Nathan Fielder: Do you understand why the joke was funny Elizabeth Holmes: Steamed hams is a funny thing to call a hamburger

suspicious that this documentary about Hitler doesn't delve into the crimes or Mobutu Sese Seko

Samantha Burns@cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 18h ago

holy fuck

I once got in a pretty big fight with someone on r/PhD about this. This guy just kept throwing out edge cases and I'm like: there are no edge cases. When you're no longer an undergrad at the place where the undergrads are, they don't exist. Full stop.

escapedexplorer.bsky.social@escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 14h ago

Every school says "here's the Title IX training" that boils down to "do not fuck your students, do not try to fuck your students, do not tell your students you WANT to fuck your students, we cannot stress enough how No Bueno this is" and apparently tenure is like a TBI because it just does not stick

Flawed map. France is a North American country.

Brilliant Maps@brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 12h ago

How The Population of North America Fits Into Europe Full list: brilliantmaps.com/how-the-p...

NATHAN FIELDER: So now that you’ve seen it, can you tell me what was funny about that bit? ELIZABETH HOLMES: *smiling like the Smile Demon from the Smile horror movie series* The guy took a really long time to describe what his family’s act was

I never know the right way to count. I'm pretty sure if if meeting him is 0, I'm at 1. If meeting him is 1, I'm at 2.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · yesterday

To flip some discourse script for a bit: what’s y’all’s Obama number (ie degrees of separation with the former president)? Mine is 3

Using tenant protections to do fraud is bad for the very obvious reason of undermining public support for those protections. But it's also bad because it lets freaks like this lie freely about what they do:

NBC10 Boston@nbcboston.com · 2d ago

“Hopefully, they’ll end up in some nice jail,” one landlord previously said about the couple. “Free housing. That’s what they are looking for, right?” on.nbcboston.com/QJfky9e

Obvious electoral rake-stepping aside, at what point is anyone going to acknowledge that young men are not “locked out” of the economy by some nefarious entity (women), they are literally feeding all of their disposable income into the gaping maw of sportsbetting apps. It’s actually quite simple.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 4d ago

Frustrated younger, male voters feeling locked out of the economy and diminishing opportunities are rapidly abandoning the Republican coalition, or straight up opting out of political action altogether

Sorry there is simply no way everyone from New England likes New Hampshire after their own state. Maine, sure. Vermont, definitely. NH? No fucking way.

Brilliant Maps@brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 2d ago

Every US State’s Favorite State Besides Their Own (With Arrows) Credit: Matt Shirley It's surprising how few states reciprocally like each other. Full list: brilliantmaps.com/fav-us-st...

Hopefully Jonathan will be patient with me re-upping this guide at regular intervals through Election Day. With 9 questions on the ballot - some potentially confusing to voters - this is really helpful.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2w ago

MA has a historic number of ballot questions. Here's a handy guide for the 9 statewide ballot questions this year.

Hey! You! Do you live in Washington, Texas, California, New Jersey, or Wisconsin? Your rep may be a fucking shitstain scumbag DCCC chair or vice chair! You should go yell at em!

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3d ago

In a major escalation in Dems embracing anti-trans positions, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of House Democrats, released its first anti-trans ad supporting Nancy Lacore in SC-01. Transphobia is spreading among dems. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Remember that loud bang last May? Colleagues at @haystack.mit.edu have used radar and acoustic data to track the meteor and reconstruct its orbit, from beyond Mars to the Cape Cod Bay arxiv.org/pdf/2610.24566 @universalhub.com

The strongest threats to my belief in democracy continue to be these NYT focus groups supporting the notion that sentience might not be present in all adult Americans.

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social · 3d ago

Main takeaway from the NYT Iowa focus group is that none of these voters really know what’s going on and they barely know anything about the candidates running in either statewide election lmao

Earlier richest-man-on-earth H. L. Hunt had this same stupid idea, and responded in similar ways! Also had a crazy number of kids! Not sure Elon crawls on the floor like a baby to extend his lifespan, though.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 3d ago

One of the most salient aspects of today's politics is how everyone imagines a conspiratorial "them" controlling things behind the scenes. Elon Musk is literally powerful enough to affect the course of the Ukraine war, but he's still imagining faceless puppet masters who need to be unmasked.

Far too much of this going on in the neighbourhood chats at election time

@hoosierhomer.bsky.social

consumerist socialism, where the utopia envisioned has no impositions, no obligations, no inconveniences, boy I dunno

I’m telling you that the extreme exposure to scams is a big part of the reason so many people are negative about our economic future.

Jessica McKenzie@jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 4d ago

holy crap

THAT’S the wand people have been using???

anti-bedtime left filling the replies with "but muh surveillance state" as usual. there's a simple way to never be photographed by a red-light camera: don't run red lights. democratic socialism has never, ever meant "I get to drive like a jackass without consequences."

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

Someone less tired than me really needs to sit down and spell out that the post-Goldwater conservative conquest of the GOP (and the Tea Party/CHUD devouring of the conservative mvmt) are solid proof that a left conquest of the Dems is eminently achievable.*

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 4d ago

for all the focus on those challenges that fell short in Massachusetts or Colorado, the insurgency within the Democratic party created more caucus turnover in one cycle than the first two years of the Tea Party combined. and it extended to open races. the Tea Party took over the Republican party!

anyway, reject youtuber doomer thought, embrace Living Through History (laudatory) thought

hey guys, the world's smartest man solved the mystery of the dark, hidden forces arrayed against him... yeah, turns out it's the political party he's not singlehandedly funding

Godspeed You! BOOsky Emperor@andrewpaul.bsky.social · 4d ago

the American mind struggles to rationally process literally anything related to the automobile

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 4d ago

The American mind cannot process a vehicle that is not designed to kill as many pedestrian children as possible

I know things are very contextual & I very much appreciate knowledgeable people sharing their expertise but it is a little confusing as a layman when some computer thing happens & the reaction of computer knower 1 is ‘ehh you’re fine’ & the advice of computers knower 2 is ‘buy a gun, its happening’