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“Ugh the panthers are up by 4 now? Guess I’ll check in on the NBA maybe that’s a close game”

Congratulations @katiehonan.bsky.social on writing the best piece of predictive science fiction of all time

If I had $75 for every novelty I removed - oh by the way, I’ll need a check for $75

tfw RFK's son is trying to remove people from Medicaid

Ms. Rachel had the same arc as Ta Nehisi Coates where learning the basic facts of the situation made her go “this is unambiguously wrong” and it freaks out the credentialists who think serious people are supposed to say it’s complicated

Reacher discovers the Ricketts are using a new sportsbook attached to their ballpark to launder money made from insider trading and a bum fights tourney. He chokes out Tom until the siblings agree to sell the team, not because Reacher likes the Cubs but that he dislikes the Ricketts taint on Wrigley

A dust storm warning? Was there a turtle stuck on its back? Should we call Tom Joad?

Pope Leo spotted on the 2005 World Series broadcast

the first person to say “fire garpax” directly into god’s ear

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.

one more reason i'm not that worried about AI replacing jobs super broadly is that it an LLM doesn't know how to ignore directions from a boss that are actively detrimental to a business

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

holy shit

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

He is gonna accidentally kill the pope or set fire to the sistine chapel or something

it's easy to observe this in the increasingly homogenous "rural" culture and identity becoming unmoored from region or geography. regions that were once totally distinct, applachia, the lowland south, the great plains, the interior west, now all have a shared faux-redneck culture

All right listen up ladies and gentlemen we have a fugitive! I want a hard-target search of every Pizza Hut, Papa John’s, Dominoes, Jet’s, and Sarpino’s in a six mile radius. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Charles Entertainment Cheese!

yep. transphobia is the camel’s nose under the tent for the full panoply of right wing gender policing, for men and women alike

(stoically chopping wood at a remote cabin) Subway franchise manager: strange place to find the world's best sandwich artist me: ..that's the past. I left that life behind

So many of you good liberal Democrats conspired to bring us to this point. Equating any criticism of Israel's ongoing genocide with terrorism. Tossed our country's bedrock principles about speech into the shitter so Israel could go on killing. Calling peaceful protests anti semitic.

I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation

If you weight 2024 imports by the 10%/"reciprocal" tariff amount announced last Wednesday (with China at 54%, Mexico/Canada at 0%), the total tariff rate would have been 21%. Today, with China at 125% and Mexico/Canada at 10% along with ~everybody else, the rate is 26%.

One thing that will really help bring industrial production back to America is instability. Capital loves instability. Give it a wildly different and contradictory set of economic policies every 72 hrs and that’s when industry will be like, you know what let’s build some new production capacity.

the flipside of this is that grant was an actual military genius!

nw

* U.S. RESIDENTS TO ASSESS WHETHER NEWS IN THIS HEADLINE FORMAT IS ABOUT AN IMMINENT DOOMSDAY OR SOME BUREAUCRATIC CHANGE THAT DOESN’T ACTUALLY MATTER: DOD SOURCES - REUTERS @reuters.com

Lord help and forgive me I engaged with a post about wokeness in a video game on the steam forums.

This is so much better than Parallax view and All The Presidents Men (neither of which are bad, to be clear)

Took my fan apart and cleaned it, put a new filter in the air filter, it’s like I’ve got new lungs.

"they view"

There is about to be a Healthcare cost apocalypse due to tariffs... Third email from our suppliers this week... "Force Majeure" being used doesn't bode well #PrehospitalSky #EMSsky #EMsky

Let’s finish off the trilogy, shall we? nw