Everyone has seen this already but genuine question: Why should Democrats adjust anything about what they have been doing, at all? Didn't they just win by a lot? Why would they ever need to listen to this guy?

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · yesterday

Adam Jentleson of Searchlight Institute recommended in his Ezra Klein interview today that Democrats embrace spanking children as a "a very powerful signal" that connects with voters "on a values basis." I didn't think I could dislike the man any more than I already did, but lo!

If your response to a mandate level electoral victory is to wring your hands about “going too far” before even beginning—before anyone has even been sworn in—then politics is not for you and you should spend the next 2 years locked in a room full of soft cushions.

I just can’t get over that they won by enough that the guy who says literally every election is crooked immediately had to go well obviously we lost

a second tree has fallen on Gov. Greg Abbott

Struggling to put the words "good" and "job" and "Texas" into a single sentence and they're bouncing off of each other like opposing magnets.

73rd Heavy Artillery "Normielibs"@swolecialism.bsky.social · last wk.

dems are up like 18 in all the statewides in texas with *zero* travis county WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING

Bolsonaro gonna have to flee the country he fled to.

One… hundred million votes.

Luis A. Mendez@mendezmovierpt.bsky.social · last wk.

TALARICO UP 9 IN KEY COUNTY OF DENTON, CRACKING THE 70S IN DALLAS

What a completely insane way to advertise your betting app.

The president is so easy to bully.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

"A source tells Fox News that President Trump's rallies [this weekend] are back on" 😆 (He really didn't like the optics of canceling them)

Well that's, uh, weird.

Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 2w ago

oh my fucking god

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

Just saw a guy cock his credit card behind his ear to better hear someone across a counter. Man, there’s such cool stuff happening everywhere.

These guys never seem to consider what a truly *benevolent* dictator would immediately do to them and everything they own.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last mo.

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

Twitch would be a much, much, much worse place without Stefan Heck and Jesse Farrar. We should all be thankful they stream. Suspending them is a shot across the bow at twitch being a decent platform for anything

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

Zozobra has been caught and compromised to a permanent end.

KOAT manages to fuck up the live broadcast of Zozobra in new and exciting ways every year. This year the audio has had a weird high-pitched echo of all voices slightly out of sync. Truly astounding.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the Court as currently constituted ruled that President Trump could knock down half the White House and pour your money down a hole. Is that a fair application of the law? Or do we need to reconsider how the Court does business?”

One thing that is annoying about Life These Days is not knowing if lettuce is safe or not. Like, shouldn't that be clearly wrapped up by now, in a way that reassures everyone? Weird that that hasn't happened, right?

My apartment complex has a building mistake where some adjacent units have ceiling fans that are on the same frequency, which means the same remote that adjusts your ceiling fan also adjusts one in your neighbor's unit. That means that sometimes I have silent button-mashing fights with my neighbors.

Anti-vaxxers kill people dead & deserve shame & punishment. Also the President is in full REM sleep dreaming he’s in the 1987 Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya: "We shouldn't be keeping kids out of schools because their parents have made different decisions than other parents" (Note that Trump is asleep)

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.

I don't know how to say this in a way that isn't snotty: if you are changing your writing intentionally to sound "not like AI" or whatever, I think extremely little of your craft. This is simply not a problem or a consideration for an even moderately developed writer www.wired.com/story/more-t...

More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’

Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.

wired.com

Tigers Bloob

Like, I cannot stress this enough: in the Iliad, Achilles fights Scamander, the river god who is also the *river Scamander.* There is no historically accurate way of depicting a bronze age warrior fighting a RIVER which is also a god. "What were Bronze Age anti-river tactics?" Shush.

Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom voice is like a dungeons and dragons DM kind of doing a Russian accent for an NPC.

This is a politician who understands that this is not an indulgence, it's an investment. Every public space where you can have fun and not spend any money is probably more of a crimebuster than 100 cops.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4mo ago

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.