The Bittersweetheart

JD Vance: "The price of gas goes up every time a foreign leader in the Middle East throws a tantrum" (This is different from what Vance said yesterday, which was "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum")

Slovenia mourns loss of glacier on its highest peak after scorching summer

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

Yale owes all of us a prolonged apology.

Still happening.

Relative to most animals humans are not even sexually dimorphic and it’s messed up we pretend otherwise.

"I'm warning you, with NO PEACE and NO LOVE: stay out of the secret Liverpool Tunnels. Do not go into the hidden maze of tunnels below Liverpool, do not try to find out why they were built. Stay out of the tunnels."

Hagueseth. It's Pete Hagueseth.

An atheist requested a "religious accommodation" to refuse AI at work—and his university agreed. David Durman says generative AI conflicts with his Humanist beliefs. Kudos to @americanhumanist.bsky.social for making it happen! www.friendlyatheist.com/p/atheist-wi...

average republican scandal: this politician is a child rapist funded by Russia. average Mamdani scandal: he played basketball with his friends in a court he had permission to use.

It's a form of collectivism that does not give a shit about the greater good, and instead cares only about the greater aggrandizement. Hurt who you want, as long as you add to the glory of whiteness. Lie; that's all good.

Like, what science has RFK produced? What Nobel Prize has he won? What literature award has he been given? And yet he feels like he can put on the Cloak of Good Approval earned by the White Appreciation Society despite his lack of accomplishment because of his group membership.

So I'm not gonna quote that stupid bullshit thing from RFK, but have you noticed that white supremacists insist that white culture is superior because they're individualists and Asians are collectivists and then they pull this shit? White supremacy is a form of collectivism. It's just a shitty one.

Yeah, that apparently was the league office. blacksportsonline.com/2026/10/poli...

This is where we’re heading.

My entire career in RPGs has been focused on overcoming this issue. We do it in a lot of ways. The single biggest piece of advice I can give is that players know what can scare them. Empower the players to scare themselves, and they will. Incentivize sub-optimal choice making!

The Scene reports here that the “youthful indiscretions” Taylor refers to include unsolicited nude photos sent as recently as 2021 when he was 53.

All this, plus adult drivers drinking that night. The irony is, what you're describing has been true for decades, but cops and the press spend FAR more time warning parents about sex offenders abducting their kids, which IRL isn't a significant threat at all. E.g.:

As discussed in the linked article, there are lots of factors that probably contribute to this spike, including more kids being out at night, dark costumes, masks that might limit vision or hearing. But pedestrian deaths are always tragic and preventable, and driver awareness is key.

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

The Alaska case is a red flag that Trump has no intention of accepting the results of an election that Republicans lose.

From strengthening Congress’s oversight of presidential emergency powers to ending presidential immunity, here are seven solutions to rein in executive overreach. bit.ly/4BoERWk

It's really bad on Twitter, but there's some on Tumblr too, but basically there's a coordinated attack on b0tster accusing her of being a child groomer because of her cartoon.

Fruit farms starting an active hate camp against bunlith should be a pretty good indication that if you're basically parroting stuff they're saying against any trans woman, you're clearly on the wrong side of things.

This is the point where I burst into tears because I have advised on RSUs and they are a nightmare, the tax structure around them compared to standard equity is an embodiment of "you will be taxed heavily for trying to become rich, but you won't be taxed at all if you are already rich."

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

If they are losing “Mountain Dew at the dinner table America” then they are in big trouble

this man is a gotdamned patriot

Once one learns to see modern universities as investment funds that maintain a veneer of education for branding, it's hard to unsee.

A 22-year-old Somali asylum seeker with no criminal record was snatched by DHS and flown to Gitmo with 11 other Somalis. @motherjones.com got him on the phone. youtube.com/shorts/nVRFE...

Persuasive from @rbreich.bsky.social: Defund Musk. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is it normal for an anonymous Wyoming LLC that sent mass mailers impersonating a transgender advocacy group to hire the lawyer who defended TX Attorney General Ken Paxton from impeachment in response to a court filing seeking to depose people who could unmask the LLC's owners

You don't just want me to understand and agree that it will take years of hard work by activists to restore rights that were uncontroversial US 6 yrs ago, you want me to say that's right and natural everyone has been blameless throughout, except Republicans and maybe trans people ourselves.

You want to be reassured that where Democrats' support weakened there was nothing else they could have done, and really it was the fault of trans people for not somehow maintaining public support in the face of that onslaught with no one else standing up for us or pushing back against Republicans.

That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about whether those rights were graciously bestowed on them by a political party, or whether they were born equal, entitled to the same rights as anyone, and had to engage in a struggle to get others (including political parties) to recognize that.