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Autism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/autism-...

guy who thinks the Protect The Dolls shirts are about tariffs

applying for jobs again

India is bombing Pakistan. UAE is bombing Sudan...and that's just the beginning. The whole world has watched Israel get away with pissing on the Geneva Convention for 18 months straight, only a fool would assume this won't inspire other genocidal nations.

It is perhaps true that one day everyone will say they were always against this, but my cynicism tells me that even when we are truly in the pits of hell, the people who took us here will still believe it was all worth it and yell at anyone who thinks otherwise

Being a leftist is fun because it's mostly you and your buddies very loudly saying "this system doesn't work and if we don't do anything about it shits gonna get bad" only to be told "shut up don't be unrealistic" and then shit gets bad and those same people are like "wow I hope you're happy."

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

The Torment Nexus isn’t evil, it’s only a tool owned by the wrong people. If we build our own Torment Nexus, things will be better than ever.

lmao

the best IG message request I’ve gotten in a minute

Getting absolutely bodied by the built-in iPhone journaling app today

Shhhhhhh, we’re trying to take it all in.

Good morning! It’s a perfect day to realize that the politics you’re used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.

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Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.

All the brilliant people I know agree computer science is one of the most political things we have in society. To believe otherwise is maliciously ignorant at this point

“Prohibited actions include: furnishing information about whether someone is associated with charitable or fraternal organizations that support the boycotted country.” This means mentioning someone works for AIPAC or Betar or Canary Mission.

a whole lot of people have no idea what a luxury it is to simply Walk To The Store

brace beldin is on the most insane run of posting i’ve ever seen in my life

it turns out that when you elect the most personally unpleasant human beings in your community to the school board you usually come to regret it in short order

The excesses of the collective human effort really are just wasted on some of the most useless people.

The issue isn’t lack of empathy, it’s the continued expectation of empathy and allowance for people who never, ever, ever afford it to others or consider alternate views.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

It really tells you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party that they can't go after Trump for the most blatant corruption scandal in the history of the presidency because some of them are in bed with the same corruption coin guys.

I love how you can tell The Onion is user supported because their site is actually usable and not overwhelmed with ads

I've been traveling so forgive me for not posting this yesterday, but: That Signal clone app for archiving messages that Mike Waltz has been using, TeleMessage? It's unlicensed. Signal was unaware of its existence until they saw it in that Reuters photo. There's no known security vetting.

Comicking

AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

Remember, the rules of American politics are simple. Republicans are allowed to do or say almost anything you can think of, however offensive, because it is "priced in". Democrats meanwhile must be held to account for anything even vaguely awkwardly phrased

So Ray Lopez is just openly asking the feds to arrest his colleagues now

we are all going to die

Hey what happened after December 1999?

These guys can’t find any actual doctors to sign off on what they already decided so all their shit is like “this chiropractor says dysphoria is caused by sea serpents”

😍😍😍 waking up and reading about what thing I like is being destroyed or dismantled for parts every single day 😍😍😍

one of the worst consequences of Elon's purchase of Twitter was that it supercharged a fake OSINT community who ape the appearance of credible OSINT work while actually putting out nonsense. a lot of grifters have made money off Ukraine and Gaza this way and now one of them may have killed people

IWW history of May Day is on the front page of HN and tech workers in the comments are thinking through the conditions required for solidarity news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4385... archive.iww.org/history/libr...

it is in fact ok and maybe even a moral necessity to make fun of marc andreessen's skull

Whong’s Law: Every government agency, everywhere is working on a “new system”; It will solve *all* of their data problems and will be ready to use in 18-24 months.

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They put a suicide watch on the Chinese factory where iPhones were being built

“Putting a hat on a hat” is literally a term actual comedians use to describe something as trying so hard to be funny it is no longer funny.

What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a @reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility. 11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

In the law firm executive order cases, DOJ takes the position that an injunction barring implementation will only be enforceable against the govt agencies named in the complaint. So Perkins Coie just amended its complaint to name all the relevant fed agencies. The case caption is now 40 pages long.

Gretchen Whitmer spoke at this event.

This is so fucking insane. The transcript seemed bad, but actually watching the video takes it to another level of crazy. The man is detached from reality.