I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 3d ago

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Ugh apparently Mass ballot question 3 is to convert us to a jungle primary system à la California. That’s a hard no. Terrible idea.

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2w ago

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.

We should build a statue of this woman.

Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2w ago

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

Nailed it: “The reason founders like Zuckerberg set up a dual-class structure is that they want all the benefits of being publicly traded with none of the drawbacks for them personally.”

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2w ago

One way tech oligarchs retain power is through dual-class shares, allowing them to cash in on public stock markets without giving up power over their companies. @ryanlcooper.com thinks this needs to end: Dual-class shares should be banned, or taxed in proportion to founder control over the company.

One way tech oligarchs retain power is through dual-class shares, allowing them to cash in on public stock markets without giving up power over their companies. @ryanlcooper.com thinks this needs to end: Dual-class shares should be banned, or taxed in proportion to founder control over the company.

Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect

‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.

prospect.org

Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2w ago

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).

Ok only gonna post about this the one time but holy fucking shit I won a cyclocross race this weekend! 🏆

The beautiful thing about America is that a child of any race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, political party or astrological sign has the freedom to grow up to be a complete dipshit adult. 🇺🇸🥹

Oh wow, if you reinstall the bladder/gasket thingie improperly when replacing a SRAM HydroR hose and then bleed the brake, you are definitely going to learn that you fucked up.

Maybe it’s petty but I genuinely hate the thing lately where some people will use F1 jargon to decribe their placing in bike races. No, you weren’t “P5.” You were 5th.

This is a common lie from DHS press flacks. They claim that people who came through CBP One — who registered for an appointment through a government app, went to a port of entry, and were issued a grant of humanitarian parole by a CBP officer letting them enter — "entered illegally." Total nonsense.

Aaron Hall@immlawachall.bsky.social · 3w ago

They can't help themselves. They lie by saying he "entered illegally." He entered with DHS permission under the CBP One program. Literally waited for an appointment to become available and entered with his appointment exactly as the U.S. government told him he should.

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

nytimes.com

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

Gabatha@gabatha.bsky.social · 3w ago

So we are a two-brained species after all... Interesting. #urantia #UrantiaBook www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Trying to deduce from first principles the proper assembly of Trek’s bizarre little spiral galaxy bottom bracket cable guide. Made more difficult by the fact that it doesn’t seem to actually secure the cables that well.

It’s the weakest of the original trilogy by a fairly long way; and very noticeably discontinuous with them. (This is also why it is many people’s favorite).

The Star Wars Underworld@theswu.bsky.social · 3w ago

What is your UNPOPULAR OPINION in regards to Star Wars 1977 aka A New Hope #StarWars #StarWars77 #ANewHope

This is hilarious, because yes, it’s objectively true that gas is a very marginal component of the total cost to own a car, but people nonetheless care a lot about it and all the sweaty arguments from Republicans that actually it’s not a big deal aren’t going to work at all.

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please run on this please Republicans this is a great message

Child: Daddy, what’s the scariest kind of tree? Me (wondering if I heard correctly): ???? Uuhhh…. ???? I don’t any trees are scary, so I guess- Child: A BOO-ternut!

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

RFK Jr: "We are also looking at chemtrails"

Please join me in thanking the named plaintiffs in this lawsuit, including @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @michaeldgreen.phd & @jddaw.bsky.social These brave scientists are taking on risk to protect science, scientists & beneficiaries of science (all of us). www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

aclu.org

There’s a persistent urban legend going around on the Internet of Cyclocross, mostly r/cyclocross, that “some events/regions” enforce a 33mm max tire size outside of UCI races. I’ve started asking for receipts on this because I’m pretty confident this is misinformation and it’s time to push back.

Is now a good time to point out that the word here is “bestiality,” not “beastiality?”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal? P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.

“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Two U.S. citizen teenagers who were on their way to file enlistment papers to join the Marines were violently attacked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who reportedly detained them for nearly eight hours before letting them go.” newrepublic.com/post/215393/...

It seems kind of suboptimal that there’s not a highly vocal pedestrianism subculture to match the highly vocal cycling subculture, plus cycling infrastructure is highly visible to to drivers in a way the pedestrian infrastructure. Not much to be done about it, though.

It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. othermeans.substack.com/p/the-wheels...

The Wheels Are Coming Off

It Can Only Good Happen

othermeans.substack.com

In not impeaching someone who floats this idea, you the Congress are betraying the constitutional order yourself

And (wearying as it is to keep saying this day after day, issue after issue, but it's the only constitutional language we have for it) it is an impeachable offense to attempt such a circumvention of Congress. I think it would be fair to impeache just for trial-ballooning it. 6/6

And the constitutional settlement of it is absolutely part of the inherited structure of the U.S. constitution, which whatever else it was, was *not* an attempt to turn back the constitutional clock to the Stuart side in the English Civil War. It's one unified federal purse. 5/

The king says "ah, but I'm creative and can extract revenue that isn't called a tax. And, neat trick, now I can spend it on creating my own personal army that Parliament didn't authorize." This was fought out, 350 years ago. 4/