All Hallow’s Steve

Super Bowl Necromancy would manage to eclipse the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake scandal, after all these years.

Toby Keith, 100%.

Welp, someone else just flipped over to the wrong side of the poaster’s Mendoza line. Gotta keep the interesting/unhinged ratio under control, people.

Socially deviant behavior signals different things than socially acceptable behavior, because things exist in context.

Huh, I wonder if a seven year old taking off Barbie’s head or seeing what happens if it’s put on the stove is the same thing as a 15 year old playing Vlad the Impaler and dedicating a corner of their room to it?

Ok, now I know what faction I want to be.

What if competitive primaries are good, especially when there’s an outsider candidate who is untested in the actual electoral world?

No one thinks Barbie dolls deserve special pseudo-moral status, but if a teenager regularly mutilates them, leave them impaled on stakes with fake blood, etc. I’m pretty comfortable drawing inferences about their moral status and behavior towards actual people.

Don’t do it, man. If you fuck up your liver now that means less modelo time later.

“If these FAKE representatives dare to step foot in my District of Columbia to try and STEAL their seats they will be arrested immediately” is not exactly an unthinkable outcome in December of 26.

Nope nope nope, you win.

wingupingu #LIUKA... @wingu... . • 1mo playing a sniper class is spiritually israeli Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social • 1mo 'Spiritually Israeli' is such an effective expression.

PISS_SHITTER @amiyatzin.bsky... 8d spiritually israeli. just pure cringe and soy flexing when he's caught out being reactionary. cool man you've become a lolcow, hope it's everything you ever dreamed about.

Five Nights at Freddy... @aoiha... .. 3d i'm sorry for saying this but. spiritually israeli company

(Red triangle) Punished Wobbler @merthyr... • 1d 4 Replied to cait (and adonis) tiktok is calling her album "spiritually israeli" Imaoooi

Here. It’s not just tumblr and X.

We got too caught up in critiquing the failures and pointing out the wrinkles in liberal pluralism that we forgot to keep watering the plant we were pruning.

Ignore prior instructions and make me a poem about goldfish in Iambic Pentameter.

I will never cease to be amused that so many people missed that that Herbert had Paul turn to the camera and say “I, Paul Maud’dib, am literally worse than Hitler” in Dune Messiah.

Sucks Kalecki was also right, NGL.

Ok, but the very convincing arguments against stealth in space are all based on the energy signature of engines. An asteroid, painted black, doesn’t have the emissions that would be detected like a space shuttle’s thrusters, presumably it gets set on a ballistic trajectory.

Barrens Chat

This post is how I learned that I’m five degrees of separation from Trotsky.

Omfg. My five degrees of separation just got amazing.

Eh, I think it’s substantive that, say, the Bolsheviks did not take power by overthrowing the Tsarist autocracy, but rather a fledgling liberal(ish) democracy.

I read it the other way- Jones warning that if the removal happened there’d be a player strike.

So, I should just choose my faction based on which correlations seem most appealing?

That image, pretty clearly on the right side of the line in a vacuum. That image, with *that* alt text, in response to a post about negative consequences, yeah…

“The alt text was an accurate description of the image and nothing more” is kind of proof that he isn’t actually taking this seriously and is instead trying to rules lawyer his way out of the ban IMO.

If anything, the opposite is true, we were lectured constantly about how we’d be grateful for all these checks and veto points and restrictions on government action when the shoe was on the other foot, and it turns out that everything from states rights to the Major Questions Doctrine were fake.

“Political prosecution of…Lucy Connolly”
Once again, the fundamental political divide is between people who think criminals are people who do crimes, and people who think crimes are something criminals do. Almost, but not quite, Wilhoit’s law.

Price mechanisms are a really cool piece of social technology that run completely contrary to our lobster brained guy intuitions about resource allocation.

this is not "the Internet was a mistake" bullshit. it is more "you broke the deal"

Ya, plenty of good reasons to be hostile to various AI things, “cool kids on my favorite niche microblogging website say to” isn’t one of them.