it's kinda funny how every primary is a referendum for Future Of The Party until the next primary

this sort of client is the reason lawyers walk out of skyscraper windows

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

NEWSMAX: Your daughter fractured her collarbone and there was a handprint on her upper chest, and it left a bruise. How did that happen? MAX MILLER: What I can tell you is I didn't do that. 9 of the 11 previous days was my ex-wife's care. What's so troubling about child protective services is ...

rooting for you brother

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Rep. Max Miller on Newsmax: "If any of these things were true, I would be in prison"

Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

I reject the claim that air travel was better 40 years ago because 40 years ago you could get lung cancer by riding enough planes

My book is on sale for 1.99 right now, I think I need to make at least $20 for it pay out. bookshop.org/p/books/like...

Like, Comment, Subscribe, DIE: A Fiona Brooks Murder Mystery

Knives Out meets Veronica Mars in a snowbound whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie—a razor-sharp detective mystery about fame, lies, and murder in the age of social media.Before this day, I'd seen two d...

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Kenneth is good people, chip in if you can, or help spread the word? It all adds up!

K.C. Clyburn, Author@kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · yesterday

So I'm in a pretty bad situation. I have a week to get out of where I live. No car, temporarily laid off, have to be gone in a week. If you could spare any help at all I'd really appreciate it. CashApp: $KennethClyburn Kofi: ko-fi.com/kcclyburn PayPal: kcclyburn #MutualAid #MABoost

dudes pouring out the woodwork asking if I can manage without AI as though I haven't been cocking up things for myself my whole life without help

I'm in Slate today with the tale of how a couple of invasive mosquito species have conquered the U.S., and what that means for our future (spoiler: it's not great!) Please read and share.

They’re the Most Annoying Creatures on the Planet. You Don’t Know What They’re Going to Unleash on America.

They can do a lot more than ruin your summer day.

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genuinely unable to understand why the SpaceX moon debris thing is even a news item

Woo! This’ll be grand, I’m really excited! If you come, there will even be a chance to sneak a few early chapters of Fortune’s Wake… 😏

MK Hardy@mkhardywrites.com · 7h ago

Shortish notice on this but M will be making a flying visit to MCM Birmingham! 0.5 x MK Hardy will be on the Writers Block stage at 1pm with @ianthegreen.bsky.social & @clclarkwrites.com (others tbc) to talk about diverse worldbuilding, then signing books - who'll be around?

brain still getting used to to seeing "Iran War" and not reading Iraq and having to realise every time that oh yeah they're really doing this all over again

Nothing wrong with that... or with the rest of us drivers being able to find a quick and decent Punjabi restaurant meal at every fourth truck stop.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h ago

the funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.

the funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.

one of the things that gives me optimism about the US in a way I never had for India was how insulated electoral systems are from the central govt

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · yesterday

DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

as someone who buys pasta sauces and asks the same question about curries, I am realising that we are all the same blindfolded person holding a different part of the elephant

Senex Iratus@senexiratus.bsky.social · 10h ago

I cannot fathom why anyone would buy "pasta sauce" when you can literally just buy a good passata for less and add spices/oil yourself.

like menus, FOH with that QR code nonsense, if you won't even print a menu how am I supposed to believe you'll be arsed to prep a meal worth the time and money

Emily Gorcenski@emily.gorcen.ski · 7h ago

Not to be all RETVRN but everything was better with paper

diabetes was a death sentence 40 years ago, now its a thing you manage with a pill or a pump and get on with living a solid 7+ decade life

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.

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

someone at CNN was incredibly mad he won, what a photo selection 😂

CNN@cnn.com · 19h ago

Former Rep. Tom Perriello will win the Democratic primary in Virginia's 5th Congressional District, CNN's Decision Desk projects. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4wbZT6y

get so used to hearing this place called a weird bubble that when you encounter the mind of someone who actually lives in one, it is genuinely startling

Cuddles_the_destroyer@cuddlessmash.bsky.social · 19h ago

what the fuck am I reading lmao

I don't understand how the US does it via projections, even in India they count all the votes first and those constituencies are some of the biggest in the world

Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · 15h ago

it's only possible bc their constituency populations are so strong but i genuinely think the UK does it right by not announcing any results until they've counted everything

El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

I must have cooked more than a thousand risottos, yet every time the emergence of something that looks edible from what had previously resembled a pond is a blessed relief.

Now we're talking.

Politico@politico.com · 8h ago

DCCC adds 12 GOP seats to midterm target map

I wrote about my years filming with ex-wino turned chessmaster John Healy, exploring his bitter exile from the British literary world despite writing a runaway bestseller: www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

In the arena - John Healy's long road back from literary oblivion

Ahead of a special IFI screening of his acclaimed documentary Barbaric Genius, filmmaker Paul Duane reflects on the life and literary legacy of the film's subject, Grass Arena author John Healy.

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Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · 2w ago

Back in 1988 John Healy published his memoir The Grass Arena about his life as a wino turned chessmaster. This August the sequel, The Glass Cage, is published. To coincide with this @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social screen my 2011 documentary about Healy. Please share if you can ifi.ie/film/from-th...

The algorithm thinks I’m a London Muslim with a New York flat who wants to try mushroom beer at a running rave (to comfort me for my disappointming and badly lit sales career).

All the problems Instagram ads have tried to solve for me that I do not actually have

The algorithm thinks I’m a London Muslim with a New York flat who wants to try mushroom beer at a running rave

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we are at the point where huge swathes of the media sees their only job as getting attention from the public and giving nothing back and you're supposed to juuust tell enough truth that you can't be called an outright liar, just get the click anyhow, it is used car sales masquerading as journalism

Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell@garethlpowell.bsky.social · 8h ago

It’s like how there was that one professor who thought the recent interstellar asteroids were likely to be alien spaceships, and even though the rest of the scientific community disagreed with him, it was reported as “scientist says…”