Michael

It’s hard to overstate the degree to which human progress in the 20th century was the answer to 100,000 years of our species’ prayers. Democracy delivered by progressive values. Prosperity for normal people ineffable to 10,000 years of kings - all delivered by progressive governance.

whenever I see a John Fetterman post, this is all I can think of

She’s a serious candidate; at this point I think most people dismissing her seriousness are at least partially motivated by misogyny; and this is a clearer articulation of a progressive foreign policy than I’ve seen anyone else running for office make

what if Samaritan from Person of Interest existed but the government was doing it in the open

Sometimes I like to reimagine conspiracy theories, but in a way that would piss off a lot of terrible people.

Like after the debacle at Stonehenge, the ancient aliens decided to never work with white people ever again. Just saw no potential there whatsoever.

You could not ask for a better community policing opportunity than cops getting into a snowball fight with some local youths and feigning defeat when they take one to the face but instead they had to treat it like the kids were a public safety threat for playing outside

Something I think about a lot: One of the reasons people used to think boys “outgrew” ADHD is because in adulthood men tend to offload their executive function (managing calendars, remembering birthdays, cleaning, grocery shopping) to wives and secretaries so it masked their symptoms.

To be clear, in this metaphor the Republicans are the Nazis.

complient in his perpetual misery, a fallen shrek

"hahaha im going to hell" as a reoccurring line from a politician is genuinely fucking weird

Recurring gripe: people on the left have social media and generative AI exactly backwards. Gen AI is the printing press: it cannot and will not be uninvented. It can run on a laptop at this point. Social media is a handful of specific companies with specific first mover and network effects.

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

four stick figures on sleds, one is sliding face first, face down, marked "skeleton", diagonally opposite to it is one sliding feet first, face up, marked "luge". The other two combinations are drawn and labeled with question marks

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

AOC in Munich: “They are looking to withdraw the United States from the entire world so that we can into an age of authoritarianism — of authoritarians that can carve out the world, where Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere & Latin America as his personal sandbox”

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

the mousekatools will never dismantle the mousekahouse

a man in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a group of flags ALT: a man in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a group of flags

A lot of people made fun of Bush dancing with the West African Dance Company—and sure, it's funny—but this was good.

Middle aged white guy unfamiliar with something culturally nonwhite recognizes it's a happy, fun celebration, and welcomes it, participating though awkward.

That was much better.

The ideals of the United States at the time of founding were written into a handful famous documents, and while the people living here both before and after that founding have often spectacularly failed to live up to those ideals, the broad sense we ought to adhere to them has wrought a lot of good

2) Dudes in dresses: If being supportive of transgender personnel means we can recruit & retain the best & brightest willing to serve, then get over it. It's the US military, not middle school. 6/

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

explaining my dream to my shrink

i know pokemon is still popular with younger people but millennial cultural hegemony is going to rock. we're just aging into the marketing demographic where everything is going to be catered directly to us. it's going to rule and we will do whatever it takes to make it last until we're 300 years old

SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG: I just love Latinas, Sonic

what it's like 75% of my feed is right now after the halftime show

Bad Bunny has more rushing yards than either team so far

I owe you an apology, Amber Glenn. I wasn't really familiar with your Magic: The Gathering Game.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

That’s actually a really good trap question with no good answer and several catastrophic ones.