I'll admit it took me an embarrassingly long time to get the joke. Truly top tier trolling.
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 5d agoThis is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...
Also worth remembering that allied leadership did not take Hitler's entreaties about 1918 and the vows to never surrender seriously. In late 1944 they widely expected some form of negotiated German surrender as the walls obviously closed in.
#1 Shoup Fan@oneshoup.bsky.social · last wk.The Nazi party was very explicit about how the mistake of Germans in WWI was that they surrendered too early and should’ve fought to the death (and win). Then they did that in wwii and just ended up killing millions more people
real friendships involve the other person pushing back against you, having needs, being busy, not being able to devote themselves to you. we know from the experience of the powerful that having somebody at your literal beck and call is a factor in driving people mad.
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2w agoAntebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
Samuel Johnson really encapsulated it. “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2w agoThe more you read about the Antebellum South, the more you realize how much white slave owners whined.
I think this relates to more than just disease. There's a conspiratorial mindset where bad things can't simply be randomness or large scale social phenomena. 9/11 trutherism, Qanon, election denialism, etc.
Da Sparrow@sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 2w agoPeople don’t want to hear diseases just happen. It scares them to death. They need it to be because of malign actors or because they didn’t take the right thing. The fact that it could happen to anyone, anytime, just because is terrifying because you can’t control it. Whether autism/covid it’s fear.
People don’t want to hear diseases just happen. It scares them to death. They need it to be because of malign actors or because they didn’t take the right thing. The fact that it could happen to anyone, anytime, just because is terrifying because you can’t control it. Whether autism/covid it’s fear.
The next administration should declare these counterfeit and demonetized as they were never lawful to mint.
Reuters@reuters.com · 2w agoThe U.S. Mint releases video showing the manufacturing process for $1 coins featuring President Trump, issued to mark the United States' 250th anniversary in 2026. Critics have raised questions about the design's legality.
The philosopher AJ Ayer once stopped Mike Tyson from forcing himself on Naomi Campbell at a party in London through clever wordsmithing.
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2w agoTell me a fun fact.
Just gonna toss out there that one of the central facts of US politics--all politics, really--is that the general populace knows very little about who holds power, how gov't works, what policies do & don't exist, the balance of economic forces, or really much of anything outside their lifeworlds.
ICE and CBP invading voting places is a great way to tie everything together in the most illegitimate way possible. Ppl already have gotten sick of these guys, and now they come to take *your* vote away?
Celebrating and elevating members of our community who sacrificed their lives to fight for our freedom in a medium that members of our community relate to (goofy state fair ag art) is good. Not cringe! Pretty straightforwardly effective radicalization propaganda.
Meredith Rose@mrose.ink · 3w agoThis is what I need people to understand when they start grousing about "resist libs": these are people who hate ICE with their entire, folk-art-making, cornfed hearts. You cannot sit around and write people off as potential allies because you're not personally into their aesthetics.
The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:
The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side
This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.
data4democracy.substack.com
A Democratic candidate could do a lot worse than Wrecking Ball for their 2028 campaign song.
Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 4w agoAt the end of the day, the ballroom just gives us a bastille symbol
My whole thing is that *even if* an LLM was giving near perfect legal advice the fact that it is not privileged is so destructive as to make it worse than useless in many cases. Every single question and answer is subject to discovery! One subpoena to Claude and your case is ruined.
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · last mo.As someone who has long been on record as being in favor of dramatically expanding access to lawyers—including by changing the rules that make it impossible for us to give casual advice—this is what really frustrates me. More people will FEEL represented, but they won’t actually benefit.
They already had Trump over a barrel and agreeing to everything they wanted and it all fell apart because the Israelis made clear from the moment that piece of paper was signed in Versailles that they would not comply under any circumstances.
Brian@brianmcelroy.bsky.social · last mo.I guess the threat could be worse than the execution, but they could ramp up the attacks over time and really drag out the pain. It'd be like shooting in the limbs before going for the gut. They can ramp that up and down as they wish at this point. If I were them that would be my plan for October.
Until Iran either has a credible plan to pressure Israel into submitting to Iranian hegemony (no such plan exists, and at this stage of the war, no credible plan could exist, because Israel desperately wants to fight!) or is willing to drop that demand *to the US and Gulf States*, this is stupid.
this is easily a bigger result than whoever wins WI-GOV, Craig would have been a significantly below average Dem senator and Flanagan will be in the top tier phenomenal news
I think that to the extent this isn't retroactive, it is constitutional as to consular employees. It's settled law that anyone with diplomatic immunity doesn't get citizenship for their kids. Trump does have the power to grant diplomatic immunity to broad categories of foreign consular employees.
Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · last mo.no, actually, an executive order cannot "expand the category" of people excluded from birthright citizenship, we literally just went through this www.axios.com/2026/08/06/t...
I think there are issues where you have deeds that haven't been recorded. The Berenson thing is with his mom (who's a NYC resident) living in an apt "owned" by his (deceased) dad. If they never recorded it switching to her, the city sees a $$$ property owned by a nonresident.
Joel@jandcochran.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs a non- New Yorker, what’s going on with the rollout? Are people really getting roped in but shouldn’t OR are people just mad they’re getting publicly caught with multiple homes?
The problem with this is that there is no way short of fundamental constitutional reform to abolish the two-party system. As long as the President is fully in charge of the executive and is an independently elected individual person, you will have exactly two parties.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere is no crushing the right in a two-party system. That boils down to “Dems will win every election forever,” & we need a system in which Dems can lose & it’s not a crisis for democracy because there are other pro-democracy parties.
As I’ve said before, the fundamental thing to understand about Trump is he is a Florida retiree. He does not want to work, he wants to golf and post boomerslop on Facebook. 
To add to this: conspiracism is often about feeling like the world is controllable, and that bad things are the result of malicious bad actors who can be identified and rooted out/punished. It's the mindset that has people yearning for a strongman who will get the bums out and leave utopia.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2mo agothe point of most conspiracism isn't the prescription, it's the diagnosis. it lets people feel like they are cutting through complex information and accessing a secret truth. lab leak itself isn't always conspiratorial but this fauci stuff gives people a little hit of that.
Today on Volts: in lithium-ion batteries, the cathode has been evolving for 30 years, but the anode has remained stubbornly graphite. Now silicon anodes, which promise 5X the energy density & charging speeds, are finally reaching commercial viability. I talk with a silicon-anode pioneer.
Silicon anodes for batteries unlock greater energy density and faster charging times
A conversation with Rick Costantino of Group14.
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How much you wanna bet this asshole lied to his lawyers and was planning to lie to the court?
Kansas Reflector@kansasreflector.com · 2mo agoAttorneys for former police chief who led Kansas newspaper raid want to drop him as a client | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg
