This is not the time to gloat about GOP incumbents with the tactical skills & strategic acumen of a flightless bird in their 1st competitive election It’s time to promote our vision for the future: GOP incumbents lose badly & return to private life &/or are prosecuted to the extent allowed by law

2026 Republicans make me stand back to back fighting them (rhetorically) with...the US Conference of Catholic Bishops? Come on, man. Only way out of this cursed timeline is Cleveland beats Chicago in postseason baseball. Chicago Pope has probably assessed this for impacts already & might just allow.

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 2d ago

NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...

“cops should arrest ICE” is a liberal fantasy. “abolish ICE” is not.

I will not vote for any candidate who does not promise to hold the American League Central accountable for its actions. And I am not alone.

think this one’s a winner

🧵laughed so hard I woke the dog up, don't wait to enjoy this thread from the top

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2y ago

So at this point I'm thinking well I'm definitely fired but this will one day make a great story on a Nazi-riddled microblogging platform, and 6yrs later on a much nicer alternative with only 19 active users. I head to the staff area, wipe my face and check my phone. I'd been in the room for 35 mins

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

Daedalus and Icarus (flipped), by Anthony van Dyck, 1615-25, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

I don’t think Zohran Mamdani has committed genocide

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 4d ago

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside City Hall to call out Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what they see as his betrayal of the movement. "Mayor Mamdani, you can't hide we charge you with genocide" was a chant that just rang out.

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

Get mad at Democrats for not flipping Idaho.

David@davidslosttt.bsky.social · 5d ago

These are the results of the midterms. What's your first reaction?!?!?

the tech industry is about to invent books

@sunrisemvmt.bsky.social this is insanely racist what the hell are you doing burning the brand so many people fought so hard to build

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 5d ago

gotta say I really don’t love the use of the Israeli flag here especially when some of the largest foreign institutional investors in data centers are not even Israeli (primarily the gulf states) Sunrise has truly lost the plot ngl

A tree that took 250 years to grow getting cut down by Donald's jackbooted thugs in minutes is the type of on-the-nose symbolism that would have a writer panned by critics as a hack.

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 5d ago

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

you’re half right. these are my clowns, but this still isn’t my circus

Reddit users have preserved what was great about online before social media messed it up

Alex@alexdz.bsky.social · 5d ago

I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions

What’s weed like?

Kath Barbadoro@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 6d ago

i feel like ween and they might be giants are two paths diverging from "teenager in the 1990s with what would ten years later be recognized as autism spectrum disorder". the ween path is if you start smoking weed every day and the tmbg path is if you're too scared to ever try weed

Holy shit.

Once again, my anti-carceral principles are flexible: This is illegal & should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, with the participants in this scheme to divert your tax dollars from the designated federal programs into the pockets of Trump supporters sentenced to the limit of the law.

Michael Froomkin@mfroomkin.bsky.social · 6d ago

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.)

Now there's a man who's never been pregnant!

Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social · 7d ago

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

Thisis true only about my uncle who is now 95 has been putting the new personal computer my cousin (now a retired COBOL programmer) brings over every couple of years in the basement since Windows 95. The man is a retired police chief who farms soybeans. He still doesn’t like the Internet. N of 1!

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 7d ago

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

You use genAI to help you program, which yields fixed code, determinate outcomes, and replicable research. You don't use it as a digital oracle.

Every meeting you’re called into by HR:

Dewie@judgedewie.bsky.social · last wk.

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

"Trump voters voted for $7 diesel and $15 beef. You're smarter than that. Vote Democrat."

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

In 2000, I moved to a new city. The directions to my house from the freeway were spoken the phone to the person who was writing them down on paper, who would follow them while driving. Our brains had a space for How To Get There you can use on song lyrics or the periodic table or whatever, enjoy

🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃@shoshana.bsky.social · last wk.

What was driving like before GPS? Did you just wing it? Did you only go places you knew how to get to? Were you just better at remembering steps to get somewhere?

I endorse this message

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "Even if you hate Jon Husted, even if you hate Vivek Ramaswamy, you're gonna go out, you're gonna vote"