I’ve waited for this since Elise told me she was thinking of writing it over a year ago An incredible retrospective “In my first essay for Current Affairs and return to publishing after a two year hiatus, I present the only 9/11 meme analysis worth reading.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/meme-in...

Meme-ing Our Way Through the Era of Ultra-Violence

Dark jokes about 9/11 distract us from a real reckoning with U.S. foreign policy and the horrors of the Global War on Terror.

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I have two tickets to the @404media.co live recording tonight I can’t make anymore, free to a good home

Whomp whomp @ifbookspod.bsky.social

Some extremely nuanced and insightful analysis of the Hank Green AI stuff, and AI use in general from the inimitable Charlotte Moore-Lambert (@charlottereads.com) slate.com/podcasts/icy...

We Lost Another Creator To AI, Boys

AI is making the Vlogbrother’s burnout even worse.

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YES VIRGINIA DOING THE FUCKING WORK Can you imagine how much better the world would be right now if Democrats had grown spines and teeth at any point in the last 25 years? Take notes @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Do your fucking jobs and get your knuckles bloody

I dont want to see any more close-up photos of Karoline Leavitt’s lips I want to see a real-life close-up of your lips because we're about to kiss

I love these videos because this is literally $4,040 of equipment and $4,000 of it is being used for a basic little background loop and the last $40 is used for the super catchy “live” melody which is the reason people stick around.

Woah I just dug up some really racist posts from Tilly Norwood.

Me too, Erika… Me too.

Childhood ADHD Ben would like to thank Louis Sachar for Wayside School Childhood Autism Ben would like to thank Louis Sachar for Someday Angeline Adult Autism/ADHD Ben will finally get to thank Louis Sachar tonight

I’m so jealous of the Pope for dying because he didn’t have to learn about Kanye’s incestuous confession to sexual abusing his cousin

Heads up y’all… Skylight is NOT “Bluesky’s version of TikTok” It may be a great app, but it is not from Bluesky

Wear a mask when you travel!!!

Is this anything??

I've always had a particular affect in my speech/writing (Autism brain!!!) It feels truer to my voice, It's help the translation of my tone and intention I often use eccentric punctuation, spacing, and capitalization And now I'm terrified people will think my writing was done by generative AI

Chuck Schumer doesn’t have time to deal with a Government Shutdown because he’s too busy touring for a book he wrote about how it’s okay to kill children as long as they’re Palestinian.

At first I thought Jerry Seinfeld might care more about Palestine if he learned that more than half of all Gazans are younger than 18... But then I remembered that Israel destroyed all of their schools... so he wouldn't know where to find any of them, anyway.

Jerry Seinfeld might actually care about Palestine if someone told him that half the population of Gaza is younger than 18.

I also get death threats, doesn’t stop me from doing my job and my job is stupid

Federal Budget, USAID, International Relations, Humanitarian Assistance, and the Destruction of the American Machine.

Exclusive footage of Mitch McConnell’s fall today

Easter is gonna be so expensive =\

Omg I’m a day late because I never remember when it’s Groundhog Day… but I will ALWAYS remember how Bill de Blasio killed one. RIP Charlotte the Groundhog.

Why is Billie Eilish performing in that one diorama in every children’s museum??

Thinking of all the “Hey are you doing okay?” texts I’ll have to send tomorrow if Taylor Swift doesn’t win a Grammy this year

Does anyone else dream exclusively in moral quandaries??

Wouldn’t it be so crazy if everyone got a clear phone case and put some “Know Your Rights” cards in them so they were always accessible?

I cannot properly express how healing it is to be in a room with hundreds of other pro-Palestinian Jews Thank you @peterbeinart.bsky.social for writing this book, and for bringing us together I’m proud of being a Jew, I’m proud of my morals, Those things are tied deeply together Free Palestine

It’s kind of extraordinary how much I don’t hate being in midtown rn. I love congestion pricing.

What would you do if a stranger slid into your DMs with two photos and said “Rate my teeth? 😃 😆”