media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment
Yes famously Trump's razor-thin margin of victory has absolutely handcuffed him
Politico@politico.com · 21h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
I feel like my kids don't believe me when I tell them what the internet used to be like.
Drew Curtis@drewcurtis.bsky.social · last wk.So with regards to what I said about how Fark won't survive this year without more TF subscribers, I wrote up a longer explanation about what we're all up against. Not just Fark, all of digital media.
Lately when my 9-year-old spots the cat fully loafed, he runs up to him and yells "L'IL LOAFER!" and it's one of my favorite things
Hello everyone! Many of you likely saw this image recently with the Apple TV+ 'Neuromancer' promotion. Some know, others don't, but this artwork is mine, created alongside actor & post-production artist Milton Menezes, as a personal project and a homage to the original Neuromancer romance
Who wants to bet on how long it'll be before there's a class action lawsuit
Catherina Gioino@catgioino.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
It's sad that today's college students will never know the satisfaction of waiting all semester to start your 20-page final paper and then staying up all night to finish it the day before it's due and then getting an A anyway because you're a communications major
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · last wk.Crazy story: professor embeds invisible prompt into a midterm to include a nonsensical reference to Madagascar in a paper about the Industrial Revolution. 32 of 35 turned in papers with phrases like "Madagascar purple bicycle whispers to the ceiling." They didn't even read what they submitted!
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The mythology of the self-reliant Boomers and their pulling up the ladder on all succeeding generations, man fuck them forever.
I thought the WNBA All-Star game would be exciting to watch. Whoops!
I feel you but a 22-minute running time was the pressure cooker than gave us brilliant sit-coms like 30 Rock, just unparalleled JPM (jokes per minute). 34-minute comedy shows always drag. Almost every 57-minute streaming episode feels 10 minutes too long.
Tyler, from the Internet@tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2w agoThere was a time when the commercials you'd have to endure on TV only took 2 minutes of 30. Then it was 4. Then 6. Soon 22 minutes was normal. People grew to hate commercials not because they existed per se, but because of the insatiable greed of the hungry ghosts atop the pyramid of capitalism.
every day i feel like we're experiencing some kind of societal gas leak
This will almost definitely still close eventually but: good
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w agoBREAKING: Paramount agrees to delay closing its Warner Bros. Discovery buyout for months, while judge considers a challenge from 12 states.
When a major strategic victory in war is achieved by drone attacks on e-commerce hubs then you know the 20th century is well in the rear-view mirror
Igor Sushko@igorsushko.bsky.social · 2w ago💥 Ukraine has destroyed both the Wildberries and Ozon e-commerce fulfillment centers that serve Saint Petersburg in Russia. Damage should exceed $2 billion.
IDK looks a lot like the story I know
Joe Adalian@tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2w ago"The name you know. The story you don't."-- the trailer for TI West's EBENEZER, which as the poster released earlier today indicates, has lost the "A Christmas Carol" that was part of the title when announced last fall. This is David Ellison's Paramount Pictures! www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ly...
bro never ate a good tomato, that's sad
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoAnother odd moment occurred when Musk insisted that work in the future would be "optional" because robots would do everything. Musk said people might still work in the future but compared it to people who grow their own backyard tomatoes. He said they could just go to the store for better tomatoes.
Saying 'Google it' is bunz. Saying 'Search it up' is cracked
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm actually fine with sounding old.
After I pay for all of my expenses (including pricey, unnecessary private schools), budget for luxury items like eating out and international vacations, and save $4000 per month, I'm left with $0. Welcome to the rat race!
brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 2w agoIncome - Taxes - Expenditures - Savings = 0 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
This was legitimately one of the most exciting games of basketball I've ever watched
CBS News Chicago@cbschicago.bsky.social · 2w agoSabrina Ionescu scored nine of her 29 points in the final minute, Jonquel Jones made the tiebreaking free throw with 3.4 seconds left and the New York Liberty rallied to beat the Chicago Sky 95-94 on Wednesday night.
My son asked Alexa to recite the times tables from 1 to 10. Halfway through, it started making so many mistakes that we were crying laughing by the time it got stuck repeating “10 times 9 is 90. 10 times 9 is 90. 10 times 9 is 90.”
Imagine if single payer had passed in 2010 and no one had had to think about health insurance for the past 16 years
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago“Almost a quarter of all U.S. workers say they want to leave their current job but won’t because they want to keep their health benefits, according to a new survey of more than 2,000 employed people... up significantly from 16% in 2021, the last time Gallup measured job lock among working adults”
If you're wondering why something you used to like now sucks, the answer is probably private equity, and there's probably an enraging YouTube essay about it
We Went Bowling. What Bowlero Did to Every Lane in America Will Shock You.
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