the dictionary definition of irony the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning Examples given: a writer's clever use of irony She described her vacation with heavy irony as "an educational experience." Irony in postwar art and culture started out the same way youthful rebellion did. It was difficult and painful, and productive … —David Foster Wallace

Coming down from the mountain with this written on stone tablets to give to bluesky

Trump gives Iran days to end power struggle, return to peace talks The supreme leader is silent. IRGC generals and Iran's civilian negotiators are openly at odds.

Seems like the strategy of killing every influential political leader doesn't work so well once you're forced to negotiate peace with traumatized war generals

www.axios.com/2026/04/22/t...

Magyar's stance that Netanyahu is invited to Hungary, but would be arrested if he sets foot in Hungary, opens fascinating new possibilities in the world of international diplomacy

Good argument or not, getting up on stage and yelling at your own voters is not a strategy I would recommend

Just finished editing my novel Ruby Av!

I think its actually pretty good, so the only question is whether anyone will want to rep. a coming of age story about a teenage rap star who becomes a revolutionary fugitive

That part

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

Opinion: Tips for picking a college major | CNN Pressure to pick a college major based on earning potential isn’t the best choice for many students, argues David Perry. Not only will students be happier following their interests, they’re more likel...

Humanists: Chasing the latest tech fad has not worked out well for other generations
NC: But it might work out well for us!
Humanists: The most reliable path to ROI is to study things you're good at and learn both broadly and deeply and the data supports us
NC: I asked Claude and it said it's alive

Lori Chavez-DeRemer rn

Genuinely believe social media has elevated people who hate doing activities but do them anyway so they can tell you they’re the authority on doing activities and you don’t have to think

The president is literally listing war crimes he vows to commit

This Timothee Chalamet dialogue makes understand why Bob Dylan disappeared for like 7 years. Insufferable.

I have a reflexive urge to defend this man with my entire being, but that last quote about Star Trek is spit-take worthy.

That said... he... would probably write a great Trek series and we'd all hate him for it like Frank Grimes hates Homer Simpson

this is an all-star list of haters, i want these people praying on my downfall at all times

Here's the thing: there is no going back to a different era of Twitter. This doesn't replace it, Threads doesn't replace it, Twitter doesn't replace it. That era is dead, no return, it was a very fun 5-10 year window or so that dragged on past its prime until it dropped off a cliff.

Exactly. The metric they're actually using assumes that the Jews are all somehow magically plotting together, even in cases where Jews and Jewish orgs are blatantly at odds with each other, which is the key ingredient of antisemitism.

"The woke ginger" has a vague and misleading apology letter up here and on Instagram -- But still refuses to answer MSNow's question about whether he was offered money for his posts.

(I think the answer is obvious)

Be careful about who you follow out there, folks!

Okay this is a legitimately concerning video... is he about to cry???

10/10 article format 😂

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

Gift link to NYT exclusive on confirmed U.S. bombing of an elementary school

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Yeah, I've read this article a few times, and I can't say I understand the premise of this story.

It feels like a topic was assigned and delivered. But for the reader on the other end, its impossible to parse this without sifting through tea leaves.

I cannot imagine anything sadder than going to write a post on LinkedIn and then clicking the “rewrite with AI” button. If you aren’t confident you can meet the baseline tone of LinkedIn? I dont know, man.

Sorry, I missed the third option, which was: completely change the meaning of the word: Unconditional

Not really relevant, but damn im impressed with this guy's ability to organize new information in his head while still speaking

Of note: There is no way for Trump to enforce an "unconditional surrender" without ground troops.

So either that is a lie or U.S. special forces is about to try to abduct dozens of people from bunkers in the middle of hundreds of thousands of hostile troops

A shelf lined with yellow bottles of SpongeBob SquarePants themed party drunks, stylized after champagne or sparkling grape juice

WE FINNA GET CRUNK OFF DAT BOB 🍾

The way I read media must be so different from most people on this app... I finished reading this story right before I logged on and thought:

'Hmm, yeah based on the story seems like there's not much of a problem with abuse here. Looks like everyone is doing a good job so far.'

we appear to be free-jazzing a war