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friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

I 100% agree and would add that if you are hosting a holiday event and you do NOT have something festive, creative and delicious for your guests to drink without alcohol in it, you are actually an asshole

don't make them drink tap water while everyone else has bespoke cocktails!

When we tax them at 90%, they dislike paying the TAX, so they put the money in other stuff — building new facilities, employee retention (salaries, raises), philan-trophy*, weird obsessions — which all translate into money in other people’s hands.

*intentional

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

The very best of America’s shitposters are now outgunned by their Chinese peers. Balance of power has shifted.

the addition of the pride flag at the end is such the perfect representation of why we critique rainbow capitalism. he doesn’t give a shit about queer people but only when he has to pivot to try to turn a profit. otherwise he has no problem throwing queer folks under the bus

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

finally a dedicated yuri button

PSA:

1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly

2. If you are silly, you must stay silly

2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness

Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online

Update:
English version, no paywall

www.spiegel.de/internationa...

you can’t even be stylish these days without being cancelled

Please stop using ChatGPT in general, but also, please, please stop using it and then taking what it says to you as fact. It's usually wrong! It doesn't fact check itself. It just creates approximations of information based on other text! It's basically magnetic poetry that sets the world ablaze.

post from Gisele Navarro "collectively the AI search engines provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries"

attached is the chart from the first image, highlighting different generative search tools with corresponding colors for varying right/wrong hits

burning down forests so that we can be wrong most of the time

www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

this is great and gets to what might be the defining attribute of this administration which is that trump himself is barely aware of what is happening

please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?

in california for a wedding; they have their favorite vegan hotdog stand catering and each dog comes with a toe tag, this was my (scary accurate) one:

What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.

MUSK: A sophisticated cyberattack from Ukraine took out Twitter's servers

REALITY: Twitter's servers were not secured properly and were publicly visible

Great explainer here from @lhn.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...

More of this!

Let’s make sure they’re wrong, shall we?

Listen, it's ok if you already need an escape from all of it. Any night, you can go outside, look up at the stars, and remember that we are so small in the grand scheme of -- damnit is that one of his rockets blowing up

Seems like a pretty important detail

New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Remember when Pence got called out at a performance of Hamilton and Kavanaugh had to leave out the back of a Morton's Steakhouse because protesters were screaming at him outside because of Roe v Wade?

Let's make life unpleasant and humiliating for these motherfuckers.

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

Compliments of 🟠.

Geauga County, Ohio, YMCA….