i was a real skeptic about glp-1s but after being on zepbound for a month i am here to report that i was wrong it's actually surreal how immediately it silences the low hum of food noise. literally gone overnight. i'm so much less likely to spam any dopamine button I can find, too (food or not)

i don't want a swole hypermasc dude, i want a dude who lives under a bridge and tells me riddles and gives me a treat when i solve them

the fucked part is that he does put it into his books, because he is a human person with an agenda, because everything ever written in this history of forever has an agenda he's just too fucking willfully ignorant to be self-aware about it. a turd between ears churning out vacuous slop

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

my main concern with graham platner isn't that he's actually a devout nazi but that he's the sort of ideology-free populist who can't be trusted

i feel like saying "unhinged behavior for a sitting president" these days has about the same tenor as saying you'd like a ham sandwich for lunch

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Kyler Fey vs Destoroyah@kylerfey.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As many of you will recall, the poem in the shape of beating Henry Kissinger to death is perhaps the single greatest piece of literature of this century.

brief reminder from one of his begrudging constituents: thomas massie is meeting an extraordinarily low bar here, but he is not your friend and you shouldn't expect much more than this from him in terms of "positions that are not morally reprehensible on their face"

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 5mo ago

Rep. Massie:  “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”

Funny Games. Single most uncomfortable movie I have ever watched, bar none, it's not close. I get the point, the point is made, I have thought all my thoughts on the subject, I'm glad it was made, and I never want to see it again.

Alex Steed@alexsteed.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What is your discomfort movie? A movie you saw one time and said okay, never again?

this game is severely underappreciated - if you like mecha or rhythm games (even passively. or you're like, curious), pick it up. actually just pick it up, you'll probably enjoy it

Steel Century Groove 🪩 OUT NOW@slothgloss.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 Steel Century Groove is OUT NOW and 10% off for a limited time!! 📣 🤖 massive mecha dance battles 🌎 big JRPG world and story to explore 🎶 use the built-in soundtrack or your own music Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1858950/... #indiegames #gamedev

one of the lesser-mentioned but still deeply annoying things about the whole epstein fiasco is that anytime you mention a true fact that he actually, verifiably did, you sound like your next sentence is going to be spouting off about how chemtrail vaccines did 9/11

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice'

In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...

chicago.suntimes.com

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

US citizen volunteers who are putting themselves out there as observers need to be aware that ICE does have statutory authority to arrest anyone for any federal crime if they witness you doing it. They also believe that 18 USC 111 makes it a crime to look at them funny, so you can do the math there

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

i do not care one bit if this is true i desperately want to watch a(n extremely deserving of a moral reckoning) member of the United States House of Representatives have to put out a statement insisting that she does not and has never sold shitty ditch weed

Jane@jane.meangirls.online · 6mo ago

I’ll be following this developing story very closely

Abolish ICE is the centrist position.

ICE executed Alex Pretti. Anything else you’re told is a lie.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 6mo ago

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

people gotta chill out about making normative vs. descriptive claims. it’s tedious to have to specify “of course, I do NOT support fire” if you’re talking about a house burning down.

In short, fuck this Nazi administration, fuck that loathsome Gestapo trash Tom Homan, and fuck the slobbering Nazi losers who support them.

When they announce the indictment Minnesota authorities owe it to the public to be very clear that just because the facts are on their side here the law was intentionally designed not to be. Even most very intelligent people don't know what it means to have to apply a high legal standard

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 7mo ago

/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump. Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.

"blue states should withhold federal taxes" 1. that's not how taxes work 2. many, many of us in red states are not right-wing 3. "redness" is not frozen in time 4. "individuals should suffer for the crimes of the powerful" is cruelty unbecoming of so-called progressives tl;dr kindly shut up

Again, "illegal" does not mean "impossible" and the sooner we all get that through our heads, the better. I'm still seeing way too many people reacting to ICE by saying "how can they do that?"

ICE agent kills woman, DHS tells obvious, insane lies about it: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

in these moments, in my view, it is a political and spiritual DUTY for my outrage and anger to be as fresh as if I'd never heard how they shot Fred Hampton in his bed. As fresh as if I didn't know Bobby Hutton was surrendering when they shot him. 1/2

i propose we start calling convection ovens jumbo air fryers. just for fun. just to incite a little chaos

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 7mo ago

This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive

It is not that hard to cook up violations of US law against corrupt dictators we don't like and get them past a grand jury. A federal indictment is nowhere close to enough to justify a US military invasion and orchestrated regime change, and we all need to say that together or it will be

this isn't actually complicated at all. going into another country and kidnapping their leader is rancid imperialism and it's wrong without qualification. what you think of Maduro does not enter into it.