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We threw out a hundred years of anti-corruption reforms overnight and so far barely anyone has even noticed.

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Whenever I think about SNL toadying up to Trump and his syncophants, I remember that Tim Robbins had the dynamic figured out way back in 1992. youtu.be/-h62m4d4MmA?...

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"what if we became Republicans with a lil extra pizzazz?" worked once and the party/ruling class will never get over it. But they also don't want to ever admit out loud that they got that first term because of a strong right wing third party

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

check out this 🔥 essay from 1973 which already makes all of the same points we are making about how hollow and undesirable a car-dependent society is.

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

Ideally my answer is "I don't care so long as it works artistically" but in practice if I see more than a half page or so of italics my brain sees it as an immediate invitation to skim lightly.

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I have given birth to a lovely baby boy named Pleistoanax Deckard. I will not be revealing the father at this time.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

It is actually remarkable how many people orient their social and political ideals around vengeance upon groups who annoy them online.

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How big of a horse do you need to be kicked in the head by in order to believe Cuomo is a leftist

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War and genocide? Someone should follow up and ask about Russia and Israel sometime.

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It turns out that making harsh, immediate cuts in government spending has very broad effects. Who would have possibly known this in advance?

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TIL that Andreesen Horowitz, the main VC backer of Substack, hired Daniel Penny whose only notable achievement is that he killed a Blck man on a subway and then was acquitted for it. He’s now an investor. Sounds about white. Substack is going to fuck you over. It’s just a matter of when and how.

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These are the wealthiest elites in the most powerful nation that ever existed. Believing in meritocracy in 2025 should be considered slightly less naive than believing in Santa Claus

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I just took a pain pill, so now it's time to fall asleep to a Jack Posobiec podcast, as has been an all-too-regular habit of mine lately. (If it's not Poso it's Megyn Kelly.)

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This is not well known, but the genesis of the project that became IDSG with @timescarcass.bsky.social began as an attempt to accurately rebut a terrible Scott Alexander post about the 2016 election. Yes, he has always been like this.

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This is always who Alexander was

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Internet chemistry classic: Billy was a chemist's son But Billy is no more For what he thought was H2O Was H2SO4.

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10 years ago, the Elon Musk haters club was maybe a few hundred people who posted on Twitter and got death threats or derision for pointing out tangible reality Today, Hating Musk is the pasttime of so many! It's heartwarming 🥰

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i can think of three different white supremacist groups currently trying to get a compound going in tennessee, i can’t wait to find out which one this is!

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We're dismissing and eradicating the rights of human beings and justifying it with arguments that amount to bad stand-up. This is starving people because "what's the deal with airline food?" This is forcing women to walk everywhere barefoot because "bitches be shoppin". Just go die - ba dum tish.

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Genuinely appalling and revealing how much more thorough, thoughtful and well-researched the videogame speedrunning community has been in evaluating Elon Musk's claims than the tech press or DC political press youtu.be/z1ykCc588Zw?...

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

the most ashamed i have felt as an American was recognizing all my Iraqi friends had a specific facial expression when talking about dead loved ones that meant, "they were killed by your military but i don't want to say that because we're buds and i don't want you to feel bad"

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Whenever I see "Kid Rock" trending, I want to share that Robert James Ritchie was raised on a 6 acre estate with tennis courts, private stables, two garages holding 5 cars, a jacuzzi, apple orchard and 5,600 sq ft home. "Trailer park" is a persona, a character he plays.

submitted 157 days ago • 11 comments

Somebody said "Would you tell a bunny being chased by a coyote that they have anxiety and they should go to therapy?"

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Can't wait until we get a freshman 2026 class that's half Fettermans and half Sinemas.

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This is actually a great idea and therefore they will never try it in a million years.

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Give me a few days

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

hello bluesky posters, as your lawyer i am advising you NOT to respond to this post with what you're thinking

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

If anyone is wondering where the people “doing something” are, follow or tag. @johnbrownbread.bsky.social

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James Cameron knew the score.

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I mean I get this, but also as someone alive at the time that absolutely did happen lol

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easy test of one's moral reasoning is the ability to see that the situations in Ukraine and Gaza/West Bank are very similar. a lot of people failed

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I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

Thread.

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No one has ever fumbled the bag harder than the app that had a monopoly on the video conferencing and then got cooked by Zoom during the pandemic. In 2019, Skype had 300 million active monthly users.

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