usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
Twitter conversation between sj and Amarion: sj: Its true, the 1/3rd pounder burger failed in the US because ppl thought quarter pounders were bigger Amarion: Yeah cause they are???? sj: 1/3>1/4 .33> .25 Amarion: what are those signs
Wanna see the greatest tweet of all time
Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.
When I told @ajbauer.bsky.social he was a poet, he answered something like "I'm not a poet, the world is poetry, I'm just a journalist reporting on the poetry," which itself is poetry
Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security.
A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/
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newrepublic.com/article/2074...
A Facebook post from Dontray Lamar that reads “1 like and I’ll cancel the open house” The post has one like, from Dontray Lamar and one comment from Dontray Lamar, reading “”say no more”
Oh, haha, or this?
bsky.app/profile/marg...
All the wrong people have imposter syndrome.
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
Ope: www.indystar.com/story/news/l...
AES to customers: “NO COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSES FOR YOU!”
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"Everyone is 12" theory remains undefeated.
At this point, I think there might literally be a 7th grade boy running White House comms.
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You won't be able
to fix it all.
You will be able
to love.
- Helms Jarrell
Feels like some streaks will be ending…
OOOOOOOOHHHHHH. I bet people are NOT going to like Friday, March 6th’s Wordle.
Wordle 1,721 5/6*
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My friend Penny is a brilliant storyteller and just an overall badass.
Please consider donating to her project because you support the arts or you’re a cyclist like her or you think LGBTQIA2S+ folx rock or you want to be my best friend.
Just send whatever’s in your Venmo/PayPal account. It’s easy!
I donated!
I wish I could be there, but I’ve got a 3-week+ petsitting gig from the end of March through mid-April. Otherwise, I really would have tried to make it out there.
Break a leg! (🫣) Can’t wait to hear about your successes!
“Eat dinner with your family.”
I have a wonderful, loving family WITH WHOM I AM HAVING DINNER ON SUNDAY, and even *I* think “Eat dinner with your family” is ridiculous.
Measles came roaring back, and trans people are being erased, and this dunce advises eating dinner with our families.
Fuck off.
And if this administration were serious about fixing it, they’d do more than saying “Cook and eat dinner with your family.”
They’d call off the actions in Venezuela and Cuba and Iran and wherever else. They’d work toward meaningfully reducing costs. They’d fucking figure out healthcare. And rent.
I am not contemplating hurting myself or dying by suicide, but I sure have been thinking “What is even the point?” a lot lately.
This is not a request for pity nor for encouragement nor for pep talks nor for compliments.
It is an acknowledgement that things are pretty bad for many right now.
#HashtagRealTalkYouAll:
I identify with what Secretary Kennedy is talking about here. Not in a MAGA, loneliness-epidemic way, but “spiritual malaise” resonated with me.
I got laid off in January. The job market sucks. And the people in charge are actively making things worse.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is a mean, cruel, sad little man, and I pity his dark, rotten soul.
To be precise, Secretary Made You Flinch was rambling on here about "radical narco communism AND narco tyranny"
Seems he just likes to throw a bunch of fancy words in a blender, toss in some ice, a splash of juice, a full handle of vodka ...
From FT comments
PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
Che J Holloway
The link was this: insideclimatenews.org/news/0203202...
Warning you’re wearing headphones/earbuds, because woof. But also, this person is not alone in this rant:
This is cool as hell.
Great work, Maurice and GenCon!
Too bad there aren't any rich people who could run ads with this information on every social media and regular media channel.
