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Will talk too much about the Vorkosigan Saga, Worm (and other web serials), Star Wars, and other nerdy stuff. He/him
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This is what it’s like drinking when you’re 30+

Because only the majority can hold hearings Like there's a reason B E N G A Z I was run out of the House c. 13-14 and not the Senate, and it wasn't just because the House is the clown chamber Come on man

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

F' it, we'll do it live.

this is so awfully, performatively cruel and it’s also so explicitly discriminatory that in a country with any semblance of rule of law remaining it should be illegal

Important and useful stuff coming out of Epic data.

every single one of these guys is an incel loser who thought that being rich would make them popular and well-liked and when it didn't happen they lost their minds even further

New Folding Ideas! Mantracks: A True Story of Fake Fossils youtu.be/2UDXdqqJQPE

haven't watched it yet but every new folding ideas is an auto-share

choose your cars in such a way that if one literally blows tf up no one goes "oh, again?"

Obama wins 53% of the popular vote and a statute that passed with a Senate supermajority is treated as some kind of illegitimate abuse of the legislative process. Trump wins 49% of the popular vote and Democrats gotta hand it to any ludicrously unqualified crank he nominates to a cabinet position

not an engineer. but in general you don't want to "contain" a blast in a case like this. that's like containing your pipe bomb explosives inside the pipe.

Cam Skattebo getting carried into a Senor Frogs by Arizona State students like valkyries carrying a warrior to Valhalla @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social @celebrityhottub.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social

more like the council of DEIcea amirite

Making banks feel risky and unsafe will also push more consumers towards gold, crypto and other scam financial products, inflating their value and creating a new pool of victims. The Crypto Coup will loot all our country's wealth and prosperity.

I'm skeptical that better coverage of Trump by elite media would make that much of a difference, but when we think about intellectual and journalistic projects from the past that still resonate or hold value, how many of them are "In Divided Country, Slavery Still A Contentious Issue For Many"?

This is real death-of-civilization shit. People turning against the accomplishments of the last generation and tearing them apart because they're bored.

I have had Christians get genuinely really furious at me for suggesting that there's a connection between traditional ecclesiastic antisemitism and the eliminationist antisemitism of the 20th century, and the fact that people can be that delusional is really disturbing.

Ford pardoned Nixon. GHWB pardoned the Iran-Contra crew. Clinton pardoned Marc Rich and his half brother. Trump pardoned Steve Bannon, Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, and Charles Fucking Kushner! Joe Biden pardoning his own son doesn't come close to any of those truly controversial pardons. Get a grip.

The piece has tons of devastating details about Hegseth's many, many disqualifying personal traits, but we shouldn't overlook the parts about how he has repeatedly mismanaged every single organization he's led and been driven out of job after job for utter incompetence.

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues

On some level every Brooklyn podcaster leftist being negatively polarized against democrats makes sense because establishment New York Democrats really do suck that much

One of the hardest images in fiction, I fear gizmodo.com/sonic-3-trai...

“a better future isn’t possible” is explicitly a right wing view and everyone needs to do a better job rejecting it for themselves and drumming it out of younger people

again, why are we treating this like it has any legal authority?

You cannot argue with people who think this way. Offers up her abortion rights and those of her daughter to Trump on a platter, but maybe someone should explain to her that there hasn't been a draft in more than 50 years and no one is going to send her son anywhere. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

there’s nothing guaranteed to generate “what the fuck are you talking about, Jesse” expressions like explaining online drama to an offline spouse

In politics clarity is its own opportunity. The storm of the 2024 election has created great clarity. The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, and 3rd richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, are currently asking a group of Trump judges to end the right to organize & join a union in the United States.

Wake up babe a new "I called your tailor" dropped

the reason this guy runs the internet is basically nobody else is even capable of doing "your shoes were so fugly I called the FBI" and have it be a factual statement

I was skeptical of the “X is slowly cooking your brain” discourse because I don’t think my ideological worldview has shifted much, but having now experienced both Bluesky and X I think the big difference is I got used to fighting/provocation as the standard “tone” of posting without realizing it.

Informative threads like this are what originally made me love Twitter, so I'm excited to see more and more of them over here 💙

Here's one reason: The expansion of audiobook sales has been GREAT for authors. It's opened up sales to a whole new class of people *who weren't reading us before.* Audio is now easily 30%+ of my income WITHOUT cutting into print/ebook sales. Let people read in every format. It's helping authors.

Many users come to AskHistorians seeking answers to the most pressing questions they have. Such as “What's the origin of the humble chicken nugget?” Good news! Feast your eyes on /u/gerardmenfin offering up some savory #FoodHist! https://buff.ly/3OjOP3W

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school 👇 Hi, I'm Joel, and I need to stop reading books under my desk in the middle of class.

2025 white house cabinet meeting

Fascinating but tough article. Can't imagine being a doctor who has to "push the wall." www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

As a highly-regarded public intellectual I have just come to Bluesky and found it extremely closed-minded and unreceptive to important new ideas, including the one about what a highly-regarded public intellectual I am. Also nobody with girl names responded to my chats, which were also intellectual.

There’s a reason so many academics are dismissive of the Trump/Musk/Vivek types and it’s that we’re all very aware of the Overconfident Bro Who Hasn’t Done the Reading But Still Wants to Lead the Discussion

mental health break? you bet it did

as a gamer ive eliminated thousands of moo deng like creatures for their various parts . Ive completed countless quests using their pain

Based on the information we have now, young white men were more likely to support Harris than any other age group. Man-O-Sphere garbage is clearly a problem but Gen X white dudes are more right-wing and far more likely to vote.

My one takeaway from this election is that we need liberal autocrats. We need FDR back out there. The electorate is full of barely sentient chimpanzees and they need to be corralled into making the correct choices through mass politics and propaganda.

Using my first post on BlueSky to urge everyone to do the right thing today: Vote Harris. Bring friends. If you’re in line when the polls close, stay in line.

Currently hitting lib optimism levels so high I ordered a latte and threw on 1989

Okay let's do this "liberal" discourse. There's a real problem of the same word being used in different contexts. For most Americans, liberal just means the opposite of conservative. "Left" and "liberal" are synonyms in popular usage. Sorry, it grates on my ears too. 🧵

being a racist piece of shit becomes more untenable when more than one person in the room strongly reacts to someone being a racist piece of shit — tell your friends

By the age of 30, you should have: - a Bluesky account - a favorite spoon - an account on Twitter that you can't quite bring yourself to delete but you know in your heart that the site will most likely get seized by an international agency at some point & get closed completely - back pain