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photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Normally people don’t stress much about the odds of giving up six runs in a single inning, but I’m a Mariners fan and that’s its own kind of generational trauma.

Saw a great sculpture someone made out of plastic trash and other bits of discarded refuse. Truly amazing workmanship, very creative. Beautiful, even.

As a supporter of the arts, then, I emphatically recommend we generate as much plastic trash as possible

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Can't stress enough that your users do not want your shiny new UI interaction that you dreamed up. It does not make the interface feel more modern. And your engineers are likely going to balls it up, I'm sorry. They're not going to make it accessible or work well across viewport sizes.

10% of women follow sports closely and somehow we all know each other

Trident in the sky over the stadium…sign from the Etsy witch?

FBI director’s laughable challenge coins (?)

Look at this dumb baby shit. Pure pathetic insecurity in tchotchke form by people who should never hold any power over others. Also not a coin you doofuses!

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Meme: mfers be like I’m an alpha male Ok bro, tell me about your low penetration power Wave diagram

I think we should establish an understanding in the United States that if you order the military to carry out a lethal strike against something that is not an imminent threat without congressional authorization, what you did was murder and the entire chain of command is guilty.

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

For the last seven years, I’ve tried to keep Jamal’s memory alive at the Washington Post.

Almost every Oct. 2 I’d try to write on the anniversary of his murder.

Now I’ve been fired by the Washington Post for speaking truth.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Hi! Did you know that you aren’t pronouncing axolotl correctly?

Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use!

Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this:

people are being like "oh cool" but like, that third party will be a holding company with no interest in games that won't do anything with that IP until they, themselves, get dismantled in a leveraged buyout two more years down the road. you're never seeing Command & Conquer ever again

I understand the very first game involves bribing spineless athletes to take blood money so the world forgets you like to chop journalists up into little pieces and lie about it.

I’ve said it before, any judge who so comfortably and clearly shows their prejudice should immediately be barred from their jobs, but we don’t live in a world that makes sense.

We live in a world where white people get to deem racism as a simple inconvenience and be the sole arbiter of its weight.

“Leave their church potluck casserole untouched”

If you didn’t grow up in evangelical circles, you have no idea how cold this is. I’m just picturing a woman hissing at her husband who works for ICE because“They won’t even touch my tater tot casserole anymore Bob.”

What’s your feeling on the “signature scent” they seem to be so proud of?

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

If you were going to donate to an organization that supports trans kids, which would it be and why? My first thought was my local PFLAG chapter, but then I thought maybe the Trevor Project or Lambda Legal needs it more

[S] The Trump administration and those aligned with it are fascists. Their policies, statements, and behavior make that plain. This should not be controversial. It's certainly not to me.

I know the souls of the people who said yes and I guarantee some are rationalizing the decision and thinking, "I'll get the big paycheck and give half to charity."

And then they'll get the big paycheck and keep it all to themselves.

talking to me is great. i'm not gonna give that away for free to people I hate

what the fuck is fuck you money for if you can’t say fuck you

repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.