Malimar

I have now used this — with great success — as an introductiony task for 6th-grade classes.

the word "illegal" is a derivative of the phrase "ill eagle", reflecting an American folk belief that violations of the law weakened their national bird

There is something very strange where he can bulldoze basically every single Elite and have them eating out of his hand and wearing shoes that dont fit, but then a group of twelve random common citizens took approximately twelve seconds to convict him of like 95 crimes

Yeah this is basically why voter cope online about “there’s so many good people in the south” just doesn’t hold up.

Yes, there are a lot of great people there. And they are strategically disenfranchised.

But also, they’re fucking very outnumbered by hordes of terrible people lol

It’s weird to make up reasons to get mad at Democrats about bad things Republicans have done!

I am actually super skilled at being a friend and I think people should not be allowed to have or make any friends when they could talk to me, a potential friend. If you make other friends, you are stealing from me, the owner of friendship

The president is not good

More than a few folks (rightfully) pointing out that this is down to everyone in the room now being incredibly stupid, but folks... I just don't understand how so many people could be so fucking stupid, at the same time, about this very specific thing.

Trump: we're gonna kill you all. we're gonna regime change you. we want nothing less than unconditional surrender

Mojtaba: guess we're going down together then

trump: [surprised pikachu.jpg]

I don’t actually think it’s defensible but I absolutely have a trans headcanon for Fight Club the movie where I just assume Marla also does not exist

we are weeks away from 'Trump attempts to make horse a Senator' and the only thing stopping him is that he is too much of a sociopath to form an attachment to animals

Mario and Luigi (RIP) sausages

Today is Mario Day (Mar10) so let us all take a moment to remember both Mario and his brother Luigi. They deserved better than this...

People cannot be trusted with Concepts

Happy women's day if you're a woman

if you're not there's always next year

I see myself as the narrator of my life, but not even primarily the main character

Quick reminder: Epstein.

one of the most unsettling things I've realized in middle age is that many people just completely perceive reality, especially social situations, differently than myself

I think the government should stop doing evil things

"We built a stunningly beautiful world infused with the lore of a storied legacy game that feels genuinely fresh, and we did it to make a game that only delights assholes and griefers" is just

I'm trying not to be mean here but that's what they built, man

see, three years ago, "stealing a child's dog" would be the most cartoonishly evil thing you could imagine a cabinet-level official doing to a dog. but now it seems mostly fine. she loves dogs! maybe a little too much, haha! bsky.app/profile/jsth...

The Anthropic priestly class is simply better at propitiating the Machine God

it's bad to do things that are wrong and immoral and people shouldn't

The Machine has the data necessary to completely perceive you, but it turns out that's actually pretty expensive and so it also ruthlessly tries to ignore all the parts that aren't relevant.

My take on my data being sold has always been "whatever fuck it, they're just looking at whether I like buying orange soda and then telling an ad agency to show me that"

the energy, the power exhibited, on this move is aspirational

quote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church 239: "We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood."

re: Talarico getting attacked for "God is nonbinary"; wait till they hear about the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

this is true and LLMs used to only produce interesting output in the top left corner but nowadays they are spending a lot more time in the bottom right corner

hear me out: what if you simply DECLARED victory, and then—this is the important part—went home

Use your words.