Pred vs. Art

Last scouting report I saw says he still needs a decent offspeed pitch or batters are just going to start sitting dead red on stuff.

the last time i checked in on Labubu Dubai-Chocolate Matcha he was barely ranked on any top Reds prospect lists but if he's learned to control the high-90's "slunker" he throws i could see him getting a cup of coffee with the big league club in september

The Social Media Trend Machine Is Spitting Out Weirder and Weirder Results Trends always have an element of randomness, but our algorithmic feeds have made them unintelligible.

I wrote about the Labubu Dubai chocolate Love Island matcha latte of it all. There really has been a material change in how trends are produced and which ones are capable of catching on with huge audiences. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Get yours!

Sickoscommittee.org

lol

Nobody Cares That White Supremacists Are Calling the Shots Now Darren Beattie, a speechwriter for Trump early during his first term, posted the following in October 2024, a month before Trump would win re-election: “Competent white men must be in charge if you wa...

"Equally damning is that the Times, the Post, the Wall Street Journal.. haven’t chosen to make one singular story the dominant framing device of the past 6 months: The Trump administration is teeming with despicable gutter racists and President Trump and his cabinet are having them call the shots.."

I’m quoting this because it is a very fair point for which I have an answer: The first thing is to recognize that in a democracy there is no such thing as “ the majority.” Instead, there are many and multiple overlapping majorities that can be assembled from different parts of the whole.

really recommend ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS for a cinematic look at the kind of poverty that was pretty typical in early post-war italy

he bought twitter to be the main character every day. and now he is.

Reminder: The last time Donald Trump deployed troops to an American city, his poll numbers on the relevant issue (in this case, immigration) instantly cratered and still haven't recovered.

Data from @gelliottmorris.com www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data?open=...

the federal troops/LEOs are going to end up almost entirely deployed in *low* crime areas I suspect, because it's largely going to be about performing for the autocrat and his cronies in places they see. if you're a city reporter I would go to literal Dupont Circle as a test for what this looks ...

"Crime in DC is at a 30-year low"

Doesn't matter. What matters is what the dippiest right-wing Fox viewer is prepared to believe, which is whatever is most politically expedient for their chosen avatar of racial grievance

There's this fuck-awful overlap of people that wish games were complete finished "products" again like when they were kids, that simultaneously demand every game be catered, updated, and tweaked to their liking or else it's "dead" or dead on arrival
Like a game can just exist! It's fine!

FFS.

He didn't "kick off".

It's not a "jibe".

He said, with dignity and restraint, what we were all thinking - that Al-Obeid didn't just "die" - he, like tens of thousand of other innocent civilians, was killed by Israel as part of its ongoing programme of ethnic cleansing.

Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes show how hollow the online safety push can be.

"In the new ... internet, girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month." — @thedextriarchy.bsky.social www.theverge.com/internet-cen...

One of the thing that horrifies me most about the Internet is that even Very Online (tm) people haven't figured out that "hate views" are just "views" to literally any money-oriented social media platform

Clearly an article written by a conch.

just found out people are jacking off to porn. wtf??!! i just put it on so i have something to watch while i eat lunch

Among other things wrong with America, bad anti-American people want to make it illegal to criticize this on college campuses. Some are Trumpists and some are happy to promote Trumpism if it helps them suppress criticism of Israel.

This is 100% going to happen in DC. Zero chance we don't have Kegseth on foot patrol for the cameras by the end of the second week. They'll have him in all the insurgent areas: Dupont, Friendship Heights, Pentagon City Mall, and the whitest bro bars in Adams Morgan.

Fang suffocating Vanille with her huge arm while Vanille is taking a selfie

Commission <3

NO!!

A screenshot of wplace of an area of Baltimore where multiple Big Bill Hell's memes are drawn, including "Shove it up your ugly ass!", "Home of Challenge Pissing!", and "Fuck you Baltimore! If you're dumb enough to buy a new car this weekend." The Spamton is the cherry on top.

Went to Baltimore on wplace out of curiosity

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

the art of the shakedown

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Wild to see considering how we pushed students into these majors over the last decade or so.

Tobacco companies paid for those cigarettes to appear.

also socialism polls at 14 percent among Republican voters, which suggests, hmm, a degree of ideological confusion among that 14 percent

ironically most of the people who interpret the sizeable minority of Americans who have a positive view of "socialism" (low 30s, if you dig down it usually means something like 'European social democracy') as being actual Marxists are lunatic anti-Communist groups, and the rest are Communists.

I feel like American Politics have gotten away from me.