You can tell it’s true because not only do we have massive amounts of munitions and large amounts already being manufactured, but also need to build more factories than ever before to supply… the munitions… that we already have massive amounts of?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

Trump: The leaks are untrue but the leakers should be locked up 🤔

The amount of time and effort that could be spared if dudes were able to distinguish “this concept is wrong” from “the specific example of this concept is untrue in my experience.” Fucking pedantic nitpicky bullshit about how “it’s expensive to be poor” doesn’t apply to specific consumer goods. 1/

I’m not sure how to square the claim that expensive goods aren’t ackshually better (despite people with more money being willing to pay more for them) with Will’s belief that the difference between the rich and poor is that the rich will “just do the EV math” and pick the “clear winning answer.”

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · 2d ago

okay now he's gone too far

Accessibility (“more stuff”) *is* a measure of quality for everyone who has even the barest understanding of what their life would have actually been 40 years ago.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · yesterday

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “please think of the children” argument made in advocacy of “we should have let more kids, their teachers, and their parents die”

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

If I didn’t know better, I’d say that centrists constantly falling for the “let’s underfund this public program… whoa hey this program doesn’t work that proves it was a bad idea and we should get rid of it” shtick was intentional. Come to think of it, I’m not sure I know better.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d ago

The core argument is that cities like Seattle are so addled by left-wing ideology that they have fallen into dystopia. In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.

In a good example of “every fact is a new fact for someone out there” until today I didn’t know that “episcopal” refers to a church’s organizational structure, not to its doctrines. So you had the “Methodist episcopal church” and the structure of even the Catholic Church would be “Episcopal.” 1/

I sure am glad to hear that the LAPD takes such a strong stand against recording people without their consent even where they can be reasonably expected to be overheard Which is why they’ve banned the use of Perkins recordings and charged every officer that conducts one with eavesdropping… right?

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d ago

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping

It’s remarkable is how much worse they look now. Everything august, historic, or dignified now looking like a college dude put a gaudy wrap on his 2005 Corolla to make it look newer.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · 6d ago

While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.

The fact that tech writers keep falling for “OMG our chatbot is so capable and brilliant it’s scary” like they’re Charlie Brown trying to kick a football should be a sign that they’re either too credulous to be trusted, or actively shilling.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 6d ago

most tech outlets spent the week burying the lede that this was a completely avoidable error (or intentional marketing decision) by a human being, and not a malevolent self aware cyber consciousness that slipped its leash

It’s wild that how many people think a dude who’s consistently a condescending asshole online under his own name somehow doesn’t also piss people off in the real world. Though don’t discount his “people often lie about bad things happening to them for clout” thesis.

“Costs going up isn’t a problem as long as you reduce your quality of life” doesn’t seem like a great sales pitch. But somehow the right laps it up anyway.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 7d ago

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver"

Thomas is an easy lay for “free speech doesn’t mean you can criticize powerful men.” Alito is an easy lay for “whatever the right-wing wants” And Kav and Gorsuch are on board with “how dare you tell daddy - I mean Donny - I mean Trump what to do.” So I could see them granting cert.

Khashoggi's Ghost@urocklive1.bsky.social · 6d ago

Trump wants SCOTUS to revive his Appeals Court rejected lawsuit against Hillary about the the 2016 election, claiming she conspired to “weave a false narrative” that his campaign colluded with Russia. www.ms.now/deadline-whi...

What I’m stuck on is that none of that is “complex logistics.” More importantly, if this is leisure travel, I’m led to believe that people who like traveling also like deciding where to go and what to see.

Auld Bendy@auldbendy.bsky.social · 7d ago

Good luck with that. My cousin tried to use it for her trip to Edinburgh and it recommended an activity in Pitlochry that wasn't on at the time of year she was coming, activities in Stirling and in Northumbria. Literally getting the computer to make all your decisions. What's the point?

What’s hilarious and depressing is that the right-wing is obviously banking on a Democratic administration never responding in kind. And they’re right to bank on it.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

We’re so inculcated in great man historiography that we want to believe all thoughts sprung forth (ex nihilo and fully formed) the moment the famous man did the thing he’s famous for.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.

one tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon

I feel like, beyond just that black people should have latitude to point out bullshit the rest of us don't see, *the rest of us* should have independently noticed that Wilson's review had some messed up implications.

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last wk.

*nodding vigorously* and when we refuse to do the colorblind cosplay we’re hit with “oh this is *so* exhausting and annoying and you’re dog-piling etc etc

I'm not sure how opposite "we're making magic that's definitely be revolutionary any day now and not just 'Clippy again but it tells you to kill your family' and it'll be great" is from "we're making magic... and it'll kill jobs." Both begin with the lie about what they're making.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.

Monkey’s paw, curling: “this raw milk TikTok influencer has a lot of thoughts about science”

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · last wk.

by way of idle wishful thinking - would be great if NYT hired a science writer/thinker for the op-ed page to tell us what’s happening and what’s at stake in the sciences, at a time when they are under attack in a way Galileo would recognize, while newspaper science journalism is facing extinction

It turns out that Josh did not feel up to explaining his *deep and meaningful metaphor* about how reducing income taxes on the working class is “disenfranchisement” I guess I’ll just have to live with my conclusion that it’s some bullshit like “if you don’t pay taxes you don’t matter”.

Andrew Parker@andrewparker.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m struggling to comprehend what is metaphorically “disenfranchisement” in not paying income taxes. Again, I do have a newborn and sleep deprived so *clearly* I’m missing something. Can you help me out?

I’m struggling to comprehend what is metaphorically “disenfranchisement” in not paying income taxes. Again, I do have a newborn and sleep deprived so *clearly* I’m missing something. Can you help me out?

He has a face made for radio and a brain made for the volksempfänger

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last wk.

they’re making you look

If this came from any industry other that chatbot corps we would recognize it immediately as identical to an ad “warning” that if you use Ax body spray women will totally attack you en masse because you’re so irresistible.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.

OPENAI, ANTHROPIC STAFF CIRCULATE PETITION URGING US TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO 'DELIBERATELY PACE' FRONTIER AI DEVELOPMENT, WARNING OF RISK IT ADVANCES FASTER THAN HUMANS CAN CONTROL; LETTER ALSO SHARED WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND STAFF, EXPECTED PUBLIC THIS WEEK

Maybe it’s the sleep deprivation, but I’m not sure how not paying income taxes is disenfranchisement. At least until and unless the Shopify guy’s “make voting contingent on income taxes” bullshit is added to the constitution.

In exchange for which you get the enormous benefit of… uh… someone who won’t defend LGBTQ rights, believes more in finding common ground with bigots than defeating them, and wants to take Medicaid benefits away from anyone who saves up $2,000 because it’ll reduce Medicaid spending by 2.1%.

Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)@kleinman.bsky.social · last wk.

Gavin Newsom would be great as the 2028 nominee if you want to spend the entire campaign defending his personal life www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

It’s like watching the whole “I stopped taking my antibiotics because I felt better” problem happening on a national and global scale.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

Maybe after I’ve slept (baby hours are weeeird right now) I can actually sort through the vague thoughts about authenticity in our culture (I feel like I can draw a line from Jay-Z’s Death of Autotune to Graham Platner). Because right now I’m pretty sure it’d be incoherent.

Andrew Parker@andrewparker.bsky.social · last wk.

It really lays bare the extent to which: 1. "Working-class" is a set of aesthetics and fetish items, wholly disconnected from actual socioeconomic class or upbringing. 2. For a whole lot of people "being a piece of shit" is *evidence* of authenticity and being working-class. 2/2

It's fascinating that for all of the "you just don't get it, this is just how working-class guys are, you can't have an authentically working-class party without supporting shitty people" the upper-echelons of this campaign definitely weren't. 1/

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

When my son, a literal infant, cries it’s because he doesn’t know how else to communicate and he doesn’t understand things like cause and effect. Grown-assed men shouldn’t have the same level of comprehension of how to communicate and why people react the way they do as an infant.

You might consider that a condescending dude who had sympathy for Graham Platner asking for the right to contact people who have used the system’s functions to prevent exactly that, might strike some as indicating an… unfamiliarity with how consent works.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · last wk.

a very obvious problem with the nuclear block is that it makes it less likely that you patch things up with someone than you would with e.g. a clickthrough block and it's insane that Will is getting the blowback he's getting on this