Steve Olson

Hate to be this guy on here, but as much as I love your GenAI memes illustrating how bad and dumb GenAI is, not sure the drowning polar bears can tell whether it was satire or not.

Just a good reminder that we are so very, very lucky Trump is just dumb, cruel and corrupt.

If he were SMART, cruel and corrupt he'd be Putin.

Appeals Court Ends Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Inquiry of Trump Officials

In which judges, in a 2-1 partisan-line decision rule that we can't investigate the Trump DOJ for criminally disregarding a lawful court order.

Yet another example of the constitutional crisis we're already facing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

i need to run for mayor of New Orleans...

Goddamn it, the hackers are preying on my desire to befriend the robots so they don't murder me when they inevitably rise up.

You just can't win.

Critical reminder. These people's superpower is shamelessness. They're not that bright, or good at things.

I was told these gentlemen were very passionate about protecting women’s sports.

their black change kit a couple years back was sick.

Cars, coffee and clothing are poised to get pricier with new tariffs The Trump administration’s latest tariffs are expected to drive up prices for U.S. consumers, with costs rising for everyday items such as groceries and clothes.

President Trump's tariffs are expected to cost households an average of $2,400 per year, according to the Budget Lab at Yale University.

They estimate food prices could rise more than 3 percent and car prices could rise 12 percent.

“sentient” is generous…

as others have mentioned the president of the united states has unprecedented access to classified and high level intelligence reports and yet he spends all of his fuckin day watching TV

Honestly, respect to my man to never selling out and groveling for mercy. He held the line as long as he could and didn’t mince words doing it. May we all prove as worthy should we be tested.

Year-to-date violent crime in DC is down 26% over 2024, property crime is down 5% from last year. (data: mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime)

But sure, let's blow what's left of the federal budget (non-ICE division) on feds patrolling the streets.

but it sucks so much. like, all i see are my friends responding to troll bait posts and like, Derek Guy, who obviously rules. but still.

One of the ironies of Musk's Twitter crushing - as well as the death of new media like BuzzFeed - is that there is basically no ecosystem any more for nonsense woke overreaction to stuff. Which means the right now has to invent it to react against

every time I think we have reached peak stupidest timeline...

COYS !

It does, but after reading it seems to have been a pretty long running and not super large scale thing? Also kind of amusing they don't need to bother stealing the guns because America.

holy shit

This seriously happened to me years ago.

(the dog chewing up my passport thing)

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

This is 18th century European aristocracy shit.

The Ridiculously Interesting World of American Accents Culture Study Podcast · Episode

Just listened to a fascinating ep of @annehelen.bsky.social's "Culture Study" podcast on accents and their position at the intersection of race, class, colonialism etc with @mixedlinguist.bsky.social. Can not recommend it (and them) highly enough. open.spotify.com/episode/1pZX...

“One thing I don’t understand about Putin getting 88% of the vote is: okay, why don’t you just persuade the voters to vote for you?”

hahahahahahahahahaha

WAIT WHY ARE THEY JUMPING OUT OF A BOX TRUCK LIKE A BUNCH OF NEO NAZIS LOOKING FOR A FIGHT?!

Oh. right.

Someone has probably made this point already, but guessing the reliance on these infantilizing technology is somewhat driven by Gen Z and Alpha's parents' managing their entire childhoods with no effort from them required?

*Sighs in Juvenile Gen X*

Kinsley gaffe

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This policy update from ActBlue seems like a positive step away from fundraising scams:

help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...