Fishpeddler

bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris

This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.

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.

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Painted cycle lanes are the non-smoking sections of today's urban landscape. Both recognize a problem and the harms it causes, but are designed without the will or imagination required to implement a real solution.

This entire video is fantastic, but my favorite part has to be the shout out to the great work of Dr. Richard Pan. @drpanmd.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid...

"did you even read the article???? the headline is bad but the article is good!!!" buddy if I see a restaurant called Dan's Fecal Stew i am not gonna go in there to see if maybe they printed the sign wrong

Progressives think I'm right about the challenge, but many of them view egalitarian policy as a panacea. I like egalitarian policy! But I think they're wrong about the politics. We're witnessing the fruits of decades of effort to propagandize low-info voters, and need to blow it up or neutralize it.

"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review. I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway. My latest in @thenation.com

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

German Chancellor: "May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary." Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day." German Chancellor: "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."

I made this for you to share with people in your life who believe the lie that our mainstream media has a liberal bias. What other videos about our information ecosystem would you find helpful? youtu.be/AZOpA9WF9bg?...

Today it's official: The United States of America is a dictatorship. Fascism is here. Our freedoms are gone. The POTUS is ordering foreign dictators to build slave labor camps for US citizens. No one is safe anymore. It can happen to any of us for any reason or no reason at all. RIP USA

I must say I no longer believe that this is reminiscent of the Nazi playbook, I believe they’re using the Nazi playbook - offshore extermination and concentration camps, targeting people on basis of race and manufactured legality, academic onslaught, media, gender policing it’s all there.

It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.

Done. BTW, here's a site that tells you how to reject the corporate candidates if you're an REI member: www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-boa...

Right, so, let’s be clear what’s going on here. A handful of shameless hacks are hoping to cozy up to power by putting an academic gloss on Trump’s crackpot notions. This allows political actors to pretend the plain meaning of the Birthright Citizenship Clause is fiercely contested by legal scholars

That there is a happy cat.

This is not a good answer to this prompt but some chain of memories led me from it to one of the greatest videos on YouTube—Bowie and Jagger’s Dancin in the Streets is a C-tier 80s song and F-tier video, but this edit horseshoes it all the way around to sublime. youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc?...

3rd many in communities supported a harmful man because they believed he would be harmful towards others… and somehow leave them alone

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

Until last night, I would have expected a “Trump Crash” to be about the economy.

By all means mock Peter Thiel’s hypercringy Financial Times op-ed, but it’s a useful window into the stunted minds of the men who just bought the government, and we need to know what makes them tick before they foist more of their bizarre ideas on us. www.offmessage.net/p/do-not-wel...

They've tried this once, and only once, before. www.npr.org/sections/the...

i understand the urge to be like “wow the leopards are eating your face now” and fair enough but we just got through an election cycle where the media described mass deportations as “housing policy” and rants about windmills giving us cancer as “rousing energy proposals”

I was going to put the bat down and step away from the dead horse, but now that we've been quoted in the Guardian talking about the AI dingbats, I want to just say a couple of things about self-publishing and the value of $5,000.

The coming version of America will be hazardous to empaths because it will be run by sociopaths.

Personally, I would like to see more people signaling virtue and fewer signaling vice.

this one is just going to haunt me. might get a tattoo of it.

I moved to Europe in 2020 (for family reasons). There are several things Europeans need to know about what happened. 1) It happened bc of US' dysfunctional media ecosystem (Fox propaganda + disinformation + woefully irresponsible mainstream media). 2) It is part of a transnational plan for fascism.

the US Green Party is a fraud. an op. Biden passed the biggest climate bill in US history by an order of magnitude and they don't give a shit, they are pulling for Trump www.politico.eu/article/euro...

It took me eight years to write something about the Fascism Debate, so let me say this: what is most exasperating is that no one (save Paxton) seems to be willing to change their mind. Well...