"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.

Certain media types hate this place because, while they of course also get treated like shit on twitter, only like 1% of people on twitter even know who the fuck they are. But on here every single user knows them and despises them

"Rudy Giuliani nursed an injured crow back to life with warm milk, then drove to a place not a liquor store, and then got in a car accident. After this, an unscrupulous stranger littered the backseat of his car with scores of emptied airline-size bottles of Gilbert’s vodka. Two may have been gin."

Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.

How many reporters are currently working on tell-all exposés about their own organization, detailing all the acts of cowardice of their editors and publishers?

I won’t ever buy your book about Sleepy Joe Biden, but I’d absolutely devour a book about the internal collapse of the NYT or CNN.

this is just like the parable of the scorpion and the scorpion

i think we should replace “how are you?” with “hey things are generally bad, how are you personally?” just to make things easier on everyone trying to answer in a way that doesn’t initially seem like you’re either delusional or complicit

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*twenty minutes after posting a variety of slurs combined with an image of my bare arse* well well well so much for the idea of 'tolerant' bluesky

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, *to us*

There's a union out there called AFSCME and they're busting their balls for you doing a lot of shit work you take for granted

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine.

“Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process”

Done

Pitch for a new spy movie: a CIA agent spends years getting close to a terrorist suspect then just before he gets the crucial piece of evidence he’s fired and replaced with a teenager who doesn’t speak any foreign languages but does have a lot of followers on X.

Everybody dies.

Hey, love Elon Musk or hate him, you must admit he deserves to be buried under 7000 tons of raw sewage. Credit where due.

If the USA had handled the confederate states as enemy combatants the first time, we wouldn't be in this situation. Instead, they have been treated with kid gloves and consistently. This just emboldened them to do more and more. Now, here we are.

I cut and lined up the time travel views of Marty’s trip to 1955, and Marty in 1985 watching Marty leave (whether the mall was named after 2 or 1 pine tree(s) from the perspective of the each Marty is open to interpretation).