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Michael Young coined the phrase "meritocracy" as satire, and then he fathered Toby Young in case people didn't get the joke.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Drugged to the gills, the two of them. Some enterprising future historian will write a fun weekend read of a book about it.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

good morning, ICE must be destroyed morning

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

이렇게 수정된 짤 발견! 누가 만들었나 🤣

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

Seibu Railway has released new manner posters encouraging passengers to be considerate while riding the train. These posters highlight common issues like blocking doors, loud conversations, and taking up excess space.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

thought it would be funny to watch some Roadrunner cartoons on acid but ten seconds in we're all silent out front of the tv, awed by the desolate beauty of these desert landscapes and struck by the emptiness of the world. should these two lone living souls not seek solace in one another

submitted 27 days ago • 61 comments

The Ludwig Kaas rule is never wrong: a cynical transactional ally of evil is more morally culpable than a true believer in evil, because the true believer is one moral epiphany away from ceasing to do evil. Insincere goatfuckers are worse than sincere ones, to use @kenwhite.bsky.social ‘s metaphor

submitted 36 days ago • 9 comments

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

submitted 105 days ago • 33 comments

Look, the thing about LLMs: Is it always accurate? No. Can you count on it to stay online? No. Does it learn and adapt properly? No. Is it efficient? Also no. Is it environmentally friendly? Definitely not. Is it respectful to artists? Fully no. Is it legal? Sorta. Is it everywhere? Hell yes bro

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

Look none of this is difficult. The billionaires want us to hate each other. They're buying every newspaper and social media company to flood the space with bots and hate speech to keep us fractured and divided. And we could do that - and tear each other apart - or we could try to fix things.

submitted 50 days ago • 34 comments

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

submitted 63 days ago • 338 comments

Somebody’s grandma is trapped in a crystal at the Glendale Galleria

submitted 63 days ago • 28 comments

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

submitted 72 days ago • 206 comments

Reminder Superman is not a power fantasy, he's an altruism fantasy. The idea of someone with godlike powers using them solely for good (with an antagonist who is a billionaire, who by definition do the opposite) was dreamt up by Jewish kids in the 30s and its just as if not more relevant now.

submitted 71 days ago • 73 comments

It is time.

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As it has been requested and seems pertinent, the 5 Rules of Crime: Rule 1: Where there is value, there is crime. Rule 2: A fine is a price. Rule 3: Nothing ever stops until a Rich White Guy goes to jail. Rule 4: There are no Moriartys Rule 5: Everyone can be conned.

submitted 81 days ago • 21 comments

I've said it before, I'll say it again: We are not a 50/50 country. We are a gerrymandered and voter suppressed country. Should we ever resolve those issues (...), then, perhaps, we'll know the actual extent of our political divisions.

submitted 87 days ago • 15 comments

Rosebush in Blossom, 1889

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

“I don’t think there’s a trend towards actual conservatism in the Valley — there’s a trend towards monopoly and corruption, and that’s led a bunch of VCs directly to Trump.” www.status.news/p/nilay-pate...

submitted 103 days ago • 5 comments

An ex-NY Times columnist and Ivy League grad interviewed a billionaire about how he, the world’s richest man, and several other billionaires helped another billionaire/Ivy League grad/real estate mogul world defeat an HBCU grad to reclaim the most powerful office in the world. The headline:

submitted 105 days ago • 574 comments

as long as journalists and pundits act as if they are amateur political strategists & not people trying to understand and tell the truth about the world, they are going to take the implicit view that voters can never be wrong, which then demands endless explanation of their morally blameless choice

submitted 113 days ago • 151 comments

I think this is the key we are all sitting here asking how the fuck THIS campaign - this awful fucking campaign - from a visibly declining Trump results in quite possibly not only an EC victory but a PV victory and the answer is that most people no longer see what we see

submitted 115 days ago • 61 comments

I think that last night represents a significant shift in partisan politics, one where the old divisions of Conservative and Liberal are starting to merge with Low-Trust and Institutionalists, and I do not like where it's going. cooperlund.medium.com/the-low-trus...

submitted 114 days ago • 21 comments

This may be helpful for you new followers. You can block every single person on these lists. Just click on the subscribe button and it will give you the option to block every one on it. Here’s the first: bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 114 days ago • 1581 comments

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

submitted 114 days ago • 599 comments

The Old Tower in the Fields, 1884

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

-2% for being black. -2% for being a woman. That’s all it took to make it this close (it is, in fact, not over). And the fact that the people in charge were more scared of ruining America’s image (in their heads) than they were of allowing insurrectionists and traitors to roam free.

submitted 115 days ago • 7 comments

If there has been a dominant cultural theme in the last several years, at every level and on every side, I feel like maybe it has been "people who are slowly sliding toward irrelevance, but still have a long way to go before they actually get there, quickly become the worst version of themselves".

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

“Oh you have a day off on your French tour, I bet you’re going to go do a lot of touristy stuff” I am an introvert who has just spent four days being “on,” please don’t underestimate my ability to lie on the hotel room chaise longue listening to the lofi girl YouTube channel all day long

submitted 116 days ago • 29 comments

Since it's Halloween tomorrow, I think I'd be failing in my duty to you all if I didn't post this again. Some people put in the effort. Some people really try hard. And then... some people do THIS. Zardoz your god gave you the gift of the gun. The gun is good...

submitted 121 days ago • 22 comments

People always point out that taxing the super-wealthy wouldn't actually raise all that much revenue, but it's becoming clearer that the primary benefit is just taking away their money.

submitted 125 days ago • 224 comments

As we head down the stretch, remember: You're the arbiter of what you choose to engage with, and why, and to what extent, and how. If someone else wants to tell you how much to engage on anything, thank them for their passion and do your own thing. Take care of yourself and your own brain.

submitted 124 days ago • 10 comments

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

submitted 125 days ago • 251 comments

From Captain Marvel Adventures #35 (May 1944), a story of Cap traveling to an alternative Earth & meeting Reltih, the Reverse Hitler, who is as evil as our Hitler & who dies in the end. Billy then delivers an inspirational speech telling listeners not to give up hope that our Hitler will die too.

submitted 128 days ago • 12 comments

I am a HUGE Farscape fan - to the point that I suffer through the goofy Ori seasons of Stargate specifically cause of Ben Browder and Claudia Black. So this makes perfect sense to me www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/scifi/fa...

submitted 141 days ago • 1 comment

This is a Halloween vibe I wish we had more of.

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

My Collider article from last month, "The 10 Best Folk Horror Movies of the 2020s (So Far)" was apparently SUPER popular, so I was asked to add five more entries. Here is the new, improved, and expanded version, for your reading pleasure:

submitted 144 days ago • 16 comments

Art Nouveau is when stuff looks like it was made by Elves. Art Deco is when stuff looks like it was made by Dwarves.

submitted 143 days ago • 172 comments