gotta agree with Hannity here, losing those five is like when one bird dies in a way that is greatly beneficial to everyone around it
Oh no not James Carville, Bill Maher, Mark Penn, and John Fetterman
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gotta agree with Hannity here, losing those five is like when one bird dies in a way that is greatly beneficial to everyone around it
Oh no not James Carville, Bill Maher, Mark Penn, and John Fetterman
In 1930, a German newspaper imagined life in the 2000s, depicting people at the dinner table using telephones instead of talking to one another. Boy, did they get that wrong.
Seeing all sorts of references to Weird Girl Lit these days, so now’s my chance to beg everyone to take an hour to read Christina Rossetti’s 1962 poem, “Goblin Market.” You are simply not prepared for how crazy it goes.
Happy birthday to one the greatest albums in the history of recorded music.
#MusicHistory On this day, 1985, The Pogues released their brilliant 2nd album Rum Sodomy & the Lash. The cover art is a re-working by Peter Mennim of The Raft of the Medusa by the French Romantic painter Théodore Géricault, completed in 1819. The original painting hangs in The Louvre in Paris.
“Officers subsequently checked the various locations where the Flock cameras were placed and found that the poles were cut down near the base. Officers located the poles nearby in the weeds, but the cameras had been removed.”
Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras
The police say that over the weekend, officers found the poles the cameras were mounted on had been cut down and the cameras were gone. Flock cameras are stirring controversy across the country as the...
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They stole ALL the Flock cameras in Winona.
Wait… who is making this political? David Ellison, you need a new crisis management team. You are doing untold irreparable harm to the Paramount Brand.
Why can’t there just be a setting on streamers if you always want to watch the credits and don’t want to jump to another show or movie? It is so annoying.
like yeah, geniuses, if you have a slave who you aren’t allowing to get their own food & housing, you have to feed & house them, weird to be all “I want a traditional woman who will raise my children and not work so I can control her through my money” and then be like “women care if I have money?!?”
weird how men built societies in which women could only access basic resources through men and are now trying to return us to that while also complaining that women who try to access resources through men are gold diggers
Somehow they keep finding new ways to fuck shit up. Truly amazing.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."
This screed is so misguided and full of weird, bad ideas. It's got that vibe of "I didn't really think this through and actually don't even understand the subject much, but I want to yell about it anyway." Which is fine for Gen Pop internet, but like, maybe keep it off the HWA newsletter, wtf.
There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
1. Alexi Giannoulias promising 1000 more cops but not saying crap about libraries says a lot. 2. A single year of police abuse lawsuit payout would cover an expanded library staff for far longer than that.
Thousands of books are piling up in Chicago libraries due to staffing shortage. blockclubchi.co/3TFy5Kj
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Someone once told me that it's "classist" to advocate for people to have indoor cats because you need to buy them lots of expensive toys. Marcel has been playing with the discarded stem of a fresh green bean for 20 minutes. 🤷♀️
It was so damn depressing to watch every TV writer who was willing and eager to have open, intelligent conversations about their process get hounded off social by a combination of aggressive stans and belligerent wannabes defending the right to be a shithead to creatives
I keep thinking about the discourse from the other day suggesting writers are gatekeeping writing information for ourselves and I just think back to 2019 when every writer was out there giving away writing advice until one by one each stopped because social media blows and we can't have nice things.
Just a few days ago, Senator Moreno was asked if his daughter's alleged abuser should drop out, and he responded, "I don't know."
Moreno on Max Miller: "My daughter lives in constant fear of this man ... you can't fathom what that makes me feel like when the dad's number one job is to protect your kids... if there's any minimum standard for being an elected official, he feels to meet it. I don't care about the politics at all"
weird how he didn’t find jesus on this until he saw miller’s latest polling numbers
Moreno on Max Miller: "My daughter lives in constant fear of this man ... you can't fathom what that makes me feel like when the dad's number one job is to protect your kids... if there's any minimum standard for being an elected official, he feels to meet it. I don't care about the politics at all"
again, if i had a calculator that gave me the wrong answer one (1) time, i would throw it out and never use it again and could probably bankrupt the company by simply telling people what happened
Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
I feel like if we had a government this is the sort of thing they would be not allowing.
I read the whole thing twice and still don't know if it's supposed to do that or not I feel like it's not
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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My thoughts on Bluesky not being welcoming to Republicans is Trump blocks disaster relief to states voting blue, & is also legally codifying anyone who opposes him as a terrorist deserving violence, & his kidnapping brute gangs terrorize the streets, & there's much more but I'm out of characters
"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care
one thing about data centers is that the issue is showing people in communities all over the country just how undemocratic/opaque their public bodies are. www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article...
Exactly. This is where theory is so helpful as a lens. (This is adding to not contradicting OP) So if you have a critical feminist lens, you understand that these are both the same project of marginalizing women and maintaining a binary that (white, cis, straight, wealthy) men are in charge of.
12 year old girls get genital inspections "for their safety" while wife beaters get endorsed for re-election. This whole protecting women and girls thing is a bit confusing.
I rewatched Mallrats last night, and while it still has its charms, it occurred to me that we’ve been suffering the glut of male-centric pop culture fixations in our media for a long, long time. Imagine slacker comedies by women that talked incessantly about Barbies becoming enduring hits.