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really excited to find out what the NO TREATS ONLY STOVE approach to government yields

You’re going to miss free trade.

H-O-T-T-O-G-O E-con-oh-mee is Bout to Blow

getting my skull split open at the farmer's market by a penzeys-branded stanley mug because a fifty-year old resist lib decoded secret messages from an account claiming to be a "rogue faa employee" that said anyone in a bernie sanders sweater is a kgb spy

idea: we force op-ed writers to place their takes on a quasi-prediction market and whoever gets the most correct gets to write more op-eds

Even as a person that regularly does lettering for comics, this seems like witchcraft

Something that has terrified me for years is how bloodthirsty Americans would get internationally when they realise America is no longer the superpower. Never did I expect the reaction to be to immediately start beating the ever loving shit out of ourselves like Edward Norton in fight club

it is March 3, 2020. I am downloading the latest Atlanta Fed GDPnow model to assess the degree of pending economic ruin. it is March 3, 2025. I am downloading the latest Atlanta Fed GDPnow model to assess the degree of pending economic ruin.

centrists are unbelievable sometimes

I live in the second town in an RPG. Despite our thriving trade with both, the quality of the items we sell here always seems stuck exactly in-between those found in Pleasant Shores and the Wretched Peaks

at this point i have maybe thirty to thirty-five custom labels in this model. but yes. the key insight is that any aesthetic regularity you can detect is also a learnable statistical regularity. there is nothing special about existing words in the English language which makes them learnable.

to give you some insight into how this works, this image is titled "photograph of suburban yaDon church, red bushes, verdegris bronze roof, bronze minaret." it's one of the images which goes into making up the label "yaDon," used here in an industrial scene.

scores of pissed off Mormon CIA agents who just got canned are ideologically cross-pollinating with platoons of fired trans FBI agents. we are on the verge of new types of politics our ancestors could only dream about

YES YES YES. And please recognize that what Jamelle is saying here is a more sophisticated and accurate model of public opinion than the vulgar, simple model used by virtually all of our politicians, political consultants, and media, in which the public simply has views that form from the ether.

a dark day for ska

congrats to all the liberals calling the attacks on trans people in the U.S. "tragic but inconsequential since there aren't all that many of them" for finally finding out what they'd have done in 1930s germany

There was a baptism of a gay couple’s child at my church today, something I was very moved to see a Catholic congregation doing. But honestly “do you renounce Satan?” is a pretty intense question to ask a baby.

This is going to help deliver so much supplies to so many stranded hikers

I've had conversations with friends going back to like 2015 and America has been genuinely hopeless for a long long time. Very few people are excited for tomorrow. I think it's a real phenomenon that urgency has driven so many people into a depression so deep they don't even recognise it anymore.

people on bluesky will really be like 'you believe in nonviolent resistance? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, forming disciplined cadres capable of deniable hyperviolence' and then not form disciplined cadres capable of deniable hyperviolence

China has the mandate of heaven now, sadly

We must triumph over little birthday boy fascism

not gay as in happy, queer as in the way that an eggy naturalist riding along on a british naval vessel describes the behavior and natural history of the antipodean albatross while trying to assuage the guilt of the captain at the loss of the cabin boy whose soul he believes is now haunting the ship

all manner of weird bullshit happened between 2015-2020 but jan 6 2021 should be an clear cutoff point after which a someone’s inability to take a strong and unambiguous stance against trumpism matters

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

huh

it must kill Elon that this far less wealthy tech guy is so much funnier than him

customer: your darkest roast please barista: whoever created man wasted a good asshole when they put teeth in your mouth

About once a week I think fondly of my personal icon, the elephant who trampled a woman and then came back later to trample her some more at her funeral.

mine will always be the sperm whale who reacted to a Roman soldier throwing a bottle at him off the Byzantine coast by sinking every ship he could off that coast for the next 60 years and had the emperor declare him an enemy of the state and name him after the Titan who attacked mount olympus

on this day when everyone is grappling with how to stand up to empire and if one individual can can even make a difference, remember Porphyrios

I’ve watched enough mafia movies to know that if you’re gonna shakedown a pillar of the community, you do it in private, you make it clear they’re not to tell anyone, maybe you put a couple of your goons on the front door so no one comes in. Because it’s shameful. You don’t do it on live television