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Some people deeply need to log off and go outside Jesus Christ
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the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
This is mostly correct and I’m not sure how (I am) this is remotely controversial
Okay this one irritates me so I’m gonna say something! I have never ever said “Move to Cincinnati.” I have just insist that we need to recognize that MOST AMERICANS live in places like Cincinnati or Minneapolis, not NYC, which is important if you’re going to talk about conditions in America.
Arguably you could say his takes on how you should move to Cincinnati are transphobia in practice but like that definition makes like 50% of urban liberals transphobes and imo dilutes the definition. He probably would respond saying you could also move to MSP
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is mostly correct and I’m not sure how (I am) this is remotely controversial
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bring back NBC's Kings
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
bring back NBC's Kings
You may think bless your heart is the deepest cut, but “im praying for them” is even deeper
I’m praying for them
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
You may think bless your heart is the deepest cut, but “im praying for them” is even deeper
Don’t fuck with the casinos
Bad news for Kalshi
*KALSHI IS SUBJECT TO NEVADA GAMING REGULATION, JUDGE RULES
*DRAFTKINGS EXTENDS GAIN TO 7.3% AFTER KALSHI RULING
*FLUTTER QUICKLY CLIMBS AFTER JUDGE'S KALSHI RULING; UP 3.5%
*KALSHI IS SUBJECT TO NEVADA GAMING REGULATION, JUDGE RULES
*DRAFTKINGS EXTENDS GAIN TO 7.3% AFTER KALSHI RULING
*FLUTTER QUICKLY CLIMBS AFTER JUDGE'S KALSHI RULING; UP 3.5%
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Don’t fuck with the casinos
I always forget she’s like 53 and not like 90 because her brand of corrupt shitty would make soooo much more sense if she was
BREAKING: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announces she will not run for a fourth term. x.com/MurielBowser...
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I always forget she’s like 53 and not like 90 because her brand of corrupt shitty would make soooo much more sense if she was
Can I say something without everyone getting mad
Deeply unsettled by this older photo of Mike Johnson with a beard.
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Can I say something without everyone getting mad
Hey gang, all 144 of us are going to be on this tin can for 70 years — surely there will be no problem with y’all having random hook ups.
The most unrealistic aspect of Voyager was senior staff encouraging hook ups; also a very realistic aspect was everyone hooking up.
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Hey gang, all 144 of us are going to be on this tin can for 70 years — surely there will be no problem with y’all having random hook ups.
It remains a very bad indicator of our political climate that these sort of factors are *remotely* predictive of your party alignment!
gonna once again reiterate my position that my, or anyone else's, intrinsic characteristics (be they gender, sex, race, LGBT, whatever) are not somehow invalid because they hold different views on politics, the economy, [social] justice, etc than you do. Its very strange some of you disagree!
this kind of "throw every random social justice accusation at the wall and see what sticks" approach actually just discredits social justice. come on. let's do better
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It remains a very bad indicator of our political climate that these sort of factors are *remotely* predictive of your party alignment!
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I am no less queer because I'm an economist, we've been doing this discourse for a week now and i'm getting piss fucking tired of it. I don't have to hand in my queer card because i don't fit your particular flavor of leftism. bsky.app/profile/sky....
Something I’ve commented before is this site in particular has a sort of funhouse mirror “model minority” thing going on where if I don’t check all the boxes that someone wants I’m somehow “not really queer”, like, bite me.
I am allowed to believe things like “free markets generally maximize welfare outcomes” without surrendering my queerness and it’s frankly deeply insulting to say I’m not who I am because eg. I have an Econ degree. Even the fash on Twitter don’t go that far (granted, they’re just calling me slurs…)
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I am no less queer because I'm an economist, we've been doing this discourse for a week now and i'm getting piss fucking tired of it. I don't have to hand in my queer card because i don't fit your particular flavor of leftism. bsky.app/profile/sky....
We’re doing Children of Hurin
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
We’re doing Children of Hurin
I saw this so do you
“Beef Smoothie” is how Olivia refers to the guy in her book.
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I saw this so do you
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Trump: "Despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys. They could be fat, but they're still MAHA. They've been fattened on a steady diet of grass, beef, to allow the smoothies and all the other things they have been eating for this occasion."
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Ultimately, the Real Failure of Political Leadership has been a refusal to do what is necessary even if it would mean losing political power. Also a failure to be honest with voters.
if i were PM (and this is why I will never be PM), i'd raise broad-based tax rates and conduct tax reform to consolidate taxes and use said funding to pay for restoring the criminal justice system, the NHS, and other public goods
My pre-budget take for the LSE Politics blog is up:
Labour are unable to articulate any vision or sense of purpose.
Much of the left has convinced itself that government spending can be maintained without broad-based tax increases.
Not a great budget backdrop.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Labour are unable to articulate any vision or sense of purpose.
Much of the left has convinced itself that government spending can be maintained without broad-based tax increases.
Not a great budget backdrop.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Ultimately, the Real Failure of Political Leadership has been a refusal to do what is necessary even if it would mean losing political power. Also a failure to be honest with voters.
The Great Khan will eat him
Trump on Pritzker: “I would never want to talk about his weight. I don't talk about people being fat. I refuse to talk about the fact that he's a fat slob. I don't mention it.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The Great Khan will eat him
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
Anyway — I’m not yet in Buying Phase — but I’m trying to decide about a few things: new build vs existing and toownhouse/condo vs detached.
Paging @ed3d.net @proptermalone.bsky.social @peark.es for Normal Men assistance
Paging @ed3d.net @proptermalone.bsky.social @peark.es for Normal Men assistance
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Anyway — I’m not yet in Buying Phase — but I’m trying to decide about a few things: new build vs existing and toownhouse/condo vs detached.
Paging @ed3d.net @proptermalone.bsky.social @peark.es for Normal Men assistance
Paging @ed3d.net @proptermalone.bsky.social @peark.es for Normal Men assistance
The Biden administration actually tried to do something about it but you’re here almost exclusively because the first Trump administration opened the flood gates and then undid everything Biden tried to fix
My in-laws have a landline and they have already received 7 scam phone calls on it this morning.
The inability (or refusal; my largely ignorant assumption is that it’s a little of both) of government to do anything about this problem is maddening and corrosive.
The inability (or refusal; my largely ignorant assumption is that it’s a little of both) of government to do anything about this problem is maddening and corrosive.
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Biden administration actually tried to do something about it but you’re here almost exclusively because the first Trump administration opened the flood gates and then undid everything Biden tried to fix
I think Will is kind of annoying at worst, but like this kind of stuff is stupid as hell.
No, I do not “pick on” trans people, I have never done anything like this. And frankly, I think the willingness of some people to completely invent accusations of transphobia in the desperate search for a cudgel against ideological opponents suggests they don’t really care about transphobia
Listen dude, you can try and ride for this guy all you want, but the trans userbase of this platform fucking hates him because he picks on them. I'm going to listen to the trans people I know who are telling me he's bad. Plus I've been in these threads and seen it
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I think Will is kind of annoying at worst, but like this kind of stuff is stupid as hell.
Black Fleet is so dumb and stupid and omg I love it. It’s my favorite series of the old EU
Speaking of Star Wars, let's do this. Does McDowell get better at writing women in Book 2? Eh.
I'll start with the structure. Instead of intercutting between everyone's stories, this book is divided into three novellas devoted to the main perspective character for each, Lando, Luke, and Leia.
I'll start with the structure. Instead of intercutting between everyone's stories, this book is divided into three novellas devoted to the main perspective character for each, Lando, Luke, and Leia.
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Black Fleet is so dumb and stupid and omg I love it. It’s my favorite series of the old EU
This isn’t new though, and I would deeply encourage Will to understand that the phenomena he’s describing is both real but not particularly new.
It was, in fact, a huge feature of the early days of mass media when there were thousands of low quality dailies being pumped out.
It was, in fact, a huge feature of the early days of mass media when there were thousands of low quality dailies being pumped out.
Demand for bad news is insatiable, and we’ve built a media ecosystem where the vast majority of content creators have total freedom to simply invent bad news to meet that demand
local TV stations' websites will display stories about crime in *cities in other states* when there isn't enough local crime content
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This isn’t new though, and I would deeply encourage Will to understand that the phenomena he’s describing is both real but not particularly new.
It was, in fact, a huge feature of the early days of mass media when there were thousands of low quality dailies being pumped out.
It was, in fact, a huge feature of the early days of mass media when there were thousands of low quality dailies being pumped out.
It’s upstream of this just a little, but the Publishing Industrial Complex fed by Publish or Perish has been insanely bad for Academic Research
apropos of this shit, one of my hobbyhorses - that i recognize i am in the minority on - is that open-access publishing is a fucking scourge on academic integrity. closed access journals used to make significant effort to determine "is this a quality paper", now anyone can print if they pay the fee
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It’s upstream of this just a little, but the Publishing Industrial Complex fed by Publish or Perish has been insanely bad for Academic Research
You probably couldn’t do a better advertisement for Scouts and *why* they needed to change than this, Pete
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
You probably couldn’t do a better advertisement for Scouts and *why* they needed to change than this, Pete
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Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
This such an incredible self own
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL CONFIRMS FBI HAS REQUESTED INTERVIEWS WITH SIX U.S. LAWMAKERS WHO WARNED ABOUT ILLEGAL MILITARY ORDERS
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This such an incredible self own