michael black

why you gotta do me like this strange days

honestly this just makes me nostalgic for the obama years, I kinda miss everyone constantly losing their minds over the stupidest bullshit imaginable rather than committing 47 front pages worth of crimes on a daily basis

i don't give a rat's ass what matt yglesias has to say

I have discovered the exact, objective, scientific amount that Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder are lying and/or credulous. By solving this it means that I’ve won, which is the point of the movie, and really all movies if you think about it.

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

In this vein I find it helpful to remember Elizabeth Anderson's argument that the point of education is not to reward merit, but to create it.

I need to see The Devils today but I also need to see You Can See Everything today but I also need to see Whalefall today but I also need t

I can’t tell if You Can See Everything is a huge breakaway hit or if it’s specifically managed to dominate the niche demographic: everyone I’ve ever met.

if nothing else, it feels SO GOOD to hear this crystal clear framing, what a guy

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

dude is a natural

happy sickos day to all who celebrate

I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.

Dude sucks

(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)

finally trying Andor and if you told me some old imperial guy was saying to juke the crime stats within 20 minutes i would have been here sooner

Well I guess the nice thing about cleaning the house for guests is that you are, against all odds, also cleaning the house for yourself

No one wants to hear this but video games are the gym of the mind

all the pieces like "why a wealth tax doesnt work" miss the point. sometimes you just want to throw your drink in someone's face.

The one part of the V for Vendetta movie I kinda like is the part where he’s in a fruity apron

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

abolish the death penalty

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Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.

ebert on cage: still true

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

tagline kinda goes hard

You gotta give it up to Earth Wind & Fire for not even bothering to add a Water guy. They were just like it’s fine

Hey, I notice you're trying to influence political candidates during an election. That's really inconvenient, politically speaking. Wouldn't it be better to wait until after the election, when the candidate has everything they need from you, and you have zero leverage?

“Boy I hope this weapon doesn’t suck” Bloodborne 🤝 Mina The Hollower 🤝 Control Resonant

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't

and so white nationalism must be a response to something, it can't be it is own ideological formation with its own history driven by people with their own agency

🪿🪿 WHAT MANDATE 🪿🪿

I’m really trying not to go for cheap heat on here but you can write off any politician that does not support trans rights without equivocating because it’s the morally correct thing to do and additionally because it means they’re not above selling anyone out.