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I could slam my thumbs on this stupid phone for 100 years trying to be funny and I’d never come up with something so perfect

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

I don't think it's more complicated than "Jeff Bezos thought that by buying a newspaper it would instantly pivot to printing nothing but Bezosganda but that didn't happen so he's shutting it down instead"

Who could this be? Hmm…

it's not even close

Walking, Biking, Transit.

the sacred text

There were Civil War veterans who, trying to make sense of why such a destructive conflict happened, wondered whether the national bloodletting was a literal punishment from God for US actions during the Mexican War.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

going through some old photos and found this from years ago that i took in richmond. what a building!

I don’t particularly like living in the “leadup to” paragraph

A tray of colorful drinks on a display stand at CVS that sat “the flu shot” on them

America: where you can sell a random “wellness” drink at CVS, claim it “may” somehow “reinforce” your immune system, and literally call it “The Flu Shot.”

Whitney Cummings, an anti woke reactionary who is fresh off a multi-month long crashout over criticism of her performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, got hired by the Daily Show to say Vote Blue No Matter Who??? What the hell is going on over there?

God I hate ads so much. Every time they weasel their wretched way into my life I have to rearchitect something to get them out again. Every moment of attention paid to an ad is a moment stolen from my time on this earth. If you work in ads, I’m not sorry, I did too and then I stopped.

By blowback, they mean the pipelines of several large studios would be royally fucked. Even studios that have switched programs for animation still use animate for prop and character builds. Not to mention opening archived studio files. This was a stupid fucking idea.

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I LOVE that Adobe is discontinuing a program they only offer a subscription for that I have been using professionally for twenty years. No, it's great I won't be able to open a careers worth of files because the company has decided AI needs to take precedence over animation creation. It's GREAT.

Alex Pretti wasn't killed by rhetoric, he was killed by two masked CBP agents shooting him 10 times in the back after they had disarmed and pepper sprayed him.

Rhetoric didn't kill Renee Good either, a thug from ICE did that with a gun as she tried to avoid hurting him.

I know everyone means well with their 'scoop this reporter up immediately' endorsement posts but christ — who's doing the scooping? What's left?

Thinking about our industry this way, like this is a momentary setback and there are ample open roles, obscures the truth about the rot at its core.

OOPS ALL BILLIONAIRE RAPIST PSYOPS

reading a bunch of emails from dracula with the subject line "re: bood" body text "nd more thalls 4 blod" and being like "did he disable spell check, how is he even sending these out like this"

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

The left Joe Rogan is Hasan Piker but establishment Dems hate him. There is no centrist Joe Rogan because it is impossible to be a centrist and build a slavish political fanbase because you stand for nothing, not even something atrocious.

The evil is not that he bought it specifically to shut it down. The evil is that he bought it to do *whatever he wanted* with a necessary institution for American journalism. It is malice, the malice of robber barons. They didn’t build mines specifically to kill people either, but guess what.

the only thing i would really like to say about the slow, embarrassing death of the Washington Post is that i think people in their 30s and younger should probably relearn how to be comfortable paying for news that is worth paying for, or it won't be

using "the other guy sucks!" as a voting tactic is bad both because 1) if you announce you're willing to vote for a bad candidate just because the other guy is worse, that's all you'll get & 2) it clearly doesn't work, as evidenced by how the worse parties win at least half of the time anyway

Panel 1: Exec: "Ok guys ok ok we won't kill Adobe Animate." Crowd: "Phew" "thank fuck" "That's better" "I'm still switching to something else." "No yeah you really should" Panel 2: Exec: "Unfortunately we will also stop adding new features to it." Crowd: "WOO!!!" "It's a dream come true!" "Yeah!" "Finally!" Exec: "... um. Why are they cheering"

maintenance mode

can’t not hear and see:

We used to be able to have magazines about rock collecting on shelves nationwide. Now we can't even keep a sports desk at the fucking Washington Post.