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Watch movies on a phone if you care about storytelling. The small screen diminishes the cinematography to the point of can't hide bad writing. Looking at you, Dune and Arrival.

Anyone can be wrong, and be stupidly wrong. But some people can be wrong in the most interesting way. And that's almost more useful than being right.

The UK Conservatives pulled a Mulroney. Amazing.

Musk the Cry Baby is maaaaaaaad.

Elon Musk predicts Bill Gates will be 'obliterated' for shorting...nypost.com Musk rekindled a feud with Gates that has been marked by public disagreements over climate change, the coronavirus and electric vehicles.

There's no greater scam than Christian public charity The restaurant owners seem awesome. Good folk.

Restaurant sues customer over $3,000 waitress tip he left on $13 mealwww.unilad.com Alfredo's Cafe in Scranton, PA ended up being left out of pocket after the customer hit back

Better to be cancelled than no engagement at all.

Occasionally, I miss Twitter. Bluesky hasn't reached the required population size for this yet.

Let's deport all the techbros to Elephant Island.

Millions of people would be absolutely thrilled to be your friend if only you gave them a chance. Why waste time on those who do not treat you with kindness or respect? Life is too short to waste time on those who do not have our best interests at heart. Find a few of those millions instead.

We need to become more comfortable with polarization. Polarization is a symptom, not a disease. I for one am wholly comfortable with refusing to treat those who want me or my friends dead as people worthy of my respect.

Rumors of Harris replacing Biden seem like one of those cruel jokes life plays on you when you already gave up, just to prolong the suffering. It's too good of an idea for the Dems to do it.

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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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Not a peep from the president or the secretary of state as its largest recipient of military assistance in postwar history does exactly what we condemn Russia for doing.

Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decadest.co A settlement tracking group says Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades.

@coffeezilla.bsky.social Scamming scam victims. Damn

German environmentalists, so-called, still oppose nuclear power. Climate change is obviously not a serious problem, after all.

The United States was always set up to become a dictatorship. What kept it democratic was the consensus of the ruling class.

Republicans don't like to govern but love politics. Democrats don't like politics but love to govern.

Nothing is ever at the same place again, ever.

My hypothesis stands: the natural end point of electoral democracy is fascism.

SCOTUS just gave the Dems all the power they need to finish MAGA . Obviously, they won't.

Dear liberal Americans, This is on you. You knew what the fascists were up to, but you were more concerned with tone policing and civility than with actually protecting liberal democracy. This is on you. Van Papen and Schleicher will greet you in hell.

Dear Americans, Those chickens are just coming home, is all. What goes around comes around. You did this to yourselves.

Seeing fascism become the dominant force of global politics wasn't what I expected to happen in my lifetime.

Slovakia gave a masterclass in how to play against a massively better team by following soccer's Rule #1 - whatever you do, do not concede a goal.

Why are Europeans and Americans so opposed to immigration? Because they think what they did in the Americas, Asia, and Africa was immigration.

Joseph Biden is, for lack of a better word, a very stupid person.

Americans are just like everybody else: they want to see the United States crash and burn.

What would swing the US election more? A) Elon Musk endorsing Trump or B) Taylor Swift endorsing Biden

Future generations will call our age the Ephemera.

Capitalism in general, and IP in particular, were a tragic mistake. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court winarstechnica.com Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.