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I've written up a brief script for anyone who wants to call or write your representatives regarding this bill (yes, even the ones you think won't care). PLEASE DO THIS IF YOU ARE ABLE. This bill *cannot* pass.

You can find your representatives here: www.congress.gov/members/find...

this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.

none gender with left beef

What interests me about this song is that it feels more like an album cut than a single. Not just the length, but the focus on atmosphere and emotion, and the (relative to pop) restraint. I really like the iterative, building sound this song has, it's like the song was meant for a mix, not an album.

everyone needs to grow the fuck up and start playing pretend with toys

"Breakin' Dishes" (2007) joins other hits of the year like:
"party 4 u" Charli XCX (2020)
"Anxiety" Doechii (2020)
"Pink Pony Club" Chappell Roan (2020)
"All the Stars" Kendrick Lamar & SZA (2018)
"Let Down" Radiohead (1997)
"Sparks" Coldplay (2000)
"Headlock" Imogen Heap (2005)
"Ribs" Lorde (2013)

the idea that poptimism = you must like most popular pop (let alone poptimism = stan culture or w/e) is so pernicious when it gets discussed, it's a real relief to have another actually solid explanation of what it meant when it happened. because it IS a thing that happened, not a set position.

Somewhat hilariously, YouTube's restricted mode hides my most recent video on reading game guides, but DOESN'T hide my video on the Nuremberg Trials.

My major takeaway is DON'T SELF-CENSOR YOUR OWN WRITING. You don't know what will or will not be restricted!! Do not comply in advance!!!

Lina told me this story a long time ago back when she worked at NBC and I haven't shared it because I'm not a gossip but I want you all to know that I have never stopped thinking about it once

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

maybe the best stomp clap song to ever hit the mainstream in that it actually holds up

Okay, but how do we feel about "Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men?

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

It's crazy that the selling point of the "Naked Gun" reboot is nostalgia for the entire concept of "comedy" and "jokes." Remember "jokes"? Not riffs but actual planned, written jokes?

Real discussion:
CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan

Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me?

CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

t7 Tim Sweeney reposted Elon Musk @elonmusk That was how I felt when asking Grok 4 questions about materials science that are not in any books or on the Internet Tim Sweeney Grok 4 feels like Artificial General Intelligence to me. It is clearly not just constructing statistically likely connections, but is drawing fairly deep insights on problems it hasn't seen before, in ways I haven't seen elsewhere. Here's an example: grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5 ... X Follow .. @TimSweeneyEpic . 1h 4:45 pm . 10 Jul 2025 . 2.2M Views

I think it's bad that basically the head of every major tech company is a full on nazi now

It feels like Epic Games’ CEO praising the Grok AI days after it called itself MechaHitler should be bigger news

Fake website servic welcome page. text reads: "Your favorite tool is now ruined by AI" "you might not like it but shareholders love it"

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

This is cold comfort I realize but we might have gotten lucky that the biggest pro-Trump thought leader is a genuine moron rather than a bad-faith moron

i can't even imagine the freakout if like mamdani or ilhan omar had ever refered to lenders as "shylocks." but unlike them, trump actually has a very long history of making disparaging remarks about jews

how does a piano

As a trans CSA survivor, I cannot emphasize enough how infuriating, dehumanizing, and devastating it is to watch the majority of society around me get so agitated about the hypothetical bogeyman of the "pedophile" (aka queer person) while intentionally ignoring the actual pedophiles in their midst.

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

screenshot of genuis lyrics to drake's "the heart peart six" with an image of trump pointing at the camera. the lyrics are "this epstein angle was the shit i expected"

I'm 34-30, I'm 34-30, I'm 34-30, I'm 34-30
--Me shopping for pants

every article about politics in every mainstream publication is flat out lying to you if it does not emphasize that our government has been taken over by freaks and lunatics

Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object xkcd.com/3084

a drawing of a man pushing a large ball with a ctrl button above him ALT: a drawing of a man pushing a large ball with a ctrl button above him

one must imagine artists happy

first you draw a circle