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I am a one-issue voter. That issue is getting rid of instant replay in all sports.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

The second problem with "usefulness" as a primary concern is that it pushes all of the harms (to self, to others, to society, to the planet) outside the frame. In other words, given all of the harms, even if the software weren't janky, there would still be plenty of reasons to oppose it. >>

my take on this remains consistent: far more americans are bigoted on this front than I'd like, but transphobia is a luxury belief it's the kind of thing you can get people mad about if and only if they don't have real problems to worry about, and there is no shortage of real problems right now

Schwarbs being a transit guy is elite stuff

"The Model’ is a really simple song to play. I’m sure there is a tape of me playing it somewhere out there, I don’t know. Perhaps someone will do an impersonation of me doing it." Vince Clarke on #Kraftwerk - Computer World #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/X5EEGNZ

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

Sure I use a little AI, but only when I want to write something that fucking sucks that everyone hates.

the thing about the "you're out of touch if you haven't heard this song" discourse is that radio has been dead for well over a decade. it's extremely normal to listen to a lot of music but still never hear the songs at the top of the charts.

Regardless of your opinions of the Middle East, it’s pretty amazing that in the year 2026, former Angles utilityman Mark McLemore was touring with Ed Sheeran. Wait … I am getting new information. I’m being told that …

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't

It's the 605% claim that does it for me.

"I can't believe the Deport All the Latinos candidate is deporting Latinos in my district. I was completely blindsided by this" bsky.app/profile/phil...

"Donald J. Trump started the most deranged war in US history and it's doubled the price of car sauce? nobody could have predicted, I am VERY upset" bsky.app/profile/greg...

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Everyone should read this and then read the 24 consecutive hour timeline meltdowns Stancil, ironic John Brown centrist account and other libs are having about the Talarico interview. Which argument actually motivates you? Which one is going to resonate with regular people? I think it’s pretty clear!

his basic ignorance of the subject is evident in that he equates country music with white rurality. not only does he appear unaware of the diversity of rural america, but he doesn’t seem to get that the principle audience for this stuff is suburban and exurban

at this point in political time i have to believe that trans people make up 70-80% of society and are oppressing the cis minority

Trump could promise everyone gets laid by a gorgeous supermodel if he wins and the press would be like - “Trump floats extraordinary proposal. Here’s how we think it would work”

An incredible example of how institutionalized car culture is The parking lot, and the car they drove, are somehow naturally occurring and completely unseen as choices that engineered away physical activity Instead, it's the electric mobility devices that are threats to our way of life

I was there and still have my ticket stub!!!!

Dolly Parton at a Yankees game, 1987

Next Dem government genuinely should have a "Covid reckoning" but about whose fault it is that like 200,000 extra people died during the Delta wave because they refused vaccination and who convinced them to do that and why.

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

I have only once ever seen an antivaxxer change their mind. Sympathetic understanding is not what did it. All of their friends spending a year bluntly and repeatedly telling them that they were being a murderously destructive idiot is what did it.

the sliding reactionary time window strikes again: everything i don’t like was invented ten years ago, and everyone will realize i was right five years from now

Released by #NewOrder on this day 39 years ago, "Substance" was a compilation album of all the band's singles at that point in their 12-inch versions, along with their respective B-side tracks. It sold over one million copies and became New Order's most popular and critically acclaimed album.

Insane that AOC is being quoted as saying "Woke 1 was crazy" when this is what she actually said. youtu.be/SFwAnMLBSOw?...

No they didn’t

Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.

It’s pretty bold of Republicans to go after Dr. Fauci for managing COVID with masks and vaccines while RFK, Jr stands at the helm of diarrhea lettuce, parasitic cilantro, salmonella eggs, shards of glass bread, and uninspected bacon…

Bob Ojeda’s hedge clippers accident when he severed the tip of his finger and missed the 1988 NLCS.

This is not fake, it really happened. My cousin was there

My concept for the future €100 banknote 🇪🇺

Barcelona now, Along Parallel, tens of thousands, the multicultural city celebrating the best team by in this world cup.

Tough day for a lot of South Americans with German or Italian surnames

this shot is so bleak lmao

No

X (it's not Twitter any more and hasn't been in years) is the red state diner of the internet: the place lazy journalists go to get a sense of what they think "real" americans believe based on a ridiculously reductive and wrong definition of what it is to be a real american.

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