Once again, McSweeney's hits the nail on the head. The finest "satire" that cuts a little too close to our national and communal bone.
Chef's kiss.
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Once again, McSweeney's hits the nail on the head. The finest "satire" that cuts a little too close to our national and communal bone.
Chef's kiss.
😬I'm sure this will be fine😬 "Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study"
www.carbonbrief.org/...
It shows without a doubt that this war, and Trumpism in general, center around performing masculinity.
We have to start seeing what is happening in the world through the lens of the social construction of gender or nothing makes sense.
A lot of people had a good laugh about this back in 1991. "Oh dear, there goes Harold again."
Reactionaries convinced us for decades that something like gender studies has no practical use in society, and I know many reasonable people also believe(d?) this. It was the butt of the joke for as log as I can remember.
But OMG does this video drive home the point they were wrong.
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
It's really unfair to compare this to Iraq in 2003, at least then they had the decency to put some effort into their lies and deception.
A good piece on the lack of ambition for housing affordability in Sydney www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social, was honoured to write the @theguardian.com obituary for sculptor and educator David Harding. As town artist in Glenrothes he embedded sculpture in everyday spaces, shaping a vision of public art that lives with the weather and the street.
Excerpt from Financial Times story.
Well.
Elon Musk wielding a flamethrower; he is roasting the snout of a giant frog Image: Gage Skidmore (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_(54350004945)_(cropped).jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en -- Brian Gratwicke (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lithobates_pipiens.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Blowtorching the frog; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/05/e...
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"This is what true civic participation looks like: I was informed, I voted for Harris, and the machinery of state went into motion as a direct result of my action."
word(s) of the day:
"What fresh hell is this?"
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[Dorothy Parker]
Philip Guston, “Cherries,” 1976
Mu Qi, “Six Persimmons,” 13th century
Wondering, under the tumult of my usual breezy wrongheadedness, whether Philip Guston knew of the thirteenth century monk and painter Mu Qi’s “Six Persimmons” when he painted the 1976 “Cherries.”
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
Exemple de cohabitation possible entre piétons, cyclistes, tramway, automobilistes, végétalisation. #Villeurbanne #T6Nord #Insertionurbaine #tramway @sytralmobilites.bsky.social @grandlyon.bsky.social
WATCH: This is my favourite thing on the internet right now. Well done Norway! youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
American suburbia has always been a Ponzi scheme.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
This is really dirty. Palantir, Mandelson, Global Counsel. NHS. www.ft.com/content/6c54... NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company
'The dry and thewet burn together' -
"Wars of choice rarely confine themselves to their intended targets. They consume not only the combatants but the assumptions that animate them"
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social
@lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
"Operation Epstein Fury," is it
*I can't help but wonder would Epstein himself would say about this. He was a depraved math teacher turned into an oligarch courtier, but good lord what a surreal posthumous career that guy is having
*He never asked to be Bigger-Than-Elvis
And 165 non-artificial schoolchildren were blown up by all this advanced and precise targeting. Congrats to everyone involved on achieving this brave new world.
The war of theocracies
I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?
Better off sticking to archives.
David Pope in Canberra Times
Is Trump’s war on Iran legal? That’s up to the US and Israel to decide and they have a great track record on these things
First Dog on the Moon
International rules-based order for thee but not for me
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.
