Johnny K

In some ways I think the United States might be the ultimate conclusion of the Norman experiment.

Watching Unico in the Island of Magic as a child with scarlet fever definitely played a big role in who I am today.

It's called litigation and teens all over the country are doing it.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Reading about the war between the Asuras and Devas in the Samyutta Nikaya and it's hard not to come away with the impression that the Deva lord Sakka fucks and the Asura commander Vepacitti *does not*.

Mebane

That would be good. We should do that.

Imbecile genocide denier says what?

Here's to you, Nicola and Bart

crying has always felt more like being part of an orchestra than doing a solo

Sometimes I find myself chanting the heart sutra out of pure desperation.

this is pure and utter garbage

insider trading, obvs

"Make replies public or don't make replies public, you will regret the choice either way."
--Kierkegaard, probably

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

People do what they do for a lot of reasons, assuming cowardice is a bit of a silly reach.

That's not cowardice, you're not owed an answer or a say in how you were engaged with.

You don't seem to understand cowardice. Gentle suggestion, don't accuse people of things you don't actually understand.

Well that's awful.

When you talk to someone who has had their family ripped apart due to our nation's shitty pre-Trump immigration policies in this way it makes it seem like you don't, in fact, care all that much about immigrant families being ripped apart by the current administration.

Trump's plan for UFC fight at the White House draws backlash, but Dana White doubles down Ever the clown, Donald Trump has once again stirred global controversy - this time by proposing to host a UFC championship fight on the White House grounds. The announcement, deliv

Everyone furious at the comedians who performed at a state sanctioned event by Saudi Arabia to white wash their human rights record should also shame any fighter who performs at this one
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what the fuck! this is unacceptable! Link *is* bluesky. he made bluesky. this is absolute bullshit. they’ve burned every single ounce of trust.

Link has always been a positive plus for Bluesky.

Let's be crystal clear the reason for his ban is goalpost moving because the CEO didn't like being called out for racism and bigotry.

That's it. That's literally it.

"culture"

just like Fantasia

I've done it five times since first reading this in incomprehensible disbelief that people can't/won't do this.

This level of projection qualifies you to work as an IMAX projector, congratulations.

Well that's an incredibly naive understanding of power relationships in the United States...

It's very obvious that you aren't interested in what anyone above has said to you. The only reason you are flabbergasted is because you aren't actually listening to anyone or taking a single thing they say on board except to invalidate it outright without consideration. You are your own problem here

Maybe you wouldn't be if you actually engaged with people critically and in good faith. Maybe you wouldn't be if you approached the world around you with anything resembling curiosity. Maybe you wouldn't be if you listened to what people are telling you instead of dismissing every statement outright