Aaron

he jump & he fetch

As a young man, I used to think there was no such thing as 'forbidden' knowledge, that knowledge was always good and could never be harmful. As a somewhat older man, I regard this position was folly. No one is improved by finding out what a Malfoid is. This is a knowledge that should be forbidden.

slumped (on a couch with blankets bc he does NOT live in the back rooms @wtba.bsky.social )

People truly believed that this was gonna be the End Da Warz presidency when the whole point of this presidency was to meme all the gutter bigotries of the GWOT’s origins into official policy

Weird tension where I think I have to figure out what this means for my job, but my soul can’t bear the thought of subjecting myself to such a cringe and annoying inquiry.

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

Damn, who could have seen this one coming?

he is happy

Ramaswamy’s ad aimed to enforce the stigma against rape victims that positions them as objects of suspicion and disgust at worst, patronizing pity at best. The Acton campaign now has to pitch a rape victim as something audiences aren’t used to imagining them being: competent, capable, and dignified.

The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

Yissss

This undersells how hard the Judiciary Dems are swinging here

Not to mention that a right wing criminal murdered Melissa Hortman because Minnesota Democrats are definitely not a controlled opposition to Republican oppression.

fuck you. trans people come to Minnesota from neighboring states to get lifesaving care that they’re only able to safely get here because of a set of party line Dem votes.

These people don’t want to win; they don’t even want to persuade. They want a world where they are a pure and rarified elite, with none of the responsibilities of actual power, only the smug gratification of being right.

Amazing lad

This got flagged for ‘intolerance’ when it’s objectively true

I'm never more of a USA USA THESE COLORS DON'T RUN BUD, COME AND TAKE IT type when I hear about discourse regarding media censorship in the UK. goddamn. and I don't consider myself an especially strict free speech absolutist either.

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

Well I guess she's more qualified than the last one, since she can at least read

I think its less that Trump is gay for Ohio Senator Jon Husted, and more Trump's rotten pudding brain can't hold onto any information about Husted so he's left pointing out that he's a hunky former football player because thats literally what Trump can see

ELIZABETH HOLMES: It’s, it’s funny to think of Saddam Hussein opening a restaurant NATHAN FIELDER: OK but do you understand the comparison Barack Obama is making here HOLMES: I don’t know. I like the Cheesecake Factory

0.o The documentary pretty clearly argued she is either psychotic (unable to hold the idea that she did wrong in her head so she actively outsources it), psychotic (non conscious or sentient and thus no more capable of agency than an LLM), or psychotic (malignant narcissist).

Broke: Caine was the first murderer Woke: Abel was the first murderer

It’s a tool for a trade and therefore morally inert until applied, it’s just that it’s the only tool that can hold a working conversation with you and that freaks people from every side out for boring standard-issue uncanny valley reasons so they fit a moral valence on to rationalize the discomfort

I think some people are, quite simply, not very bright, and can't make more space in their head for anything more than "thing good" or "thing bad"

I do not get why it’s so confusing that this thing is very good for some things and a big problem causer of others

Sorry but this person is correct

Worth noting that Elizabeth and Billy are actively trying to run a new scam during the documentary.

last Julian update until Sunday, I’m traveling for a conference but I refilled the bird feeder so he will be very entertained

“One Justice for each of the thirteen circuits, as it used to be” is, I think, a great way to frame it that sidesteps any “they are out to GET us” defense from Republicans