Canadian Armed Forces, are you thinking what I’m thinking?

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 6d ago

Not a huge military guy but I do think it’s less than good we don’t have any missiles left.

So thankful for all the people that give me pain. No idea how I’d remember my name without them.

notable that he thinks his fiance getting abducted by ICE is something that happened to him, as opposed to her

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Nothing like this has ever happened to me. I have several businesses. I'm law-abiding and I pay a lot of tax."

I can think of so many better ways to pass the time away than by working’ on the railroad.

AI is a normal tech. That means there are times when it is useful and times when it is pointless or actively harmful. One rule of thumb for chatbots is that they can only provide useful information to experts who have the discernment to ignore the defective output that LLMs *always* emit. 60/

Stop using Chrome, switch to Firefox: protonprivacy.substack.com/p/google-is-... So, once you're on your actual computer, using Firefox, how can you disenshittify your internet experience? 23/

Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good

The conflict of interest couldn't be more obvious

protonprivacy.substack.com

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there’s a difference between “don’t take any shit” and “never acknowledge that you might be wrong”.

Any high ranking #FIFA officials still in the USA, or have they all decamped to Mexico ahead of a game they intervened in on Donald Trump’s request, but which the #USMNT might still lose?

This, but for Gilligan’s Island.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2mo ago

She has a neck the size of an adult human, legs that are just as long and an unforgettable coat. And she’s missing.

Where are they hiding the 47 year old tradwives??

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine Thank goodness my drinks are free Cause I’m ordering shots, just, like, so many shots For there’s something I need to unsee

Grouchomancer@samthielman.com · 8mo ago

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday The unholy thing shambles in He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me His white teeth make a musical din Sing us a song, you’re the piano man Your skin is a wooden facade You’ve brass pedals for hands And your hair’s copper strands Give unbearable insult to god

What if the intent with the Reflecting Pool was to make it a Soylent vat?

If shitty people stopped getting away with so much shit, then shitty people, who currently notice that it’s very easy for shitty people to get away with so much shit, might instead notice it is no longer easy to get away with shit, and stop doing so many shitty things and getting away with it.

[520910 #-bright-spring-afternoon].

Is correlation causation? A provocative new working paper explores whether it might be.

NPR@npr.org · 2mo ago

Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.

I for one am excited for Trump’s new ballroom. It’s shocking to me that the country has not previously had a place where a couple hundred rich people could get together for dinner, drinks and dancing. /1

Donald Trump, probably: “A lot of people don’t know, there’s a North and a South America. Two Americas. Did you know that? You didn’t know that. Think about it. The South had some good ideas, though. General Lee. Heck of a guy. Heck of a car too. The David Duke boys, what happened to them.”

Schmidt Happens@trawna.ca · 3mo ago

Whenever he says “a lot of people don’t know…”, read it as “I just now learned…”

Petition to rename “The Last Supper” to “Sip, Sup, Saviour”.

Going to start calling blue “infra violet”, and orange “ultra red”.

If we’re being honest, this was inevitable. Surprised it took so long, really.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm a huge fan of Dolly Parton. We're the same age and height, but she can sing better. Shame on Missouri Republicans for slashing funding to Dolly's Imagination Library, which provides free books to over 170,000 children every month. They must reverse these cuts immediately.

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Pronouncing dandelion “dan-DEE-lee-un” so people think I’m talking about growing an exotic flower, not a common weed.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

You don't have to overturn Citizens United to beat it. Corporations only exist because states charter them, so a state can decide spending in elections isn't a power they wield. Not regulation, redefinition. Hawaii made it law. Montana's gathering signatures. More states are watching.

The Novel Progressive Legal Theory That Could Undo Citizens United

thinkbigpicture.substack.com

For generations, the American empire was the most powerful force on earth, and so we tended to assume that it was the most *durable* force on earth - surely anything so powerful *must* also be *eternal*? 1/

For anyone rooting for the USA to completely lose any remaining relevance in the world, I can’t think of a better way forward than blocking all international flights into New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Seattle.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Markwayne Mullin: "We are currently drawing up plans to say, listen, in these sanctuary cities where the local radical left Democrats aren't allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn't be processing international flights into their cities."