RoughestDrafts

These days, I am so tired of the people who are tired of everything being so political these days

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

I find it really confusing that being an expert in one field makes some folks more convinced in their expertise outside their field, rather than less. Seems like experts, of all people, should know how hard it is to come by expertise, and notice the kinds they haven't worked hard enough to claim.

Can we please just Truman Show him until it's over? Please?

Very proud of all y'all in the comments getting the apostrophe in the right spot.

One thing that's been bugging me today: people who claim Dolly Parton wasn't political. False. She was very political. Her art and life's work were about interrogating power + amplifying the powerless. You only think she wasn't political because she did this by example, not bullshit slogans.

Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.

Warning⚠️ Every one of us whether we're a rich business person, a supermarket clerk, a teacher or a plumber is at risk from #ICELawlessness. They can target anyone. If your business has a rival, maybe that rival sends his brother in ICE to detain or harass you. That's authoritarianism inaction.🧵

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AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/

I'm genuinely saddened by Lindsey Graham's passing, because - and only because - Seth Meyers had built such a rich, Tennessee-Wlliamsesque narrative world around him and his Meemaw.

I've loved watching the U.S. tean. I love our players. But given the way things unfolded above their heads leading up to this game, I'm glad Belgium won. Any victory we could've achieved from here on in would have been tainted. Such hateful lust for ruining even the things he doesn't care about.

imputing consciousness to software is 1. factually wrong, 2. pathetically credulous, 3. dangerous, 4. demeaning to actual life. i admit that it's 2 that pisses me off the most but 3 and 4 are the true problem and they weren't the case, 2 would be less aggravating

So, you know,, sorry to the individuals who wanted a nice thing but I wanted a nice thing too and instead I got thi Maybe, when you don't celebrate the whole country, EVERYONE who belongs here and lives here, the celebration should go to shit and everyone should be miserable

a PLEASURE

As long as I live, I'll never understand the need to wallow in and spread one's defeatism. Does it comfort you to sow your hopelessness in others? Does it make you feel intellectually and morally superior to people who hope and work for change? Is it how you reconcile yourself to inaction?

There's a night that's the very last night your child wants you to rub their back while they try to fall asleep. You likely won't know what night it is until weeks after it's already happened.

They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.

It’s an insult to “working class voters”—many of whom are women!—to claim that a candidate who represents them is bound to have a history of partner abuse, mercenary soldiering, and acting like a Nazi tattoo is cute.

I fear that this hellish timeline is teaching our young folks that the world is your oyster the moment you learn to overcome your distaste for insincerity.

Happy 226th Birthday to John Brown, the only white boy to ever truly understand the assignment

Listening to the unimpeachable Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack has me a. mainlining nostalgia and b. realizing why so many Boomers are estranged from their children. Every other song is like "Ha ha ha here is how I compensate for my utter lack of emotional self-awareness and it's cute actually"

look, it’s time to embarrass these people. ask them if trump could play quarterback right now for the cowboys, ask them if trump is more mortal or god, ask them if donald trump deserved an oscar for his performance in home alone 2

Reflecting back on the life events that have made me who I am today, I think 13 is probably the worst age for most anyone to discover the Johari window

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Idk man I feel like even if AI scraped from 100% ethical sources, had zero impact on the environment, and produced gorgeous work, I’d still think you were a bitch for using it

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Admittedly not the first trait you're looking for in an FBI director, but can we really blame Kash Patel for concluding he'd been fired when he couldn't open his email? The internet is out here dunking on him for this as if his boss didn't have a penchant for firing ppl on live TV, via tweet, etc.

Inconvenience? I just had to dig seven pages deep to find the unsubscribe for one of the four TV subscriptions I need, I'm measured & optimized against in my supermarket, lamps, music, games, and travel. Every service I love gets enshittified to buy billionaires yachts worth 100 times my house.

Hoping you'll all join me in the Criticize Melania Trump Without Resorting to Gross, Lazy Misogyny 2026 Challenge!

As a constituent of yours, @kaine.senate.gov, I hope this story isn't true. You know better than to enable a war run by fools and murderers, the kind of people who help kill schoolgirls then lie about it.