The thing is, he's right. He's a piece of shit who shouldn't be anywhere near power, but he's probably right to think he can make it through. We've learned a lot of ugly things about our country in these last 10 years.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Max Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."

need to reconsider being on this app. Lists are shitty and abusive and there’s no way to remove yourself even after blocking the creator. I really kind of hate it here and I think I need to be done

abandoning polling on my election forecasting blog for a composite index of social media trends and podcast monitoring we're calling Hog Chatter

one cool thing about being a straight man is being able to look in the direction of the celebrity gossip industrial complex and say something to the effect of "seems bad!" and move on, because unlike most societal ills, that one's not on us

it's a very odd thing to have going on at the same time bidets are gaining traction in the US

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 21h ago

Surely someone has studied our modern epidemic of conservative men with unwashed asses.

if polling is truly washed how does horserace coverage even work

the film reels from Wing Commander IV are somewhere in there

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 18h ago

EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest

Tonight I made charro beans with pork belly and chorizo, both of which I was able to buy at a Walmart 5 minutes from my house in Virginia. And not the DC part of Virginia, one of the bullshit other parts that doesn't have pro sports.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

that's really cool of him to have his first philly cheesesteak at the world famous Owens Dining Hall at Virginia Tech

Shana@shanamd.bsky.social · 19h ago

Edmundo, NO!

yeah fine, make him a lolcow in the meantime. whatever.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago

TAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...

beautiful bean footage

This is all downstream of the lease-first model the luxury brands have been pushing. You don't own the thing anyway, you're paying a fixed monthly cost with a service plan rolled into it so that every 3 years you get a new one. They were right to think their actual customers wouldn't mind it.

The Verge@theverge.com · yesterday

My commodification-sense is tingling. www.theverge.com/transportati...

The "use" paradigm is so self serving when wielded by high earners. Managers need society more than anyone else. I manage a group of 20ish engineers. That means not only do I need roads to exist to get me to work, I need roads to get them to work from places where I don't live. It's not complicated.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

History involves learning facts to earn Thought Coins, which can be used to buy Panera Bread sandwiches

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

It's so cool living in VA-03 and being surrounded by VA-02 and all of their got danged signs

POLLS ARE OPEN IN VIRGINIA

~Tilda is short for Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantilda Menace@hulcricket.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hey if you live in Virginia there is a primary election tomorrow, August 4! Statewide, there is a R primary for Senate. There are some congressional primaries for D and/or R. There are also many local primaries for D and/or R. Check the Virginia elections site to see what the primaries are for you!

how are there still high-level institutional types doing anything other than waiting these clowns out?

Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 2d ago

Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bsky's "problem" is, for Conservatives to survive in a space, you have to exempt them from whatever rules exist to compel normal people to behave. If you don't allow hate speech, you have to allow it for them otherwise they'll get banned nonstop. Seen it everywhere else.

looks like he's got a sick mullet

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

sure, whatever, let it chew him up too

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2d ago

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Todd Blanche appears on track to become the next US attorney general after two Republican senators dropped their opposition to his nomination. u.afp.com/SHU2

it is a load-bearing myth on the normal people internet that American food safety and quality is uniquely deficient, and it's incredibly frustrating watching that turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy

I'm good with them releasing the odd chud into the pen like that goat in Jurassic Park but you know that's not what they have in mind

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

this dude's brain got absolutely jelloed didn't it

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d ago

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

The Forever-Platform Era (that's what I'm calling the nesting dolls of back compat that's been going on since 2013 for XB/PS and 2017 for Nintendo) seems marked by these oddly rising price floors for what would previously be seen as legacy software.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2d ago

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Gold Edition is $14.99 on US eShop buff.ly/Tcnm0HV

frown

☀️🌸idspispopd🥀🌙@bhaalspawn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Doom 3 (2004) is now as old as Pitfall (1982) was when Doom 3 was released.

I've never had COVID, so you can trust my opinions on it. Unbiased.

the number of times Vanessa Hudgens sings "basically what we're gonna do is dance" in Sneakernight

this is basically the party that currently holds both houses of congress giving up

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Patty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.