I rarely do this, but I’m hoping I maybe have enough of a following here that someone can help: I need to get in contact with Donkey Kong. It’s urgent
ICE agents killed a man and are disappearing the witnesses.
I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
Every time there’s slightly irregular news from the White House.
There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening
live your life such that millions of people don’t drop everything they’re doing to collectively hope that It Happened at the slimmest of signs
I'm being told he drowned in the toilet. He was drinking from the toilet like usual but something went wrong. CPR was not administered because everyone thought it was too gross
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
@bennydrawbars.bsky.social just heard you playing Really Love on the broadcast. RIP to the greatest
Wrote this about two years ago. And credit to that last bit, really, truly did not imagine this! www.si.com/mlb/2023/06/...
Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
Lord, I've seen what you've done for other cities
This is the hardest I’ve ever been owned online
We're nearing the late Harris Wittels's birthday. Throwback to the harshest baseball burn I've ever received.
accidentally shared a proletariat meme in the bourgeoisie group chat 🤦♂️
it’s crazy it took 248 years for a president to realize he can do anything illegal and it doesn’t really matter too much. you can sort of just do whatever, it’s chill
There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.
Professor of evilology here. Evil people often lie to obscure their true motives. 🧵
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again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government
sums up today’s news pretty succinctly
every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”
we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths
one day you're going to see elon posting "we just cut 200 million dollars going to bull weevil outbreak prevention 😂😂" and then a couple months later the entire midwest will be decimated by the first mass bull weevil outbreak since 1884
wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs
another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.
all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.
hey dude, I noticed you attempting to carve a small space for joy in the face of overwhelming sadness. kind of problematic considering all the horrors
The slow trickle of MAGA folks over here underscores how much their experience of online is entirely dependent on people getting mad at them. It also underscores how even they, given the option, would rather not hang out with themselves either.
