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I’m driving through rural Texas, prime insane right wing billboard territory and I just saw a billboard that said “no healthcare for the peasants but a ballroom for the king”
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’m driving through rural Texas, prime insane right wing billboard territory and I just saw a billboard that said “no healthcare for the peasants but a ballroom for the king”
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
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I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer
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Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
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The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.
Oh were you feeling a little hope? Well you can stop that right this second, mister. This is Bluesky. Nothing improves in this here town. We're all on an inevitable crash course and you just gotta like it.
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Oh were you feeling a little hope? Well you can stop that right this second, mister. This is Bluesky. Nothing improves in this here town. We're all on an inevitable crash course and you just gotta like it.
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Please join us on the next Ezra Douthglesias podcast, where we will once again discuss how The Democrats Must Not Talk Funny & need to Reach Out to Real Folkz with an Abundance of Moderate Popularism 🧐🤔🤷♂️
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Please join us on the next Ezra Douthglesias podcast, where we will once again discuss how The Democrats Must Not Talk Funny & need to Reach Out to Real Folkz with an Abundance of Moderate Popularism 🧐🤔🤷♂️
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Watching this again and once again the kids are mesmerized. A perfect film
An expression of corporate ideology is how they keep remaking the literally perfect Chuck Jones version of THE GRINCH THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS to "update" and "modernize" it instead of trying to make any new children's entertainment in the same style as the extremely successful original.
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Watching this again and once again the kids are mesmerized. A perfect film
I do love that jack white plays it live. He sounded... squeaky? But the instrumentals hit.
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I do love that jack white plays it live. He sounded... squeaky? But the instrumentals hit.
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The Nuzzi thing is a good reminder that outside the deep structural issues of energy/subsistence, most of what's happening right now is an old-fashioned crisis of elite legitimacy, which sounds comforting until you realize how some of those have turned out in the past
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The Nuzzi thing is a good reminder that outside the deep structural issues of energy/subsistence, most of what's happening right now is an old-fashioned crisis of elite legitimacy, which sounds comforting until you realize how some of those have turned out in the past
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Biden was old, tired, sick, stuttered, & clearly wasn't what he once was, even ten years ago.
But everyone, especially Tapper, Thompson, Nuzzi, & the rest of the elites, who made it something else & pretended he was just like Trump should be deeply ashamed. But we don't seem to do shame anymore.
But everyone, especially Tapper, Thompson, Nuzzi, & the rest of the elites, who made it something else & pretended he was just like Trump should be deeply ashamed. But we don't seem to do shame anymore.
Look I don't want to say you're a rube if you fell for the "Biden's incompetent" trope but it was clearly a con coming almost exclusively from bad faith actors and had almost zero solid evidentiary basis.
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Biden was old, tired, sick, stuttered, & clearly wasn't what he once was, even ten years ago.
But everyone, especially Tapper, Thompson, Nuzzi, & the rest of the elites, who made it something else & pretended he was just like Trump should be deeply ashamed. But we don't seem to do shame anymore.
But everyone, especially Tapper, Thompson, Nuzzi, & the rest of the elites, who made it something else & pretended he was just like Trump should be deeply ashamed. But we don't seem to do shame anymore.
Sure, why not:
1. Bad Religion - Incomplete from Stranger than Fiction
2. The Beatles - Taxman from Revolver
3. The Heavy - Since You Been Gone from The Hurt and the Merciless
4. Familiarity - The Punch Brothers from Phosphorescent Blues
5. Hold On - Alabama Shakes from Boys & Girls
1. Bad Religion - Incomplete from Stranger than Fiction
2. The Beatles - Taxman from Revolver
3. The Heavy - Since You Been Gone from The Hurt and the Merciless
4. Familiarity - The Punch Brothers from Phosphorescent Blues
5. Hold On - Alabama Shakes from Boys & Girls
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Sure, why not:
1. Bad Religion - Incomplete from Stranger than Fiction
2. The Beatles - Taxman from Revolver
3. The Heavy - Since You Been Gone from The Hurt and the Merciless
4. Familiarity - The Punch Brothers from Phosphorescent Blues
5. Hold On - Alabama Shakes from Boys & Girls
1. Bad Religion - Incomplete from Stranger than Fiction
2. The Beatles - Taxman from Revolver
3. The Heavy - Since You Been Gone from The Hurt and the Merciless
4. Familiarity - The Punch Brothers from Phosphorescent Blues
5. Hold On - Alabama Shakes from Boys & Girls
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also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
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So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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The extent to which literally everyone in this administration is a fucking moron with no idea what they’re doing is, I would say, unprecedented. In Trump 1 you at least had a couple vain, amoral careerists. Now I think I would personally be able to do a better job than any given cabinet appointee
Brooke Rollins: "The farm economy -- we do have a package, a bridge package, we're finalizing ... it's just a bridge to get us to next year per the president's promise that he wasn't gonna leave any of our farmers behind."
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The extent to which literally everyone in this administration is a fucking moron with no idea what they’re doing is, I would say, unprecedented. In Trump 1 you at least had a couple vain, amoral careerists. Now I think I would personally be able to do a better job than any given cabinet appointee
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almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
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Again, she is welcome to caucus with the Democrats at any time until the lawless authoritarianism ends.
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Again, she is welcome to caucus with the Democrats at any time until the lawless authoritarianism ends.
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She is one of the minyan of people who could literally end almost all of this tomorrow. I’m sorry, she doesn’t get any points anymore, at this late date, for basic ante-level stuff like this. Do something already.
Also another reminder that <10 people in Washington - all of whom are Republicans & all of whom keep getting total daily free passes from the media about their cowardice - could end most of the madness tomorrow by simply caucusing with the Democrats & giving them control of both the House & Senate.
Suddenly the special election in TN-07 becomes potentially hugely consequential. It shouldn’t be competitive, but if Democrats steal it, when Greene resigns the Republican majority will be down to 218-216 w a sure Dem seat with no special scheduled in Texas.
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
She is one of the minyan of people who could literally end almost all of this tomorrow. I’m sorry, she doesn’t get any points anymore, at this late date, for basic ante-level stuff like this. Do something already.
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you don’t understand, under Biden doordash was expensive
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
you don’t understand, under Biden doordash was expensive
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all pies are good. simply do not say to me that any pies are bad. i do not even want to know about the kind of life that would so warp a person as to think any pie is bad
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
all pies are good. simply do not say to me that any pies are bad. i do not even want to know about the kind of life that would so warp a person as to think any pie is bad
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"ugh you are so annoying. and here's why the Way That You Are is a crucial contribution to US hegemony"
no. stop. release yourself from this
no. stop. release yourself from this
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"ugh you are so annoying. and here's why the Way That You Are is a crucial contribution to US hegemony"
no. stop. release yourself from this
no. stop. release yourself from this
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A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
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Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
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this is because people want to turn their cities into museums of their own past. they don't want the future. they want to turn into dust reflecting on how awesome they used to be
It’s really incredible how we decided that cities should no longer be physically shaped by the industries that carry them. I wrote this about the tech industry’s lack of a built legacy in Manhattan over a decade ago, but it could be written 10x over in the Bay Area newyorkyimby.com/2014/12/how-...
How New York City is Robbing Itself of the Tech Industry's Built Legacy - New York YIMBY
With strict limits on growth in Midtown South and on the Brooklyn waterfront, tech giants are leaving little architecture behind for future generations.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
this is because people want to turn their cities into museums of their own past. they don't want the future. they want to turn into dust reflecting on how awesome they used to be
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Think it's also time to start acknowledging that there's a bunch of people who don't actually play the games, and their whole engagement with the medium is doing culture war bullshit with games they haven't played as a pretext
Two months after firing over Charlie Kirk comments, Ghost of Yotei dev blames harassment campaign, not 'bad joke'
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November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Think it's also time to start acknowledging that there's a bunch of people who don't actually play the games, and their whole engagement with the medium is doing culture war bullshit with games they haven't played as a pretext
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Mandela effect is the logical culmination of conspiracy theory brain, you would rather construct an entire fictional parallel universe than admit you misremembered something.
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Mandela effect is the logical culmination of conspiracy theory brain, you would rather construct an entire fictional parallel universe than admit you misremembered something.