you do not hate newspaper editors/publishers enough
Kevin Collins@kwcollins.bsky.social · 17h agoLegal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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History PhD with a research background in the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea. Chinese American in Southern California. Husband to an amazing wife and dad to many cats and one large dog. Liberal, humanist, and Episcopalian.
Kevin Collins@kwcollins.bsky.social · 17h ago
Alright, someone's gotta GIF this, it's got too much utility
Joel Chan@kjoules.org · 4h agoAs a public service, here are the last three seconds of his diatribe. Note his effective use of a hand gesture
you have to do good policy because it's the right thing to do, and then you have to find a way to sell it* to the public because democracy and accountability are important, but you can't go chasing the public. *or, frankly, to do it without them noticing.
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
this word "nearly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting
Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 22h agoThe day that Biden grew so angry at Netanyahu that he nearly cut him off: "He was just completely fed up with everything and I think at that moment he was ready to just say, 'I’m done,'" Brett McGurk recalls as he releases "Brink," his memoir of Gaza war. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · yesterdayHis vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
Slop (mass-produced, disposable, formulaic, poor-quality media that exists solely to fill a base desire, lacking artistic value) and kitsch predate AI. The danger is AI makes them more abundant and eliminates even the potential for human creativity to shine through the cracks now and then.
hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social · yesterdayre the JCO tweet I don't think LLMs can replace romance novels that's insanely rude however her larger point is correct. Not all books are created equal, for example I do think LLMs can replace Dungeon Crawler Carl and those books where they rewrite a public domain novel to also have zombies
When the US State Department is doing such great work to project a friendly American face to the world, it’s a total mystery why fewer people are choosing to visit.
This is good but still presents an implementation challenge because Throw polling at 60% is misleading when Take polls at 5%.
Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social · yesterdayLatest 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.
REPORTER: Secretary Hegseth, could you weigh in on the christological controversies of late antiquity? Where does the administration stand on the monophysites? HEGSETH: No beardos.
apropos of this latest round I will just mention that there has been antisemitism on the left since the beginning. the people who invented anticapitalism did so in an environment in which Judaism had been equated with bad economic practices for 600 years already. AND they didn’t know any Jews
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 2d agoso much of this comes down to leftists who have barely interacted with Jews imo. it's also why NYC DSA gets singled out as 'zionist' or insufficiently anti-zionist, because it's our one large chapter where this is least the case.
For what it's worth, this is offensive to my religion, which is Christianity.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoHegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
Yall wanna see a duck army deployed into a field to eat bugs
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d agoStill kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoHegseth: "Telling someone to get in shape or shave or fix their uniform or start busting their ass -- that's not discrimination. That's leadership"
You can sense the undertone throughout of “haha those fucking rubes got what they deserved” but the more interesting (and unexplored) idea hiding throughout is just how bad the information ecosystem is — almost all the people interviewed are drawing on the idea of criminal illegals!
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d agoJessica Cantu Vuittonet, who runs a coffee shop in San Benito, Texas, cast her first ballot in 2024 — for Donald Trump. Two years later, after her brother was deported, she feels angry and betrayed. ¡Dios Mio! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
One of my more cynical views is that a lot of Colleges aren’t educational institutions anymore they’re sports franchises, medical systems, land owners, hedge funds or some combination thereof. The college for some schools is basically a vestigial appendage functioning as a credentialing racket.
Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 3d agoThis morning on ESPN's First Take, Nick Saban argued player and coach pay are "totally different markets." "That's like asking me 'Does a student's scholarship equal the professor's pay?' I mean, how much value does a coach create for a university?" 📺 💰️
TRUMP TALKED ABOUT THE TARIFFS CONSTANTLY ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d agoActually you did vote for this, dipshit
*youth pastor voice* You know who else was betrayed after a private dinner by one of his twelve closest friends?
Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 2d agoNot a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
I'm honestly fine with destroying the Ivies, especially how quick many were to capitulate to Trump early on. They're rancid seeds of reaction and, evidently, rape that would deserve to be crushed under heel (i.e., either closed or seized and turned into new institutions).
Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂@thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 3d ago"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
Republican attack ad: "This Democrat loves transgender surgeries for minors" Democratic attack ad: "This worthless sack of shit let a pedophile walk free and called you a stupid asshole"
It's a writing system based 1stly on an imported writing system ultimately incompatible with any language but its own, 2ndly on a phonetic attempt to correct for that 1st problem, & tertiarily as a 3rd phonetic set to show specifically foreign words. Of course it's a hot mess.
