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Part and parcel of establishment liberalism and its overlearning of Clintonesque "triangulation"

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

@andreapitzer.bsky.social explains Ezra's befuddlement as Bright Kid Syndrome.

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Sigourney Weaver eating a hot dog in Los Angeles, 1983. Photograph by Douglas Kirkland.

This is incredibly exciting! Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist behavioralscientist.org/is-it-all-a-...

No thoughts just the cat who moved into a capybara enclosure and became friends with all the capybara

JB gets it. We need to be a party that welcomes young people and new ideas if we want to not only win, but help the people. Let's get to work!

"I thought he was lying" is a strange reason to vote for someone.

1987 Sony WM-F107 Solar Walkman

i dont like it when things happen. thats a slippery slope to more things happening

This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII

(guy who invented mittens) fingers: what if there were just one big one

It's a convenient worldview because it always gives you a way to blame failure on someone you don't like

"gentlemen may talk of the age of chivalry but remember the ploughmen, poachers, and pickpockets whom they lead. it is with these sad instruments that your great warriors and kings have been doing their murderous work in the world."

I probably would have picked Alanis but in pseudo retrospect you're right

When Sally cucked Harry

They killed Jim Henson because he was on the verge of building a muppet that had a soul

This is actually very insightful

The Godfather of the resurrection of the European far right has died. He defined the third wave and was marginalized by the fourth. A vain and nasty man, who will be missed by few.

It's 2025 and I'm still writing 2024 on my hacky outdated jokes.

The thing about Vivek's "white Americans are being pushed towards mediocrity by the culture" argument is its also the thesis of Hillbilly Elegy

Here is a Christmas gift months in the making: an RF rip of the greatest magic special in history. Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, directed by David Mamet, never released on home video, sourced from an internal HBO Production tape sourced by @pulsingcinema.bsky.social: archive.org/details/rick...

More public figures should do this

“the hawk tuah girl has been milkshake ducked by her memecoin” i say as the neurologist schedules me for an emergency MRI

I wrote about a fundamental problem with algorithmic social media—that it was developed by misfits and cynics to diminish the value of interpersonal cohesion—and how conservative have exploited it to finally build the noxious, dominant counterculture they always wanted.

An undocumented alien who is a member of the media elite and battles a self made billionaire? Has wokeism gone too far? 😁

Yeah man this is like my eighth rodeo. I'm just really stupid

when someone is rude to me it always reminds me of the book 1984

38 years ago my father gave me my first computer. Today I will travel back in time to stop him.