Talking Alligator
@alligatortakes.bsky.social
Good things are good, bad things are bad you dorks. 🏳️⚧️
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I like how yesterday we had a big discourse about how political journalism as an industry is Good, Actually.
the reason they stand silently as their colleague is insulted is because the political press is rotten to the core.
the reason they stand silently as their colleague is insulted is because the political press is rotten to the core.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I like how yesterday we had a big discourse about how political journalism as an industry is Good, Actually.
the reason they stand silently as their colleague is insulted is because the political press is rotten to the core.
the reason they stand silently as their colleague is insulted is because the political press is rotten to the core.
This would not be happening under a Harris Administration
Breaking: President Trump says US land action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela will start "very soon"
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/p...
Trump says US land action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela will start ‘very soon’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that...
www.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This would not be happening under a Harris Administration
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I don't think I have to explain that hunting down every instance of "LGBTQ" and "nonbinary" from all government software is the result of a homophobic conspiracy theory. It's not subtle.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I don't think I have to explain that hunting down every instance of "LGBTQ" and "nonbinary" from all government software is the result of a homophobic conspiracy theory. It's not subtle.
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Also, financing a depreciating status symbol is just...it's so on the nose. "I can't afford this symbol of wealth I am buying to show how wealthy I am except that I'm not because that's why I need a car loan."
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Also, financing a depreciating status symbol is just...it's so on the nose. "I can't afford this symbol of wealth I am buying to show how wealthy I am except that I'm not because that's why I need a car loan."
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Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
Revue Starlight is the best anime because it understands that every theater kid is motivated by either homosexuality or violence
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Revue Starlight is the best anime because it understands that every theater kid is motivated by either homosexuality or violence
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
love to get a notification that I've been rejected from a job on the night before Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
love to get a notification that I've been rejected from a job on the night before Thanksgiving
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If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh
Is Lizza going to say that Trump faked the injury
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Is Lizza going to say that Trump faked the injury
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oh look, Google is once again returning factually inaccurate data because it’s very important to them to use Daddy’s preferred terms
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
oh look, Google is once again returning factually inaccurate data because it’s very important to them to use Daddy’s preferred terms
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It's wild how many people seem to not understand opportunity costs. Childcare wasn't "free," it cost whatever the average salary of a woman was in 1955, because that's what you missed out on by having her be the child care
Lot of thoughts about That Article, but one thing that made me scream. The cost of childcare was not zero! That our system devalues feminized care labor doesn’t make it actually free. Opportunity costs are a thing, childcare is more expensive because of Baumol, not because it was free before.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It's wild how many people seem to not understand opportunity costs. Childcare wasn't "free," it cost whatever the average salary of a woman was in 1955, because that's what you missed out on by having her be the child care
Going to leave that link Blue
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Going to leave that link Blue
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my understanding is he was like this during his entire trial and also literally shit his pants at least once and it only merited a passing mention by our media betters
the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
my understanding is he was like this during his entire trial and also literally shit his pants at least once and it only merited a passing mention by our media betters
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It's wild to me that pension fraud helps you live longer. Do what you love I guess!
Blue Zones: areas of surprising longevity driven by a combination of inaccurate birth records and extensive pension fraud.
Thanksgiving doesn’t have to mean delicious but unhealthy dishes. You can have flavor plus boost longevity with these five tips from blue zone researcher Dan Buettner. https://cnn.it/4rAnU6m
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It's wild to me that pension fraud helps you live longer. Do what you love I guess!
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To be blunt, most people's lesson from "listen to marginalized voices" was "find the first person who claims to be marginalized and agrees with my priors and use it as a permission structure to call the ones who disagree with me uncle toms"
I genuinely do not think it is possible for non marginalized people to uplift marginalized voices at least through something as crude as social media shares. I Basically never see someone share a marginalized perspective they disagree with, so then all you are doing is amplifying your own view.
But people like MRO are doing the whole "Listen 👏 to 👏 Palestinians" and presenting their most deranged poasters, kinda like the weird Hasbarah accounts who do the same thing with Jews, and the Jewish Voice you should Listen to ends up being Meir freaking Kahane ימ"ש
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
To be blunt, most people's lesson from "listen to marginalized voices" was "find the first person who claims to be marginalized and agrees with my priors and use it as a permission structure to call the ones who disagree with me uncle toms"
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I don't know the criminal standard specifically but Linehan did say *in court* that he was motivated by the victim's status as a trans person. If a clear statement of explicit prejudice isn't enough then you need a new standard.
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I don't know the criminal standard specifically but Linehan did say *in court* that he was motivated by the victim's status as a trans person. If a clear statement of explicit prejudice isn't enough then you need a new standard.
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
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almost as if "the community" functions as a totemic abstraction used to validate one's pre-existing righteousness rather than an empirical reality containing multitudes--
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
almost as if "the community" functions as a totemic abstraction used to validate one's pre-existing righteousness rather than an empirical reality containing multitudes--
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Andor doesn’t have an episode where someone joins the Taliban because they’re having relationship issues while on vacation at the Orgy Planet, advantage goes to DS9 there
andor is a modern day DS9 in scope and tone
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Andor doesn’t have an episode where someone joins the Taliban because they’re having relationship issues while on vacation at the Orgy Planet, advantage goes to DS9 there
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Summing the median expenditures of American households in every category of spending as a way to calculate the poverty line is a smart way to calculate the poverty line at above the median income level
Man, gotta love some Wall Street guy who decides It’s Time To Care About Poverty and uses vibe math to recalculate the poverty line, as… $136,500
Extreme “it’s one banana, Michael” energy
Extreme “it’s one banana, Michael” energy
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Summing the median expenditures of American households in every category of spending as a way to calculate the poverty line is a smart way to calculate the poverty line at above the median income level
This article goes hard if you were regularly dropped on your head as a child
Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This article goes hard if you were regularly dropped on your head as a child
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This is the "tobacco companies knew" of the 2020s; everyone knew smoking was bad for you in the 90s, but the important part was showing that the companies pushing it also knew and did it anyway
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This is the "tobacco companies knew" of the 2020s; everyone knew smoking was bad for you in the 90s, but the important part was showing that the companies pushing it also knew and did it anyway
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November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
New centrist leftist alliance forming in the Democratic party?
Slotkin: "He's trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, the Epstein files and economy. He's tweeting 'the economy is the best it's ever been' -- amazing considering the public isn't stupid. It reminded me of Joe Biden. Biden tried to tell us for a year that the economy was great."
November 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
New centrist leftist alliance forming in the Democratic party?