to know they have her support* *unless ICE assaults or kidnaps you
How long will you let ICE kick veterans (and so many other members of our communities!) before you stop telling us to *praise* these masked, out of control bullies?
www.wweek.com/news/courts/...
abc11.com/post/george-...
Speaking of veterans: www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/u...
First glance about half of these are charter schools & from spot checking most are in districts that mass shuttered schools under conservative management. Weβve had 35 years of βschool choiceβ in Chicago and school choice freaks are using it to push for more school choice
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
This is I feel like key to understand there's no winning these people over by trying to argue that progressive policies would be better at combating, say, corruption: they gripe about those things because *they're not getting what they think is their fair cut of the corruption*
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Mark Zuckerberg just told the Swifties:
Utterly blackpilling that these same guys would be screaming bloody murder if they had to pay a tenth as much under a lib administration because they know they wouldn't be put in jail.
Meta created celebrity romance chatbot replicas of Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson and Selena Gomez. Reuters found these "parody" bots would generate hyperrealistic images of the women in lingerie with their legs spread and invite users to the women's homes.
Go forth and make phone calls, residents of #WA03
Costs are all going up thanks to Trump's disastrous tariffs that you fully endorse, did that come up at all
Democracy is being assaulted by the Trump regime on a daily basis and you tell your constituents 1) you're not doing anything and 2) we should actually be very nice to the masked ICE thugs invading our communities to rip them apart, their jobs are soooooo hard
It has been over 3 months since I last heard back from @gluesenkampperez.house.gov, despite being promised an email response for the questions she never answered at the town hall I attended (I had to wait for 2 hours in line). I guess I'm one of those people who "reads too much news" she ignores...
Why are you still not providing literally any email response whenever I call your office? You've ghosted me for over 3 months and I still have no idea why. Except perhaps "I have the wrong ZIP code," because we know you don't care about Vancouver...
202-225-3536. Have fun!
She truly is the worst and deserves all the angry calls
Maybe read out a list of all the words you associate with @gluesenkampperez.house.gov, like "coward", "ineffective", "irrelevant", "failure", etc. Or list off the number of times you've gotten the wrong response from her, completely irrelevant to what you actually called about. Be *thorough*.
We all have some words we'd love to share with her about the job she's (not) doing, and you won't even have to talk to a person to leave said message! Some staffer will have to spend real time next week to log the voicemail. We could make it take a week to process the backlog. Maybe *2* weeks.
Attention residents of @gluesenkampperez.house.gov's district: her office appears to have taken a 4 day weekend starting today. If we called multiple times today through Labor Day, we could probably just grind the office to a halt processing an absurd number of upset constituents voicemails.
gentrification discourse and death-of-adulthood discourse both do this two-step of flitting between categorical condemnation, aesthetic complaints, and βitβs not what you do itβs how you do itβ because in a lot of cases the speaker is grasping for some objective measure that theyβre living correctly
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
though, i think the increasing volume of adults who *demand to have a say* in childhood entertainments has made those things worse, which is, i think, much more of a problem than those adults enjoying these entertainments.