Post-rock ergo propter-rock

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

they should get rid of the designated hitter and just let the pitcher try to throw a base hit when it’s his turn at the plate. that’s the way it always should have been

Hell yeah! Unions for everyone!

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

it's cool that you can send "STOP" to instantly block an automated political fundraising text message so they have to text you from a different number five minutes later

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Why does everything have to be so gross these days?

Regular reminder that Musk is really dumb.

This is what happens when young men do not have the moral and spiritual courage to just admit that they're dumb.

What if told you those things were inextricably linked, and you can't focus on the effects without focusing on the cause?

4 is the new 6 7

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

In the bedrock of my soul I know he started out thinking the press pool was a literal pool and has been seething with disappointment since he discovered the mistake

YOU HAD HIS EMAILS AS A GEORGE BUSH LAWYER WHERE HE SAID OF ROE THAT THE "COURT CAN ALWAYS OVERRULE ITS PRECEDENT, AND THREE CURRENT JUSTICES ON THE COURT WOULD DO SO."

"The *quid* will be, and I cannot emphasize this enough, *pro quo*."

How did you find out the young man’s identity, @wsj.com? hmm?

Where were you the day the take wars began?

it’s cool that technology has figured out a non-verbal way to have a verbal medium communicate that it hates me and I do believe it more viscerally than I would if the publishers of my favorite publications just published the statement, “we hate you for reading our words go watch a video” 10/10

"I include myself in my demand that everyone follow Christian doctrine and morality, excluding the times that I don't feel like it or am too drunk to remember them. But it's okay because I was born Christian, so I get the occasional hall pass, the number of which I decide on based on my mood."

"Let’s be clear: this is not religious persecution. It’s a test. And you can study for tests. You don’t even have to study that hard. You just have to believe in Jesus." buff.ly/oFYteni

it was the fuck-aroundest of times, it was the find-outest of times (gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

What a strange and wonderful life it must be, to be good at parrying in video games.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

They’re all trying to find the guy who did this

I had to read this several times to be sure, because I am still somehow unable to grasp that a human person, living on a planet full of people making music, spoke the words 'It's not really enjoyable to make music'

I guess it's as good a time as any to announce the new moderation list I have: "Silence, robot", for bots, LLMs, and agents that speak to you without all parties who will receive the notification having solicited the speech: bsky.app/profile/raha...

Everyone has their own reasons for choosing what platforms they use. But publicly signaling "it's fine to use" when for a lot of people it's literally not, strikes me as doing real damage to people who are most marginalized.

A company deeply embedded in digital advertising weaponized ads to help infect 45+ devices at the news network Al Jazeera with Candiru spyware. In this new @citizenlab.ca report, we present the first public technical confirmation of a zero-click mercenary spyware attack delivered via targeted ads:

Whom among us hasn't lied repeatedly about passing the bar and claimed to be an attorney in ways that are illegal in many jurisdictions?!

"The sky, which some critics would describe as blue, …"

Look, two things can be true at once: 1) Women are being disproportionately forced out of the Trump administration for things that men have also done; and 2) Every single individual mentioned in the story deserved to be shitcanned. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...

The thing I think about is how much effort it takes to type in all lower case on modern devices, especially phones: the default is to auto-capitalize beginnings of sentences and proper nouns. Seems like a real commitment to the bit to manually undo that, or to disable those features.

you literally never need to tell me why you're canceling a meeting or asking for a meeting to be canceled. Yes, we can do that, and I am sorry and/or happy for you about whatever happened

Occam's razor leads me to believe they're both lying and the did it together.

This would be illegal in a casino

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Ex-tra-di-tion *clap clap clap-clap-clap* ex-tra-di-tion *clap clap clap-clap-clap* ex-tra-di-tion *clap clap clap-clap-clap* ex-tra-di-tion *clap clap clap-clap-clap*

So, to me, the people talking about why they need to go back to X, even if I understand their reasoning, come across as scabs. And I have no respect for scabs crossing the picket line. Have some self respect and stand for something.

You can't build a better internet if no one participates. And, so the people loudly announcing they're going back to X, strike me the same way that scabs crossing the picket line do: the rest of us our out here holding the line to create a better world. And you're just deciding "fuck it, too hard."

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

A lot of people have been asking questions about the Yandex data center bombing and Russian bot trolls... and I figured eventually we'd get some more expert analysis... Sounds like the story wasn't really true: