modi has spent the last 12 years being the guy that Trump wishes he could be and gets about 1/300th as much attention as Orban who was lording it over a country maybe 1/35th the size

How do you make a character really cute but also really adaptable to different contexts, like Cardie

As you get older, you realize the importance of having a large amount of shallow bowls in which to put small amounts of discrete objects

Turns out these guys are real

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Writer: It's called white space. It's a technique to control the rhythm and pacing of a scene, build tension, allow readers to briefly reflect and process thoughts and emotions, provide a tonal break or moment of

> leave maze > exit maze > solve maze > escape maze

You are in a maze of twisty little takes, all alike

I don't know a single thing any more

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

i got so many people calling this tweet fakeposting back when i made it but since this is bluesky and things have less reach on here im just going to post the photo

Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump

Bluesky being the website for affluent 38 year olds who gaslight zoomers about their economic prospects is honestly genuinely funny as a punch line

r/bonecollecting is currently beating the shit out of an OP who picked up a human femur because Claude told them it was a camel bone

The posture of Knowingness which is quick to assert that actually there is no sense things are getting worse when the state livestreams an execution because it's analogous to cop killings of the past is very stupid. You can and should notice changes.

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

something we have learned is that the criminal justice system, even when you’re not dragging your feet, is pretty slow - especially for complicated financial crimes, of which there are A Lot you’d better be ready to hit the ground running if you want resolution before the next election cycle

I genuinely think remembering even just a few years back is a goddamn superpower.

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

I missed that Glenn Greenwald has a paid partnership deal with Kalshi—but he does apparently