paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)

fwiw, I’m pretty sure this is the closest thing I have to an AI-positive tweet:

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very funny to be on both the “AI slop enjoyers” and “Techno-Pessimists” lists

lmao

it seems like they do good work, not knocking the org! just, you know,

Center for Urban Community Services I CUCS CUCS provides integrated programs that link housing, health and social services for New City's most vulnerable people.

maybe avoid abbreviating it if you can

the second episode of this series is what I imagine having a heart attack must be like

tanned rested and ready

Joyce Carol Oates • @JoyceCarolOates X.com Twitter is the place for nonentities classifying entities colossal as those redwoods you, squatting below, can't see the tops of. • Brad R. Torgersen • @BradRTorgersen • 14h Beatles are a first-rate second-rate band. There. I said it. And I am not sorry.

second JCO heater in less than 12 hours

she’s *87*

JCO is like the Trent Reznor of the literary world where novels are her NIN and tweets are her “inexplicable later success scoring Disney films”

@JoyceCarolOates X.com speaking as glibly as Beavis & Butthead. does T***p even grasp the profound significance of what he has set in motion in the Middle East? this person whose most essential self is riding in a golf cart fatly, cheating at the profoundly insignificant game of leisure golf when he assumes no one is looking.

if “for sale, baby shoes, never worn” are the saddest six words, then “riding in a golf cart fatly” is the opposite of that

Drew had followed up to Grim with something like "I'm not employed *anywhere* at the moment! I wish I was!"

I finally got a sense of why people across the political spectrum were not just in disagreement but like *apoplectic* at Will Stancil once a few of them let slip their hand that they literally thought he worked for the Democrats in some formal capacity

it’s not just Grim, I see this *a lot*

ignore the context and the poster for a second: this is an unusually overt example of something I’ve picked up on for a while, which is ascribing power to people you dislike online that they don’t actually have (Drew Savicki is not a consultant, he’s a Election Twitter guy in college)

“Caracas is the New York City of Venezuela”

in the interest of fairness, in the relatively likely event that Platner goes through and loses to Collins, I’m also not gonna be like “Mills would’ve won” because I’d truly have no idea and neither would you

you pretty much have to vote your conscience and preference in a primary. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone who says “they’re the one best positioned to beat [opponent in the general]” have better than ≈50% accuracy with that calculus.

not to get too parasocial but I just flatly think this is not true

like fucking CMON man 😚👌

they should’ve made me the lead in “The Studio”. to be clear, I am not as funny or talented as Seth Rogen and have no professional acting experience, I just really want to wear the suits they give him.

it’s not just for major columnists either, I’ve seen this happen to small accounts too

Bsky may be less outright toxic than its counterpart (which, low bar) but it is much more casually histrionic, catty and rude. it’s a better problem to have, but it’s still a problem.

gonna be honest, I think the tenor of this thread is out of step with the take it’s critiquing, like, I don’t think a thread that pretty clearly states “I think this is bad, I’m not sure to what extent it will be bad” warrants an acerbic takedown and I think this is a big problem on Bluesky

@offbeatorbit X.com Ever since I saw someone say they thought the goy part of goyslop was a combo of gay and soy, I've been wondering how many other people have no idea what the fuck they're saying half the time.

it gets even dumber, apparently

this is sort of where I'm at, that the low-info spaces are getting more antisemitic and anyone who doesn't actively reject it is going to be adjacent to it. this is not a defense of his candidacy, I think not being smart enough to do it is a drop-out-worthy problem.

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fwiw, for me at least, him keeping the tattoo after knowing what it meant was the strongest case for him being a true believer; the other recent stuff slots more in the “terminally stupid” category. no one has to believe me but I think they interact less than one might think.

I like “Man I Need” — I was nearly positive that particular sound was gone and never coming back after ca. 2015 Lianne La Havas

I think he did, if what I heard was correct