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in case you think I'm making things up: this happens about once every 2 weeks

Oh so you want to defund the police? I cannot believe the gall. These brave and women put their lives on the line for you every single day. Well not you specifically, or that democrat lady, or those schoolchildren.

Infiltrating hate groups with informants is something that goes way back to the civil rights era and before. It's never been something only the government can do, especially when the government is more likely to be showing up for the white power happy hour every third Thursday at Chili's.

This reminds me how researchers exposed sedentary, but still hunter-gathering and non-electrified community of San to VR gaming and their first instinct was asking pointed questions how to learn to program this stuff to make hunter-gathering training simulators.

Some twelve year olds are not carefree kids or rebellious teens. They are young people who have been forced to be functional adults for years, in twelve year old bodies. They have responsibilities. And that often means they need their phones.

Sad that I speak from experience.

Seeing a post about how we shouldn't use slurs and bigotry as tactics on the left and one of the most liked replies is "yeah but actually we should use slurs for LLMs and their users". Why. Why do you feel the need to immediately add that to a post complaining about libs using homophobia.

You expect adults to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like the Pacific Northwest where I might get cucked for being myself.

I usually try to explain it like this: picture Kash Patel as Pete Buttigieg. Now imagine they're Californian. Doesn't look so much like the Dust Bowl was caused by gammons doing mukbangs now, does it?

My mother was a Theater historian (though not a Shakespeare specialist) and her Shakespearean conspiracy theory was that he had an actual adult actress in his troupe for a while, and knew it, and wrote the roles of Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra for her.

a patch/sticker design in three colors (black, pink, and green) depicting a simple sphere surrounded by the text "ABOLISH THINGS"

let's start today

me: hello please change the shipping address on this quote so that I can actually receive the package. it should read exactly like this

dell: no. also I added an unrelated person to the billing address. Do you like this

Dell support is useless holy shit

> parent posts about how exhausted and burnt out they are
> second parent suggests hiring a babysitter for a few hours a week
> first parent responds implying second parent may be fine with their child being molested and human trafficked but first parent actually loves their kids thank!
> repeat

Danny (Dennis) Citrin... • X.com @citrinowicz Welcome to the Islamic Republic of Iran 3.0. Unlike Khomeini's historic decision to "drink the poison chalice," this time, through the lens of the Revolutionary Guards, there will be no room for pragmatic politicians to push Iran's leadership toward compromise, especially after what they perceive as strategic gains against the U.S. and Israel. If negotiations were difficult before the conflict, they are now far more complex. Iran is facing an increasingly decentralized, hardline, and ideologically rigid system, one that interprets its resilience in the conflict as a form of "divine victory."

Khamenei was never a moderate, but the decision-making process in Iran was once relatively clear and centralized. The Revolutionary Guards were a dominant force, but not the decisive one. That reality has changed and it is not coming back. This is not a leadership inclined to concede. #iran Alex Plitsas @alexplitsas 3h Broadcasts by the IRGC denigrating Iran's Foreign Minister and leaked concerns attributed to Iran's lead negotiator and Speaker of the Parliament are confirming what I'm he... 7:27 AM • 4/20/26 • 102K Views

Alex Plitsas @alexplitsas X.com Broadcasts by the IRGC denigrating Iran's Foreign Minister and leaked concerns attributed to Iran's lead negotiator and Speaker of the Parliament are confirming what I'm hearing from regional mediators — Iran's IRGC is blocking attempts by the civilian leadership to reach a deal. 6:46 AM • 4/20/26 • 140K Views

Alex Plitsas @alex... 3h g The United States intelligence community had assessed that the IRGC would likely attempt to take control or seize power in the country in the event of a significant decapitation strike. It appears the IRGC is attempting to exert power. Alex Plitsas @alexplitsas X.com Additionally, I'm told that it is not a wholesale block but factions who can't or won't agree that are preventing an agreement but others say they don't have veto authority. 9:07 AM • 4/20/26 • 2.6K Views

Negotiations to end the Iran War are complicated by the fact that the negotiation process itself is serving as a proxy battle for power both within the IRGC and between Iranian civilian leaders and the IRGC:

“Iran is facing an increasingly decentralized, hardline, and ideologically rigid system…”

You know how we all recognize rationalist singularity fantasies as a reskinned version of the christian rapture? Starting to feel like the same thing is going on here

This is quality storytelling, hire Stella to do quality storytelling for your video game

A few years back the guy who ran The Ordinary, an up til that point beloved skincare company, posted a sephiroth company manifesto and like a month later he fell off a balcony and died. So there's always hope I guess

The thing I think about whenever Palentir comes up is that I once played Werewolf sitting next to a guy that worked at Palentir and he spent the entire time trying to convince me that the company wasn’t evil while simultaneously picking off every villager in the game.

I'm not the least bit surprised. The reasons for leaving substack grow by the day.

I've met exceedingly few trans people who aren't well aware of the risks of HRT. we research them before we go on it. do you know why? BECAUSE WE WANT TO LIVE

The body was like that when we found it. Tox screen has him crossfaded on music and pictures. It’s a new trend. Street kids call it “movies”.

can you take too much music
took too much music
music related fatalities
music ld50
induce vomiting how

G.I. Joe is better than G.I. Joe.

I've been semi-idly thinking about whether we'd be in this crisis of democracy if not for the the Cold War. This isn't my field of historical expertise but my impression is that the presidency started getting super strong because of a requirement to act quickly in case of a strategic nuclear attack.

Instead of saying "You're wrong" to someone, say "You're hallucinating" or "Do a web search". Instead of saying "You're an idiot", say "You're quantized" or "Somebody only has 2-bit precision..."

Despite what I may have led you to believe, my classmate was not executed for playing football in the hallway

I’ve never believed there’s anything sacred or dignified about politicians / the presidency but it is really funny that ~20 years ago the press decided to torpedo a presidential candidate’s campaign because he yelled “yeah” too enthusiastically.

Just cuz vegans are annoying doesn't mean they're wrong

If you get alpha-gal from a tick bite, caused by climate catastrophe, and become allergic to red meat & dairy, well, there's always shrimp, which, certainly also thanks to climate catastrophe increasing oceanic temperatures forcing new zoonotic disease pathways to form, can now make you go blind