VT Left Flank

Went to go see if someone had already written something like this in preparation for the Kirkiversary and got hit with the best AI overview I've seen.

Damn.

>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade What did he know?

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

⭐️⭐️ There’s literally no mice at all in it. And I think one of the men is broken

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

"But Hitler improved the German economy" "Mussolini made the trains run on time" I do love when liberals give up the game.

A small crew of farm workers are hard at work pruning the branches in an apple orchard in Western NY. The cold weather snow and ice on the trees makes the work more difficult. At the end of the day their pants get soaked from walking through the snow. #WeFeedYou

Wrote a thing about my old boss, @ilhanmn.bsky.social, why her story is so American, and why it makes the Right so stupid mad. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I keep waiting for Microsoft Edge to finally Microsoft Cum, but it never does

Satire is truly dead

finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well

Me deciding on a good time to go to bed

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

Damn a card carrying communist! I wonder if I am also a card carrying communist. That sure would be an interesting turn of events

The problem is y’all wanted all of the noblesse with none of the oblige.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

lol this is what they fired him for saying

Karma is a real bitch

the really tragic thing about donald trump dying is that it has completely overshadowed gavin newsom dying on the same day

My "why are LLMs making everyone crazy" thought today is that these algorithms behave like the sycophantic yes-men that surround the very rich and powerful - who also go nuts but, usually over a longer term (over years rather than months) - but as I see it, there are two fundamental differences:

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

In this op-ed, we break down why police are often not welcome at Pride parades because of a history of violence against the LGBTQ community. Read the full story here ⤵️

the process of buying a house made me a socialist; having kids, a communist

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.

bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location

?????

reposting my favorite ‘trans day of visibility’ tweet on bluesky

Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade

Giving children agency is good? Well what if the agency was the CIA? Not so good now, huh.

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you'll be shocked to hear how the liberals ate shit: they kicked left in the hopes of appealing to the right, the right told them "you don't get it: we don't want to work with you, we want to crush you," and then the liberals, realizing too late they needed the left, tried to take it back. oopsie