I love how movie theaters have SHAMELESSLY adopted this policy of like 20 min minimum level ads before the movie actually starts.

I was friends with a librarian and we were chit chatting about the LotR movies (this was before they'd come out) and he's sure they're just not going to measure up to the books, as he would know, he's read them like 30 times a piece. I like LotR too, but I don't need to read things more than once.

Rafe Meager (they/them)@economeager.bsky.social · 16h ago

she is making it possible for the public to understand academics on levels never before seen. "the kind of person who would translate the odyssey twice, two separate times" is the personality type i'm afraid

And that's how, one of the few no-joke-ass-kicking-combat-in-the-shit-Iraq-war-heroes in Democratic politics lost a Democratic primary to an octogenarian who, in two days, becomes the 9th longest serving member of congress *ever* in an absolutely dogshit year for incumbents.

Aw man, where somebody with that Martin Luther jpeg where it looks like he's saying this shit

Dr. M.A. Davis@mikedavis.bsky.social · yesterday

So many Lutherans! We have failed to put the religious heritage of the Midwest in the White House and that is I think to our discredit.

in a phrase: they hate us for our freedoms.

Editor's Notes: They Hate Us For Our Freedoms

The existence and idea of freedom and cosmopolitan diversity is an existential threat to authoritarians big and small.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST@chathamharrison.bsky.social · yesterday

From top to bottom, modern conservatism is a movement to resolve the emergence of a meaningfully democratic & pluralist United States by demolishing the United States. Perhaps what's most interesting is witnessing conservative slowly internalize that this was the endgame all along.

From top to bottom, modern conservatism is a movement to resolve the emergence of a meaningfully democratic & pluralist United States by demolishing the United States. Perhaps what's most interesting is witnessing conservative slowly internalize that this was the endgame all along.

Tony Stark@tonystark.bsky.social · 2d ago

My latest: “As I travel the country and talk to new folks and old friends, I am getting this deeply unsettling feeling that we have broken the force in a way not seen since the post-Vietnam era.” open.substack.com/pub/breaking...

It really is funny listening to the same ignorant fucking cowards who refused to give Republicans any agency for their corruption and lied about everything Dems did to prosecute the first admin now "demanding" they do it all over again. You. Let. Trump. Go. Free. Not Dems. You by not voting.

Pictured: two chicks who're not hot enough for the Epstein Island class.

Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

Pictured: two chicks who can benchpress their boyfriends.

Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

The current malevolent Confederate occupation government is destroying the capital of the Union. bsky.app/profile/airb...

If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this:@airbagmoments.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If a terrorist group had done this to DC, we'd currently be mismanaging a "green zone" in the invaded capital city of what we falsely claimed was their country of origin.

Everybody who said this mattered and was important was lying to us. They don't care.

Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d ago

The iconic weeping willow trees outside the Kennedy Center have been cut down by Trump.

I bet he showed up to that board meeting covered in bloody drool and sounding like Rocky after being punched in the face a million times and all his underlings had to be like, "ah, yes, sir! Extremely badass!!"

Adam Cook@motorcityadam.com · 2d ago

Why not just leave the diseased tooth untreated indefinitely? Now that’s how you 10x the badassery. First Principles.

Something I really hate about this administration is how their bone-deep shittiness brings out feelings in me that I would typically only feel for someone who had like, directly harmed a loved one. It's bad for the soul to be this angry and yet is there one member of this admin who doesn't earn it?

Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

History is a conspiracy to the proudly uneducated. Science is a scam to people who never paid attention to it. Government is a waste to people who know nothing about it. Personal ignorance of facts is not a valid argument against them.

@billkittle.bsky.social · 5d ago

The very final ghost to appear will be At The End Of The Day,

Spencer Thomas@spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tonight you'll be visited by three ghosts: - the ghost of Let's Hear Them Out - the ghost of Let's Listen to Both Sides - the ghost of Grand Compromise There's a fourth ghost, the ghost of Rot Monetization, but that's for the sequel: The Tyranny of Tiny Tim

The Lake America thing really drives home that the fundamental divide in this country isn’t left or right, it’s who sees the world and acts like an adult, and who wants to still be a child, throwing tantrums when they don’t get their way. It just happens to map well onto a partisan axis these days.

Just gonna keep pointing out: White voters mostly *sided with the protesters* during BLM 2020 protests. Many pundits cited @owasow.bsky.social's research on protests hurting Dems in the 60s, but I interviewed Wasow and he correctly predicted times had changed: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 4d ago

In which @jamellebouie.net reveals the Secret Sauce of his punditry. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...

Me last night eating partially-moldy blackberries

Sarah Dempster@dempster2000.bsky.social · 3d ago

Just eaten a segment of chicken which I now realise was aggressively past its best. Still, sure it’ll be fine.

"He's the worst person I've ever met, and I've met Robert Mugabe" is the quote from a friend of mine that springs to mind when I hear that Milo is having a spot of trouble.

everybody in tech is a drug addict trying to do “masculine” gender but it manifests in the most utterly fatherless behavior

Dave Jorgenson@davejorgenson.bsky.social · 4d ago

The renaming of this lake is so dumb and petty and should not be the focus of the news right now but … I cannot overstate enough just how sad and pathetic this update is for Google

If you heard the message, “you’re wrong and a terrible person”, and never questioned it critically, then yeah you’re a terrible person and also A Idiot

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

As usual, the Centrist Messaging Geniuses have come up with a message that pleases literally no one.

Wow, it's like smallpox. Or the Y2K thing. Or covid.

@billkittle.bsky.social · 5d ago

Celebrating today: FINN!!! She’s the best middle child in the world. She gets along with everybody. I dropped churu right on her forehead.

i've been reliably informed there's actually just one party, no appreciable differences, and so i'm confused about why all of these billionaires are using their donations so irrationally and if this situation is as one-sided as i fear i need to warn them.

The last guy who had charisma like this, well, they ruined his life and his children’s lives, too.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 4d ago

Child: It’s the mayor. Mamdani: *laughs* Child: What? You are the mayor. You could become the king. Mamdani: I’m happy as the mayor. Jalen Brunson is the king.

Live look at the OP during their first week of class in 1996 being forced to dance the Macarena at whatever opening assembly was happening at their school.

Sad Dance South Park Character

Alt: One of the goth kids from South Park is giving a sad little dance

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Jan@butwhosjan.bsky.social · 5d ago

Happy 30-year anniversary to the Democratic National Convention dancing to Macarena

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