Rottengeek

Oh this made me laugh!

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

This is the solution to the Fermi Paradox. All semi-intelligent species are eventually driven to extinction by the Dunning-Kruger Effect

Because we don’t pay our educators enough. Now there are generations of Americans with no critical thinking skills who are angry with the Oligarchy but are too ignorant to recognize who that is.

“It’s weird to think of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert as the canaries in the coal mine,” the comedian @wkamaubell.bsky.social tells @jemelehill.bsky.social. “But if they’re telling us, ‘We’re not afraid of rich white men,’ what can the rest of us do?”⁠
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Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25

A set of elevator buttons, one of which is labeled "1/0".

Every mathematical instinct I have would tell me not to push THAT button.

Elected officials arrested as anti-ICE protests escalate at 26 Federal Plaza New York Democrats demand to inspect conditions for detained migrants after a federal judge cited overcrowding and lack of sanitation.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander and 10 state legislators arrested as they protest being denied access to holding rooms for migrants at 26 Federal Plaza.

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.”

Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p #TAF25

Fuck yes to this

Charlie Kirk was an asshole who fell victim to his own ideology. I’m not sad.
Fuck Trump

But it can also draw me as a flower, so IDK…

Hm. That’s Rick Beato in your screenshot, everyone should stop that because credibility is lacking.

I don’t know who you are or what you do, but can you break up with my partner for me? We can have it at a conference center if it would make it less weird

YouTube video by The Atlantic Caitlin Dickerson and How ICE Became Trump’s Secret Army | The David Frum Show

Video of David Frum Show episode with @caitlindickerson.bsky.social now posted to YouTube. Watch, subscribe, and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtSK...

"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."

But what should we call it?
Who has suggestions!!??

Medium sized brindle hound laying on a grey couch. Her front right paw is holding onto a cherry pie squeak toy (lattice crust and dollop of whipped cream and all!), which is hanging over the side of the couch.

Just a happy pup and her squeaky cherry pie.

It is too hot.

ICE Risks Overplaying Its Hand. We’ve Seen It Happen Before. Militarized federal encroachments on public life provoke strong, even violent responses — even among those who agree with their aims.

"As ICE transforms into a massive, un-uniformed, masked domestic army ... there’s reason to believe it could backfire," writes @joshuamzeitz in his analysis.

Explore the historical backlash to militarized forces in civilian life and what it could mean for 2025 👇

Really missing MN right now. :(

Dave Jorgenson gestures toward camera equipment while sitting at a desk in front of a wall map of the world. A headline reads: “Can The Washington Posts TikTok Guy Make It Without The Post?” Photo credit: David Robert Elliott for The New York Times.

For years, Dave Jorgenson has been nearly synonymous with The Washington Post on social media. But next months he plans to leave to start his own video company that explains the news, with a twist. Think Jon Stewart meets Ron Burgundy. nyti.ms/3UutFCY

Six months into his second term, personal gain and petty retribution seem to be Donald Trump’s only goals for his presidency, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily. https://theatln.tc/qBWIHDke

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans put 338 rural hospitals at risk so they could fund tax giveaways for billionaires and billionaire corporations.

Late to see this - but… <<giggle>>

Boop

I’ve listened to preachers, I've listened to fools
I've watched all the dropouts, who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you live the role

Ozzy oddly prescient - I’m sad he’s gone.

Crazy, but that's how it goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe it's not too late
To learn how to love and forget how to hate

Because antagonizing *most* of the world and then hamstringing the best military in the world by denigrating half the people who would serve in that army is such a baller move

Because her involvement is newly discovered??! Did we not think to ask her before now?

“Altman is backing a tool called The Orb, built by Tools for Humanity, that says it will offer “proof of human” in a world where AI makes it harder to distinguish what, and who, is real online.”

phew so the guy who helped create the problem happens to also have the solution what are the chances