Now I am become Chocolate Chunk Brownie Blast, adder of M&Ms Mini Chocolate Candies, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, and Oreo Cookie Pieces.

it's a gripping scene

Hey you all, my shoes are old, so I'm looking for high performance, low latency AI compute hardware that provides access under long-term lease arrangements, meeting customer demand that spot markets and hyperscalers are unable to reliably service. Does anybody know a company that can help?

I've been thinking about this framing all day.

I’ll never forget how happy Coby White was when he found out how high Cam Johnson got drafted, just a good dude all around.

You know that thing they say about the Velvet Underground, about how only a few people ever saw them live but all of them joined bands. J.D. Vance speeches are like that but for people who will eventually appear in viral videos berating flight attendants.

We're living through MAGA'S Drunk Godzilla Era Trumpism has never been weaker/Trumpism will keep on killing

"That’s one hell of a pair of truths to hold at once. The king, for all intents and purposes, is dead. But he might take you down with him.”

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Hell yeah

"CHOCOLATE???? YOU THINK PEOPLE WILL GO FOR CHOCOLATE??? EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT CHEWABLE ARSENIC IS THE FUTURE, HERSHEY! YOU'LL NEVER WORK IN THE GREATER HARRISBURG AREA AGAIN!"

Man, I would have absolutely crushed as "idiot who yells at Hershey that he's crazy for thinking chocolate tastes good," why didn't I go into biopics?

It doesn't matter whether you are on twitter or bluesky, you will always see long threads of men arguing w/ each other about whether economic feelings are real without seeing anyone mention childcare costs, rising unsheltered homelessness or the fact that uncountable numbers of families live in cars

We're living through MAGA'S Drunk Godzilla Era Trumpism has never been weaker/Trumpism will keep on killing

I realize that the vibes are always dizzying/weird, but I don’t think I’m totally crazy that it also feels different right now!

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On immigration, which has shaped recent elections around the world, Mr. Magyar called for even tighter restrictions than the Orban had government imposed. He said he would keep a border fence, repeal a guest-worker program and allow no guest workers from outside the European Union. Tisza’s party platform claimed that guest workers “drive down wages, inflate real estate prices and cause social problems.” (Unlike in the United States, crime rates among immigrants in Europe tend to be higher than among native citizens.) Immigration is vital to electability in many countries because it is the issue on which mainstream politicians have most sharply diverged from public opinion, permitting many more arrivals than voters want.

"I mean, we're not saying this, because that would be cruel, but also we're absolutely saying this."

The second lesson may be harder for Democrats — and center-left parties in Europe — to absorb. Mr. Magyar, who identifies as center right, won partly by avoiding the social progressivism that dominates elite left-leaning circles and alienates many voters. He ran as an economic progressive and a cultural moderate if not conservative. He used patriotic symbols like the flag and benefited from having a last name that means “Hungarian.” (Imagine a candidate named “Joe American.”) He portrayed himself as a nationalist and suggested he might expel Slovakia’s ambassador over its treatment of Hungarians living there. He campaigned in rural areas that Mr. Orban’s previous challengers had overlooked. Mr. Magyar promised not to send troops or weapons to Ukraine. He declined to attend a Pride march in Budapest, making it harder for Mr. Orban to paint him as captive to L.G.B.T.Q. activists.

"On immigration, which has shaped recent elections around the world, Mr. Magyar called for even tighter restrictions than the Orban had government imposed. He said he would keep a border fence, repeal a guest-worker program and allow no guest workers from outside the European Union. Tisza’s party platform claimed that guest workers “drive down wages, inflate real estate prices and cause social problems.” (Unlike in the United States, crime rates among immigrants in Europe tend to be higher than among native citizens.) Immigration is vital to electability in many countries because it is the issue on which mainstream politicians have most sharply diverged from public opinion, permitting many more arrivals than voters want."

[Hank Williams Jr. Voice]

"ARE YOU READY FOR... the inevitable fire hose of reactionary centrist takes about how Hungary teaches us that the ONLY way to defeat fascism is to throw people under the bus?"

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April the 14th, Pt. 1 YouTube video by Gillian Welch - Topic

We made it one more year, you all. Happy Ruination Day.

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How To Put Money Directly Into Union Power Union Now is here.

There's an important new group launching tomorrow, that will channel money directly into building union power. We're having a big ass launch rally in Manhattan tomorrow with Bernie, Zohran, Sara Nelson, and a bunch of union people and you should come.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-put...

I filed my taxes and waited to learn whether a civilization would be destroyed in my name Connection/complicity

As we careen towards tax day and giving more money to this corrupt insane regime, here is a beautiful essay trying to explain why we do and why it's complicated.

Thank you, @garrettbucks.bsky.social. I also have been clenching my heart.

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CHATTING AND THIEVING! At the Finnish Bistro.

And I know most of the responses to this focus on the increased repression against protestors, and that's true, but I think it's important not to be fatalistic about that aspect-- campus protest IS possible under authoritarianism (and so much is happening), but it takes ORGANIZING, which takes time!

This is such a bizarre article! It presents as some grand mystery but there's all these quotes from activists that offer very reasonable explanations (the most important one: GOOD ORGANIZING TAKES TIME! The only mystery in here is why "some Dem officials" are being such weirdos about this!

He's bringing the worst possible vibes!

One of my current problems is that too many people think fondly of me, which is why I'm pleased to announce the special guest at my next birthday party: MY CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND J.D. VANCE!

So good. Thank you for explaining this so eloquently.

"I know the damage wrought by the taxation is theft crowd. I flinch every time I hear the phrase “my tax dollars,” that righteous proclamation of entitlement and isolation. Like everything about my life, my family’s income doesn’t appear out of thin air. I walk on sidewalks, ride the city bus and.."

I filed my taxes and waited to learn whether a civilization would be destroyed in my name Connection/complicity

"The story I tell myself, when I pay my taxes, isn’t wholly untrue. But it relies on heavy redactions. I file my return and picture it funding libraries and food for hungry families. I do not picture bombs falling on schools and bridges in Tehran."

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I filed my taxes and waited to learn whether a civilization would be destroyed in my name Connection/complicity

"I don’t know what comes next, but I am caught up in it. We all are. The man who threatened war crimes is still in power, in my country. Yesterday, I gifted him more money."

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I'm fiercely loyal and proud of Wisconsin politics, and can name a million ways that our state and its history should be of more interest on the national scene. But I don't think the biggest flyover problem to solve for is our Supreme Court races getting less attention than the Mayor of NYC.

I think it's hard to argue, after living through the last 20 years of Wisconsin politics, that we have been underfixated on in national political discourse/funding/campaign energy. I can't name a statewide judicial race in any other state that got Crawford levels of coverage.

..I don't think it's odd that more people were inspired by a mayoral election in the largest city in the U.S. (3 million more people in NYC than in WI), compared to an off cycle court election. I'm excited for Taylor's win! It's a further sign of MAGA's demise! But it's gotten plenty of attention.

I'm a proud Wisconsinite, and I'll call out coastal bias when it's real, but this is a weird complaint. Outsiders OBSESS over our elections! We're a perennial bellwether. Every cycle, I get multiple postcards from CA urging me to vote. Musk made our penultimate court race his personal hobby horse...