"We do not see others as they are. We see them as we are."

Remember this when Donald Trump tells you we can’t afford health care.

Chris Rufo Tweet: "On Talarico’s “God is nonbinary”: Pope Benedict has a great collection of homilies on Genesis, in which he argues that the male-female binary is superficially about sexual reproduction, but more deeply, built into the order of the cosmos itself. The world is not “multi-gender.”"

I dunno, man. If male-female is only superficially about reproductive plumbing - chromosomes, bio stuff - and really about cosmic depths, why would you want to insist peoples' driver's licenses must reflect assigned-at-birth biological sex rather than registering their deep, cosmic gender?

gavin newsom is a very useful weathervane because he believes in nothing save the fact that he should be president

that he's making these noises about israel support should tell you how incredibly over it is for israel within the democratic party going forward

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Get his ass, Ms.-From-Taiwan!

Nixon romances Mao in Apr 1972

Hatoful Boyfriend but Nixon & Mao is a helluva thing.

Paradise Killer is fantastic, fantastically weird, and a fantastic bargain at that price point!

I'd never notice that part of this shot before and now I am made richer by your efforts. Thank you.

Structuring Girl Scout cookie sales is still structuring as far as the FBI is concerned, Mr. Awkward.

Meme triptych of Duke Leto and Paul Atreides Text: We must not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. Why not? Because people are fucking idiots, Paul. They're just... incredibly stupid.

If you feel that important context is lacking in this thread, I suggest that you take it up with the OP.

Modding doesn't appear to be destroyed to me?

What what? I assume that you're mad about people having to pay money to make mods? I mean, the alternative is that you're mad that people are selling the results of their labor for money, which would be a deranged thing to be mad about.

Cool! I suggest enjoying the awesome free labor that other people put in and not caring about unrelated people who want to be paid for their time.

I literally made a mod last week. It was free!

Nobody is charging anybody money to start making and releasing mods.

You'd rather have fewer and worse mods than have someone _other_ than you voluntarily pay for some?

Screenshot of a Bluesky social media thread. The first post is by Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li (@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com), labeled "Bluesky Elder," saying: "i think people are wildly overestimating the level of strategic thinking behind what just happened in venezuela." The post has 114 replies, 309 reposts, and 2.2K likes. Below is a reply by James Felix Black (@tft.io), also labeled "Bluesky Elder," reading: "It's a form of pareidolia, I think; people have a very hard time with the absolute void at the center of what's happening, and so the pattern matching wetware, with literally no guidelines, goes ballistic." Posted at 2:59 PM on Jan 5, 2026.

Reposting this, for reasons:

I got bad news for you; modders eat, too.

Your life. You are literally a comic book character, as I recall.

Dem Senator Says He'll Vote To Fund Iran War Just 1 Day After Calling It 'Dumb' While the Arizona Democrat said the conflict wasn’t in America’s “best interest," he told CNN's Kaitlan Collins he'd have the Pentagon's back.

If you vote to fund the war, you support the war.

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This is making me happy in the evening of a hard day (moving). Thank you.

Holy. Shit.

GL: I’ve never trusted Trump on this…. I’m trusting what I understand to be the operation and the people leading it….
IC: You’re trusting the people leading the operation who don’t include the President?…
He’s the Commander-in-Chief, right?
GL: Sure. Yeah. But I can’t [trust him].

I mean, I cheered like a lunatic for the US Women's Hockey team in the Gold Medal game, but in other contexts....

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

I didn’t know Microslop was a thing until I saw headlines about Microsoft trying to ban Microslop on its Discord. Now I shall say Microslop a lot. That’s how it works.

It’s good when Microsoft, a company that likes genocide and environmental destruction, doesn’t like things.

Maybe if Platner wins he goes Fetterman, but that really isn't the issue. I don't care if he gets up there and votes reliable party line. He's still a damned nazi and if you aren't willing to draw a hard moral line at that, if you make excuses and whataboutisms for it, you've fallen into the abyss.