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Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

chart for dinner and the chart tastes so bad

RIP to this man. This is a really powerful 62 seconds of video.

“Fascism rises from desperation, a crisis of essentials” no it doesn’t. No it isn’t. It rises from guys wanting to look cool and be cruel

I know I'm a broken record on this, but one part of what is going on is that people have literally no idea what the US immigration system actually is; effectively, that there are no pathways into the country legally for someone who wants to wait in line.

my take on this remains consistent: far more americans are bigoted on this front than I'd like, but transphobia is a luxury belief it's the kind of thing you can get people mad about if and only if they don't have real problems to worry about, and there is no shortage of real problems right now

It got papered over way too quick because the GOP won in 2024 but the brain drain happening in the party infrastructure is very real Yea it’s bad a handful of billionaires can single handily bankroll a party but at best their money is worth ¢.6 on the dollar or worse they air ads in the wrong state

re-uploading because I misspelled their name. I'm sorry Biddy Blas, you deserve so much better.

The funniest/saddest reaction to this amazing article has been people going "wait, Stellaris has WRITERS?" Yes folks, if a game has words... someone probably got paid to write them... even if that game isn't an RPG or a visual novel...

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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Will is obviously smart and has made many excellent arguments in his time, but if Republican appointees appoint conservatives to amicus roles like this all the time and Democratic appointees do the same to show they're getting ~balanced arguments~, when do liberals get appointed?

Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms

The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing.

I SAW THIS POST SOMEWHERE AND I FEEL CALLED OUT

I really would love it if Democrats would spend more time saying “if Trump tells you to do a crime it is still a crime and we will do our best to have you punished for it”

"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake." 🎯

"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' and even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, and they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." 🎯

so much of "alignment" rn consists of ignoring existing knowledge of how to responsibly build and manage automated systems and doing this instead:

Station master cat is ready to greet customers in Ashinoyu Onsen Station, Japan. 📸 ashinomakionsen

This strikes me is a common misunderstanding of the argument for humanities education, which is not that it serves as some sort of individual inoculation, but rather than it produces a citizenry more capable of self-governance when distributed widely, especially for decision-makers of every kind.

I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not

Are you telling me “octomom” isn’t even a harmless weirdo she’s A VICTIM OF MEDICAL ABUSE????

Wu on redistricting if Dems get control: "You do the exact same thing that they did to you until they say mercy" and agree to national, bipartisan reform.

Yesterday, Russian journalists asked Zelenskyy when he would go to Moscow, and the Ukrainian President gave a very short answer.

HAPPY BI VISIBILITY DAY TO THE GRUNGLER !!!

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

I think the median American position on trans rights is something like “I don’t understand why that man wants to wear a dress but by God it’s his right as an American” which is pretty good, you can work with that

This stuff is just...it's just abuse-victim logic.

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Bebop, Swing, and the Jawa Jazz: Re-evaluating Figrin D'an and the Model Nodes

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

seriously this is gonna leave the combined company 87 billion in debt that they'll start writing off immediately and as soon as they can they'll create a new company out of the less valuable brand without its most valuable assets but carrying most of that debt load

Guarding the aquarium. 🐟 📸 Albert Susana

if you’re going to invite proven liars on your program this is the only way to handle it just call them out in real time for their bullshit if you’re not prepared to do this then you’re not prepared to have them on

When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.

Trans women will be like "you have GOT to hop on this game, it's peak" and it's some Japan-exclusive shmup for the Sega Saturn called

i thought this was very funny

Quick storytime: My wife was less-than-delighted by her Iraq deployment. She was also in possession of various random old books which my father would send in care packages. And she was bored a lot.