Jeremy Pober-geist 👻

has he denounced Cecil Rhodes

King Leopold flew so this guy could crawl

Nothing says "I ran to help the people of this country" like peacing the fuck out the minute you lose

folks, he's running

Floridian folks can and do enjoy drunk driving and they’re still Floridian because drunk driving isn’t inherently Christlike

Came out of a very specific discussion, but perhaps good to remember more generally

Look, I'm an evolutionary physiologist, ok? I believe in biology, not this sentimental feminist claptrap. Women are biologically optimized to be nurturers. They run households, they don't fight lions. That's why they're the only ones we can trust to govern our complex, industrialized civilization.

RIP to a real one

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

THANK FUCKING GOD LULA WON 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Oh, he's good

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So I think the sneakier rhetorical purpose of such claims is activating worry. The very fact of not having immediately seen it as a sin against the Folk Ways of Noble Savage Pickup Truck Enthusiast to insult Cheesecake Factory's aesthetic will activate the worry this is proof they're out of touch.

i've been told that packing the court would be "the end of the republic" but "the president literally pardons everyone for everything and then tells them to commit more crimes" would actually be that

Bluesky: what's your Honest Starter Pack? Mine is "will never consistently post on whatever made you follow him"

[turn trump’s post over] YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS ARE 5 17 45 45 47 47

punkin dunkin

I know it's tempting to do post hoc ergo propter hoc today. Hold the line.

a message from the future

This is incoherent if you try and understand it through the lens of civil rights or antidiscrimination law, but completely bog-standard and normal if seen through the framework of diaspora nationalism.

Titanic!

$250k to totally flub a question, paying kids $200 a head to yell at a candidate!?! WTF insane that the GOP is constantly accusing protesters of being paid and then paid out a quarter of a million to just one protester's org www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Designed in a lab to counter the onset of Seasonal Affective Disorder

"three Trek appearances on three different series" is the character actor equivalent of winning a batting title

The concept of the American right getting horny for a gender swap of an evil character created by a Scottish woman who famously hates real life gender swapping makes me want to just stare at the horizon until the heat death of the universe.

Petition to stop using "Judeo-Christian" to describe Euro/North American culture; start using it to describe whatever the hell Bob Dylan believes these days.

here's my take: he's extrapolating from interviews he did with people, and that is not an empirical basis for predicting potential polling error. i am additionally a little skeptical of this narrative, which is basically just another way to punch left to demonstrate media neutrality (derogatory)

i thought of a good use case for ai and it's "running up a corporation's token bill to churn out useless bullshit so you can spend most of the workday dicking around"

There’s no such thing as “biological Polishness,” and it’s actually bad that some left-wing anti-Zionists have talked themselves into “blood and soil nationalism, but leftishly.” You really can oppose the existence of the state of Israel in its current form without this nonsense.

My recent book AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview is free online today and tomorrow (through Oct 19, presumably UK time). I don't think the hard copy is available yet. Get it while it's free! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Netanyahu is a genocidal war criminal who belongs in the Hague, but Jews were not considered ethnic Poles based on the Polish government, and Polish Jewish last names were forced on families against their will. This kind of conspiratorial rhetoric about Jews faking their identity is gross.

the hardest lesson that overly-online millenials will ever have to learn is that cringe is over, cogent expressions of civic virtue are cool now, and we need a reboot of The West Wing yesterday