And also give the people defending him a perfect excuse to cast doubt on any *real* information that comes out! It's absolutely lose/lose!

Damn, saw me coming

I swear 90% of the reason for the Gender Wars is that if people realised that what they're really complaining about is either Being In A Relationship or Being In THIS Relationship, the solution would become uncomfortably obvious.

I'm OK with traitor games when there are actual competing objectives and the faithful have some real information to work with, but the ones that literally incentivise forming cliques and excluding people you have the vaguest gut instincts to 'mistrust' just feels like Masking: The Game!

me putting a pin in it: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

me circling back: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

"i've got eight slugs in me, one's lead and the rest are bourbon" is one of the all-time greatest noir lines in history

This is something I've wondered about self-driving cars. Even *if* they were safer per-vehicle, each human is only responsible for their own accidents; the company that programs and sells self-driving cars would surely be responsible for every single accident any of their vehicles caused?

Rama Duwaji and her date, I think his name is Zohran? Also @jumaane.bsky.social!

Ah but it's not for you; it's for the funeral.

She knew what she was at...

Trump may be extreme in all sorts of ways, but looking at the last 30 years of US politics, there’s no reason to think of Trump as an anomaly.

No wonder he's terrified of stairs

I've seen yanks boasting about taking their decorations down on boxing day (someone said they started after Christmas dinner but that mayyy have been a joke?)

I don't understand why you'd want to take them down before NYD at the earliest

Willing to bet they'd take "this place that Google tells me is a daycare has actually been closed for years" as positive proof of a conspiracy

Look I don't want to give these creeps ideas but these places have set times of day when the parents come to collect their kids at the door; even their own stated reason for wanting access to the building doesn't make sense.

Cut out the middleman, just write a story that's the antithesis of a specific classic novel.