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Outta my sight, scrub

The pro-life party who argued that violent movies were corrupting the youth now wants to live stream a public execution. Got it.

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

AI Chatbot disclaimers that say the information it gives may be inaccurate is like Q-Tip telling people not to stick it in your ear

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

Buffalo Bills Mandate of Heaven has arrived

in a staff meeting and resisting bopping my head to the Greek National Anthem playing in my mind

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

a supporting pillar of online discourse

contemplating making "lama sabachthani" an expression of exasperation

when does The Odyssey come out on YouTube Free With Ads so I can watch it

Supreme Court allows Trump's mass executions to continue while case proceeds through the appeals process. - NYT (2028)

Having worked in school all my life, [...] we are very sensitive to plagiarism [, which] is when you take a couple of people's ideas and you present them as your own. Well, what do you call it when you take a lot of people's ideas and present them as your own? That's called "research". —Fr Tom Hopko

I clearly need to get out more

vocal analysis/song analysis YouTube channels are too positive. I want someone brave enough to post a video picking apart a Depeche Mode song for being musically wrong

when did there stop being creators and only being creatives?

looked up the background to why "glaze" has become a word to describe excessive/cringeworthy praise in recent years... and so glad I didn't use it in a work meeting when being dismissive of people who are a little *too* into their chatbot that they've named and who does all their work for them

they're called waffles because they fill you with wa

If the Dems do a Project 2029 type thing of shovel ready policy papers it's gonna be a lot of shit like "loan forgiveness for pell grant recipients who start business" when it should be "we asked 50 retired OEM dealer relations lawyers how to fuck over car dealers and here's what they said"

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”

if Woke 2.0 doesn't have this energy, then I don't care about it

appropriate ad, no notes

every TTRPG's character creation process is a minigame, not just Traveller's

I think we need a term for the opposite of enshittification. Something like ensweetification

there's something deeply satisfying about Elon Musk attempting to do his usual "robots on the Moon and a space fleet too" shtick, but instead of doing it to sycophantic followers, it's to investors on an earnings call and they're all smelling bullshit

They need to hammer down relentlessly on this. They can't become overconfident, like they did with Hillary in 2016.

they should call it the hottie-haughty merger

worst thing about The Odyssey being big right now is everyone saying it like Theodicy

gonna watch The Odyssey the way God intended: on my phone sitting on the can a couple months after it's put on streaming or something I guess

I get way too much satisfaction from walking through a room, getting "i want some potato chips" from my kid and going "that's nice" and continue walking

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

gonna start talking like this to my boss

written like a true Albanian #TheOnion #AlbanyNY

when did people stop following ONE WAY arrows? the ONE WAY signs are still up, the arrows are still painted on the asphalt, the ENTER ONLY and EXIT ONLY signs are still up, but I'm encountering people who ignore them every week now. Did they abolish one ways recently and nobody told me?

real patriots are in control #TheOnion #InfoWars

big fan

now that the Iran thing is over (for a week? a month? a season?) we can go back to our previous national topic: the Epstein Files

An effective push back against GOP culture war tactics? Seems to me it should be.