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Once I ate a hot sauce that was too hot and someday I will die (unrelated) Writing Credits: Doughboys: The Comic Book, Rick and Morty for Oni Press, Diablo Comic, The Onion News Network, Bowieverse. These things are resumes sometimes, it's fine. He/Him

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Have seen n word posted twice today once from a Nazi teen and another from Paul Schraders Facebook. Enough

10.03.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So here's what's frustrating about this response, completely ignoring that the person who wrote it inaccurately described Cormac McCarthy's sentence as "clunky" or a "mistake."

It says I knew which one was human, or I was lucky at guessing... with no possibility that I liked human writing better.

10.03.2026 05:57 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0

What’s fucking enraging about this is that every lovely turn of phrase the AI churns out is human-authored. Google each fragment of the below - β€œforged in dying stars,” β€œcreated in stellar furnaces,” β€œthe universe is not indifferent to us,” β€œimplicated in something vast” - and you’ll find a source.

10.03.2026 06:14 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

5/5 human, baby. AI's tics ("It's not X. It's Y."), its lack of surprise (AI would never write of a fish "he hung a grunting weight"), its sentimentality, all make for recognizable and poor writing. It's better at genres where a low-entropy style of smooth compression is ideal, like a brief summary.

10.03.2026 06:35 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The New York Times trying to get people to say that AI writes better than Cormac McCarthy is such a repulsive act of literary evil it’s impossible to comprehend.

We should care if things have meaning. Or if they’re good or bad.

10.03.2026 06:34 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

This is such humiliating propaganda lol. I got all the human ones right and they went β€œlucky guess. Probably just noticed which ones are extremely bad πŸ˜β€

I just truly chose the ones actually saying anything of substance. It’s so easy.

10.03.2026 06:21 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5
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WHO CARES.

I don’t think the opinions of a massive sprawl of dipshits has any real bearing on by on what I should accept in my life.

10.03.2026 06:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.

10.03.2026 03:55 πŸ‘ 1743 πŸ” 505 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 12

Crazy we get called ghetto for every little thing and upper middle class white people do the most ratchet shit and it gets praised as praxis

09.03.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Superman in space looking serious. "If you knew how you are loved, not one of you would raise a hand in rage again." This is from JLA/Hitman #2, written by Garth Ennis, drawn by John McCrea.

Superman in space looking serious. "If you knew how you are loved, not one of you would raise a hand in rage again." This is from JLA/Hitman #2, written by Garth Ennis, drawn by John McCrea.

When I see people fighting over who gets to fuck Jabba the Hutt's hot son

09.03.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A four panel meme from The Avengers End Game where Gamora asks Thanos if he accomplished his goals and what it cost. He replies he did and it cost him everything 

I changed it so Gamora is asking if he got to pretend it was socially acceptable to call things β€œretarded” again, Thanos answers yes and it cost him everything. Literally. He says he’s eating dog food and asks a toddler Gamora if he can borrow $100

A four panel meme from The Avengers End Game where Gamora asks Thanos if he accomplished his goals and what it cost. He replies he did and it cost him everything I changed it so Gamora is asking if he got to pretend it was socially acceptable to call things β€œretarded” again, Thanos answers yes and it cost him everything. Literally. He says he’s eating dog food and asks a toddler Gamora if he can borrow $100

09.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 638 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

duh i killed some people as oopsie

09.03.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You have yelled at the BlueSky CEO too much and she is stepping down. I hope you are happy. They are giving the job to Bluesky's 2023 arch nemesis dril.

09.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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lol

09.03.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 10396 πŸ” 1404 πŸ’¬ 570 πŸ“Œ 219

We are all simply just having so much fun in America.

09.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it is genuinely very funny how many big name/shop analysts have gone on tv in the last 24-48hr and been like "man we didn't think this administration would be so stupid" like, come on

09.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 3232 πŸ” 413 πŸ’¬ 82 πŸ“Œ 59

Yeah it sucks!!!!!!! It's what made Twitter so intoxicating, the power of our collective feeling really moved the needle! And right now that shit is gone!

09.03.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nixon today would have stuck the fuck around, maybe done like eight more Watergates at the actual Watergate hotel to prove a point.

09.03.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Feels unfair Trump doesn't just go away if we hate him enough. And I know that SEEMS dumb, but it really is how things used to work in America!!!

09.03.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

They should make a Wario who has an opinion on Iran.

09.03.2026 05:24 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The smartest take to have on a horrific war that will kill thousands and bankrupt us is... bemusement. Folks! They're bemused!

09.03.2026 05:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

β€œTehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

08.03.2026 23:59 πŸ‘ 1225 πŸ” 689 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 77

Incredible framing lol. Oh those opportunistic democrats!!!!!!

09.03.2026 04:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I love when a weak pun here gets thousands of likes. Yessss you're Uncle John's Bathroom Reader now yessssss

09.03.2026 04:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
CNN gas tracker: $3.41

CNN gas tracker: $3.41

vibe check: CNN now has a gas tracker on their front page

07.03.2026 22:26 πŸ‘ 2043 πŸ” 411 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 118

Guy who gets paid 8 figures: actually it’s fine

09.03.2026 02:49 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

republicans have literally made everything worse and harder and more terrible over the course of my entire life and somehow* they keep coming back to power bc of our feckless corporate press and a weak willed opposition πŸ˜’

*sob

09.03.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 2407 πŸ” 433 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

the destruction of the entire worlds economy is a small price to pay for the massive victory of the son of the guy america assassinated to take over as leader

09.03.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 2880 πŸ” 263 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 4
Tweet from Jacob N. Kornbluh: "Jewish People Policy Institute survey of 692 American Jews with relatively strong
ties to the Jewish community, Jewish identity, or Israel: 

68% support the U.S. decision to go to war against Iran, while 26% oppose it."

Tweet from Jacob N. Kornbluh: "Jewish People Policy Institute survey of 692 American Jews with relatively strong ties to the Jewish community, Jewish identity, or Israel: 68% support the U.S. decision to go to war against Iran, while 26% oppose it."

If you dig into this poll, reputedly the first poll of American Jews on the Iran War, it is not intended to represent all American Jews, but "connected" Jews, defined in the way this organization wants to define them. It's a poll intended to produce a certain result.

09.03.2026 01:00 πŸ‘ 95 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3