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Twitter has four kinds of users

Twitter has four kinds of users

Been reading about a lot of very bad but entirely ordinary people throughout history for the next season of Past Lives (Everyday Villains). This guy is utterly typical. 1) Doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. 2) Permission structure in a system of hierarchical authority. 3) Benefits materially.

Pete Golding looks like he just found out McDonald's has served breakfast all day for years and no one bothered to tell him.

This is a good example of why the phrase "the cruelty is the point" is incorrect. The inconsistency is the point. Reactionaries think the world will always be "all against all," and they favor tribal morality in response. Stuckey wants his release because he's in the tribe.

Convening a focus group of 30 people who have no idea what's going on and no expertise on basically any topic and just turning them loose. "Fuck me up," I tell them. "Just give me all the dumbest stuff you've got."

Watching an episode of chopped where the contestants are all teenagers and one girl was detailing her story about how she had to cook for the whole family after her mom died and the judge looked up from his plate and said “this swordfish is dry”

The White House official accounts are posting Down Syndrome slurs to attack journalists. These people are disgusting and morally depraved.

Copilot

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

an if-you-have-to-ask-you-can't-afford-it hypercar that can do cold thruster kickflips is exactly what this country needed from its leading electric car genius in order to tackle high gas prices

Jeffries has one weak-sauce joint statement on the raid on his press release page. Schumer, can't find anything at all. Those two are going to go down in history as some of the most aggressively stupid politicians we've had, people who, when the moment demanded leadership, were cowards.

Congrats to all the sadists who outed themselves on the word of Pete Shitferbrains Hegseth.

Troy Jackson: "Sen. Collins says that she voted against it 9 times, but she didn't have the votes. Well, that sounds like then we probably ought to have Democrats in charge of the Senate so we have the votes to stop this war and hold Donald Trump in check. It sounds like Republicans won't do that."

Calling my shot here, I think he shares an AI video of one of his political enemies in front of a firing squad.

Lol

Ossoff and El-Sayed are way too quick on their feet for people who haven't had to defend their own trash talk since the 1970s

Wanna see a murder?

How I arrived at bluesky

Republicans eagerly accept money from their largest donor, who generates and distributes nude fakes. He's welcome at the White House and he's welcome to run ads supporting their campaigns

He needs to be removed from power.

You want an example of focusing on culture war bullshit instead of warfighting, THIS is it. Hegseth isn't worried about the fact that he's set US policy goals in the Gulf back literal decades, no, he's too busy monitoring soldiers' testosterone levels and reveling in what slurs he gets to use.

Watch Schmitt's indefatigable confidence in his underbaked conspiracy and how he treats Klobuchar and try to tell me the Rosetta Stone of Contemporary American politics isn't @dennycarter.bsky.social's badfaithtimes.com/democrats-ar...

Congrats to Missouri's own, dipshit senator Eric Schmitt, for being Today's Main Character.

this is legitimately very funny

Vichy France would like a word. Those motherfuckers actually killed Allied troops.

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

[Training the army of illiterate steroid-addled fat ass ham-faced unaccountable murderous wife-beating slave catchers on the new software that lets you track anyone you want] Don't use this on stalking women you want to punish though ok? That's not what it's for.

It can only good happen

One of the most sleight-of-hand things on TV was the reveal of Jerry's family on Parks & Recreation. Ron had a good heart but presented himself as the man's man. He came home to an empty house each evening. Jerry's lack of pretense and devotion and love led to a much richer life.

Austrians at Austerlitz:

As I said the first time Trump proposed tariffs: this is precisely why he likes them! It makes everyone come to him on bended knee, begging for exemptions. It makes economic survival dependent on his whim. That, not any economic theory, is the whole attraction. Mafia boss thinking.

It can only good happen www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/b...

this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings

If you want to know to what Donald will say tomorrow, listen to what the Kremlin says today.

This is the founder of Silk Road – which enabled international drugs trafficking on an industrial scale, among other things – speaking at President Trump's midterm convention (after getting a pardon from him), because lol nothing matters.