WizardCat

A 28-year old dude, one who was utterly clueless about global health and development, took evil, callous actions that contributed to the deaths of 500,000 kids within one year of gutting USAID

On depicting dragons.

In dollar value, the Venezuela oil scheme ($13 billion) is TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE worse than Iran Contra ($140 million, inflation-adjusted). It's impossible to overstate how much MORE corrupt Trump is than every single American who has ever come before him. We're completely without precedent.

Dario Argento

This feels like the sort of case Omar will not have any difficulty proving is a vindictive prosecution if it goes that far

You can buy a huge media conglomerate with money you don't have using leveraged debt you'll never pay off and then immediately start firing its workers, but people will still say that capitalism is compatible with democracy and is capable of "reform" or "regulation"

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

God I hate that the thing that's hurting MAGA the most is gas prices. Not corruption, deportations, a gestapo rounding up immigrants & non-white citizens, the Atlantic-Pacific murders, the self-enrichment, the public health atrocities, assaults on 1A, selective prosecutions, etc. Fucking gas prices.

just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

Real 【ｄｅａｔｈ　ｇｒｉｐｓ　ｗａｖｅ】 Hours

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

Classics professor Emily Wilson has published a 15,000 word review tearing Nintendo a new hole for including a jump button in Ocarina of Time. "I am going to kill you in real life," she threatens over forty times.

I think that it is very reasonable to believe that Musk, a clear believer in Eugenics, is thinking exactly this way.

Post something random or you’ll have an awful September

I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.

we’re at costco and my husband ordered a hot dog from the cashier and the guy said “what flavor” and my husband said wat and costco guy said “jk there’s only one flavor. it’s hot dog” and my husband said dammit you did this to me last time and the costco cashier collapsed in giggles

Omaha cops said ok we'll stop using the shock gloves on children at school "However, the suburban Bellevue police department that patrols two Omaha schools and the large Bellevue district said its officers will continue carrying the gloves."

"The USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t able to be resupplied because the U.S. Navy’s main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed by Iranian strikes—a fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chose not to make public, said David Rhode [natsec reporter for MS NOW]" newrepublic.com/post/214510/...

we’re getting our asses kicked up and down the Arabian peninsula, but that’s just the price you pay to make sure a trans girl in Wisconsin can’t play volleyball

Now that almost everyone in the country has been directly harmed by at least a few of Trump's bizarre and moronic policies, many people are wondering how it is that he could be so stupid. Bluesky users know that it's because he got subsumed into an extremist movement at war w/modernity.

"The team found that the greater the proportion of enslaved people in a county in 1860, the bigger the mortality gap between Black & white people in the 2010s, even after controlling for common factors tied to health inequalities, such as rurality or pop. density" www.science.org/content/arti...

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

your Tesla supports mass child death

If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.

We need to be saying this loudly and clearly: These people have lost their fucking minds.

world realizing in real time the american war machine is this unable to protect not only its allies but its own stuff like bases, has any idiot ever gambled so much and lost it for essentially no possible upside? at least he became an important historical figure in the end i guess

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.

Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common.

Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm

one of the Sisyphean goals of my life is trying to convince somebody, anybody, to make a serious attempt to roughly quantify whether police in the US cause more deaths than they prevent

one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people

Incredibly funny how Orban's Hungary appears to have been a load bearing pillar of the chud internationale's infospace operations

Moon farmer bender: Did ya’ll come here on a space-y ship? Hermes: Stop talkin like that, you live on the moon!

it’s insanely funny that haus of decline’s content or publicly expressed views haven’t really meaningfully changed in years but within six months of coming out as a trans woman everyone gets mad at her like every three to six months

Lmao I fuckin called it

it seemed like a wild coincidence at first that kirk was literally in the middle of making a racist comment when he was shot, but that's pretty much all he did. the odds were actually high

"my stomach is eating itself"

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out