it's absolutely critical to understand in this moment that people aren't largely reacting to who Charlie Kirk was as a person, but who they knew him as because of what tiny pieces of him got clipped out and stuck in their newsfeeds.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

so ICE murdered a father in cold blood from a routine traffic stop, we're murdering random Venezuelans in foreign waters, we're shackling S. Koreans for building the factories we need to keep the southern economy alive, and we have a majority party trying to tie passport status to political views

as soon as there's evidence the shooter's identity isn't easy to weaponize things magically become complicated

Facebook post from the Charlie Kirk assassin's mom from Christmas of 2013: "almost forgot Tyler! He can totally avoid us now that he got all of the computer accessories he's been wanting." And a picture of her son on a laptop with headphones in

you could write an entire book about this post and I will for the right price

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

the shooter was an online gamer. it's important for newsrooms to understand video games more than ever. that's where i step in. so umamusume: pretty derby (ウマ娘 プリティーダービー) is a gacha horse racing simulator based on real life japanese race horses. in the world of umamusume, anime girls replace horses,

ancient meme image: four panels depicting a large head saying "how many layers of irony are you on" to which a squiggly guy replies "like... maybe 5 or 6 right now. my dude." The large head replies "you are like a little baby," with eyes now glowing, "watch this." In the final panel the large head visually dominates the image in a psychedlic manner, with the word "SUCC"

"the shooter was a trans antifa left winger, I'm sure"

"the shooter was a right wing groyper accelerationist, I'm sure"

the shooter:

the president shouldn't be able to extrajudicially murder people but let's be honest we all have one exception in our heads and it's the same guy for everyone

mark kern or “grummz” now has his western kabuki “horniest gamer of 2024” and “biggest industry failure” award listed on his IMDB page lmfao

i'm about to claim deductions you people wouldn't believe

I don’t think the internet was a mistake, I think bandwidth was. text is fine, images, some small audio files. but video? I think video is where it all went wrong

Bsky is absolutely still Reddit Twitter

Kendrick Lamar staring straight into the camera to sing “Say Drake, I hear you like ‘em young”

the menswear guy when a fascist dressed like a magician is mouthing off

BILLIONAIRE: Ive done it all. This world has nothing for me
???: I can give you the mind & soul of Dylan Klebold
BILLIONAIRE: Hm. Jack me in

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

USAID being destroyed for being radical left Marxists is like genuinely funny

it’s quite possible the most embarassing man to ever exist is in charge of the entire government

someone who thinks AI companies should be able to scrape copyrighted data to remix for their output explain to me why what DeepSeek did here should be illegal

The USA is spending $10,000 per person to deport immigrants who will almost certainly return or be replaced by others.

But they won't fund food or equipment for school children.

What a sick country and what stupid people who celebrate it.

so many people warned about exactly this for years and major papers preferred to publish scare pieces about trans girls playing sports

Worcester? I hardly know her!

Every other social media app is owned by evil little freaks so this has to be the Big Tent website that welcomes everyone else. People who don't understand jokes. People who know it's a joke but still think it's Harmful. "To be fair," guys. Put up a statue of liberty here but it's on the computer

Welcome to Nashville

part of the reason that centering the gaza discourse around hamas is so fruitless is that there's no group of people on this planet who, if placed into an open air prison then bombed and starved for decades on end, would not develop militant movements with insular, reactionary politics

Piss