yeah but that's because we can't work from like a cool place where we can hang out with our friends. It's lonely for me to work at home, but working *at work* is just me sitting in a cubicle all day. It's still boring and lonely!

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 16h ago

Conover is catching hell for this in the comments but he’s not wrong about a lot of it, particularly the union angle youtu.be/GnHyKckbwIw?...

*whew* Playboy coming out swinging

Playboy@playboy.com · 21h ago

As they amass more money and power, the public views billionaires as sweaty psychos Scrooge McDucking their way into evil amounts of cash. The collective ick emerging raises a question that wealthy men might prioritize over ethical perceptions: Have billionaires become categorically unfuckable?

Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed

Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...

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I am not sure there's a better casting pick for "Hapless lawyer willing to represent Looney Toon in court" than Will Forte youtu.be/4WwrjXE3_QM?...

Coyote vs. ACME | Big Round Bomb Injury?

YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme

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I am extremely excited about Coyote vs. Acme.

Ben Shapiro has recreated Judeo-Bolshevism from first principles, just replacing "Jew" with "Muslim."

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 58m ago

Ben Shapiro probably does not know enough history to even know this, but the way he is talking about Muslims as a nation within the nation who can never be integrated is almost verbatim what European nationalists said about Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

And renewing my offer -- any college class in Texas that wants to discuss the book, I'll happily Zoom in for the chat.

I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 17h ago

Only a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...

I wrote about how weird and bad it is to have a future AG going around claiming he'll make Dobbs "permanent in every single state"—unless he understands Dobbs to be a national abortion ban, and thinks his job is to force states to comply

Todd Blanche Is Claiming That He Can Ban Abortion In Any State

As he fights to be confirmed as attorney general, Blanche is trying to appease Christian-right groups with wild legal theories about restricting abortion.

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Is this just going to become the unacknowledged dirty little secret of video-gen AI, the same way social media companies knew that right wing accounts tended to break moderation rules more? The dominant use of this technology being “imagine if this person couldnt refuse you”?

Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 3mo ago

Not being funny but if you can’t connect our current moment of resurgent and revanchist violent misogyny driven in part by a deeply embittered Silicon Valley oligarchy to even a ‘well-intentioned’ filmmaker just casually saying, “Imagine, you could fuck an infamously objectified dead woman,” then,

It's funny because Inshallah means almost exactly the same thing as Deus Vult, and these guys get that tattooed on their bodies.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 1h ago

this is truly motivating me to use inshallah even more than I already do after all it’s the faster and more fun way to say “if the good lord’s willing and the creek don’t rise,” speaking as someone with Southern roots.

lot of people picking specific unusual guys but hear me out: anybody can be James Bond but only for 2 minutes

The Independent@the-independent.com · 8h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

Wrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone

Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.

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A superficially similar picture has been published by Reuters. In both pictures, abandoned shoes can be read metonymically for missing bodies: an established visual trope, legible as an allegory of human suffering. But while the Reuters photographer documented a scene of real-life suffering … 2/

Licensable picture: Migrants cross into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta

A float and shoes belonging to migrants float in the sea at El Tarajal beach, amid mass crossings of migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into Spanish...

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over vacation I reread Abarat and I think it's very funny that the cosmology is a sort of whimsical YA version of the cosmology of The Great and Secret Show.

Once again... bsky.app/profile/jben...

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 3h ago

Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

Just to make the point abundantly clear, Chris Wallace is now a paid advisor to an investment firm that has a large stake in Paramount and a vested interest in getting the Warner Bros. merger over the line. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Chris Wallace: States Are Playing Politics With the Law to Block Paramount’s Warner Bros. Deal

"I don’t believe government should use its powers to determine who owns a news platform or to control how that outlet reports the news," writes the former Fox and CNN anchor, who is now a paid advisor...

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Simpsons: Comic Book Guy Wants Pon Farr (Vulcan Sex Ritual Once Every 7 Years)

YouTube video by Ben Simon a.k.a. Cartoon Man Central

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Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2h ago

Seeing a lot of discourse about the movie where people only get to have sex one night out of the year and what you have to understand is that for some of us that’s pretty good

This is extremely funny. www.jezebel.com/michigan-pri...

Michigan MAGA Got Confused, Voted for the Whitest-Sounding Person on the Ballot

It's a new low point for Trump endorsements, as MAGA voters rejected his candidate and chose a guy who had suspended his campaign instead.

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I highly recommend the work of Derek Gregory on drones and the ways in which they moved from operating in extraterritorial zones to urban environments, made borders elastic, and changed targeting from static places to mobile bodies.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 3h ago

The experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I agree with this. Data Center Developers and Tech Companies *don't* engage in good faith.

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 16h ago

First, and most importantly, anti-data center folks refuse to believe data center developers and tech companies engage in good faith. They have staked out a purely reactionary position. Negotiation is useless. Just reject everything by default. They're playing this as Always Defect.

HYPOCRISY! People LIKE it when athletes are outspoken about GOOD things, but DON'T LIKE IT when they're outspoke about BAD things!

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 7h ago

Aaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D

I think this is a clunky line, but like, I dunno. They did have bronze everywhere! It was pretty important for their whole deal. Like we talk now about living in the Silicon Age, or the Computer Age, we talk about the Age of Fossil Fuels and so forth. Is it really that weird?

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 4h ago

"I also cringed when Odysseus says to Penelope during their first meeting when he is disguised as a beggar, “Our age of bronze is collapsing.” ... no one during the Bronze Age knew they were living in the Bronze Age." This to me is when I gave up on actually liking the film overall.

I think there's no question that money has a massive, undue, and fundamentally corrupting influence in elections, BUT I also think it's clear that there are certain thresholds where the money not only doesn't help as much but actually becomes a kind of obstacle.

see the problem with the Fremont automated factory is that people could go there and look at it. If it's on the moon, he can just say he built it and who's going to know?

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 4h ago

in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑@leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 4h ago

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Every elected Republican is now a Max Miller Republican. Hang that around their necks every damn day.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h ago

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

When this shit started, there was a scramble to appease it, to be seen taking it seriously. But there was never scientific evidence for it. Never any reason to treat it as anything more than a conspiracy theory. It’s shameful that so many publications didn’t see the clear disinformation campaign.

If they can send even a single scientist to prison over something that plainly did not happen, they can imprison anyone for anything at any time for any reason. Those are the stakes. You don’t hear that from legacy publications like NYT.

Republicans like Rand Paul are lying to the public and wielding those lies like a wrecking ball, targeting academia and public health. He and the administration want to imprison scientists over what is very clearly a conspiracy theory. It’s the most incredible and dangerous thing I’ve ever seen.