this would have been a cataclysmic event if Biden did it. It would still be the lead story on the NYT homepage

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 15h ago

Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.

diarrhea Taylor Farms, salmonella chicken parm, bags of frozen blueberries that straight-up kill your ass heavy metal sourdough, listeria soup bowl refreshing summer popsicle that's filled with shards of glass we didn't start the fire...

step back for a moment and realize how ridiculous this is: the white house ballroom is intended to be a critical command and control facility for national security that will also host cocktail parties for presidential campaign donors

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago

Monica Crowley suggests Trump might defy the Supreme Court if they don't allow him to build his ballroom: "I don't want to get in front of the president, but I do know that other options are being considered, because the president has committed to the completion of this project"

it's that time of year again!

@ganondalf.bsky.social were you aware that your birthday is on such an auspicious day??

hey people sorry if some of you breeze past this part but it’s Friday. We do AI discourse on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is for stuff that rocks and is actually fun. It’s in the TOS & the packet you got at orientation. get it together please

are y'all excited about the new pokemon games

the problem with this analysis is that CEOs are not spreadsheet people. they don't know how to open spreadsheets or do anything with them. their subordinates who actually do the work of running the company are spreadsheet people.

Stack Ghost@stackgho.st · 2d ago

Lots of men in "spreadsheet people" jobs. Every CEO is spreadsheet people yet only a vanishingly small percentage of those are women. I took "spreadsheet people" to be a dig at white collar people in general, compared to e.g. plumbers or electricians who cannot use Claude to slop their working day

translation: they have actual goals and principles, rather than "vote out orange man and then go to brunch"

Flingjore@flingjore.com · 2d ago

DAVID FRUM: The anti-Trump resistance is officially over. Rather than combating the president's threats to American democracy, the insurgent left now actively prioritizes its own factional agenda. Ideological purity and internal power struggles completely replace the unified effort.

America will never figure out housing as long as there are people in power who think it's unfair to tax somebody on a $5 million brownstone that they don't live in

Siskos

is it ethical to order doordash during a blizzard if C-3PO is driving and your adhd is giving you severe executive dysfunction

Is it ethical to forbid C-3PO from building a datacenter

"would this cause C-3PO to suffer greatly?" is my new all-purpose litmus test

Okay but would you do this if it caused C-3PO to suffer, or feel sorrow?

Ben@franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 3d ago

Much like I would if I lived in the Star Wars universe, I am muting C-3PO

the GOP hysteria machine is so worked up that I went and looked up the clip, because I was like wow Ossoff must have done some lewd gesture or air quotes or something. No he literally just mentioned her name lol. These people are unbelievable

Nathaniel William Horadam@horadam.bsky.social · 4d ago

How dare someone insinuate a powerful married man has an inappropriate relationship with one of his staffers

unironically yes, it's the SAVE act

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 4d ago

at this point does the WH even have a plan to arrest their approval ratings collapse or www.economist.com/interactive/...

nothing but bad news

stop

the sense of generational entitlement from conservative parents has been a really strong factor in Trumpism - the rage that their children are not replicas of them and their beliefs, of being told no, of being left behind.

Dan Seitz@dseitz.bsky.social · 5d ago

Yeah, as somebody who is sensitive to this particular Discourse for personal reasons, it's telling how quickly the perspective has shifted from adults making this decision about their parents to parents insisting they have been unjustly punished for one teeny widdle mistake.

Iran doesn’t need to DDoS attack Bluesky. All it needs to do is post is “what if a DoorDash driver got caught by a speed camera on the way to someone who was having a bad day of executive function”

Hardened Russian Mobster: The cops might kill kids. But my people have standards.

Psy Costanza@ganondalf.bsky.social · 3w ago

Person of Interest doing a flashback with CIA agents talking about being "behind enemy lines" with the yellow middle east filter, and then revealing it's downtown New York, is truly remarkable television

Wife: The trash is overflowing. Can you-- Me: Well I can't take it out but here's what I'll say. We need a strong trash can. And I'm committed to reforming the kitchen so the trash doesn't pile up

I would challenge @mattyglesias.bsky.social to share an example of someone whose personal life has been directly impacted more by HR training norms than by the collapse of democracy; and if they do, explore whether things like "expensive gas" are consequences of the collapse and not random events

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 7d ago

As silly as the whole "the right has no cultural influence" argument is, the whole edifice is indeed a depressing look into the mind of a typical American swing voter

Ocarina of Time is mostly about the differences between childhood and manhood, which mainly that boils down to having three pairs of shoes that you have to cycle through regularly instead of one.

the actual thing matty doesn't realize he's saying is "the people that are important to me don't have any real problems"

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 7d ago

As silly as the whole "the right has no cultural influence" argument is, the whole edifice is indeed a depressing look into the mind of a typical American swing voter