Trump’s bombing + citizen revolt plan probably would have worked if the United States had literally any credibility about actually caring for the Iranian people. And if they did this before Iran killed or imprisoned all revolutionaries.

Samus is Here@samusishere.bsky.social · 2h ago

Obliterate the current Gulf state and Israeli governments to build credibility with the Iranian people so they overthrow the Iranian government. Basically everyone in Iran hates the Iranian government, they just don’t trust the US because they think they’re acting in Israeli and Gulf State interest

I have never been angrier at nothing, great work.

Los Angeles: sports capital of the world@theamitie.bsky.social · 14h ago

There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this

Perhaps the most breathtakingly racist election result since David Duke won the primary for governor.

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 14h ago

Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.

Turns out that Michigan’s black people is just extremely Christian. Probably will want to do atheist campaigning in black areas to avoid future results like this.

VoteHub@votehub.com · 16h ago

Stevens+53 mail Detroit.

Intelligent Systems rules in that every character they have designed for Fire Emblem in the last 20 years is an abject catastrophe

I’ve noticed that people who got the Covid vaccine look like they’ve aged at least five years.

I fucking love that America is ruled by a violent racist who is also obsessed with interior design and is the worst client of all time with interior design.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h ago

"President Trump has directed contractors to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad, frustrated with its appearance and questioning whether the slope of the White House lawn needs to be changed"

genuinely looks like he was leaving clues for The Batman to discover

Other than every issue, every issue has been resolved.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · yesterday

IRAN HAS SIGNALED IT IS WILLING TO REOPEN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ BUT IS DEMANDING THE RIGHT TO COLLECT TRANSIT FEES, SECURITY GUARANTEES AGAINST FUTURE ATTACKS, AN END TO THE U.S. NAVAL BLOCKADE AND RELIEF FROM U.S. OIL SANCTIONS. - WSJ

I get that there's a lot of legal power in saying "you're not even following your own self-assigned murder rules". But I also hate giving even an inch on the framing, because, just so we're clear: any drug runners on those boats are also murder victims.

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

There’s a weird subplot here where even pedophiles deplore this studio’s aggressive use of AI video. It was weird that this was the straw.

IGN@ign.com · 2d ago

The CEO of Shift Up has responded to backlash surrounding the release of an AI-generated music video promoting Stellar Blade’s sequel game, Blood Rain. https://bit.ly/3TpM4E5

Game Freak has been making RPGs for literally 30 years and still fails at even the most simplistic of cinematic story telling. At some point, it’s inspiring.

Imran Khan@imrankhan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Job update: The new head of IT called me today to apologize to me and crying said this is the worst, most humiliating job they’ve ever had in their lives because the team is impossibly ineffective.

I mean the difference is anthropic is a lovecraftian cult that also happens to be the most important company in the world

Max P III@blackballer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.

If you can remember two years into the past, you’re at the 100th percentile of political wisdom.

Samus is Here@samusishere.bsky.social · 2d ago

Except we did a lot of that in 2024 and none of it worked? The Dems very aggressively regulated bad pesticides and put in food safety regulations and none of the freaks cared at all.

Sophie Cunningham is a bench player putting up 9/2/1. She’s like if Isaiah Joe was treated as a superstar by the media.

The main thing to look forward to right now is that everyone in Russia is going to die horrendously, in a life of poverty where nothing was accomplished outside of drunk driving. While this is heart warming, it would be nice to root for any good things, but alas, nothing.

Samus is Here@samusishere.bsky.social · 2d ago

A very important thing we do have to internalize is that the world is over though and life will never be better than in 2015, a frankly bad year and a year I can't even have nostalgia for as I had suicidal ideation from 2004 to 2016.

Unironically support a pardon and a nomination to an extremely high ranking position.

Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2d ago

FREE HIM HE DID NOTHING WRONG

We gotta just take the farmer water rights, we're literally doing a Soviet style environmental catastrophe to farm almonds and animal feed.

Marina Bolotnikova@mbolotnikova.bsky.social · 2d ago

Some ppl in my intellectual community don't agree with me but I believe it's important to have a prosperous economy. & one of my master theories about the world is that we squander SO much of our natural resource base on animal agriculture, which is not economically important. 1/

A very important thing we do have to internalize is that the world is over though and life will never be better than in 2015, a frankly bad year and a year I can't even have nostalgia for as I had suicidal ideation from 2004 to 2016.

Samus is Here@samusishere.bsky.social · 2d ago

I do think we are looking at a ratchet effect here happening though where the Dems reaching out to anti vax people makes the GOP even more supportive of assassinating doctors etc. This is not a race you can win.

Anti vax freaks do make up a large bit of the political spectrum but I want the permission to say I hate them, I hope they die, and I’m fucking annoyed by anyone reaching out to them and any policy compromises with them should be met by extreme consequences.

The shitting virus refuses to be defeated and I am so tired.

CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social · 2d ago

No early success for Moderna’s norovirus vaccine in phase 3 trial The vaccine maker said its investigational mRNA norovirus vaccine did not meet statistical criteria for early success. Read more: https://bit.ly/3TEgD8Y 📷: CDC/Alissa Eckert

I got a great business idea: I'll approach various vested interests and say "pay me or I will have Eric Adams come pitch your industry to local communities"

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d ago

“‘Let me tell you something: My name is Eric Adams,’ he continues, as the boos begin to rain down.” hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Direct announced for August 4 at 7 AM PT Runtime: Approximately 20 minutes

Halo 1 is way too old at this point and has just bad encounter design, they should have redesigned most of these levels significantly if they were going to bother with a single player only remake.

Probably the most underrated batshit moment of Trump 2 was when Dr. Oz completely freelanced and tried to import anti-Armenian racism into the US.

A major issue for Dems is not just the ideology of Schumer and Gillibrand, but that they are personally unintelligent and to just a shocking degree.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3d ago

Is Gillibrand on crack? Why was she telling donors, without a shred of evidence, that Mallory McMorrow is a DSA member???

El Sayed might be polling badly because US voters hate voting for religious minorities other than Jews (for now on Jews...)

It feels like the UAE just generally supports killing for the sake of killing.

Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 3d ago

A senior Gulf official told the WSJ that some countries, such as the UAE, are pushing Trump to take more action against Iran, saying that Iran will not compromise until the U.S. escalates, like by taking control over the Strait of Hormuz and considering ground operations.