“You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer.”

“Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t doing politics right.”

—Ezra Klein

all you need to know to understand America’s weird blend of libertarian authoritarianism is that the most important instruction of the Gadsden flag motto isn’t “don’t tread” but “on ~ME~”

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

these people think you're stupid and hold you in absolute fucking contempt

fuck yes

i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them

"AI is coming for your job" ya i'd like to see AI drink 11 coffees then have a panic attack

tech bro is short for technically broken

it’s true true true

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

Can’t stop thinking about all the people who’ve lost their jobs. Losing your job in this country, it’s like annihilation—not least because it usually means losing health care, too. And for so many people, their entire sector has been eviscerated. I wouldn’t be able to feed my kids. It’s terrifying.

See y’all down by the lake

comfort listening to my fav @cbbworld.bsky.social eps and gotta think that prof Stillwater and mark padavano would really hit it off