I don't think I'm actually opposed to this policy. But I am really pissed off that e-bikes injure a fraction of the people cars kill *daily*, and yet there is basically no political will to cap their speeds.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 1h ago

Trump voters would literally prefer a corpse to a black guy.

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 24h ago

Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.

"Nolan wants me to think his film is about empathy or the collapse of cooperative society or whatever, but all *I* see is a bunch of nameless conscripts drowning in their own piss and shit under the orders or the Wise King of Ithaca."

Dear Emily Wilson: the point of focusing on "the mechanical challenge of moving objects through space" in Nolan's Odyssey is to demonstrate to the audience that all of these mere "logistics" problems involve human suffering. The horse is pulled by fucking slaves. People drown in it!

The real braindead part of this take is that it implies that there's somehow a meaningful definition between "real" nationality and "fake" nationality.

The Kenji Eno of posting@devilscrush.bsky.social · yesterday

Anyone identifing as Israeli suppresses their cultural roots to pretend “Israel” is a real nationality and not an occupation, but what this is awkwardly describes is a core phenomena of the Zionist entity. If you’re saying that’s racist I agree! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkeno...

Glad to see we've reinvented the op-ed genre "the Japanese invented Hello Kitty as a way to memoryhole their war crimes" for modern audiences.

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

Oh my god I think I found the video.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterday

This is rape culture.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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 ...

"I need to be able to carry my gun on the sabbath!" Carry. Your gun. On shabbes???!!!

This will get a fraction of the attention that Zohran Mamdani got for calling Netanyahu a war criminal.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

Dude, I hate the chud-ification of my religion so much.

Man, mainstream pop-historiography of the Spanish Inquisition is REALLY bad. If you read the Wiki page on the Inquisition with no other context, you literally would have no idea that Spain had been under Muslim rule for 700 years leading up to the Inquisition en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish...

I'm not going to QT but there's a silicon valley NIMBY complaining about maintaining the historical character of Palo Alto and man that place should look like fucking singapore. Market cap of tech companies based in and around there is like $14 trillion and it's full of fucking bungalows? So broken

“It’s not a fight between left and right, it’s between top and bottom. Which is why I met with a bunch of plague cultists for the most powerful man in the entire world.”

Weedle@weedle.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sure the MAHA activists want to make it illegal for trans people to access hormones but they're so authentic and populist about it so

Christians should be banned from playing sports. Jesus provides them with additional strength, which gives them unfair advantage.

Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right

Not going to indulge in child related discourse just want to say this is a fucking incredible photo and i will be tactically deploying it when i want to insult someone's taste for the foreseeable future

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 3d ago

is there some future competitive advantage with college admissions if you deafened your child to Ludwig Göransson

The reason the gravity of these crimes aren’t more widely understood is that people we should expect to respond appropriately to them have largely abdicated their duty.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d ago

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

I once had a longtime criminal defense attorney tell me he felt guilty people often said “there’s no way this could have happened because of X, Y and Z,” instead of ”this did not happen because I did not do it.”

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

The problem is that "tastemaker" is a meaningfully vital social function. And previously, it was convenient to be like "ah, that's what the gatekeepers do!" And now that we don't need gatekeepers anymore, we are seriously struggling to meet our demand for tastemaking.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

Online shopping eliminated these gatekeepers and disintermediated the market, allowing consumers to express their desires more directly. And it turns out that what people really want is cheap disposable goods, not more expensive but higher quality stuff that lasts a long time.

Extremely related point: people don’t want to pay more for quality, they want to be cheap and complain!

Reconstruction 3 Enthusiast@squalortoballer.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is why flying is bad now. People will say they want full service airlines and wax nostaligic about the golden age of jet travel (when it was unaffordable), but revealed preferences are that people choose the lowest up front price option when spending their own money.

the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure

Thread. Increasingly of the opinion that terminally online spaces are incapable of actually producing any good art bc any form of engagement with those spaces or attempts at commentary on them is just yet another level of allowing them to drive you insane.

Partisan@partpartisan.bsky.social · 4d ago

People hearing about Slam Frank for the first time tonight will be shocked to discover that its main issue is that it is *too* self-aware, *too* cynical, and *too* irony-poisoned. Like, the thing it is ~parodying~ would be more interesting played straight than what the musical actuall is.

People hearing about Slam Frank for the first time tonight will be shocked to discover that its main issue is that it is *too* self-aware, *too* cynical, and *too* irony-poisoned. Like, the thing it is ~parodying~ would be more interesting played straight than what the musical actuall is.

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 4d ago

I have a strong feeling that doing a Hamilton parody about Anne Frank a full decade after Hamilton came out is going to be really bad

I think I deleted the post but I've said before that simple demographic cohort math is part of why there's such a stark age divide on Islamophobia*: if you are under 50 and not from the absolute middle of nowhere they are now talking about at least one person you personally know

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 5d ago

Wow, you got us! Arabs say Inshallah!

This movie was just so goofy, man. Not, like, generationally hilarious or anything — but it did just genuinely feel like an episode of a Spider-Man cartoon. They nailed it.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4d ago

Like, Jesus, dude

I dunno. I do think it's a structural flaw in the Israeli parliamentary system that it's literally impossible to remove Bibi from the Knesset. Which makes it a lot easier for Bibi to continuously worm his way out of accountability via his interpersonal network of relationships (see 2009. See 2022)

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 4d ago

TBH the Israeli parliamentary system isn't badly designed. Its problem is that its electorate holds bad beliefs.

Ever since Black Panther came out (though this did still happen before), it's been popular for people to frame villains like Killmonger as "guys with great points who the writers had to SLANDER by making them a murderer," and I need these people to understand that it's literally the opposite.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 4d ago

arguably, a villain without a relatable point is a bad villain in the same way that a story where you root for the villain is a bad story