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Stepping away from poaster combat to share something very different I've been thinking about for the last few days. On Wednesday I went to the Bosnia-Qatar game in Seattle with my wife and in-laws, who were forced to flee Bosnia in the 90s.

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social not sure if you're aware of this but apparently someone has set up a substack/podcast network that uses AI to read random blog articles and your series on peasant life is one of them: askwhocastsai.substack.com/p/collection...

If Brazil decides to straight ban Meta and X for real that might actually be enough to start something.

Lol, absolutely lmao

To-do list for SD Mayor Pete and DSD Uncle Frank (and the transition team): - at 1201 rip down the stupid fucking sign, regardless of whether Congress has officially changed the name (not looking good for the 27 NDAA lol) - at 1202 issue orders to rename all the confederate bases back*

imagining further that Sebulba is one of the guys taken by the infamous Anchorhead Con downtroddendeity.tumblr.com/post/7071007...

Fellow WA voters, let's bury this. I can't imagine any parent wants to subject their child to this vile "examination."

ngl "this twelve year old rape victim is a duplicitous harlot" is not exactly how i expected this to go ambitious double down, even for Vance

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times. (1/3)

Of great interest www.ukrainesarmsmonitor.com/p/the-rise-o...

Wtf do you MEAN "26% saw wagering as a part of their long term financial strategy."

Sports gambling is eating fucking everything and it's going to be absolutely pulling teeth to evict it from society.

NARRATIVE BUSTER: After months of anti-trans ads by Republicans, the latest ABC/Washington Post/Ipsos poll shows... Democrats have a +9 advantage on "transgender issues." abcnews.com/Politics/dem...

Why is the Telegraph breaking this???

When it's a student at their own school I can sort of see how it happens. An elementary school though is just so far beyond comprehension. End of the day though this is the blood sacrifice our country has inexplicably devoted itself to.

Its interesting how the mental changes of parenthood manifest sometimes. I'm just starting the audiobook for @patrickwyman.bsky.social's Lost Worlds and one of the opening anecdotes is about a Neolithic mass killing of a family group and I'll be damned if it didn't kind of fuck me up for a bit.

Always funny when this happens and demonstrates how much of this website operates purely on poorly calibrated vibes.

you are both UNITED STATES SENATORS raising like a particularly ambitious Chicago alderman

I need Dems to address how completely immoral and racist this is. Abdul El-Sayed was born in Michigan! I get that a lot of Americans have a moral intuition that immigrants should be grateful but El-Sayed *isn’t an immigrant*. He has as much reasons t be grateful as JD Vance.

This is the Jay Jones texts all over again lmao.

I'm actually struck by how similar this is to the anti-Israeli "spiderweb" theory, that Israel was a fake state and if you gave it one solid hit it would crumble and all the fake residents would scatter.

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

God forbid any Democratic candidates do anything that could be seen as helping Netanyahu. After all, there's so much momentum for change! /s

🧵 I want to make one point about the federal permitting bill. Before I do, I'd just encourage everyone who's interested in the details to listen to this podcast, which covers them ... extensively. There's a lot of complicated stuff in there & the cartoonish portrayals you see online are misleading.

Someone is going to make a horror movie where all the villains look like this and its going to smash.

Extremely funny to see how many people are hella mad about this.

Honestly the house of Saud being Trump's final betrayal would be both poetic and exactly what thru deserve.

the novel carrie ends with an ominous note about other children like carrie appearing across the country, with a traumatized nation shocked by the violence and Congress struggling to make sense of it while King meant ESP, we've seen new carrie whites appear in a different form: the mass shooter

stargate sg-1 weapon of terror vs weapon of war meme but it's pl*tner vs ossoff

This is a common error, almost none of the Russian national casualties in the Ukraine war are conscripts, they're volunteers. To be technical the North Koreans are probably conscripts and there is some unknown number of foreigners that are essentially pressed in under false pretences.

Ultimately the solution to rotten institutional culture is to dead the institution and build a new institution that isn’t rotten. That’s kinda the only option. That’s also how actual rot often works.

literally the first thing i wrote for liberal currents was about this, it turns out, and short version "william b. fuckley is right." the answer is that blue politicians need to start gaming out how to break cop strikes. it's not hard... but you need to actually be prepared for it.

The idea of sending AI agents to flood the phone lines of right-wing talk show hosts with endless calm and reasonable rebuttals has a certain appeal

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

Still fucking furious that I didn't get a chance to boot this PoS out of leadership.

I’m sorry in which town In WHICH FUCKING TOWN No, fuck you all, suffer in silence you absolutely wretched demons

This is bad but I have to admit it will be very funny when Dinesh D'Souza gets kicked out of CPAC.

Holy cow!

Man listening to a UK Labour pol dance around actually answering a question and I can see the appeal of a lying/deluded right winger who will at least fucking say something definitive.

The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.