Mind Beams

When someone suggests that Nintendo's board of directors is not composed entirely of clones of Jesus Christ

I'm currently in a discussion re: the budget resolution. I expressed concern over cuts to programs like SNAP. Someone told me I was lying, and to prove this, she shared an unsourced screenshot about how SNAP will be unaffected... by the federal funding freeze that took place several weeks ago.

I'm beginning to suspect that a lot of English speakers believe saying "rinse and repeat" is obligatoruly when they describe something that repeats. You guys know you can just say "repeat," right?

The lack of ability to collapse comment threads in this app is bothersome.

If Biden let Taylor Swift and a team of Swifties assert themselves into government computers to get everyone's social security numbers, do you think "unelected bureaucrats should not have this much power" would have been an easier pill for Trump's supporters to swallow?

It is getting legitimately difficult to keep track of all the terrible things that are happening.

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

Sir Pentious did nothing wrong

One of the highlights of this article is how in Spain, thanks to their pesky policy that all people are entitled to shelter and that squatters aren't just kicked to the curb, this poor woman is scared to own two houses! 😢 Won't someone think of the rich people?! www.cnn.com/travel/ameri...

You ever think about how you're pretty much always counting to zero, whether you know it or not?

This is indeed a catastrophic day. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Well this was predictable. I don't think this is the worst it'll get.

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Thank you, Android. Very cool.

What do warm-bodied people and unscrupulous YouTubers have in common? They sleep with fans.

You should have to earn a sports car or a PS5. You should not have to earn healthy food, clean water, or a roof over your head. I don't want to say of my society, "everyone indulges and has their whims fulfilled at all times." I want to say, "nobody goes hungry or freezes to death in the gutters."

It bewilders me immensely that so many users here have decided not only to clumsily adopt a new term where "tweet" is already culturally entrenched, but that they've settled on "skeet" and genuinely believe that to be better.

Here in the US, if violent weather/fires/floods strike an area if it's liberal, MAGA says god is punishing them, if it's a MAGA heavy area they say Democrats somehow control the weather. The willful ignorance is depressing and demoralizing.

Meanwhile, American children go hungry because half of our electorate lacks the empathy and will to feed them. www.npr.org/2025/01/06/g...

I love all the quintessentially American responses to this ice storm. Just a bunch of "you can't tell ME what to do!" and anti-intellectual agitation against the idea that educated meteorologists know what they're talking about.

My New Year's resolution is to be more optimistic! This is going to end poorly.

Has anyone made a "Charlie's Angels" joke about Hazbin Hotel yet?

Trump: Merry Christmas America! Me: :) Trump: We should conquer Canada and Greenland! Me: :\

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"If oxen and horses or lions had hands, and could paint with their hands, and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen." --Xenophanes, ancient Greek philosopher.

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Hey everyone I drew a heckin' Kirbo

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How did the triceratops feel when she got back from the gym? Dino-sore. #OriginalJokes #DonutSteel

We are far past the point where we should have started panicking, but *still* we can't get anything done. #Climate #ClimateChange gasanature.org/100-nations-...

Violence is never the answer. I urge you to have some sympathy for the UnitedHealthcare CEO. The same level of sympathy that UnitedHealthcare executives have for the countless people who have been denied coverage or charged exorbitant amounts for their healthcare.

"It should be a crime for the proles to breed" is your unhinged hot take of the day.

average republican governor in 2024:

Sure, I may not be "successful" or "happy" or "able to emotionally regulate without psychotropic medication," but did YOU pull two Mewtwo EXes over Thanksgiving?

Remember all the folks deeply worried about "the twitter files"? they were sure it was mortal peril for social-media execs to be in communication with the federal government? As @mmasnick.bsky.social notes, they're *awfully* quiet about Musk's dual roles right now www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Conservatives when they realize "freedom" has "free" in it:

A favorite activity of mine is seeing how people who proudly boast about their faith explain why doing what Jesus said to do would make us into a Marxist hellscape.