Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com
Jay Adan - Painter of Things
@jayadan.com
Guy who paints minis and other models for a living. Some folks know me as the Starship Troopers movie model painter guy. Just trying to make a living doing the stuff I love https://www.instagram.com/jaypaintsthings/ https://www.youtube.com/@JayAdan He/him
“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” -Nuremburg Trials
Forget "In space, noone can hear you scream." This is still the greatest tagline ever printed on a film poster.
MAGA…where you support the troops no matter what….unless you have to admit you were wrong.
I think a major difference between Dems and Republicans is that Republicans could turn even the hint of this sort of abuse into a culture war event. Remember the IRS targeting conservative orgs (they weren't but never mind)? Dems mostly don't have a media machinery to gin up this sort of outrage.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING NYT: Trump's U.S. attorney's office in Chicago has spent the past year investigating a Democratic fundraising firm once co-owned by the daughter of the judge in Trump's hush money trial. The office demanded the firm's internal comms with clients — including Harris, Biden, and Jeffries.
170,000 Canadians and counting have signed a petition to expel our terrible ambassador www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/w...
Canadian Petition to Expel U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra Takes Off (Gift Article)
Mr. Hoekstra has been President Trump’s faithful messenger in Canada amid a historic low in relations. More than 170,000 Canadians want him gone.
nytimes.com
1/3🧵 🚨 Our young folks sign up to serve the country, families sacrifice greatly. In return, the Commander in Chief & SecDef call them liars. Guardian interviewed 3 families & it's *worse* than you think — see what a visiting senior officer told them to do to cope, after the jump. 🧾 t2m.co/qeCkaSPG
Families of US sailors denounce Trump and Hegseth for ‘dismissing their experiences and calling them liars’
One US sailor’s mother asks: ‘My son signed up to serve his country. But why isn’t his country serving him?’
theguardian.com
These AI detection programs are starting to look an awful lot like fire extinguishers sold by arsonists
God forbid influencers have hobbies. (Letting them cook means we get less influencers 🦈)
David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21h agoThe influencers getting bitten chasing the perfect shark shot | I’m gonna need everyone to make better choices. Including the “influencers” who do unethical things with sharks without even a basic “don’t try this at home” disclaimer.
I went and moistened a few spiders.
badly drawn bee 🐝@soapachu.bsky.social · yesterdayI learned via @sliderulesyou.bsky.social that the drought means spiders are dying off (and regardless of my personal feelings about them, I know they matter) so just spent a rewarding hour misting as many webs as I could find. Each time the occupant ran out for a drink. Moisten a spider today!
FOX NEWS HAS ONE RULE: DON’T MAKE TRUMP LOOK BAD Sean Hannity: “Bill, you’re breaking the rules now.” What rule did Bill de Blasio break? He pointed out that Hannity’s description of socialism could’ve been a description of Donald Trump.
If you see this, post your rider(s)....
RMZ@rmzhbc.bsky.social · 22h agoIf you see this, post your rider(s)....
His Stormy Daniels brags didn’t go over as well as he expected.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d agoWhile gas prices soar Americans lose health care and trapped sailors eat rotten meat
Such critics fear that extreme cases like this one could become more common if the Trump administration succeeds in boosting the defense budget from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion.
We've got quite the story for you 🧵
Jesse Coburn@jessecoburn.bsky.social · 2d agoYou and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/
Same for Beto Texans went back to old faithful both times Big difference this time is the people of Texas are hurting with affordability Is it enough?
Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 3d agoINSANE line for James Talarico’s rally in Abilene, TX 😮💨
lmao the "we will use AI but only if no one can tell we're using AI" crowd is already in flight
Bryan Toporek@btoporek.bsky.social · 2d agolmfaoooooo www.businessinsider.com/claude-users...
The stormtrooper has been killed and the weathering has started.
Scrobaliscious@scottroby72.bsky.social · last wk.K2 is armed. The kit doesn’t have an option to have him holding anything, so I had to chop up a blaster that came with the stormtrooper kit.
I was offered a deal to promote a prediction market company for the 4th time yesterday. Here’s what I told them:
THIS IS WHY WE DON'T LISTEN TO THE CENTRISTS. Alt text version:
![Image: poll results for 4 questions about Black civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s US. Results of each question are shown on a bar with pro-Black responses in blue, anti-Black responses in red, and neutral responses in gray.
First section is titled "Freedom Riders, sit-ins (May 1961)" with two questions.
Q1: Do you approve or disapprove of what the "Freedom Riders" are doing? Results: 22% approve, 61% disapprove, 18% no opinion.
Q2: Do you think "sit-ins" at lunch counters, "freedom buses" and other demonstrations by Negroes will hurt or help the Negro's chances of being integrated in the South? Results: 28% help, 57% hurt, 16% no opinion.
Second section is titled "March on Washington (August 1963)" with one question.
Q: What are your feelings about this [proposed mass civil rights rally]? Results: 23% favorable, 60% unfavorable, 17% no opinion/undecided.
Third section is titled "Whites on 'demonstrations by Negroes' (October 1966)".
Q: All in all, do you feel the demonstrations by Negroes on civil rights have helped more or hurt more in the advancement of Negro rights? Results: 15% helps, 85% hurts.
At the bottom of the image are the following notes:
Note: White respondents only. Source: Conducted by Louis Harris & Associates during October 1966, and based on personal interviews with a national adult sample of 1,250. Sample size is approximate. As reported in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Data provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Image is labeled "The Washington Post".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4vhxkgaipd5kkbv72tgkuy6o/bafkreicynardqumuanpag2rbdibhpmityycwwejcbyasgrhtetd3a4ywdi)
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · last yr.Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause." Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 2d agoThis story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Wasn't this a controversial "radical Left" position like 6 months ago? Make no mistake: Progressives did this. This is their win. Celebrate. You deserve it. Then keep fighting for Supreme Court reform, abolishing the filibuster, and Medicare for All.
Michael Kapp@michaelkapp.com · 2d agoBREAKING: the Democratic National Committee just unanimously approved a resolution calling for the abolition of ICE! After terrorizing our friends, families, and neighbors, ICE has no place in our nation. I'm grateful @democrats.org agreed. Now we're onto the hard work to make that happen!
GOP primary voters in Florida’s House district 6 have a choice between a far right extremist islamophobe named Randy Fine; and Dam Bilzerian, a rank antisemite and conspiracy monger with 2.1 million followers on X. One of his followers is the President’s adult son, DJT Jr. What a world.
