So… between the FIFA Peace Prize bullshit and the USA being the principal host nation, this World Cup is getting boycotted, right?
Unexpected admissions in this batshit press conference so far:
“This was an attack on sovereignty”
Venezuela is a company, not a country
“We lost the 2020 election”
The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
🎉We’re delighted that our first major #BoxOfficeBears paper is published Open Access today in @antiquityj.bsky.social
What do we know about the 🐻 and 🐶 that lived on Bankside? How big were they? What did they eat? How long did they live?🧵 of key findings below!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
You were a feverish pirate. Now you’re an eminently available and infinitely substitutable head.
If you ate the 500 pounds now you could make mortality approach much much faster.
If a person can rename the entire Gulf of Mexico “the Gulf of America” and have all the maps changed to reflect that, then surely a person can rename themselves and have their own body changed to reflect that.
Every technological advance of the last 30 years has been designed to let stupid people feel like smart people without actually having to do the work of getting smart. We didn’t remove the barriers to knowledge or education; we simply removed the need for them.
Now you know: conservatives who endlessly refer to “We the people” are telling you that those are the only three words of the Constitution they’ve read.
Appreciate your conviction, Andy. But if we delete every app that’s in some way complicit with what’s happening to this country, it will be a long and even more disorienting four years. For my part, I’m keeping Google Maps, because I might need to make my way to the border.
This morning / this evening
Real job, but could not have been full-time, right? I mean, how fast can they keep making new pig scrota and the new pigs attached to them?
I get the appeal of what Musk is doing. Time, at last, to clean house! Time to empty the attic and garage and throw it all away — and better someone unsentimental do it for you.
But Musk isn’t your friend or your neighbor. He’s keeping whatever he finds. He’s not Marie Kondo. He’s just robbing you.
The largest source of “anti-Christian bias” is Christians’ insistence that there is such a thing as “anti-Christian bias.”
Stop saying “DOGE.” It is a term designed to legitimize something that does not exist. “DOGE” is not a real federal department. It is a gang of alt-right pirates ransacking and destroying ACTUAL federal departments. Name every gang member, sue every one, and criminally charge every one.
Or, you know, it won’t be forgotten, and will be revived in a month. Or six months. Or a year. But it’s not what’s happening RIGHT NOW.
Please focus on that. Please get smarter. Please.
Stop stop stop talking about Trump’s proposal to annex Gaza. It is not a “proposal.” It is a spitball on a napkin by a drunk at a bar. It is a squirrel for dogs to chase. It is an outrage distraction. It will be forgotten in a week. And by then half the federal government will have been liquidated.
The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
All true, but you’d think lawyers would know something about limiting what a witness can say! Especially when you have only 5 minutes, and you KNOW their main line of defense will be time-wasting. These guys act like they have never deposed anyone and have zero litigation experience.
Dear Senators: stop asking nominees if they still “stand by” previous comments that, bc they are liars, they will disavow.
Just read their words, and ask “are these your words?”
If they say yes, say “then that’s your position.”
If no, say “then you can’t manage your image, let alone an agency.”
This speech is honestly sickening.
Trump: our political divisions fade on a day like today
Trump 3 minutes later: this is the fault of the Democrats
A tweet I saw: “ChatGPT has become the first AI to lose its job to AI.”
What disguises itself as harmless in order to infiltrate a system, seize control of it, and then destroy its host from within in order to make more of itself?
If you said “virus,” you’re correct.
If you said “the nominee for HHS Secretary who’s against virus vaccinations,” you’re also correct.
If you claim to be leading a “movement” and that your views are in the mainstream, but then must fervently deny those views in order to be confirmed to office so you can turn around and implement them, chances are your views are not mainstream, you lead no “movement,” and you are just a liar.
“News-related content.” This press conference couldn’t be any more dystopian.
The bigger the cross on the necklace, the less Christian the words coming out of the mouth.
Commercials currently running on CNN:
-extended auto warranties that rip off poor people by appealing to their economic insecurity
-an app that helps corporate executives rent private jets
America seems in great shape
And here I thought I’d spend the next four years stressed about the future of public universities. At this rate it won’t even be four weeks.
Hegseth buying his team a celebratory round of shots tonight
