god i wish that were me

Me when a game’s luck based mechanic lets me win when I don’t deserve it: I am a master tactician adroitly assessing probabilities and adapting to the circumstances like Napoleon.

Me when it happens to me: This game sucks and my opponent is a pedophile who worships Satan and has ugly socks.

How Silicon Valley Humiliated the Democrats When will they learn? The party remains far too solicitous of an industry that’s rewarded their fealty with four years of Trump and untold damage to democracy.

"Democrats need to break from this path and acknowledge that billionaires—especially those in the increasingly antidemocratic tech sector—are never going to side with them over the GOP." From @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2087...

the extent to which so many men are sex pests is just baffling and depressing

you can just Not Do That

there is shit that's hard for me! remembering to take in the trash cans is hard! checking the calendar is hard! starting a design doc is hard! not being a sex pest: not that hard

it's been pretty brutal watching BlueSky get overrun by obvious scams and then having people scream about how if you don't fall for them you're pro-genocide

women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him

how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?

as i said before, i increasingly feel that these people are media literate, its just that they are the people who would be the villain's henchmen if the villain was real

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

A photo out a plane window with two plastic dinosaurs that looks like they're enjoying the view. Stolen from the Internet.

Fun travel tip: forced perspective and a few plastic dinosaurs can make all your travel photos more interesting.

online article screenshot. msn butterfly logo. headline: Nearly half of US data centers planned for 2026 canceled or delayed and it's expected to get worse. Story by Jordan Carlton 1 day ago. image shows aerial view of a large construction site with a new data center under development and surrounding land preparation. Approximately half of the new U.S. data centers planned for 2026 are likely to face delays or cancellations, according to a Bloomberg report.

hell yeah
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aw jeez! i hope the fire's ok

So Will Stencil ran an effective Intel network that saved people from being kidnapped by the state? All while his haters were too busy posting on Bluesky?

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“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

it is truly amazing to contemplate

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

"it's giving war crime" in a southern accent is just going to play on loop in my head the rest of the day

yes, please do not fedpost

but also it is incredibly infuriating that the president of the united states can threaten to destroy an entire civilization with impunity and the rest of us have to say <redacted> a lot

I don’t want to hear about brave and conflicted service members I want to hear about people sacrificing their careers to do the right thing

Every day I wake up
Every sip of coffee
Every bathroom break
Every moment waiting at an intersection
Every bite of every meal
Every time I lay my head to sleep

A single, clear thought, a lighthouse, providing direction even in the darkest, roughest seas:

This entire administration in chains

Cracker Barrel logo discourse was a distraction from that hobby you need. Threatening a catastrophic loss of life isn’t. Outlaw the word distraction until people start forming full thoughts again before hitting send post.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

pretty clear bright line today, anyone in power who isn't doing everything they can to remove him from office deserves handcuffs when this is all over. that includes any democrat who votes for anything he wants

trump voters are very dumb even if they dont like him now. they should never be taken seriously again and they should have the decency to slink away and cede the discourse to others. also, you are better and smarter than them

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today

even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now

how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

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“Sure all those people would still be alive, but have you considered how I would have felt bad about myself for filling the little bubble on the private ballot next to the person who I find imperfect”