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regret to inform everyone this is a real guy who could be pope

submitted 1 day ago • 587 comments

i can't get over just how dumb all of this is. it's seriously, absurdly dumb. no one should ever have imposter syndrome about anything ever again.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.

submitted 3 days ago • 149 comments

there's an article that infers it's possible that illinois and indiana could trade some counties, and in the scenario discussed I would end up becoming an illinoisian (again) I would approve of this, of course it's asinine and will never happen, but fun to think about

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

my body made such a loud, concerning sound that it woke me up and activated my fight-or-flight response

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

i see you @chriswarcraft.bsky.social with that tecmo bowl hoodie i see you

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

1 million seconds is 11.57 days. Week and a half. 1 billion seconds is 11,574 days, or over 32 years. In case anyone needs to explain to someone the difference between a million and a billion.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

You can talk, you can talk, you can bicker you can talk, you can bicker, bicker, bicker, you can talk all you want, but it’s different than it was

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

submitted 6 days ago • 105 comments

Settings > Accessibility > Require Alt Text Before Posting > On

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

wife said "I'm going to make paella" and I visibly fist-pumped

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

very happy I procrastinated booking our late honeymoon to Vegas. now considering a train trip. new orleans?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Josh Weil has phone banking starting TOMORROW Feb 17 (see link) Gay Valimont has phone banking on TUESDAYS (see link.) Some dems have won their special elections last week in places where Trump won by like 20+ points! If people know there’s an election they will vote! We can flip the house.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

i've long abandoned any identity of "leftism" because it's plain to me that anything further to the left of what we just had from 2021-2025 is highly unlikely in my lifetime not even been a month and we would all welcome mediocre-ass late-stage corporate capitalism back over whatever this is

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

very literally what anyone means when they say the dems aren't doing enough GOP won because they just didn't stop messaging for 4 straight years move to counter this by, y'know, messaging nonstop for 4 straight years helping erect your own alternative media sphere like they did would be good too

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

types of tr*mp voters, and whether we should bother: - cons who say they don't agree but voted for him anyways: don't bother, their gesture towards centrism isn't genuine - cons who vote based on either pro-life or anti-lgbtqia+ sentiment: don't bother, they'll never vote differently

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

if you're seeing all these information security teams getting gutted in our government, and you're wondering "hey, does this mean adversary countries might succeed more in hacking US stuff?" the answer is yes, and they probably already have, act accordingly

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

my windows pc randomly just stopped working the "reset windows" function does really work well these days but I feel I want to remove as much windows usage from my non-work life as possible i think I liken using it with work now, as I'm 17 years into an IT career now

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

a key irritant is that with all this bad stuff happening now, solving problems as simple as "penalize robocallers with groinkicks" and "let's make healthcare less costly and annoying" are well below our new problems of "druggie techbro scream-tests the whole government" and "laws don't matter"

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

is there a button I can press that just tells everyone I don't care what the body of water is named, but i very much care about the drug-addled oligarch strip-mining our government, and that those two things are OK to feel at the same time, and feeling one doesn't say anything about the other

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

i woke up, shoveled snow, and ate breakfast, and now i'm ready to go back to bed

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity

submitted 8 days ago • 234 comments

we’re the most adorable people in this picture

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that all political actions do not mean moving someone from right to left. It can be moving someone from concerned to angry, from unsure to vocal, from passive to active

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

if I were listing the main reason I'd want to leave the united states, normally the best descriptor would be something about the direction of politics/governance but the honest and simpler answer is: "everything and everyone is dumb and I know other places have less dumb people and are less dumb."

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment