Altstrid just translated "deus ex machina" as "the hand of God," which, given what we've all seen from her in terms of intellectual ability, is some absolute horseshit.

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King of the rutuli *and* ceo of apple? In this economy?

As always, my beloved Reyes de Juana Díaz.

Vice had that running gag about Cheney having to go to the hospital. If they just did the same thing with Bolsonaro, they wouldn’t get to put anything else on film!

Niche fun to be had about the Bullshit Machine becoming a constant topic: some computer touchers on here getting increasingly mad people with non-tech jobs don’t consider them authoritative subject matter experts anymore.

Congratulations: I’ve been living there, in every way, since literally 2012.

half of the running time is just him in a hospital with a tube up his nose

Personally I mostly tried shifting to "digital agency" ("digitale Handlungsfähigkeit" in German) because it talks about what it's about rather than pointing at the "evil other"

These days artists are expected to be thick-skinned, circumspect, non-reactive, non-political, non-controversial and completely inoffensive. And also sales people, promoters, etc. when many of us have massive anxiety issues and self-doubts. There's not much room left to be just fallibly human...

Watching Palantir do Sephiroth posting about multiculturalism and I would like to remind everyone that they were doing corporate fake woke shit just like every other company.

People considering ditching substack, this might be of interest.

PS: ditch substack

seven months on beehiiv, by the numbers was leaving substack worth it?

There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."

Here are the hard numbers:

thinking of the pride and full nights of sleep on the part of, for example, the surviving family members of those the US murdered in wedding drone strikes at his direction

I know people bristle at the idea of leftists who police language but a big reason it happens is because, especially as it relates to politicians, the language we choose serves as an entirely accurate predictor of the types of policy decisions we would make & who we would & wouldn’t place value on

We *just* got to that line.

The best part is that, as far as I can tell, Jim Balsillie is not actually from Waterloo.

A most sincere thanks to all of you who told us about Glenn Howerton's unhinged performance in Blackberry. A truly fitting Saturday night watch.

Congratulations! This is wonderful news.

Cheer up, #Astros fans, it could be worse.

My @lnpgaceta.org team just got crushed 11-1 by their divisional little brother.

#Astros Bryan Abreu...

I wish you’d taken away the sins of the world and granted us your peace, by which I mean kept this one to yourself.

Sadly, I don’t even think I get enough of the joke to give it an up-or-down vote.

I haven't gotten to call a ballgame in weeks, and boy, do I need one today.

The Navegadores, minus five of their most beloved players, begin another season as reigning champs with a divisional game.

We'd be lying if we said Ceiba was favored—but that's why you play the games.

Come watch! Details:

I haven't gotten to call a ballgame in weeks, and boy, do I need one today.

The Navegadores, minus five of their most beloved players, begin another season as reigning champs with a divisional game.

We'd be lying if we said Ceiba was favored—but that's why you play the games.

Come watch! Details:

Well, Mill regularly defended “despotism” as a “legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians”, a category including the “uncivilized races”, but excluded “qualified” (Westernized) imperial subjects who could be rewarded with administrative posts. Maybe.

But yes, fuck Klein.

As easily as you have sworn off Harry Potter pish, you can stop buying games from Microsoft or Microsoft owned studios.

This is such a small ask and low bar to clear, there are thousands of other games available at any moment, but the impact can be huge.

really funny to me that the democrats always have 1-3 guys on hand to make sure the democrats can put up the performance of resistance while still ultimately getting the government to pass what the combined democratic-republican party ultimately wants

That’s a very nice thing to hear! I know people have busy lives and you don’t always know whether you’re landing with anything you say, but given how I spend every workday it’s nice to know at least someone is listening.

I haven’t always lived up to my ideals; that’s just being human. But what I do know is I lost money and made life harder for myself every time I’ve made a principled decision, because you all love telling other people what to do, but most of you don’t actually reward people who make those changes.

If you’re wondering why I always do this in subskeet, I’ve been through enough rounds of burrito taxi discourse to want to minimize the chances of you begging me to recognize that everyone else’s behavior is immoral and unacceptable but you’re a perfect angel and it’s also your birthday.

What I would love to see is the alternate universe where Fringe Division just rolls up on you to tell you your haircut looks like shit.