Shoutout to the bluesky team for winning "most consecutive fumbled bags." All you have to do was be better than a sinking ship lmao embarassing

Here’s the very simple truth. We should ban all Gerrymandering.

Until then, to unilaterally disarm is political suicide and malpractice.

Also, not to belabor the point. But with regards to Trump in particular he needed to be in jail. No matter how many individual voters would have gladly volunteered for the job, that was something only the Federal government could do.

A screenshot of a bluesky post whose authorship has been obscured. It reads as follows. "Online idiots changing 'Biden had one job -- to stop a second Trump term.' No, that was the voters' job. Amazes me how any citizen of a democracy can deny the whole premise of democracy. Opportunists exploit this rejection of responsibility. Hence the market for authoritarians on left and right."

Not to deny that the American electorate is fucked up. But it always amazes *me* how establishment dems seem to think that someone can be the face of the party for four+ years and not have any particular responsibility for that party's electoral outcomes.

At least back then people had the excuse that formal military education wasn't a thing and the idea of "writing down basic shit and handing it to every officer candidate who walks in the door" was legitimately revolutionary. Hegseth, meanwhile, went to Princeton and then officer training.

there’s actually never been a better time to be a professional software engineer. we are in the midst of a Cambrian explosion of weird and stupid bugs you get to go and fix!

The Moon is tidally locked so one side always faces us.
From that side, Earth is a permanent fixture in the sky 13 times larger and 43 times brighter than the Moon appears from Earth.
Four humans photographed this.
Every crater in this frame is older than any life on land.

Artemis II

This whole screed is dumb-guy-trying-to-sound-smart gibberish. It's not even the "serious" version, such as it is, of these post-liberal techno-feudalist dystopian ideas. It's the garbled ramblings of a guy who's heard of that stuff before and is now babbling about it at 3am on a ketamine bender.

I think it was "soft staged." I think the campaign deliberately kept security low and the rhetoric heated to allow "something" to happen. I'm sure Miller et al had plans for all sorts of things that "something" could have been. As for Trump's personal welfare? I doubt they cared.

Wilson is not only the worst president of the 20th C., he is rather uniquely the worst president of the 20th C. from the perspective of anywhere you like on today's political spectrum. Just endlessly something for everyone to hate. He's the 'eyes follow you around the room' of evil American history.

Even if you accept that they're 100% powerless in the current legislative environment (I mean, they aren't, but let's play pretend for a minute) they're still dropping the ball. We're already into primary season and where's the plan? What vision are establishment dems proposing for the future?

Gotta give credit where credit is due. Donald Trump is doing an absolutely terrific job appearing unstable. No one can do it better.

Coming to it blind I can see how someone *might* honestly read that in a negative way. But it's hard to read the follow-up posts the quoted user makes as anything other than saying that Northsky is an example of an integrated, low-control subculture which, lol

I'm just saying, it should have been a huge red flag when he started autographing Bibles.

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Freeze Warning Connecticut, New Jersey, New York 5 hours ago – National Weather Service FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM EDT MONDAY... ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT MONDAY NIGHT TO 9 AM EDT TUESDAY * WHAT...For the Frost Advisory ...

It was 90 degrees 2 days ago

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

A friend of mine has been part of a program to subsidize ride-share fares for people who would otherwise have trouble getting around the city. Thanks to this hysteria about "fraud" they've been kicked off and have to reapply via a hour-long *in-person* interview. Anyone see the problem with that?

mRNA treatments are basically magic and the demonization of them might, with no exaggeration, be the greatest step backwards in public health development in history.

Never heard anyone in my entire life say this except him. Seems to be a case of "local shlub sees academic journal for the first time in his life & encounters an academic term." Beshear can go stand in the corner with the rest of the whining involved population

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

If someone thinks they might be trans, I think our duty is to welcome them with open arms and help them in their journeys no matter where it leads.

Judging people who think they might be trans and subjecting their motives to intense scrutiny HARMS TRANS PEOPLE. It’s really that simple.

Transmedicalism (and many other forms of gatekeeping) also seems ableist, at least in my opinion and based on my experiences. Saying "my subjective experiences with {X} are the marker of the One True Way to be {X}" will chase out a lot of ND people whose subjective experiences are different.

This is so well done. 👌

Lutnick last March: "In the 4th quarter of 2025, this economy is gonna be humming"

Fox Business reports about GDP number for 4th quarter 2025 being revised down

shot, chaser