AOC is going to get saddam Hussein numbers if she runs for president as a single lady
Brendan C. Byrne
@brendancbyrne.bsky.social
another world isn't possible
RIP to John Crowley, a fine author and a fine human being. LITTLE, BIG is beautiful, and the AEgypt Cycle is significant in the way few pieces of Late 20th C American literature is
tell me you have never taken a kid to a doctor for a jab without telling me you have never taken a kid to a doctor for a jab
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."
Actually, when you think about the internet, social media, and Silicon Valley you begin to realize that Prometheus’ punishment for bringing technology to mortals – chained to a rock and having his organs pecked out by a giant eagle every day for the rest of time – wasn’t nearly severe enough.
My book GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is coming out in paperback next month, just in time for Musk to try to buy the midterms. Still some cheap hardcovers at online retailers. gildedrage.com
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russian guys posting propaganda and being met with a thousand replies saying technically that's not true and furthermore,
haven’t even seen the odyssey yet and i’m already sick of it…..nolan’s trick…
"funny" that as mass, bipartisan opposition to data centers is becoming a major political factor, support for the Return of Nuclear Power (a major political force 40 odd years ago) is bipartisan and (relatively) unopposed
RIP Alan Greenspan, remember when he went on TV in '08 and was like "i never factored in greed"? that was pretty fucking hilarious
Occurs to me that we’re at the end of an ultimately very anomalous century-long evidentiary golden age during which it was extremely easy to produce an accurate visual/auditory record of reality, and relatively difficult to produce a false one.
this is 100% correct. free online pdfs of abstruse political philosophy have driven the radicalization of millennials even more than social media
Yusuf@yusufimaadkhan.com · 2mo agoIn some sense, PDFs have changed the world
celebrating Father's Day by posting about cucking an infamous NYC supermarket mogul multiple decades ago is really best case for any Trump presidency
DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL NEWS IS CONFIRMED A look back at the PM's political career
DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL NEWS IS CONFIRMED A look back at the PM's political career
The BBC's political correspondent Joe Pike outlines the highs and lows of Sir Keir Starmer's premiership.
bbc.com
Many people of JDV’s background who grew up there would absolutely recognize what he says about his background and the culture of that area as ringing true. Why the weird ‘gatekeeping’ over who can claim what background/ancestry? Why the distasteful move to claim authenticity/inauthenticty? +
one thing i respect about the UK is they’ll choose a prime minister and then almost immediately turn around and be like “actually we fucked up, this guy sucks”
The Kirsty Macoll song we should have had.
Rob Palk@robpalk.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere is a dog in the pub that loves jazz
Do I need to write an academic journal article about data center memes
Still processing that conservatives spent decades insisting that religious institutions and wealthy philanthropists should take care of poor and desperate people (rather than governments) and then the last few years insisting that both divest from empathy, charity, and philanthropy.
They could solve affordable housing with the backrooms but instead they just study it, smh