Lmao "we don't pay social workers enough to pay for people to become social workers"
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Seeing a lot of posts to this effect and wondering if you people understand that you are all fucking insane
Doing the Elon Musk thing of having a million babies with different women but I'm doing it so I can name all of them like this
I don't think it's interesting that liberals are expected to hear right wing voices but conservatives aren't expected to hear liberal voices. Conservatives seek to destroy liberalism. Liberals seek to maintain a "nice" version of an essentially conservative system. They don't need you. You need them
I do not understand what is so hard about saying "I'm sorry." Everyone seems allergic to it. It's not hard to do!
merritt@merrittk.com · 2d agoi like ken but come on. glazing him and not even mentioning the fact that gwen's been dragged through the mud for the past few days? embarrassing for a publication that's supposed to be about LGBTQ perspectives
trying to explain 2000s flash animation culture to a child in the same tone as if I attended woodstock
BILBO: What's in my pocket? GOLLUM: oooo no fair hobbits how does smeagel know what's in - BILBO: [snapping a slap bracelet against his wrist and turning invisible] take it sleazy duderino
Leftists are glib about how upsetting it is to see someone suffering on the streets because 100% of people who complain about it follow it with "and that's why we need to turn homeless people into mulch"
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d agoI agree that leftists on social media can be too glib about how upsetting it is to see people suffering on the streets. That is, however, roughly 198th on my list of priorities on this issue. "we can't address this until people stop annoying me on the internet" is fucking asinine and *everywhere*
guys Texas Paul needs to monetize his shit ASAP or he’s gonna be NEXT LEVEL FUCKING PISSED OFF.
Mithos@mithos343.bsky.social · 5d ago
I've been playing rocket league lately and I've noticed that there are tons of people on there more skilled than I am, but who are terrible at it because they don't understand how to position themselves. Then they get mad at "tm8s" because they're losing. This is a post about journalists on Bluesky.
If I were Bill Simmons - who outed a trans woman at Grantland, leading to her suicide - I would not let my staff talk about trans issues ever again!
Seerat Sohi@seeratsohi.bsky.social · last wk.If a tripod is set up on a sidewalk and nobody stops to yell at it, does it even make a sound? On Sophie Cunningham and a league that's finally learning to turning down the temperature: www.theringer.com/2026/07/29/w...
In this case, the questions around it are against fixing the issue. "What problem does [a city run grocery] solve?" Come on, man.
paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · last wk.if there’s anything I would want to drill into the public consciousness it’s that there are almost always like a dozen ways to approach any given problem and some of them will be more effective than others and we have to stop acting like the questions around it are against fixing the issue
One of the neat things about the history of human thought is that ancient people came up with ideas like "maybe everything is made of tiny little particles" and "maybe everything, including us, is all part of one big structure called the universe" and they were bang on.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.one tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon
Going to bed early the night the meteor hits and waking up to all the meteor posts
What's powerful to me about the idea of labor organizing is that 1) we all need to have a politics built on the idea that everyone deserves autonomy and dignity, and 2) our collective labor has to be the thing that binds us because honestly most of you are really annoying
David Cronenberg regularly made films that looked like they were shot on a camcorder in a friend's backyard, but they had such powerful and inventive ideas that you wouldn't stop thinking about them for weeks. Christopher Nolan is, for better or for worse, the exact opposite of this.
Inchoade screaming. When the scream is really deep but really quiet.
It's his best song by a mile: short, haunting, every lyric more unhinged than the last, ending in him literally howling. Do not trust anyone posting an "awesome cover version."
Luke Epplin@lukeepplin.bsky.social · 2w agoBruce Springsteen just put up a lyric video to "I'm on Fire," and it's a good reminder that these hot takes about Bob Seger being better than him are pure bunk. Seger never did anything as weird, disturbing, and bleak. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZz...
Jimothy has been arrested for threatening the life of the president
It’s messed up that there are hundreds of songs about being proud to be an American but only one song about the impending arrival of a hotstepper and/or lyrical gangster
I suppose it's possible that all the people responding to this with "you should join your local committee!" live in places with thriving committees working under county/state leadership that isn't just a nest of vipers. I have some doubts.
Feild@feild.work · 2w agoThere's nothing to "join" in the Democratic Party. It's a brand with products I spend my vote on once a year at the democracy store. Most people's experience of it is an endless stream of texts that read like scams, their reward for donating or signing a petition. No wonder DSA is growing
People keep posting "there's a lot to say about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey" and I simply do not believe it.
If you're compelled to serve your community, go work in human services or childcare.
Patrick Cosmos@veryimportant.lawyer · 2w agoi think we should decouple running for elected office from the notion of being "called" to "public service." you mostly just wanted a six-figure job where you got attention
I have a doctorate in An Idea That Has Been Invalidated by Everything We've Learned in the Past Century. Unlike you, I am a thinking man.
Bluesky extension that, instead of blocking or muting someone, lets you make it so their avi has animated stink lines
In a Teams meeting patiently waiting for my Limit Break meter to fill
Four words: Seven Samurai Cinematic Universe. America is crying out for a standalone film about Heihachi Hayashida.
