David Lynch

One thing Trump is good at is demonstrating which bits of law and burearucracy need fundamental overhauls. "If I want to do something illegal I just declare an emergency" might need a look.

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here.

The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

“Crime stats in big red cities are bad, so obviously the blue cities are much worse and are just lying to us about it” is a very sane take.

With all this talk of “the sub”, I was surprised by where that video went.

someone had pointed out that there's a manner of speech that only really appears on Stack Overflow, which is "dutifully helpful to someone they've never met and gain nothing by helping but in the most aggravated, 'you imbecile, you fucking moron' tone of voice possible"

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her

Should we ever be so fortunate as to get a Dem Trifecta again, one of the immediate actions needed is DC Statehood. The people want it, it is smart politically and sound morally, and it would make it much harder for presidents to do what Trump is doing today.

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.

Image of a circle labeled "Proton", one about he same size labeld "Neutron", and other much smaller labeled "Electron", and a fourth even smaller labeled "Close-Ad-Button"

This is the platonic ideal of liberal policymaking: incontrovertibly correct, insane number of lives saved and overall QoL improvement, polls like dogshit and would be electoral suicide.

The harms that growing up reading Terry Pratchett will do to you.

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

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Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.

The Fires Next Time I’ve told you a few times of my difficulty launching the DOJ-in-exile...

A few thoughts on charting out a post-Trump future and reclaimed democratic America talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...

We may have our differences, but at the end of the day when we take off our pillow cases we all have upsettingly yellow pillows

This is real “what could a banana cost, Michael? Ten dollars?” territory.

We get the big improvement we were all waiting for, that it now knows how to count letters in “strawberry”. Blueberry? Don’t ask me about bluebberry.

An Open Letter to My Beavers We need to move forward, but first, we need to clear the water.

Sometimes you have to say things that are hard. remapradio.com/articles/an-...

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.

“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

Not nearly enough people in the world do Kuzko/Yzma cosplays. They would make the world a better place.

behold: a woman

You’ve had success having a point of view on your show, as Colbert has, at least in the ratings. Late night used to be broad, unifying entertainment. I know Jay Leno recently spoke on this topic, about making a show for everyone … I’m going to take a hard pass on taking comedic advice from Jay Leno.

John Oliver just says the thing. I'm happy for him.

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade

“Nanny Ogg was basically a law-abiding person when she had no reason to break the law, and therefore had that kind of person’s attitude to law-enforcement officers, which was one of deep and permanent distrust.”

What is a “b”, really, when you think about it?

One side says that LLMs lack knowledge of the world because they’re extensively trained on text and have no model of the real world, the other side says LLMs have PhD-level intelligence. Guys, guys—you’re both right

LOL Musgrave

I'm running in 2028 on a platform of restoring the White House to an authentic classical architecture look. By which I mean, I'm painting that sucker up with a lot of bold reds and green accents, as its architectural inspirations would have been! 🤩

I'll get the MAGA vote by yelling "Trump didn't go far enough*!" and trusting that nobody is going to interrogate the asterisk.

I'm running in 2028 on a platform of restoring the White House to an authentic classical architecture look. By which I mean, I'm painting that sucker up with a lot of bold reds and green accents, as its architectural inspirations would have been! 🤩

redoing the oval office in high "ancient-rome porno" style is a perfect example of trump's ability to take something most people never bothered to have an opinion on and turn it into something they know completely sucks