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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

*BOLSONARO: FEDERAL POLICE REQUESTED I GIVE THEM MY PASSPORT

Sometimes I remember that the president launched his own microblogging platform

some of y'all have never played DnD smdh

This is an incredible read for the current moment

If you'd ever been to a Cheesecake Factory with a bunch of Midwest normies (aka my people) you would know that they like it BECAUSE it's tacky and over the top and they're in on the joke.

There's a possibility this backfires. Imagine the "Harris is for they/them; Trump is for you" ad worked bc voters were upset Biden wasn't focused on the economy (not bc they hate trans ppl). How will those voters feel about a GOP tanking the economy and then flooding their TV with anti-trans ads?

You can read the full story here (w/ @propublica.org + @nytmag.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/m...

No punishment is too severe for this man

imprison all of the pardoned people illegally and pardon the people who jail them, you gotta hit them with the reverse calvinball

Kinda incredible that Dream are still in this game with their star shooting 1/11

Fantastic sports day. I've fully turned into a sports lesbian

Portland rules

New — I wrote about Vivek Ramaswamy’s weaponization of Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse and how it’s only the latest symptom of a Republican party flush with rape apologists, led by an adjudicated rapist:

Convening a focus group of 30 people who have no idea what's going on and no expertise on basically any topic and just turning them loose. "Fuck me up," I tell them. "Just give me all the dumbest stuff you've got."

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

“But surely all academics want their papers to be read” you cry. Some certainly do. But a lot of people actively dislike it. They want them to be counted, of course, in various ways—n citations, impact of outlet, etc—but you might be surprised at how many would prefer people not actually read them.

I would go so far as to say that "debate" in practice is almost universally counterproductive for all participants. I've learned things from people who disagree with me, had my mind changed, observed friends changing their minds, etc. But all of that only happened when it didn't feel like a debate

Occasionally I remember that Richard Dawkins is a particularly hateful transphobe. And then I wonder if he realizes how much of his popularity and how many of his book sales came from trans people (many pre-transition!) in the 00s. Like no wonder he can't replicate the success of the God Delusion!

no way www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...

I don't know much about photography but I know I love the Micro Four Thirds format. I got this 13 year old camera which is also one of the tiniest interchangeable lens cameras ever made, to use with my old MFT lenses and I'm absolutely in love 💕

As a nominal Catholic, this is heresy. But also like, Ben Franklin would go Johnny Bravo over the existence of trans women.

ill be fucking their little tri-corn hat wearing asses up. founding fathers never saw brazilian jui jitsu. Never saw muy thai. im putting ben franklin in a kimura.

Something is deeply broken in that 45-64 cohort. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...

red light cameras take a picture of your license plate. that's it. they also have been proven to reduce light running comparing this to flock is dumb as hell

Systematic review relevant to the discourse on diagnoses and meds. "ADHD was associated with increased all-cause mortality, suicide mortality, unintentional or intentional injury mortality, and natural-cause mortality, whereas ADHD medication use was associated with reduced all-cause mortality."

It's already illegal to do shit like this; we've just stopped enforcing anti-trust laws. What if, instead, we just made it illegal for a company to be big enough to do something like this. What if any US company that becomes bigger than 1% of the S&P 500 gets broken up?

Good thing I've never built anything in php in my entire life

me explaining the latest cert compromise

Coming around to virtue ethics in my old age as well. Younger me would be embarrassed by this. But now I kinda dig it

this image produces a painful amount of longing and regret for me

my politics are such a niche and improbable combination of things that no single symbol could adequately describe them... ... oh