Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
my defense secretary is going on tv every day to do sephiroth voice on the verge of tears
they want one SO bad
owen is a champ, i'm super proud that he was once a Defector intern defector.com/how-i-became...
All these companies are like "We can't just turn these chatbot services off," really, I'm old enough to remember Vine
Especially amazing given that Trump completely “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities just eight months ago.
amazing blog torontolife.com/deep-dives/m...
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it.
We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."
Hey, remember how we let a nazi near-trillionaire annihilate the US state capacity? I know it was a whole year ago, but it turns out that this has consequences beyond "murdering 14 million people by ending USAID" (which apparently no one cared about).
Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose
Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?
If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.
Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.
Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump
Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?
About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.
Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.
Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran
I’m currently reviewing whether the last brownie was improperly eaten in a father-related scarfing, as has been alleged.
We're clear-eyed: Every AI company and investor has massive incentive to hype the most glorious AI case. So the technology might never live up to its promise. But this would require every CEO of America's seven biggest companies to be collectively delusional about where they're spending trillions in combined capital.
wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something?
www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...
receiving a letter from my lady love after eight months at sea reading “I have oft thought fondly of thy todger” and getting so horny I bore a hole through the keel
This doesn’t sound like the Wesley R. Dingus I know
i hated the shit out of this adaptation defector.com/emerald-fenn...
not counting Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, I think mine is the one Star Wars movie, where Palpatine returns
That’s Dan❤️🩹🦅
two that come to mind are Fierce Attachments and Crook Manifesto. Fierce Attachments isn’t strictly *about* New York City but it’s a hell of an important character
Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
A two-panel Little Bubbie Child comic. Top panel is the little bubbie child asking, "Dad, hwat was it like a livin' in the 90s?" Bottom panel is dad responding, "Sometimes you'd open a can a peanuts and they'd come snakes outta there."
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
"deprofessionalizing" fields that are majority-women...not by accident!
Using Mr. Rogers in a Super Bowl commercial for mortgages should result in prison time
i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want
