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Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on

Once you start to understand that there is a powerful and influential minority of Americans who think democracy is a bad idea, you start to understand the fight we are in

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

Oh no! How will we survive without people who don’t care about us?

Very sorry to hear about the death of the heroically decent Gerry Conway. I admired his doomed but utterly sincere efforts to reclaim the Punisher symbol from right-wing weirdos.

I think a fair question would be: If it is not reasonable for the president to attend an event anywhere except mythical DEFCON Ballroom, why attend so many events at the club in Florida?

if this strait doesn't open soon half of Asia is going to be as hostile to the US as they think Iran is

nothing more "we had a real country once" than knowing that a burger chain ran with a mascot called "Evil Grimace." ban focus groups and bring back the guy at the meeting who sells all the ad men on his fever dream

One earnest and sincere question I have for folks who position the restoration of "the social contract" as the way out of this: How can you restore a social contract among people who no longer experience a shared reality? This is not snark. I'm asking.

I hate talking about the ballroom bc I don't give a fuck about the White House and nothing there is sacred to me, but it feels obvious to me that allowing an authoritarian, who attempted a coup the last time he lost an election, to build a "top secret" military complex under the WH is a bad idea.

No powerful person in my lifetime has degraded American discourse and vilified, dehumanized and demonized those who disagree with him more than Donald Trump. He and his sycophants are blaming the left for the world they themselves built, and their complaints should not be given a moment's credence.

this is true Democrats wanted to pass legislation for fair maps, but Republicans wanted to play gerrymandering games, and now they cryin cuz they won a gerrymandering prize

Listen I read a lot, and a lot of it is dull as hell, and I’ll tell you one thing I’ve learned: tedious writing is almost always a product of the writer conveying, rather than discovering. When a writer is discovering, or sharing discovery, no editor on earth can scrub out the vividity & joy.

This … does not make sense. If you choose to go off-campus, you cannot take your secure ballroom with you. Unless it’s one of those folding ballrooms, like a dog crate.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

This is remarkable in its "Nope, we're not doing this again" lighthearted dismissiveness. Between this and Hakeem Jeffries's statement that Karoline Leavitt can "get lost," today felt like a pivot to a flat refusal to cede even a single day of the news cycle to Trump's manifest bullshit.

the best way to be miserable in life is to think of yourself as the main character and the best way to gave a good time is to think of yourself as a side character. No responsibility but enjoying the scene.

I’ve said this before, but the fact that an AI with perfect information can figure things out doesn’t really help in a field where the primary difficulty is understanding what you don’t know.

There is a huge market inefficiency in every country's film industry through underemployment of ugly people who can act and overemployment of beautiful people who cannot

Suzanne Collins is one of the most underrated writers of the generation

while I understand folks getting their jokes off about dude bringing his cell phone to a bank robbery, I do want to emphasize that the police sought and received more phone data than just the robber's! geofence warrants are basically a digital dragnet! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chatr...

My only hope out of all of this is somehow we all emerge, clumpy and clotted with the slop that nearly drowned us all, and we willfully -- viciously! -- demand a world of art and information made only by actual human beings.

My home office / command control is finally coming together 😈⚔️

If you also suffer from seasonal allergies, I highly recommend air purifiers, having them on all the time, and buying separate ones for your bedroom, home office, and main living space. They are also good for reducing the risk of respiratory illnesses and dander from pets.

Hard not to understand why people are taking the law into their own hands, given how devoted the elite class is to impunity across what are supposed to be hard ideological lines

In a world where everyone is 12 an elected rep is really out here declaring she's tabling a whole tax cut bill for them because they let her sit in the big car and press the siren button

This is a man-made crisis.

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social: "In short, we are ruled by a class of people who seem either to believe or presume that war, disease, and apocalyptic destruction are things that will only ever happen to poorer and browner people."

KitKat: take a break … from the panopticon

Sometimes you find a good chew for your chew monster.

Over four thousand reposts of a fake Nietzsche quote. Good job, everyone.

tmw you forgot a meeting and scrambled to log on like 3 seconds before then waited 15 min and left because everyone else also forgot the meeting

CJ Cherryh has announced retirement, everyone, raise your cups to a legend of the game. Thank you for your service www.facebook.com/groups/Balti...

I would love to ask Seal: "F/M/K...my power, my pleasure, my pain."

And this is the main thing I want to drive home. People aren’t shoplifting because it’s fun or their favorite podcaster is telling them to. They’re doing it because they’re broke or suffering from addiction more likely than not. This entire conversation is about a thing that’s largely not happening.

if they didn't want their lives upended by violence they probably should not have worked so hard to make violence a part of everyday life in the country where they live

I had a person get v annoyed with me once because she was like "haha will you put this in a story" and without thinking I was like"no none of this is interesting enough" and she got mad, the notion of being made fun of in text was less aggravating than not being worthy of being made fun of in text

So I don't really understand the "delivery insurance" that keeps getting tacked on to various online orders, which promises to make sure that my order gets delivered. Isn't that...already not my responsibility?

So they’re encouraging their kids to be into this stuff.

they are elected officials who think they have hereditary titles

The US has somehow hit the point where we now have an anti school shooting shooter with a manifesto

'Canva’s “Magic Layers” feature changing the text of a design from “Cats for Palestine” to “Cats for Ukraine.”'

TODAY: the Supreme Court is hearing oral argument in Chatrie v. United States read up before you (yes, you) get swept up by a "geofence" warrant 👇🏾 ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chatr...

I feel like every time I look at this dog he is bigger. How is that possible. He is not even nine weeks yet and he seems enormous.

in my experience some 90% of "spot the AI" tips videos are people who don't know how to use grammar and punctuation thinking you must be a machine if you do

This is why the “people are shoplifting for fun/revenge against corporations” angle is bad all around. Actual things are happening to actual people, which is driving actual behavior, and it all gets subsumed into an internet culture war that contributes to the justifications for these policies.

Signed Southern Reach copies now at Paulina Springs bookstore in Sisters, Oregon.

When doing research for Burn It Down, my book on patterns of exploitation & abuse in entertainment, it was sobering--no, demoralizing--to read, every few years (for *decades*) a "Scott Rudin in a changed man" feature. Relying on Rudin & people who wanted to do business with him for that narrative.

Every morning I’m charged $20 for even thinking about a grocery store, which is why I cannot live without a ballroom

What Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett is referencing here is Obama's 2012 statement that, if he had a son, he'd look like Trayvon Martin Feels absurd that a prestigious law prof is out here making posts with layers to the disgustingness!

probably a good sign for my marriage and a not nearly as good a one for my game that my wife is who let me know the last two times someone was hitting on me

Trump administration: Do not travel to Haiti or Syria, you could literally die Also the Trump administration, to the Supreme Court: Yea we're ending federal humanitarian protections & tryna send 356,000 people to Haiti and Syria right now. yesterday, if possible ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

I'm biotic and it supports me so by definition it is pro biotic

how your email finds me

things that will outlast the human species - the universe -time -Winamp's trial period

The kinder, gentler death squads

This weekend, I thought about the time a stray bullet passed through my bedroom window when I was 15. I was a kid. I had a lot of feelings. But compared to some of these White House correspondents, I was a model of grace and maturity. That's not self-praise, just judgment.

So to sum it up, I as a Black Jew who is at risk during the ongoing Gestapo kidnappings in Maine: — am not allowed to criticize Janet Mills who refused to sign anti-ICE legislation — am not allowed to make assessments based on polling — am required to *canvas* for a low-chance candidate ok

For many years, I didn't really decorate my apartments because I figured I would move soon and didn't understand how much of an impact it would have. Now I get how putting up art and buying new pieces is important, because I plan to stay here for a while, and it has a huge impact on my daily life.

very little of her post-Ronettes gospel work exists archivally, but play this in memory of the last surviving Ronette, whose legacy in pop music is eternal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM-t...

I'm so upset I didn't think of this

He fell on his face as he was being pulled out of the banquet room after a gunman who was on a completely different floor had already been taken down.

This is how we got one of our cats: someone asked us to watch the cat, we did, they did not pick up the cat after several requests, we shrugged and said, "fine, our cat now."

Do ppl who keep checking clearsky also go back home aftera commute and think about how everyone on the road who didn't like their driving feels about them

...NOTHING? are you sure about that? surely off the top of your head you can think of at least a few things

I think about this every time someone posts on Nextdoor or Reddit freaking out about seeing teens in DC…hanging out? Running around?

ngl hearing it's about caging politicians in a glass cabinet is the closest I've come to being a supporter of this project

One of my more feral research notes documents in a minute. Working on shaping these notes up into a 20 page show outline today.

I find rat funniest because there is literally a whole genre of film scene built around the fact the opposite is true

I think this is extremely funny because if you think ol FN ever said anything of the sort, you do not understand him at all

The name was so bad it broke this man and he started shooting

Canadian animation punched above its weight for decades with shows like Adventures of Tintin, Babar, Beast Wars, Clone High, and ReBoot and the closure of production at Nelvana is absolutely devastating

I've read a lot of disturbing articles about how AI fucks with people's minds, and Jesus fucking Christ, this is one of the worst cases I've seen. The people profiting from this are our enemies and must be plainly understood as such.

It's been like 3 years and on THIS APP nobody pointed out that it rains from grey skies not blue, never been more disappointed in you people

Fine,I'll fight michael tracey

what if I go back to buying albums on iTunes and using an iPod from 20 years ago out of spite

Under the 4th Amendment, cops are supposed to have probable cause, NOT search ppl's shit willy-nilly In Chatrie v. US, cops indiscriminately searched the phones of folks inside a circle w a diameter spanning 3 football fields, & developed suspicion along the way ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chatr...

Let me clarify: No matter how smart you are, you will never, ever bring me around to your way of thinking if your way of thinking is “don’t bother pointing out when things said by elected officials don’t make any logical sense.” It’s no bother. I enjoy it. I could do it all day.

wait till you hear what Usha's astrologer says

the Québécois term for peanut butter is “beurre de pinottes,” my god

Thinking about @gulabjammin.bsky.social today. "What we need are possibilities, not certainty." - Amisha Patel, beloved Chicago organizer May 30, 1975 - April 24, 2026

If you are bored of hearing about the White House Correspondents Dinner, you can read my newsletter that doesn't mention it at all! It's about writing and humanity and how sports owners teach us not to trust the super rich.

Max is very concerned.

Fun exploring central Oregon with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social today.

this is an incredible plot, I need a feature film

a few days ago someone on here said that jeffries was among the hardest-fighting anti-trump democrats in congress

I must conclude based on this story that these investors simply could not tell one black man apart from another. www.al.com/alabamafootb...

Always such a relief to see Leo vigorously shaming evangelicals

the 1870s: “we’re so back”

the Supreme Court has been wylin out on the shadow docket for a year straight and now Trump is basically arguing that lower courts are legally obligated to assume that those unexplained orders fully endorse his substantive arguments so... that's where we are now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

Another failure for Alliance Defending Freedom and their crusade to use the force of law in order to get schools to out trans kids to their parents.

“Why do all of our former colonies eventually look like this?”

I'm not conspiratorial about the whole thing but it does seem like this talking point was SO ready to go that they must have had it ready in their "just in case" files

the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city

📣 There are now signed copies of THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME with free shipping (within the US) available at my local indie bookstore! So if you missed the tour or it didn't come near you, you can still get one. Also, some of them have special messages in them! 📚💙 waterstreetbooks.com/book/9780593...

Got to see some old friends today!

After a hard day of killing people, it makes sense to let them kick back with a tax break

Windows update

Cricket solves for the fans fighting each other for the ball problem by just making everyone give the ball back and then they keep playing with it because fuck you why should we pay for a new ball because you won't get your own

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