These are all quotes from Frasier.

so, to be clear: ICE has been doing neoStarlight Tours, if instead of taking natives a three hour walk out of town in -40° and ditching them there without their personal effects, to kill them, they drove folks hundreds of kilometers away and ditched them without their personal effects, to kill them.

Virginia is for haters now

Every day I look forward to sleeping I love sleeping I love being unconscious

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

Passing the legislature twice with an election in between and then also passing a referendum is common but on the more difficult end of state constitutional amendment methods.

unpopular opinion guy

i think it is actually totally fine if urban areas with their higher density populations and higher levels of education have a proportionally greater say in national politics than less-dense and less-educated rural areas

welcome to bluesky. all the national merit scholars are on here (sorry)

Millennials are ruining the cocaine industry

Whether it’s preventing hospitalization, lost school/work/duty days, or limiting transmission to others, the flu vaccine is something I will continue recommending as both an individual and force health protection measure.

Even an imperfect flu vaccine offers demonstrable benefit.

Trying to make nicotine into a secret health hack is the sign of a weak, soft mind. Do the thing that's bad for you, accept that it feels kind of good for a second because you're a drug addict. Like an adult

This story is excellent and I've thought about it a lot since I first read it, but beyond the wild vileness of the Dolanworld types the thing that has stuck with me is Dolan demanding not to see K-9 units due to his "disdain for dogs." It's not that he doesn't like them. He doesn't respect them.

So much is coming home to roost in the US space program - NASA space suit development has been underfunded since the 1970s.

Just in case anyone forgot, the nat'l leaders of Uncommitted begged the DNC to let them endorse Harris at the convention, then begged them for a meeting with her, got blown off, then told people to vote against Trump anyway. There was definitely someone not thinking past 1st order consequences!

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Here’s a counter-manifesto to the Silicon Valley fascist madmen: Palantir must be uprooted completely, with public show trials for domestic treason under quick, harsh military tribunals, then the entirety of their technology, holdings and personal fortunes seized for the common good.

Her political instincts have gone from bad to fucking horrific.

Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

These are going to come for the left too. They financially motivated — Macedonian teenager type stuff for the AI era. Scammers profiting off of easily enraged people. MAGA may be more susceptible to ragebait but worth understanding what’s going to happen in 2026 and 2028.

I unironically believe this. If you're in charge of deciding what is THE LAW, and you hold that position for life, you should have to give up all of other pursuits and dedicate yourself fully to doing nothing but that, without anything else to distract you or influence you.

i'm such a choremaxxing laundrychud

Buy, Borrow, Die: How America's Ultrawealthy Stay That Way YouTube video by ProPublica

In the second season of Beef on Netflix, Oscar Isaac's character references "Buy, Borrow, Die" — a tax-avoidance method used by the ultra-rich.

As part of @propublica.org's Secret IRS Files series, we put together this animation back in 2021 to explain how it works:

Every time a Democrat mentions how to talk to "ordinary people" they mean "how I was told to talk by a handful of weirdo consultants in DC with gross fixations on throwing certain groups under the bus and who would not last a day in an ordinary job interacting with ordinary people."

Honest to god I have never heard anyone use that term ever

It’s interesting how socialists should always be managing their politics and criticism in reference to what Democratic leaders find acceptable because they might be deemed ungettable voters when 1/3+ of the country already consistently opt out of standard bourgeois electoral politics (voting D or R)

This is single handedly the funniest scene from any Star Trek

In an administration brimming with moral degenerates, RFK Jr keeps finding ways to stand out.

Since this has prompted some questions: @nytdiff.bsky.social does not rely on the Wayback Machine. It calls the NYT Top Stories API directly every ten minutes and tracks changes itself.

I personally strongly endorse the Wayback Machine and think the NYT should drop their block.

mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime.

Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.