The people doing this have no desire or reason to stop. They literally enjoy watching the world burn, and they have the power to do it. They also have names and addresses

It’s probably good that we have an economic system that rewards willingness to exploit others with unlimited wealth, and unlimited wealth with unlimited power, leading to nominally representative world governments having to beg a guy this fucking stupid for stuff all the time

this is Twitter’s trending news section, powered by Elon Musk’s Grok AI. it pulled in a bunch of joke tweets about this and is treating it as if it’s a real news story

Incredible things are happening in the Pokemon Card Game community

Re-reading Dylan’s analysis after Israel murdered seven World Central Kitchen employees in Gaza:

Actually this seems like a good although time-consuming way for me, an autistic person unclear on the basic concept of shame, to figure out what is embarrassing: pitch a personal essay about it to The Cut. If they accept it, I know never to speak of that topic again

If you think “a woman’s life is all work and little rest” you married an asshole, sorry

Call your reps, keep calling, yes you’re tired, yes 77% of USians want a ceasefire and it hasn’t happened, but it is an election year and they can’t keep ignoring you forever. 5calls.org/issue/israel-p…

Each tennis player should be given a swarm of bees that they can release once per tournament at the strategic moment of their choosing

I barely noticed getting my IUDs put in or taken out. Pap smears were worse. They offered me Xanax first which was correct of them even though I declined the offer. Everyone’s bodies are different! Pain management should be offered to everyone but you may or may not need it

'The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.' thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering…

My daughter’s first word is really, actually, truly “Mama” which is great, love that, but she only says it when she’s mad so I guess that’s how it’s going to be

is the big one really big or is the small one really small

this guy is correct

It feels good but juvenile to make big statements like 'democracy is fake,' but a government in which 80% of the legislature aggressively opposes a ceasefire favored by 2/3 of all voters sure feels like the product of a false promise.

Oh also the U.S. military is a nightmare monster polluter so anti-imperialism is environmentalism. Keep it up!