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Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

I'm encouraged at least to know the burrito taxi discourse has escaped Bluesky and is now truly bipartisan.

what happens when you barely step on your pets tail?

the differences in burrito price discourse between left and right are fascinating

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 5h ago

for reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.

This was one of the Trump/MAGA movement, GOO, & fellow travelers m objectives. Break everything so it is impossible for the Democrats to ever govern should they come back into power.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3h ago

It seems really clear that by 2028, we're going to have an empty SPR, substantial munitions shortages, greater strategic challenges, a larger national debt and substantially higher bond rates which will massively constrain future administrations.

in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon

Kevin is not exaggerating, VDARE was not white nationalist in the sense of "well if you get right down to it the modern GOP has always been white nationalist" VDARE was white nationalist in the sense of "yeah those Nazis sure are white nationalist"

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h ago

Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.

this is legitimately a huge problem that i don’t know how they will resolve, either from an executive or legislative standpoint, and it’s going to be the case across a lot more than just defense

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3h ago

I fundamentally do not know how to square the politics whereby Democrats will essentially have to tell the American people that because they (the voters) made an extremely stupid decision, they need to lower their expectations substantially for the foreseeable future, but here we are.

I need to do more classes

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 2h ago

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

was discussing with a fellow traveler today -- but programmers, coders, developers are having an *entirely* different experience of LLM-based products and services than the rest of us, especially the plagiarized plebeians among us (writers, reporters).

Can confirm. Books are for sickos only.

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The unnerving sense that the Pentagon budget is a great source of patronage and an opportunity to use VC buzzwords, but very little reckoning with the consequences of mistakes.

This is truly an excellent piece from @thebulletin.org on the incredibly troubling rise of Silicon Valley thought in Pentagon procurement, it highlights a lot of major ongoing issues: thebulletin.org/2026/07/the-...

The rise of the military-technology complex

How Silicon Valley tech firms remade US defense contracting. And then opened the Pentagon’s checkbook—wide.

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THERE ARE EIGHT DAYS LEFT TO BACK THE GAME INDUSTRY HARDSHIP FUND AND GET A LOT (127!!!) OF GAMES WHEN YOU DO do it. do it. do it. do it. do it itch.io/b/3802/game-...

This is worth amplifying (also this podcast is rad), that Roman slavery was, y'know, slavery. In fact, all slavery is horrifying, but the broader 'Mediterranean' slavery tradition (which is also, by the by, the ancestor of Atlantic slavery) is one of the *more extreme* such traditions.

Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · last wk.

Next time someone tries to tell you that Roman slavery was different or better than other forms of slavery, tell them to listen to last week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com and/or buy Emma’s book.

The more queer Sparks Of Power gets, and it is getting more so, the more it reminds me of Golden Kamuy … which it already shares a lot with setting-wise

Happy defeat day to Haley Stevens. I am sure the Dems, the pundit class, and the right will be absolutely normal about this outcome.

I am quite heartened to be heading into a general election with a guy who has demonstrated he can overcome an absolutely massive cash disadvantage and still pull off the win.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 13h ago

Unfathomable

I have binged my way to current (there are only 5 episodes) and as expected I am enjoying this version

Ryan W Enslow@ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 5d ago

Finally digging in to the new Ghost In The Shell and ep03 has some of the best spider-manning I’ve ever seen animated

I didn’t think AES even realistically had a shot several months ago and now it’s going to be portrayed as a disappointment if he *only* wins by like 2-3% lmao

I just made a joke on here and it is taking all my willpower not to add footnotes

I heard a sound reading this and I think it was the crypt of Origin Systems exploding open

〽️ax krieger asks: who's going to PAX WEST?@maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 15h ago

i also think we can definitively declare now: ea should have never bought bioware, it was always a poor match and they were never handled properly under ea's ownership

This is the best thing I’ve seen today

mike taddow@miketaddow.bsky.social · 19h ago

this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here

For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

My new least favorite thing — and I’m sure this will change in 15min — is all the video content I watch that plays extended clips of shitty people talking so that they can comment on the shitty people

I frequently could not understand the bolding choices in comics I read as a kid (and while that’s mostly the 80’s 93 would be at the tail end). Looking at this I don’t think that’s on me. These choices ARE odd

Jeremy Whitley Flame Con C-11@jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 18h ago

I am reading a cool indie comic from 1993

@darthbluesky.bsky.social the shelter where I volunteer is raising money to build new cat condos, so their temporary residents have the best experience as they await new their homes. This shelter is completely donation funded and they do amazing work. animalhumanenm.givevirtuous.org/donate/cat-c...

Max Miller story is providing incredible cover for the 65 year old NC Republican congressman who was just found to have been texting his female staff shit like "I had to leave the party because you brought your bf with you 🥺"