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it's crazy they're giving a tech writer saying everything is bullshit the kind of glossy photoshoot previously reserved for ppl like dicky spence, he's either really nailing it or they're doing this to make fun of him later

this is going to websites but inside a platform. what use are the platforms? (this is not an endorsement of "platforms")

i think i hallucinated someone having written and promoted an article here within the last month about their theory that gladiator armor looked like that in order to increase the possibility of spectacle for the audience but man i wish i could read that

lol @reckless.bsky.social we need america's favorite podcast within a podcast to return so badly

lol wait has anyone actually listened to the ezra klein ep with ben shapiro he just released? this guy is a collaborator at best, anne frank wouldnt last a moment in his attic

people who say there's no possibility of a more fair, just, and adequate world are lying. they're lazy. they may be malicious. we can fear what's behind a curtain more than we fear the worst thing we already know, but even the math tells us we should always switch to the door we haven't opened yet.

Happy "Hack the Planet" day to all those who celebrate

40 years ago today the movie Hackers was released. Definitely one of the best hacker movies out there. Sneakers of course being the best. :)

jokes about the confederacy are always funny, but you gotta think about it in terms of "Supernatural lasted 5x longer than the Confederacy", which is absolutely hysterical

plato's cave meme

People like Mace don't view these as the same because when they get facial feminization surgery it affirms their gender assignment; when trans women do it we transgress our assignment. It's not the health care they object to; it's the lives it helps trans people lead.

teaching an american how to fold paper:

imagine a hamburger

chalk another one up to "the charge of hypocrisy is a toothless specter" tbh

being of an age where i can remember monica lewinsky being the omnistory, something way worse involving way more powerful people just not landing the same way is basically impossible to process

this case was devised in a lab to reveal the hypocrisy of both the “free speech on campus” and the “cancel culture” grifters simultaneously

yeah

gritty presiding, or at least, an ominous witness

i think that when the wrong people take credit for good things, it lets them use those good things to argue for their bad ideas. so i think "who gets credit?" is a salient question about political power building rather than "but i want MY name on the byline! 🥺😡"

negligently killing people for "the space race" as if thats a thing to win

truly amazing

Anyway if you ever wonder "what radicalized me", I'd have to say it's the unending torrent of horror, if I had to narrow it down

Gotta be honest and say that it once again feels stressful that all the evil people are doing evil things and making life worse for everyone

I already beat another guy who cut Medicaid, gave tax breaks to billionaires, and hounded multiple women who accused him of sexual harassment — might as well debate the one actually calling the shots.

A SKELITAN WITH UNICORN'S CONTEMPLATING DA POSSIBILITYS : 1. IM SORRY I SAID THE WRONG THING 2. WHY IS IT POSSIBLE TO SAY DA WRONG THING 3. IF I DIDNT WANT TO SAY IT THEN WHO WAS TALKING 4. IF IM THE ONLY ONE IN HERE THEN WHY CANT I DO MY CHORES 5. WHO KEEPS ME LAYING IN BED WHILE ALARM IS GOING OFF - THINK ABOUT THIS IF YOUR NOT DRIVIN YOUR OWN CAR AROUND THEN WHO IS , WHY DO YOU WATCH THEM LIKE A PASSENGER AND YOU DONT EVEN KNOW THERE NAME? ARE THEY REALLY "YOU" AND YOUR JUST ALONG FOR DA RIDE WATCHING THING'S GO BY??? WHEN SOMEONE CALLS YOUR NAME ARE THEY TALKING TO YOU THE INEFFABLE BEING OR ARE THEY TALKING TO YOUR GUY THAT YOUR INSIDE OF???? IF I WANT TO DO SOMETHING WHY CANT I DO IT WHO IS MOVING THE LEVER'S AROUND LIKE THE DOG AT THE END OF SILENT HILL? IS MARIO HELPLESSLY TRAPPED INSIDE HIS PLUMBER BODY AS IT SHRINKS AND GROWS WITHOUT HIS CONSENT AND HE WATCHES HIMSELF JUMP INTO A HOLE AGAIN AND AGAIN, COMPLETLEY AWARE THAT ITS HAPPENING BUT UNABLE TO STOP IT??? WHEN THE NINTENTO TURNS OFF WHERE DOES HE GO? IS A NINTENDO A ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM OR IS IT A DEVICE BUILT BY THE ARCHON'S TO TRAP AND TORTURE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF MARIOS SO THAT THEY MAY FEED FROM THERE TORMENT????? THINK ABOUT IT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

WHO ELSE IS IN HERE READ ALT TEXT- dashare.zone ADMIN

In short, such a broad sweeping determination by the federal government that everyone with gender dysphoria is "mentally incompetent" by virtue of being "mentally ill" would be a means of effectively purging trans people from society writ large and starting the process of mass institutionalization.

NARRATOR: The president does not, in fact, have any "right" to deploy armed forces on the streets of American cities in times of peace

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.

Stańczyk vibes, but also View of Lyse Abbey near Bergen, by Johan Christian Dahl, 1826

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.