Woke up, breakfast, realised America and Russia are now allies, went to work, coffee, wait… what?

A thing I admire about billy corgan is he heard his voice and was like I'm going to be the lead singer of a band and people are going to enjoy listening to this and he was right

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important:

Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

Fuck, when the object of my deepest political enmity, Mitch McConnell, is on the right side of history over unqualified power grabs, I can hear the band playing as the Titanic sinks.

It is the darkest of all possible humor that Disney is publicly rolling back their DEI initiatives and removing content warnings from older, racially-insensitive work on the same week that they are releasing a new MCU movie with a Black man as Captain America.

*Billie Joe Armstrong voice* “not gonna call it the Gulf of America”

[power chords]

Let’s get this straight…

Elon Musk is an unelected billionaire with special government employee status, who can police his own conflicts of interest and doesn’t have to file a public financial disclosure report.

Make it make sense. (Hint: it doesn’t)

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

Want to know who's really pulling the strings in politics? Just follow the money.

everything is a garbage fire; you should absolutely buy the little treat at the grocery store

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

I used to run around the house singing and telling everyone, 'JUST WATCH, I'M GONNA WIN A GRAMMY ONE DAY!' Well, years later, I'm here to tell you that you too can give up and work a corporate job and drink too much and make bad skeets and cry in bed sometimes, JUST BELIEVE!

So Trump is putting a 50% tariff on Colombia, and Colombia is doing the same in return! When your morning coffee prices go up remember this is what you voted for MAGA… THIS IS YOUR FAULT!

Those present at the inauguration were mostly (if not all) white, rich, and males wearing ties. Trump’s core supporters were left out in the cold.
Think about it.

What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.?

In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

My screen time is going to plummet since I uninstalling TikTok and both of the meta apps.