B.Michael Krol

B.Michael Krol

@bmkrol.bsky.social

I write things. I make things. I’m probably taller than you.

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For a second I thought this was sincere and I was PISSED. Sometimes I can be really dumb…

Breaking Mews/Ruff Translations@breakingmews.bsky.social

Barking news: Thieves broke into the animal shelter and stole all of the puppies. These brazen criminals—who include a bear, a flamingo, a lobster, a shark, a bumblebee, a penguin and a lumberjack—have taken command of the shelter. Please come get them so this madness can end. sbhumane.org/adopt.

This morning I found out why it’s never a good idea to take a sleep gummy and then fall asleep reading The Filth from @grantmorrison.bsky.socialu I had worse dreams than Gregor Samsa.

Amanda Nelson talks about this phenomenon over on the clock app. She argues that rural whites don’t vote against their interests, it’s just that their interests are cultural supremacy above all other matters. I don’t think enough on the left get that.

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And I’m not suggesting the person posting that doesn’t get it. I was just adding to the conversation. I’d happily respond directly but I cannot, so a reskeet it is!

Jesus Fucking Christ, you people need to learn how to do politics. He’s saying this stuff to get Republicans to vote for him. I’ll bet you a fucking sawbuck he won’t push for or vote for an anti trans bill. Can you say the same for Paxton? Christ, you fucking dopes.

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I think it's fine for Hakeem Jeffries to try and work the idiots in the Trump administration from any angle he can to squeeze anything out that he possibly can and it's stupid for people to think he's actually dropping to his knees in subservience behind closed doors, grow the fuck up.

I’ve had this conversation with my friends. Like, what was the last bit of tech that was widely adopted that was a net benefit to society.

Mia Sato@miasato.bsky.social

We shouldn't discount the fact that at least part of the data center backlash (and by extension the broader techlash) is because people feel like the tech industry has not given them anything cool, inspiring, beautiful, or useful in a long time

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I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

I love this column every year. And my team, the Cardinals, deserve all the hate they get. But man, it’s not a good sign when even the column roasting us is lackluster. That’s not a knock on Drew Magary, one of America’s better writers. It’s not that we’re bad. It’s that we’re BORING and bad. Fml.

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I'm not going to sit here and pretend Lindsey Graham's death is anything but a gift to humanity. He harmed my queer friends as a closeted gay man, and made millions off his cruelty. His death is a blessing. I will never stop hating him or the people who voted for him.

And while I’m being a cranky asshole… Belgium needs to shut the hell up about Balogun. These guys felt it was just ducky to participate in a World Cup whose stadiums were built by literal slave labor, but a suspension being lifted under current rules is a bridge too far? Fuck right off.

This is an important distinction. Trump is garbage and a base and gutter racist, but the SCOTUS is fulfilling its part of a decades long crusade on the right to reshape society. Where Trump and those goals align, they’ll happily help. Where they diverge, not so much.

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social

The discourse around the Supreme Court term would be much improved, I think, if people focused on the center of the Court as being very much part of the GOP coalition, rather than focusing entirely on whether it is or is not doing Trump’s bidding specifically.

Watching Victory as is my tradition during the World Cup. For those who’ve seen the movie, how long do you suppose it took the Germans to execute Max Von Sydow’s character after the game? Two? Three minutes?

Regarding Platner… I’ll do without the lectures on sacrificing the moral high ground by people whose previous party included such luminaries as Strom Thurmond and Trent Lott.

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Exactly this.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social

And one reason this is REALLY important is bc if your response to this is to say WAH WAH MERRICK GARLAND instead of "I will hang the slush fund for terrorists, cop assailants, and child sex predators on every GOP candidate," you will continue to lose. Bc it's how we lost in 2024.

Totally. FUCK DUE PROCESS! 🙄

Michael@fleerultra.bsky.social

turns out it was a bit of a whoopsie to focus on low level j6 rioters rather than throwing the ring leaders in jail immediately and tossing the keys. oh well, better luck next time!

Yeah, Tom, what’s the secret sauce for GOP victory… Oh yeah, racism! That’s right. Guys like this always talk around that because it’ll invalidate his point, but that’s really what it is.

It’s an incredibly serious problem. It was also completely foreseeable in 2016. But hey, Bernie was screwed out of a nomination he deserved so it’s all good, right? 🙄

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

David’s right here. Anybody who went to law school and encountered the skeevy dicks who make up the Federalist Society won’t be surprised by any of this. Conservatives are a danger to society and why we can’t have nice things.

David Roberts@volts.wtf

Put aside, for a moment, what a fucking mockery this makes of the law -- how plain it makes it that conservative jurisprudence works backward from its desired outcomes. Lots of other people have yelled about that. It's worth yelling about. Instead, though, let's look at the substance.

I’ll listen to Nichols when it involves national security matters, the military, and nukes. Anything else, he’s just a bog standard conservative, and he can safely be ignored.

That’s the problem with a lot of tech bros. They’re all about problem solving. Which is fine in a lot of instances, but they don’t see the value in process. That’s the value of education; it’s not the end result.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦@emmettmacfarlane.com

"AI will let us turn PhDs from 4 year degrees into 6 month degrees!" Literally shitting on the part that makes it intellectual development. It requires things like *reading* for yourself and *writing* for yourself. Those aren't chores, they're part of skills acquisition and critical development.

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Replying to @elienyc.bsky.social

Racism is not an unknowable disease of the heart, it's a provable set of actions and responses. That's why the @nytimes.com can't handle. For them to admit that Trump is racist would mean they'd have to admit they been carrying the water for a racist all these years. They won't ever do that.

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The contemporary American left resorts to excess in protest or fails to achieve anything because they fundamentally refuse to seek goals intermediate to the ultimate endpoint. It's utopia now or nothing. And no form of protest achieves maximalist goals on impatient timelines.