Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
So many red state races are something like..
Democrat: War hero with a master's degree in public policy who was caught on camera running into a burning building to rescue orphans.
Republican: Adjudicated sex pest who inherited dad's car dealership.
Election result: R +18
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
"Chat, we were based, and chopped"
We need an AI that turns Rembrandts into stick figures. Same difference
i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid
And just so anyone doesn’t misread and take offense at this I’m talking about Andrew Cuomo. Not about everyone in New York City who owns a car. I own a car. It’s just that I realize that that car imposes costs that I’m willing to pay.
A sculpture with 76 pencils.
A sculpture with 76 pencils.
I just made this design, based on the "72 Pencils" sculptures by George Hart: www.georgehart.com/sculpture/pe.... George's design consists of 72 pencils arranged in a triangular lattice. His bundles of 18 pencils are arranged in a hollow hexagon pattern and are glued together. In this version, I
Here's my bottom line:
Much of what they are doing is bad.
Much of what they are doing is unpopular.
Pushback is working.
We are winning.
Keep fighting.
Be creative.
Push for what you'd want.
Allow for insiders and outsiders.
Realize that change takes time.
Reduce harm in the meantime.
WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
I see this a lot in the church these days. Churches that are still trying to “rise above everything that divides us” are pretty much signaling to me that they’re not serious about my belovedness before God.
In other news I explained this meme to my EMDR therapist this morning and she lost her shit laughing
I have a thought about the ambient conversation.
Performative support for marginalized groups is a good thing, but it is mostly to let fuckheads know that they need to reexamine their assumption that fuckheadedness is commonplace.
In cases you were wondering . . . this is a photo that annoyed Pete Hegseth so much because he thought it was "unflattering" so he got the photographer barred. I encourage all of you to use it as often as possible.
Actually it’s just me going on and on about my fantasy league draft as the trapped players have to nod politely.
virtue signaling is good! it's good to signal virtue, it's good to practice virtue! it's bad to be so cynical and bitter that you can't even see that.
in a world where cruelty is being exported at scale both online and in the streets, it is extremely important to share your values and to signal to other people what you think is right.
performing virtue is good actually! it’s definitely way better than performing vice!
right now, showing public support for trans people, for immigrants, and for abortion access is both 1) incredibly important and 2) punk as fuck.
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
Dude is not stupid; that's the wrong take away from this. But I can tell you for sure he's also definitely not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.
Mathematicians have by far the best, most mature, least insane reaction to LLMs showing up.
Honestly, I don't think there's any field of study that adapts better to major IT advances than mathematicians.
yup. it take a shitload of work to become a naturalized citizen.
and then you've got chucklefuck up there with his smug smirk of moral superiority from having the "right" paperwork from... being born in the right location.
The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.
the one single thing poetry is good for is I was halfway through trying to formulate the thought 'this time of year and this cool misty weather it takes all my strength to not just quit my job and fuck off bike touring' when I experienced the thought Oh, right, whan that Aprille—
the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success
The problem with this “sacrifice for our freedom” language is that the Trump administration cannot articulate a single half-plausible reason it did this, didn’t bother to explain to the public it was starting a war in the first place, and has changed its explanation for why three times in a week.
