Just so we’re all clear, the stockpiles are depleted because of Biden, the stockpiles are not depleted, and anyone reporting on these Schrödinger’s stockpiles should be in prison.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

WELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail

Well oops

This is my personal "we drank from the hose and didn't have a curfew"

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 3w ago

As far as "books for kids" go I do sometimes wonder if the existence of a YA shelf robs young folks of the joys of early unsupervised exposure to the ranting of depraved communists and libertarian sex-weirdos in the SFF section, an important inoculation when it doesn't destroy 3-10 years of yr life

Discovering there's a tier below "As Seen on TV"

I just read a very serious parenting discussion regarding an almost-eighteen Then I noticed the two people involved were lordnecro and ElChungus01 This is modern internet for you

As a teenager back in the 1980s I worked as a shelf filler at Gillingham's Co-op Supermarket. Regularly I would swop the labels on tins of Stewed Steak with Pedigree Chum.

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Am increasingly of the belief that politics in this country would immediately become 15% less shit if the existing crop of lobby hacks were fired into the sun and replaced with, I don't know, goats.

Look at the presentation of JD Vance's speech in Iowa (1) in NYT, (2) in a leading London paper. The latter presents what actually happened. The Times glamorizes Vance, presenting him just as he would want to be presented. One of these is journalism, the other is an exercise in sycophancy.

As extreme politics have normalized, young people have grown up not knowing any other way. For months, I've spent time getting to know 10 college students who literally do not recall a time in America without Trump. My latest for @thewesternedge.bsky.social www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-age-of...

The Age of No Innocence

What if all you knew was extremist politics? Welcome to being young in America.

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As you may know, our dear friend, BSides Director, curmudgeon and ISSA-UK VP @fvt.bsky.social has passed. You are invited to join us on the 21 May for Thomas Fischer's wake. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thomas-fis... Fuck cancer.

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I just soothed my son with the Trololo song. Is that an achievement unlocked? 😂😂😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=32UG...

Eduard Khil - Official Trolololo

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Everything is just held together with sticky backed plastic Blue Peter style. Let’s just admit it.

I need to change the gasket on my Kamado. So I go to check out how... One video says to be very careful scraping the old residue off, to avoid damaging the ceramic. The other says to have at it with a drill-powered wire brush. 🫠🥲🤔

I don't know who needs to hear this — anyone? everyone? — but whatever you do, do NOT give Sam Altman your eyeballs. You will never get them back and you have no idea what he'll do with them. If anyone asks you for your eyeballs, you should run away as far and as fast as you can.

Sam Sabin@samsabin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’ve now seen these iris-scanning “orbs” for myself. World is betting adoption will grow as AI agents proliferate

Are autistic people ‘just making it up’? In a recent podcast conversation, I was asked a question that carried a striking implication: What if increasing numbers of people identifying as autistic are just not coping? 🧵 1/11 #Autism #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

I'll never not be amused that I spent almost a year writing this and got $600 from @theatlantic.com, which was about half my hourly rate as a lawyer 🙄🤣

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Every so often—for no particular reason—I feel compelled to post a gift link to the 11,000-word article I published in @theatlantic.com seven years ago about Donald Trump's mental disorders and how they rendered him unfit to serve as president. {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Of course, this dovetails with the fact that folks on the right are able to talk about cities as sh*tholes & urban voters as not Real Americans all the time. It's all of one piece & the two wildly different standards applied to Democrats/liberals vs the GOP/conservatives. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

Stay winning, NYC

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

HANNITY: “I left NYC because I would walk into restaurants and see disdain and disgust on people’s faces just because I was in the room.”

Does your corgi beg, or intimidate? #dogsofbluesky

May you live through these interesting times.

Btw the Venn diagram of tactics of used by authoritarians and narcissists is a circle.

I think you probably can't understand modern America and recent elections without understanding that: 1. evangelicals have more kids 2. they vote 3. they sincerely believe that all the Jews have to be in the Holy Land in order to trigger a big war & all convert/die so that Jesus will return

Naomi Alderman@naomialderman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I do think it should not be discounted how much wars in the Middle East are specifically targeted to a very strong, very 'gets out and votes' evangelical bloc in the US.

First time having this happen, when actually possessing full confidential internal knowledge, is like a cognitive out-of-body experience. You go back and you remember delicious shit you talked about all the companies and their staff before, and you realize. Oh no – the universe does keep grudges.

daoist@daoist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Someone very smart (maybe @hacks4pancakes.com ?) once said on reading news about big breaches "Everyone who knows anything is under NDA. So if you see someone talking, by definition they don't know what they're talking about." It stuck with me. And yeah, that basically applies to everything

This is torture.

Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · 5mo ago

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Great 🧵 with many links to what political science research & history can tell us about FIRCs:

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈@dataandpolitics.net · 5mo ago

A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them. I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran. So here goes nothing. 🧵

Commiserations to Angeliki Stogia, Labour's loss is no reflection on the hard work that she alongside many activists put into the campaign. Congratulations to Hannah Spencer and the Green Party, I'm pleased you beat Reform and to have another working class MP in Parliament.

From a Prime Minister who has told MPs and the public that they have to "understand" Reform voters, that those harassing migrants have "legitimate concerns" and has actively engaged in the "othering" of marginalised groups, this shows that he has abandoned those who once supported Labour. 1/

Zoë Crowther@zoecrowther.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I will share the letter from Starmer to Labour MPs below as a thread, as there's a lot to it: "Dear Colleagues, The result in Gorton and Denton is deeply disappointing. (1/16)

QFT - and in my case it wasn’t even rural, it was suburban New England. The rural bits were even more extreme. This is the underside of America, on top of

I Got Popcorn@igotpopcorn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I have lived in rural America most of my life. This didn't "happen" to America -- a big part of America has always been like this. They just didn't have a national platform for their ignorance and hatred. Now they do.