disturbin’ john cleese

Stunned onlookers were overheard asking “Did we die? Is this Hell?"

Perhaps major media outlets should pay attention to what happened tonight and recognize that bending the knee to Trump or pandering to a MAGA audience they’ll never win over is not the path forward, morally, journalistically or financially.

The AI Bubble Is Not a Question. What Happens If It Bursts Is. The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself

I wrote about the irony of the AI bubble, a phenomenon driven by storytelling and imagination in an industry that has contempt for both

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Pritzker compares Trump to Putin, calls for invoking 25th Amendment for suggesting military use Chicago as "training grounds" After President Trump suggested Chicago should be used as "training grounds for our military," Gov Pritzker said the 25th Amendment should be invoked to remove the president from office, saying "there...

"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war.. is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health"

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

I love to pay $150 to get the house cleaned so my kids can come home from school and pour themselves a handful of Parmesan cheese fine cut as a snack

Are digital distractions harming labour productivity? The evidence is mixed; it seems clear, however, that they are making us unhappier

Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana.

The Disney Adults Dumping the Mouse Over Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel and Disney’s battle has not only taken over the news cycle, but it has sent the Disney internet into shambles.

“With a single post or video, we can influence thousands of guests to try a food, drink, or experience in the parks,” she says. “I couldn’t, in good conscience, keep giving them free publicity knowing they don’t support free speech and are willing to bow to fascism."

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

What College Students Really Think of Charlie Kirk New data from Generation Lab undercuts Trump’s mythmaking about his murdered ally, who was unquestionably a savvy organizer, even if he wasn’t at all popular on the campuses he loved to visit.

This is fascinating, 94% of college students had heard of Charlie Kirk - and 70% of those who heard of him disagreed with him puck.news/what-college...

No acrobatics necessary to distance “the left” from the murderer. It now appears to me that he held a vague & simplistic version of leftism to which he applied *his own* murder logic. That murder logic is his, not yours or mine. He isn’t “mine” to apologize for. I condemn as I would any murderer.

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

His brand of it is particularly garish but all authoritarianism is basically government by spoiled child. No capacity for or interest in any principles. People who are nice to me get treats, people who are mean to me get abuse. I get what I want or I cry and thrash. Embarrassing

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts Armed with a revolver, the 16-year-old shooter systematically reloaded and fired as he wandered the school, trying to find new targets, police say.

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was.

But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist.

www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Fucking finally. Fight back against the bullshit framing that tries to make Dems responsible for everything.

The GOP is *choosing* to create this kind of societal environment. They could stop it at any time. They have agency as well.

They’re not fucking children (except when, well, you know)

These mainstream media eulogies for Charlie Kirk, a grotesque racist and homophobe who spent his entire life spreading hatred and division, are making me nauseous.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.

And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.

I refuse to sanitize him.

Was curious how media covered the fatal shooting of Malcolm X in 1965:
"His Life Story: A Study in Hate"
One AP report on the murder opened: "Malcolm X, fiery renegade of the Negro radical movement, was assassinated Sunday..."
Philly Inquirer called him a "Merchant of Venom"

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

We have to stop this refusal to live in reality bullshit, using the mans own words to show what type of person he was isnt cosigning murder.

what an embarrassing summary of who Charlie Kirk was