I literally NEVER see it used right lmfao

This has got to be one of the single most misunderstood things I had to learn about in graduate school that I still deal with constantly lmfao

Saw a post talking about how people have "turned 'the Death of the Author' into 'The Customer is Always Right"

and I'd go a step further and just say: literally fucking nobody has ever read the essay by Roland Barthes titled "The Death of the Author."

None of you people read literary theory.

SOUP SOUP SOUP

they say this and it's just bands that were popular in 2006 at this point.

There’s something comforting in knowing that no matter how much I dislike Brianna Wu, I will never be able to dislike her more than she dislikes herself

Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.

glad he unblocked me so I could block him

gimme a sourdough with a good compound butter and I do not need anything else

this includes my favs like Bernie, trust.

It makes me exceedingly nervous to have so much hinge on whether or not an 80+ year old can keep kicking around long enough for it to not be a crisis if they die.

really think we should not be represented by people who are statistically going to die any second now.

Scott was running for reelection

Screenshot of a social media post by Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) that reads: "One of my biggest hopes for the future is that we can come up with some sort of test in utero to determine if a child is going to grow up to be transsexual, and then opt them out of the gene pool. It's, I can tell you firsthand, it's a horrific way to grow up, one that no ethical person should want to inflict on a child. The reason the trans community is so unstable online is the developmental damage that we invariably get. It's like a house being built where every floor is leaning, and by the time you get to the top, the entire structure is unstable. Repairing that damage has taken me a lifetime."

Brianna Wu advocates for the extermination of trans people by engaging in eugenicist selective abortions of fetuses determined to be trans.

here is the thing about vote scolding: it doesn't work

my personal position is that the right thing to do is to vote and - because the republican party is so completely world-destroyingly insane - to vote for the democrats

but you simply cannot change minds on this by scolding people

i've seen "it would really stick it to the devs if we left bsky" posts & no it wouldn't. they want this web site to be boring crypto idiots who cool their phones off in pools chatting with AI reply bots. instead they have to put up with us and that's deeply funny

::Stares in math::

It’s amazing how many bullies become deeply principled pacifists the first time they get punched back.

Foghorn Leghorn you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. They’ll kill you

I got him before he got me trust.

age 0-7: bedtime is real age 7-30: bedtime isn't real!!! age 30-: bedtime is real

bedtime

it's really funny that anthropic claims their latest model is "too dangerous to release" and named it mythos. Yeah man my new ai is soooo powerful. it's called uhhh Fabrication

I can answer that for you:

they outsourced the majority of it and the people who they outsourced it to don't do great work

and beyond that, even when QA catches things, they tend to still make it live lol

With the result in Virginia, here's what we know about how mid-decade redistricting has shifted the landscape.

Across the 7 states with new maps:
—11 districts have shifted toward Democrats;
—9 districts have shifted toward the GOP.

and I'm just gonna macro that trinket into my Single cooldown

I don't think it is.

but everyone else seems to. You always want a stat stick and a good on use. every time. lol

The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

I am gonna put it in my library. . . .

I think the thing that drives me insane about talking to MMO players is that when they talk about things they want in their game, they just describe another game that already exists and they refuse to play.