Alex

…Elon Musk is going to buy TikTok isn’t he?

Elite democrats giving bland speeches about democracy and continuity on the same stage as Elon Musk doing literal sieg heil is such a perfect microcosm of the state of our country, it’s almost too on the nose.

The Germans of the Sudetenland are pushing for independence from Czechoslovakia, opening up other avenues.

There’s a nugget of truth in the misinfo- we certainly do have a massive issue with over incarceration of poor people, but spreading misinformation about particular rehab programs doesn’t help that.

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There’s also this Reddit thread in the wildfire sub. According to these guys the fire positions are highly coveted, earn better wages than most inmates and time off sentences, and often find positions with CalFire after release. - www.reddit.com/r/Wildfire/s...

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Some nuance to add to the discussion about “slave firefighters” I’m seeing on Instagram. I’m becoming increasingly concerned about my community’s propensity to simply believe infographics because they confirm prior biases. You can’t change the world if you don’t actually know what’s happening.

You really gotta hand it to Octavia Butler. Parable of the Sower is turning out to be spot on about almost everything, once again.

“I am very disturbed to see that the people whose job it is to write about the past are concerned about the present”

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Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

The people demand you name the episode

“Dead End on Papaya Street” is the noir screenplay Jimmy Buffett never got to write.

Abraham Lincoln once said, “if you are racist, I will attack you with the North” and those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace

Teen Vogue continuing its streak of being easily the most based mainstream publication

He named X after American History X

Lon Suder, iconic and criminally underutilized Trek character

factions of the far right may be eating each other alive, but they always do this, and would be just as glad to turn and sink their teeth into your neck. the sniping can be entertaining and useful, but don't mistake it for meaningful fractures in the project of ressentiment.

Definitely bird strike. The birds just happen to be made of steel and high explosive.

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Hopefully soon someone can give Robert Caro one that says “I finished the Years of Lyndon Johnson”

I got into a long argument once with someone vehemently denying that male hair replacement, testosterone supplements, and gynecomastia surgery are gender affirming healthcare… like my man what do you think those words mean?

Hell let’s demand the return of Danzig Corridor while we’re at it

I read “deep cut text-only twink game” and that makes sense too tbh

Barack Obama has shared his top erotic free-to-play games of 2024

One Day In the Life of Kermit Kermitovich

TIL there is a muppet movie in which they escape from a Soviet labor camp

A right wing car maker who bought a media outlet in order to amplify antisemitic conspiracy theories is advocating for a far right German party that promises to expel a disfavored minority? You don’t say.

Banger show, one of my favs of the last few years. Really enjoyed the book too.

Bringing back an authentic 19th century classic - the spoils system.

A friend described the current Democratic response to the political moment “bringing a strongly worded letter to a knife fight” and I can tell that’s one of those phrases that’s going to be sticking