our dog is pissed because i am eating QUICHE and she has only kibble

*looking at the worst post of my life* I must not post. Reactive posting is the mind-killer. Dunking is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the Bad Take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When the TL refreshes there shall be nothing. Only I remain.

this picture was taken about 300 feet from the 'welcome to Charlottesville' sign at the city limits just off the highway, while parked illegally. he's so scared to actually come to Charlottesville lol

how do i get the pure swaggering confidence of a maga dipshit. Where does the delusion of grandeur come from, what gives someone the sheer balls to piss on somebody and call it rain. how does one live an unexamined life. Does it even feel like living

look even if you believe her story, which frankly i do not, her own account of her behavior is pretty entitled and embarrassing. Yikes!!

amy brown 👻@amybrown.xyz · 2d ago

millionaire kelly clarkson going to war with a small business in brooklyn over a $15,000 animatronic bird is exactly the news story i needed today thank you

COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d ago

Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis. “It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

The crazymaking thing about the centrist "we'll just give them the trans folks" idea is not just that it's ethically morally bankrupt, it's not just that it doesn't work and makes you look like a spineless coward, it's that the ethical response is SO FUCKING EASY:

Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 7d ago

"My opponent wants to pass laws to hurt a handful of high school student while appointing stranger to look up your daughter's skirt in the name of protecting them--that's weird and wrong and disgusting and I'll fight like hell to stop them" come on something like that but more articulate.

A reminder to always have two different signatures: a legal signature for documents and an art signature for anything public facing.

Nieman Lab@niemanlab.org · last wk.

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

The spooky season has arrived, and that means Creepy Biology is upon us. It's time to talk origins. It's time to talk gore. It's time to talk about BLOOD. Specifically, YOUR blood 🩸 [a thread]

This threa needs to be shouted at centrists daily.

Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus@jlazarus.bsky.social · last wk.

This has been on my feed all day so I'm going to give it as fair as treatment as I can. Prof. Wolfers is well meaning & I get the intuition, but he's speaking outside his area of expertise and he's just wrong. Having lunch with someone you disagree with isn't going to "cure ideological bias." 🧵

Thing is the whole thing is premised on the idea a child should need a six figure loan to keep going to school rather than educating people being a public benefit.

Jhoira's Bizarre Adventure: Sax Ball Run@saximus.bsky.social · last wk.

I feel like in literally any other context, if you gave 6 figures to a teenager with no assets, income, credit, or work history, when said teenager struggled to pay back those 6 figures, you'd be told "you made a shitty deal, eat the loss, sucks to suck" but school is the exception for some reason

How come we always have to befriend Republicans but Republicans are never asked to take a Democrat out to f’ing lunch?

i went to lunch with someone on the other side of the ideological fence and got disowned but okay!

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · last wk.

The best cure for ideological bias is find someone on the other side and go to lunch with them.⁣ ⁣ Sometimes we disagree about facts. Sometimes we disagree about values. Figuring out which is which is fun part. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/my-libertarian-friends-were-right

I'm petty, I'll block anyone that shares anything vaguely Harry Potter related. I unfollowed someone on Goodreads cos it showed them reading one of the books. Get the fuck outta here.

The avery/crane shippers aren't WRONG tho. Like. You KNOW Avery left Crane to try and do something heteronormative and toxic but easier. Crane latched on to Avery's lack of ambition as a point of resentment bc it feels better, superior to addressing the core rejection he really feels

I love how whenever I start research for a project and come across the name of an obscure right wing mega donor then Google them and learn that every time I buy something simple like trash bags I’ve been giving money to a fascist

every day I think about how misogynoir is stress and stress goes right into your blood pressure isn’t it cool how everyone has been handed a basic tool to slowly destroy you, physically, while also proclaiming their innocence and how their part in it isn’t that big of a deal?

sisyphus when his boulder doesn’t show up at his hearing:

BBNO$ is throwing a charity concert with Scene Queen and Mxmtoon (and others) to raise money and awareness for Palestinian children! and it looks freaking AMAZING yall dang

sometimes the good you saw in somebody was what you projected onto them, because you are a kind person who has difficulty imagining being any other way.

I keep looking for ways to explain how tired I am of trying to exist and being made political but I can't do any better than this:

i am finally able to eat and one of my teeth just broke. is this irony

you arent a burden. you are a human being with wants and needs. having desires does not make you selfish. unless you are sonic, in which case you are not human and everything you do sickens me.

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

please help… my son…

Reposting with alt-text. These aren't far left positions, folks. Democrats in particularneed to take note. @matthewjdowd.bsky.social

ShannonB@shannonbuz.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's time for the media to stop referring to these positions as "radical leftist."