Phil Stanton

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

a 25 year old could not comprehend how bad the dining options were in the median American town in 1996

I am so fucking exhausted with this shit. My traffic and income have dropped exponentially due to meta’s censorship. I never post anything against guidelines, and despite that I’m not allowed to share a measly sfw linktree in my bio OR my highlights, but THEIR FUCKING CHATBOT IS SEXTING PEOPLE

There are two types of people

buying warner brothers is the invading afghanistan of corporate m&a

reserving a half-hour block of time on my calendar to restart my work laptop because windows 11 is a good operating system, not a conspiracy to make humans look unproductive compared to robots

SCOTUS delenda est. It is democracy, or SCOTUS. They have made it very clear that there is no other choice. Expand it, reverse its worst opinions, and then ruthlessly strip it of jurisdiction. Don't trust an expanded SCOTUS in the long run.

Who called it "dating" and not "capture the red flag"?

The whole mediocre enterprise was worth it because it resulted in my favorite movie review of all time. gizmodo.com/michael-bay-...

In addition, most leaders of most countries since the invention of national borders would fall to their knees in gratitude if they had the kind of relationship with a neighbor that we had with Canada. They would be singing glad hosannas and slaughtering fatted calves in thanks.

“So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would.” Acts of the Emissary 6: 19.

I am generally skeptical of boycotts. But I don't think one can overstate the degree to which J.K. Rowling has chosen to make loathing of trans people and cruelty about them into her primary identity. Nobody on earth will suffer from skipping the Harry Potter series. Let's not make her richer.

I can tell the bond folks the exact date Kevin Warsh will start advocating for major rate hikes to tame inflation: January 20, 2029

Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES

Fantastic writeup of an incredibly complex problem with the interdependence of the entire food system and how the people it screws hardest are the people who care most

Almost all software development effort is wasted.

This is the correct Graham take.

Well, that was a fucking ride.

Ever since someone described “A vampire the masquerade cinematic universe where someone neglected to tell the filmmakers that the characters are supposed to be vampires” I can’t not see it

This is the most corrupt act of the most corrupt presidency in American history.

Japan is one of the most R&D intensive non-US countries, and RIKEN is its most prestigious (non-university) research institute. If you isekai’d it into the US, it only has the fourth biggest R&D budget in the state of North Carolina, which is like the twelfth biggest state bsky.app/profile/awma...

So weird how when it benefits the Dems, the entire year of an election is “too close” according to the GOP, but when it benefits the GOP, one week ahead of an election is just fine for the GOP.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instinct only: Babylon 5 The Good Place The Americans Orphan Black Better Call Saul ST Deep Space Nine The Originals The Vampire Diaries Parks & Rec Survivor Game Changer Make Some Noise Buffy TVS Lost Friday Night Lights

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

Congress is given the power to enforce the 15th Amendment’s ban on racial discrimination in voting through “appropriate legislation.” Today 6 Justices took that power away from Congress based purely on their desire to help the GOP. Everything else is beside the point. SCOTUS is not a court of law.

This is treating Trump v. United States as law. It is not law. It is anti-law. It belongs in that category of Supreme Court decisions which were not merely wrong, they were illegitimate and non-binding from the day they were issued. It is owed no more respect than Lincoln gave Dred Scott.

I don't even watch The Pitt & I liked this piece. I could almost hear @lafergs.bsky.social nodding along about fandoms' negative influence on TV discourse these days.

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

I can tell I’m a whole other level of Magic sicko because my strongest takeaway to reading the white cards in the Secrets of Strixhaven spoiler is “wow, they used up three more one-word card names!!”

incredible

The Internet was a beautiful thing for a while. It is now exclusively for people who are mentally ill. One might think that would make it a niche product, but it remains mainstream by making more and more people mentally ill.

It’s wild that the biggest threat to world peace and the global economy is the president of the United States of America.

A reminder of why Trump waged war on Iran: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

the vogons have chosen the venue for introducing themselves to mankind

This bird looks like it's going to say, "Please, detective, you have to understand I have no idea who killed my husband and I'm terribly sick about it"

This (and the linked blog post) is absolutely fucking fascinating

I don’t think we should go back to twitter levels of toxicity but there’s a lot of confidently stupid turbolib opinions on here that can only exist in a low predator environment.