Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40!

CalMatters@calmatters.org · yesterday

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

I will never, ever consider my audience when making art. You are a disgusting flesh piano I manipulate to make the noises that please me. That’s the Rob Delaney promise.

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 3d ago

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 3d ago

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

every senate democrat voted to confirm marco rubio.

Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 3d ago

🚨 Just in: The US has sanctioned the ICC. "We ​will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate," Marco Rubio said in a statement.

My wife doesn’t like AI…. You might say she’s…Miss Anthropic

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

courtesy pictures for sad children

Waverly@waverlysm.bsky.social · 3d ago

god call me a hater but I fucking loathe fleet week. the plane I just heard roaring overhead is the last sound someone heard before they died horribly and I am furious at being asked to get excited for it, sorry

The tourney is just over a week away, let's start ramping up the team announcements🧐 Repping the PCRF! Goo Crew: @rickypeacock.bsky.social @hcjustin.com @thelukeman.bsky.social

Had a wonderful time once again with these boys but I will never forgive them for this thumbnail youtu.be/gKB_IAnOBqg?...

Paul F. Tompkins: Tasting Menu | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Podcast 🍽️

YouTube video by Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

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posts on this website when the onion makes fun of republicans: omg the onion is freaking back y'all. this wins the internet! posts on this website when the onion makes fun of democrats: First Of All Democracy Is At Stake,

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5d ago

you know the onion was funnier when they tried to be funny

People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.

its genuinely incredible that the government has been taken over by vandals, thieves, and bald-faced liars and the media is more or less reporting on them like they're normal heads of state

Robert Morris, 64, who started Texas’s Gateway church and also once served as White House spiritual adviser during Donald Trump’s first presidency, pleaded guilty in early October in Osage county district court on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with child. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US megachurch pastor released from jail after pleading guilty to child sex abuse

Robert Morris, who started Gateway church, pleaded guilty in October to sexually abusing girl in the 1980s

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you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection

Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality)@talkinghenry.bsky.social · 5d ago

Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!

"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"

The "Is AI alive" conversation is 100% this, too. If you can be conned by a chatbot, I fear for your general safety. You are the guy at the stripclub who think the dancers really like you.

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · last yr.

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · last yr.

Greg Gutfeld says he doesn't understand how vaccines work as “a community preventative thing”

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)

the maddest I've ever had anyone get in my Twitter mentions was when I made this joke about Blake Snell:

there is no meaningful political opposition to the genocide among israelis, there is not a liberal political solution to this. they are not going to vote to stop being a genocidal apartheid state, pressure needs to be put on them from outside just as it was in south africa and rhodesia.

I don’t want to debate, I don’t want to jubilee, I don’t want to sit down for lunch with them I want equal human rights and freedom for everyone.