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Going to start doing RETVRN posting for basic government functioning. Going “this is what they took from you” and it’s a childhood vaccine schedule and pasteurized milk without any manure in it.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

We need to figure out a way for one particular historical event to happen. A lot of historical events are happening now, but not the one I have in mind. This one would be of great interest to most people I think.

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

People being rude to service workers is a red flag both in needlessly being a dickhead to someone but also in that you can tell they appreciate it when you make their work a little easier and who doesn’t want that shit? That shit feels amazing. A waiter being happy? That shit makes your weekend

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 4 days ago • 155 comments

Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

submitted 5 days ago • 190 comments

how many controversial salutes are there. i can only think of the one but admittedly i'm not a salute scholar

submitted 5 days ago • 98 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

someone put their pronouns in their email signature in 2017 and now the world's most irksome Boer has my social security number

submitted 8 days ago • 84 comments

i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence

submitted 8 days ago • 675 comments

The charging stations are full of copper btw

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

submitted 13 days ago • 220 comments

If you get the opportunity I really recommend hitting any Cybertruck drivers you see with a classic eye-contact thumbs down. So much more bang for your buck than flipping the bird

submitted 12 days ago • 299 comments

i like how in the beginning of his Straight Outta Compton verse, MC Ren is like “oh yeah, gangsta rap isn’t a thing yet, so here’s a short vocabulary lesson.” very thoughtful

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

As a South Asian, I can only politely ask: what the fuck?

submitted 13 days ago • 105 comments

The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

submitted 14 days ago • 72 comments

In my free time I like to weird out my metal recycling guy

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

the “administrative state” in practice is a lot of very hard working, practically anonymous people doing the thankless work of making this country run and a drug-addled dipshit is slandering them in order to steal our money for himself

submitted 16 days ago • 160 comments

now is a great time to be a cringingly earnest cis ally i would really appreciate you standing up awkwardly for us at any and all occasions, i really do not need you to be perfect or well-trained or anything. just wing it and say 'leave the trannies alone' in whatever way you want thank you

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Be with someone who gives you the same feeling as a canceled meeting on a Friday afternoon.

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

yeah, it's just like...everyone in the world should be able to tell this shit is evil. Not even like, in a grandiose way, just cruel, greedy, and pointless. How has our society collapsed already to the point where this is acceptable to so many elites?

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

I'd like to see more writing on how the Musk/Trump junta feels like a frontal attack on the entire concept of virtue, in even the most traditional senses. They are actively demonizing and punishing everyone who doesn't worship Mammon.

submitted 19 days ago • 157 comments

#Nudibranch time! This one's from Lembeh and I'm not entirely sure what it is - Tambja morosa is my best guess. 🤿 #MarineLife #Invertebrate

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

this is the most loser shit I’ve ever read

submitted 21 days ago • 162 comments

There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

submitted 24 days ago • 329 comments

Biden kept DeJoy and let the parliamentarian kill the $15 minimum wage. Like, don’t tell me he couldn’t have done more as we watch this shit show unfolding. Trump and his unelected oligarch benefactor are shuttering entire agencies and laying off scores of workers. This is the imbalance today.

submitted 23 days ago • 42 comments

i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet

submitted 23 days ago • 1711 comments

oh so we’re dying-dying?

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 25 days ago • 311 comments

God, I miss the DEI days, planes weren't crashing, weird assholes weren't deleting the government, it was awesome

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

This is a bad editorial cartoon

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Earlier this month, my debut piece ran for Defector. It was a long feature about professional Overwatch. They paid for me to report live in Sweden. That assignment is the only thing that got me through the election. You should go subscribe to them!

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

I always feel strange doing this sort of thing but Defector.com has had an incredible January, just a ton of really good stories on a wide range of topics, and I suggest subscribing to it. I am biased, obviously, but I am really proud and grateful to get to do this the way we're doing it.

submitted 28 days ago • 54 comments

Chinese Ai vs US Ai - feels like an appropriate time to share this scene from the show (2018)

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submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

i am constantly hearing that the left is elitist but if it is elitism to stand up for basic values of citizenship and decency against a bunch of cruel dumbasses who have no greater ambition than to tell bad jokes and hear the braying laughter of their dumbass friends, then i am an elitist

submitted 30 days ago • 160 comments

“Jimmy’s chair” by me

submitted 32 days ago • 53 comments

Fuck it, mask off

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 33 days ago • 780 comments