It gets an actual chuckle out of me seeing people on here say "now the TRUE test is whether the shitlibs can live up to their own words and line up behind El-Sayed!" only for Stevens, Whitmer, every prominent Michigan Dem, the DSCC, etc. to have endorsed El-Sayed before they can finish the sentence.

Debating quad cortex vs fm3. Wish there were somewhere I could just go fool around with both and compare for myself.

Hold on now. Let's not blame the factory when deregulation is clearly the problem.

Nathan Daniel Hernandez@natedhernandez.bsky.social · last wk.

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

The DSA solution is to do more fake diplomacy while Russia keeps killing civilians. Is this what my demographic in Michigan voted for?

Tim White@twmcltd.bsky.social · 8h ago

A European capital city, in a country that's an ally of NATO, spent this morning retrieving bodies, saving the wounded, grieving, & despairing at the US in particular for giving Russia the green light to murder when it wishes. Day 1624. Is the fight for good vs evil abandoned?

“you can’t have fun because it makes you not want to have a revolution” congrats, a leftist just described concisely why their political project is doomed to failure

eva (^_^)/@eva.computer · 19h ago

i'm sorry but i refuse to concede that the concept of fun is "spiritually israeli" or whatever tf this nonsense is

People who turn off quote posts and comments should not be showing up in anyone's FYF, especially if they're insipid enough to think hank green "did a problem" by using AI

tbh I am at the point where I will like a movie if I can tell that it is trying to do something, anything

Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 23h ago

I remember Ebert’s main review writing tip was to judge films based on what they are trying to do vs what you want them to do.

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

This is because the spear is a superior weapon, of course

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think this has been kind of done to death but in pre-modern societies where women were trained for combat *on foot* (so filtering out 'everyone is a horse archer' cultures) my understanding is the tendency is to prefer polearms or spears.

I would simply think about everything perfectly and with zero biases, neuroses or fallacies

this is a real thing that happens a lot and it’s a total misunderstanding of capitalism and i really wish that more loud and online anti-capitalists would take the time to understand what it is they think they’re against, most of them are wrong about what they think they’re fighting

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 2d ago

there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create

LLMs are good, and image models are the children of the devil

MAHA is the single most toxic and dangerous stream of MAGA. It’s dedicated to destroying the material basis for modern civilization, in addition to the social and cultural basis (as all of MAGA is).

Lysenko 2029, I guess

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

The daughter of the creator of Stormfront went from "heir to the white nationalist movement" to "anti-racism activist" by her junior year of undergrad. we should give these kids full-ride scholarships to the most stereotypically woke SLAC in the country that is at least 4 hours' drive from home

Downplay a book or movie: Thus Mumbled Zarathustra

mrsomerton@mrsomerton.bsky.social · 2d ago

downplay a book or movie: Autonomy Hour

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

you either build a city or you do not. no half-measures.

In this case, the problem (which is serious even with merely very well to do cranks--though JKR's billions certainly don't help) is that UK defamation law is insanely favorable to plaintiffs and makes it trivial to intimidate critics.

If you know you know@privatechand.bsky.social · 4d ago

So now this ghoul wants to destroy Amnesty. Billionaires must be taxed into oblivion.

cool and great to see jealous wannabe scicomm people lining up to shiv Hank Green in the back and victim-blame him for the way he's being treated. love to see this shit normalised. love to know that absolutely everyone is wiggling human garbage. good lord.

apple tv's website is so abominably bad, and every time I resub it's bad in new ways that make it even more difficult to just... watch stuff. wtf

djent is just guitar dubstep (neutral valence)

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

Petty anti-immigrant tyranny that grossly offends American voters and makes "abolish ICE" a competitive position is the same stuff that the overwhelming majority of European voters will crawl over broken glass to demand at the ballot box.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 5d ago

He fled the Taliban 4 years ago. He’s been working and learning German. He made the mistake of trying to go on holiday in Rome for a few days, and for that crime Germany is deporting him straight to the Taliban

but if you build housing stock, the price of housing goes down, that is how it works, that is always how it works? you do not have to love private equity or want to allow them untrammelled, unregulated access to every marketplace! i am Pretty Hard-Nosed Capitalist about this and i still don't!

bringing her back to my place but to show her my accidental collection of white monster cans and deliberate collection of guitars

Adam@adam35.bsky.social · 5d ago

bringing her back to my place but to show her all my out of print intelligence books and antique civil war unit histories

seeing hank green actually attempting to examine evidence and not make decisions based purely on emotions or scary Glonzo stories despite huge pressure from his social cohort to do so has made me respect him 100x more in the past year

let me tell you about a little science communicator using AI named Every Working Mathematician and Software Engineer

Jonathan Jarry@jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 5d ago

If you’re a science communicator and you use AI, read this. This is about what’s happening to Hank Green.

What is the origin of this persistent ahistorical meme that “liberals choose fascism over socialism?” You see it pop up constantly and like I don’t expect everyone to be a historian but “who was on which side of WW2” seems like a reasonable expectation

Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape@breakify.bsky.social · 6d ago

Liberals will always choose fascism over socialism.