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turns out now i have a conditioned pavlovian response where whenever i see a logitech usb game controller i think about billionaires being crushed into a paste inside a tiny submarine

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

trust is neither given nor earned. it forms naturally between people who share the experience of having listened to Skinny Puppy at or after 3 am in the dark by themselves

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

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Frances Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 1d

have you considered lying down in the woods and giving up about it

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Hermes Pissmegistus @aleph.bsky.social · 1d

you couldn’t make Monty Python Upper Class Twit of the Year sketch today they’d write opinion columns about it

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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 1d

this is literally never not accurate

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Hermes Pissmegistus @aleph.bsky.social · 1d

i liked the interview where the creator of Satisfactory was like “we are NOT adding renewable energy this is a game about Extacting Resources and Destroying the Planet with a Giant Factory”

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 1d

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”

-Ta-Nehisi Coates

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced

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Hermes Pissmegistus @aleph.bsky.social · 1d

enjoy your flights you useless fuck

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Big Poppa Derp🇺🇸 @bigpoppa-brian.bsky.social · 1d

Accurate:

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 2d

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (Not very scary) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 2d

Didn't make sense not to live for fun
To bring us sugar and tea and rum

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Hermes Pissmegistus @aleph.bsky.social · 2d

well they overestimated Cuomo’s popularity & failed to ratfuck the NYC election, so,

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androgynous vampire enthusiast @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 5d

keep an eye out for my upcoming hot NYT article: Did Men Ruin Everything? Not Exaggerating Literally Everything For The Past 5000 Years

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