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so it begins.

I regret to inform you that there is some bullshittery going on.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

Annie Andrews in 2022: "This does nothing to protect or support women or children in SC. I will always support trans youth" Annie Andrews in 2025: It's wrong to "throw this population under the bus to score political points." Annie Andrews today:

Annie Andrews spent 14 years as a pediatric hospitalist at MUSC Children's Hospital in Charleston. She has three kids. She is not trans. On Monday the president called her “Trannie” three times in his official endorsement of her opponent.

wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...

On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs.

The president is a rapist and war criminal who has covered up for pedophiles, terrorized the streets of American cities, used government to enrich himself, stolen voter registries, killed American citizens, deported legal citizens to foreign prisons, denied people due process of the law,

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

There’s something very weird about this RAF terror case. I’ve reported on terrorism for 35 years and I’m struggling to recall a single case of a terror suspect being released on bail

This is so disappointing. A few days of holding firm against an assault on the free press doesn’t cut it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...

For my newsletter this morning, I found a small glimmer of political hope for trans people in the US and wrote about it: www.burnsnotice.com/we-may-have-...

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This aesthetic slaps, ngl

Been messing around with Doom Builder

Trump: Iran war will end soon

This is better than encouraging people not to vote on here.

My metric: 1. 18-30: Very young adult 2. 31-45: Young adult 3. 46-75: Adult 4. 76-90: Elder 5. 91-100+: genuinely Impressed you're still around. People will say "Oh but V, it's hard to feel that way when your knees hurt everyday" Have you contemplated seeing a Doctor/working on that?

This is true of all forms of media. You will never read every interesting book or find every interesting album or watch every interesting movie. You’ve just gotta find things that seem compelling to you and accept that time is finite and you’ll be missing other, different things.

We are entering a golden age of GTA VI discourse, and this is an early contender for the most pathetic and unhinged hot take in what is sure to be a very crowded field over the next few months.

IT'S AUGUST 26TH

DHS just posted this mugshot of Milo Yiannopoulos

Boy people sure think about you a lot when you die

i think the big data center backlash has a lot to do with technology getting worse, costing more, building a surveillance state, destroying the environment, owned by a class of wealthy elite that coalesced behind the fascist regime that made clear they’d sacrifice humanity for their own power growth

Reuters: “France's top court blocked a bill banning social media access for ‌under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of expression, a setback for President Emmanuel Macron who asked his government to rewrite the legislation”

"Global warming is causing sunken Nazi warships to resurface" is a bit too much 2026 for me, thanks.

But the wine moms, woke sickos and black ladies who form the foundation of the party want fights. They want heads on figurative pikes, not high fives over a shared love for seersucker or whatever. Centrism does not require dispiriting lassitude, but the dispiritingly lassitudinous are all centrists.

The basic fallacy here is that public opinion on these issues is strongly-held and immutable, which is plainly false: witness immigration - imagine had we gone all-in with the poll-sniffers on Trump's immigration policies in early 2025. Empty centrists have no values except winning, yet they lose.

www.kxan.com/news/texas/u...

Trump attacks birthright citizenship, again, against the 14th amendment and in defiance of SCOTUS’s June decision.

Conclave cancelled!

No, WE'RE about to break into your bank account. Give us another $100 billion or we won't be able to stop it!