asking questions in hearings is always better than speeches

We had convoys in Iraq and Afghanistan get rekt because guys were shitting their brains out in the back of vehicles instead of scanning their sectors. This doofus is really just performatively insisting that FHP don't real.

Flu is a readiness and lethality issue wtf are we even doing?

This stuff is soft as baby shit. "The warfighter must never be inconvenienced or so something scary like get a shot," is loser shit.

I will sleep extremely well knowing that they’re in the pit. I don’t need to know more than that

See, I don’t even want it to be a spectacle. I don’t want to allow them to take up even more space in any of our heads. People can watch them getting tossed in the pit. After that we all leave and no one watches and who fucking cares what happens

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

I think we should dig a real big pit and toss em all in with no supplies and whatever happens happens

Dunked on this yesterday but in reality the first order of business needs to be punishment. I'm not kidding. We can't start fixing anything until we punish, and punish hard, the people who put us here. That needs to be done to send a message. And if we don't punish, nothing else will matter.

It’s good that MAGA is fracturing.

But for the love of god do not embrace this piece that’s breaking off. Do not hand it to them. Do not share their statements.

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Measles is NOT "just like chickenpox". It can kill years later. This woman was so brave for coming forward with her story.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

A vaccine for Lyme disease could be on the horizon The vaccine candidate is the furthest any shot has gotten since the last one was pulled in 2002. Scientists are testing other ways to block infection.

Y'all I'm IN THIS STUDY!!!

Really I'm in it! I haven't been unblinded and I still don't know what I got but there's ME! Just a tiny little data point.

www.sciencenews.org/article/lyme...

This thing where society has socialized many to triple down in avoidance and compartmentalize things away, leaves ppl as open vessels to carry out evil.

remember that atlantic article that pretended to be a first person account of a mother's loss of a child from measles? this is the real thing and it's brutal.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".

Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.

I was given it to blurb and I later responded to the editor asking if it was okay in a blurb to threaten the author with violence in a friendly way

While I understand the health motivation for this, and I really do, I remain deeply uncomfortable about the idea that we can create a subsidiary group of adults who don’t have all the same freedoms as other adults (yes, even to chose to do stupid dangerous shit). 1/2

Also it is a story that grabs you by the shirt and bellows AUTHENTIC HUMAN ART THAT COMES FROM AUTHENTIC HUMAN EMOTION MATTERS GOD FUCKING DAMMIT for two hours

AI could not make this film. There is no scenario wherein AI could make something remotely like this, visually

tim cook is like 90% responsible for why the Internet sucks so much shit now (Sex-Negative Appification) so it is my sincere hope he is retiring due to accidentally swallowing a bag full of the scarabs that eat you from the inside from the 90s the mummy

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

I do not know when I last saw a movie in the theater and spent roughly 90% of the runtime with a goofy smile on my face

This movie is absolutely fucking brilliant and I will not rest until everyone recognizes that fact

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

It’s like… If you don’t already understand that these people are straight-up supervillains when they say shit like this, I don’t know how to begin to explain it to you

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

This is an extremely obvious and banal point that I have been surprised to find is hard to land with people both-sidesing the AI debate. The highest VC funded companies in tech saying “we want to ruin your lives” as marketing copy > any flavor of online poster anti-Ai hyperbole you can find.

Another reason I kinda wanted to talk about how hard COVID was for so many people: I think recalling those memories is HIGHLY relevant to the vibecession discussion.

Yeah, I’ve never quite got over the profound moral injury aspect of watching so many Americans absolutely refuse to even mildly sacrifice to help others during Covid - watching MAGAs somehow become even more evil was radicalizing.

And now the bastards are trying to destroy MRNA research.

I was raised in a family of big tech employees and have been analyzing, working in, and reporting on tech since I was a teenager - and yes I do think the gleeful “we’re gonna take all your jobs, worms” rhetoric really did accelerate after 2019