Zohran is extraordinarily gracious, but he should not have to be. Why is it acceptable to ask people to accept buckets of gutter bigotry as the inevitable price for being Muslim in public life? And then news media legitimates this bigotry by presenting it as a debate!

But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

The thing about "if voting actually mattered, they wouldn't let you do it" is that they are very much trying to stop you from doing it.

There’s a whole generation of (mostly white) Americans who were told we were done and we could stay home. Voting was all that was required.

Hey, Kathryn, did this puckish little scamp just leak an ad from Rockstar or was he part of a much more sophisticated hacker operation focused on targeting vulnerable people by extorting them and stealing their identities to make millions?

These marathons were one of his defining achievements. And the British media pretended there was no evidence they happened. That it was just something he 'claimed' to have done... Now try and tell me their hounding was about "getting to the truth" RIP Jason 😢 26/26

Wild that a man who cannot control his bowels controls a major political party. And the world's largest nuclear arsenal.

@wagatwe.bsky.social and @chadstanton.blacksky.app got me puzzling my poor brain over police abolition. I agree with the position, but also have trouble thinking through the implications. What follows is a well-meaning abolitionist-curious person thinking out loud.

I thought my life would be a Mardi Gras A never-ending party, ha! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVmB...

"Oh, Streetcar!" from "The Simpsons"

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Dara O Briain@daraobriain.bsky.social · last mo.

It remains genuinely hilarious that people think this quote is WB Yeats. This is on the wall in Kilkenny Design in Dublin, by the way. Bit of a lurch in tone from "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

Here’s the key takeaway from our report: Epstein couldn’t have carried out his trafficking and criminal activity without the help of the highest ranking employees and executives at the most powerful banks in the world. Wall Street is complicit in Epstein’s crimes from top to bottom.

@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com 's post got me thinking about the politics of V for Vendetta. Like her, I re-read it recently for the first time in decades. As a piece of political art, V is really good as anti-fascism. But it's pretty disappointing as an anarchism...

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2mo ago

rereading v for vendetta for the first time in probably 15 years for podcasting purposes and god dammit alan moore

Realizing that Trump II has made me a very spiteful person. Everyone involved needs to suffer for what they have done. It’s no longer enough to defeat them and get our country back.

Maybe if I scroll just a little bit more the world will become less awful somehow

The thing about Harlan Ellison is that he was a good enough writer for people to pay him to do it--which is impressive! But if you're gonna sneer at other working professionals, buddy, your work really needs to be a hell of a lot more memorable than anything Ellison ever wrote.

Filbi (they/them)@filbi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

that time Harlan Ellison murdered Don Heck for no goddamn reason to make it even worse, he later clarified he was actually thinking of Sal Buscema

Any Democratic politician who denies the need to reform/pack the Supreme Court is serving white supremacy. Call them and yell at them and support their primary challengers.

So Jasmine Crockett had all this star power that couldn't propel her to a win but has the star power enough to propel Talarico to a win?

Richard Attenborough: Back to Work!

ALT: Richard Attenborough: Back to Work!

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Placing innocent civilians on Rikers is evil. Delaney is not worse than Rikers. By most metrics, Rikers is 10 times worse than Delaney. What's different, is the level of empathy that the typical US Democratic voter is able to feel for innocent people held at Delaney versus held on Rikers.🤷🏿‍♂️

Our greatest power is our ability to withdraw our cooperation.

I think my inherent disgust towards LLM AI is because it divorces the user from the weight of creation. What brilliance illuminated your life? What insights left you breathless? What strange paths did you wander? What work did you put in towards understanding what it means to be human?

The thing that links institution lists like Chuck Schumer with fascist lunatics like Pete Hegseth is a complete, uncritical belief in American Exceptionalism. If you act like America should be some mystical place outside of normal historical forces and basic truths, this slopes down to fascism fast

begging you all to occupy more of your time with things other than him

@chrislhayes.bsky.social ICYMI, a piece that reminded me of Twilight Of The Elites, for obvious reasons. "a world with universal basic income is more meritocratic than a world without one" www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI

Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâc...

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Yeah guys, Team "Wait, the Strait of Hormuz exists?!?" led by President Blabs-a-Lot executed a false-flag so that Blabs-a-Lot, who already got away with a coup and who has faced zero domestic pushback or consequences, can finally get public support for building the World's Ugliest Ballroom

he got everything he ever wanted and he’s fucking miserable

for the ten thousandth time, it's been proven the the best way to deal with this guy is look him in the eye and go "oh yeah make me buddy boy" and the lesson they take away in the USA will of course be that they continue to give him everything he demands in case he gets upset with them

all of America's bravest elected Democrats jumping into action to post vaguely on social media about how somebody else should do something

Ouch. And yes. www.joanwestenberg.com/the-passive-...

The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

I had coffee last year with a guy - I won't use his real name - who told me he was "building a business." I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers. I made him say it twice. Jade face roll...

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> what do you want? reading comprehension! > when do we want it? screw you!

I was at the Manhattan No Kings by myself, which is not a good thing for me. Gets my depression & alienation going overtime in a setting that's supposed to be about community and optimism. What follows is NOT a criticism of No Kings & folks who go, but simply venting my personal mental illness /

THE KIRBY AWARDS: New Industry Prize Named After Roz Kirby & Jack Kirby; Creator Of Stan Lee