if APIAC represented American interests they wouldn't have to spend so much money trying to convince Americans to have them
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you don't have to be an american homosexual to use bluesky, you can also be a brazilian homosexual
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
“cops aren’t workers, they just exist to uphold property relations” OK, go to a coffee shop and tell them you’re from the international proletariat here to seize the means of production and see if they let you behind the counter to make yourself a cup of coffee
the anti-meta backlash is going to make pol pot look like a saint
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoMeta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?
so after a long and unnecessarily fraught journey made worse by arrogant and ignorant decision making the democratic voters of maine have finally arrived at troy
Thread. Rapists running a coercive sex ring AND transmitting CSAM AND inducing other men to abuse women and girls in turn. The alleged behavior is legitimately monstrous and it’s a HUGE deal that the Trump regime is undermining law enforcement to help/free them. Epstein in real time
Professa Murray@kalimurray.bsky.social · 2w agoThe fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
When will my husband return from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
A couple of weeks ago they said breadsticks were getting married, are you going to do anything about that
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoWhite House spokesperson Abigail Jackson: "I saw a tweet yesterday from Olive Garden that in order to take advantage of their never-ending pasta pass, you have to show photo ID. I thought, that's weird, Olive Garden takes pasta pass security more seriously than Democrats take election security."
guy walking around outside through the wildfire smoke taking bong rips off an empty bowl because it “filters the crap out of the air”
Imagine having an entertainment industry "scoop" so obviously bullshit that variety, Hollywood reporter, deadline and the LA Times all pass on it and you have to give it to fucking Semafor
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 3w ago"hey, have our comms shop tell the laziest access journalists you can find that we'll leave California if we have to face absolutely any accountability"
*blowing cigarette smoke right in the face of everyone who just woke up to the news* "We already did all the jokes"
the good news about gerontocracy is all those people you hate are going to die
challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today
the american revolution was fought to explicitly adopt the legal system of the country being rebelled against
if anything, russia is a more politically advanced liberal democracy than the united states
this is similar to how for primary education they support drill instructor cram school for public school kids and send their own kids to new age feelgoodery type schools. there's no contradiction there, they want ridgid thoughtless discipline for workers and autonomy and creativity for future rulers
like they will literally tell you that the reason they hate American universities is that giving the middle and lower classes a holistic education in history, sociology, literature etc causes them to get ideas about how they should be running society instead of the rulers.