Every political conversation with a Republican today should start with "People.who.voted.in.trump.twice.say what?"

Do you mean fucking psychopaths?

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Number go up Our charts tell the story of oligarchy in overdrive.

America’s wealthiest men are spending more money than ever before, in a race against each other that’s leaving the rest of us in the dust.

By 2030, data centers will consume as much energy as 41 million US homes.

I could literally watch Obama and Mamdani with kindergarteners all day, every day.

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

Not only did the sons probably call ICE on her, the day after her husband died they took their dad's cars, leaving her housebound. Then they rerouted mail, causing her to miss a visa appointment & the utilities to be turned off. Tony and Gary Ross are going to hell.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

That's another problem having messianic oligarchical billionaires is they don't have to turn a profit on something for decades if they are true cult believers. They can burn it for years. Def long enough to cause permanent societal damage.

Christ, they've run out of everything but British cuisine??

Christ, they've run out of everything but British cuisine??

Girl, the solution to "the system is exploiting and replacing us" isn't "get a new system that can exploit and replace us". What are we even doing here? You can't fight for women if you're fighting for the technology that will run them out of the workplace.

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Oh:

A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

The U.S. doesn’t have an immigrant problem; it has a White Christian Nationalist problem, courtesy of the Heritage Foundation.

How All YouTube Ads Sound to Me YouTube video by Michael Spicer

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Kentucky Wildcat basketball fans watching other teams sign players in the Transfer Portal:

Ok, throw it.

Are you a watery tart?

Did the Bible say anything about a tiny mushroom penis?

"Richard Tips?? That's my father's name. You can call me DICK TIPS!"

Schisms stopped being a thing when we achieved Protestantism.

"The Pope is incorrect on matters of theology" is excommunication time.

H/t @jumulojimbus.bsky.social

I mean we've been telling people not to shop at Target for over a year. That's on you.

How are both of my sports teams crashing right now??

Is this what it's like living in Charlotte?!

Muted.

I will not learn any of the words in this post and no one can make me.

Dilley is evil and must be closed. It's a goddamn concentration camp. A moral abomination. People are going to Hell over this.

The Return of Family Detention Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect.

A toddler nearly died at an ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas. After more than a week in intensive care, she was sent back. Sarah Stillman reports. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...