Typical Person Says Quiet Part Out Loud is possibly my favorite satire sub-genre.

propaganda works and democrats dont want to play

The redistricting fight is a reminder that for all of their bluster and all of their bullshit Republicans fundamentally can't take what they dish out

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There's definitely a type of Quebecer that wakes up thinking "given we were conquered by the treacherous Anglos in 1760, how should I go about my day?"

It's probably in your contract to do so if you work for the Le Devoir newspaper.

"Je me souviens" more like "je garde rancune".

I have made this point before -- every fantasy that Trump has of annexing Canada does not take into account my beloved Quebec, which wakes up every morning and tells a country *that bends over backwards to make it happy* to "Go fuck yourselves, tête carrée".

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Up to 56,000 people died from COVID-19 or RSV last year RSV was associated with 190,000 to 350,000 hospitalizations from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, as well as 10,000 to 23,000 deaths, according to new CDC data.

RFK Jr: I terminated the COVID vaccines because it didn’t make any sense. COVID is gone.

Note: From July 2024 to June 2025 in the US, COVID19 caused up to 450,000 hospitalizations and 53,000 deaths.

COVID ain’t gone, shitbird.

Pulled a Feinstein! The true ambition of these gerontocrats.

in 2026, faking your death must be part of your start-up's business plan.

That meme about feeding shelter cats to coyote but it's feeding start-up venture capital funding to already-funded AI companies.

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Part of a larger disease of what I think of as the decision-making class. Political leaders, financial leaders, media CEOs, entertainment CEOs, tech CEOs, game publisher CEOs, they've all got LinkedIn Poster brain.

I will once again posit you could win with >70% if the vote with the simple "Police settlements come out of their pension fund, not the city funds" policy.

The name's Brackets, Optimum Brackets.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

I guess a stopped clock is right twice a day.

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Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Then you're spotted by a young Jules Verne...

Presumably the first person to be addicted to laughing gas as he discovered its anasthetic properties?!?

Every superhero is a metaphor that fights other metaphors of the same clade

The Flash is a physics, who fights other physics (mirrors, aerodynamics, cold). Superman is a god, who fights other gods. That’s so good, but Batman is a fear who fights other fears. That’s always the easiest match to sell.

In the early 1990s the GOP outsourced its thinking and messaging to Rush Limbaugh and the right wing radio world, and it has long ceased functioning anything like a "normal" political party would. It's a content creation operation wrapped around a transactional corruption machine for rich people.

I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me. - The Sick Times I was three hours into my internal medicine ward call when the brain fog descended like a curtain dropping mid-performance.

The Sick Times: 'I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me.'

Written by Mustafa Talat

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There's no common ground with someone who fervently wishes you didn't exist.

"Pariah Elite", Encyclopedia of Fantasy, 1997: sf-encyclopedia.com/fe/pariah_el...

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."

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.