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Okay, what’s up with the weird Capitalization?

"The Times had not lost a defamation lawsuit brought in the United States over one of its articles in more than 50 years." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/b...

“Quite to lot to unpack here.” -Mr. & Mrs. Nethers

Is it strange that the NYT actually had a piece that moved the Natalie Harp saga quite a bit forward and it appeared on A15. And as far as I can tell that's the only big story written about the topic this week. A real choice, especially given the photo that accompanied it.

Spreadsheets catching strays on Main

Late to the spreadsheet discourse and still not fully caught up, so I'll just assume that everyone is expressing nostalgia for Clippy

*sighs* *reluctantly grabs blonde wig and sets up tripod* (video coming tomorrow)

i think a winning political issue would be requiring gaming consoles to be ready to go out of the box without any updates required as well as requiring a full catalog of games available as a hard copy that you can play without an internet connection

been doing the hang loose hand thing a lot lately, no idea where that came from

Kind of curious if anybody other than Ossoff has the nerve to come out and say the obvious about the President of the United States being shadowed and influenced by a person who is clearly in need of a robust mental health evaluation.

Kind of curious if anybody other than Ossoff has the nerve to come out and say the obvious about the President of the United Staes being shadowed and influenced by a person who is clearly in need of a robust mental health evaluation.

This is AI.* *Absolute Insanity

pyongyang’s gonna sue for plagiarism

does any republican know how to write

I was just poking around the free streamer Tubi and by coincidence I saw they have a show called Secrets of the Universe. The first episode is about Swift! This was a planetarium show my team developed and I guess it was used for a TV show. I consulted on it and it's not bad.

2026 Raiders Debate Changing Official Team Slogan To “Just -Try- To Win, Baby”

That Natalie shit made them trot out Melania instantaneously.

"A GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH IS BASICALLY BREAD AND CHEESE AND IT'S ONE OF THE MOST DELICIOUS THINGS EVER!!!"

had not seen Natalie Harp’s very sensible stoner brother before I got to the CNN clip embedded about 2/3 of the way down in this post: www.thedailybeast.com/why-i-decide...

"AC/DC MADE TIMELESS ROCK AND ROLL SONGS WITH THREE CHORDS!!!"

Can someone explain in simple words please?

The first half of the titanic sinking was the better half also.

“MAGA style is a perversion of the past, a form of drag born of longing, disaffection, upheaval, and anger over what democracy has wrought.” www.vanityfair.com/story/maga-s...

“Let me be clear: Live athletic competition can be a great cultural unifier, and celebrating America should be a joyous occasion. But this race is a fabricated, exhaust-choked spectacle designed entirely to feed Trump’s obsession with personal grandeur.” www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

"I'm not gonna be ignored, Donald!"

counterpoint: the voter fraud liars have worse music

This shit’s so freakin’ weird.

“When it came time to pay, deputies said that one of the women handed over a $100 bill that was clearly counterfeit and even had the words ‘FOR MOTION PICTURE PURPOSES’ printed on it.” www.wfla.com/news/florida...

🎶 “You've got the world. But baby, at what price?” -Lana Del Rey www.fox13news.com/news/florida...

look, we are not cancelling @bencollins.bsky.social or @sky.skymarchini.net or @mmasnick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @techdirt.com or @theonion.com so tough shit, we all have to find a way to live together. what if we all agree to cancel @jcsalterego.bsky.social 😂 he loves that kind of thing.

Fourteen calls to 911 www.wmtw.com/article/main...

As if Trump would read all that.

The thing that's weirdest about the Michael Cohen thing isn't that his resistance schtick was absolute bullshit, it's that he thinks getting back on the Trump train NOW is a good idea? I could see right after the election when all media lost their minds, but now, in the mouth of madness era?

whoops we gave the weirdos all the power

ridiculous interviewer asks: are you now, or have you ever been a capitalist?

Jennifer Hegseth heartened to know NYT will write a puff piece about her when she dies.

It's telling that in the 2028 horserace coverage, no pundit is suggesting that anybody who served in this administration will be completely toxic in two years. Probably overly optimistic to think so, but on the current administration crash and burn trajectory, I'd certainly consider it possible.

IMO this is not actually about the Trump administration's credibility, it is about the news media's credibility.

all my friends in the computer are fighting 😭

“Three years later, PublicSquare is struggling… The company has reported cumulative losses of nearly $160 million since going public, through the end of July, and remains unprofitable. Its stock has cratered by 99% since it went public in 2023.”

Ghost hunters are not routinely invited on meet the press to talk about anything they want

Tomorrow on my live-cast: "History Matters:" Women Are The Key. They're Always The Key. And not because of Natalie Harp. (Though she's part of the mix...) Friday at 10 AM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqOX...

What’s wrong, babe? You’ve hardly touched your champions of soccer limited edition olive oil

I also think Democrats really need to hammer the message that none of this was normal ten years ago. I think it’s all been so relentless, people start to forget.

Would you re-enlist if you got to play GTA 6?

It does feel like for every point Trump loses in approval, another staffer springs a leak.

Wondering now what the odds are that this was dictated to Harp as a DM and she had the little posting oopsie?

Our only hope of the media covering these stories with the obsessiveness they conjure for democrats is if jon ossoff mentions it now

Every day, a half dozen stories that would be major scandals in any other administration.

It's almost like the guy who first appeared in the New York Times for racist reasons hasn't changed over his entire life.

He’s out now. This article was written in March before Cofnas embarrassed them. But judging from that article they invited a what is akin to a Nazi race scientist into the fold. They deserve more criticism and embarrassment than they will get

There will never be more social media posts about food or more commercials on tv for restaurants than when you are told not to eat anything. 

Who among AI *proponents* is doing interesting thinking/writing/work focused on the prevention of negative consequences of AI? things like (see attached): (Not looking for an argument about whether these and other concerns are real!)

you know what they say about that

just cut to the chase, I can handle it am I a spreadsheet person and if so, is this bad or good

On the bright side, Trump is handing the Democrats running in 2028 the easiest applause line ever when they promise to take his name off everything he personally and gratuitously put it on.

Not surprising. But still unbelievable.

Perhaps the naysayers are not familiar with Trump's heroic efforts in "his Vietnam" at Studio 54.

I've never seen a Democratic candidate I like half as much as I like the version of Democratic candidates Fox News tries to scare their viewers with

Ever since that 2024 Ann Selzer poll, I can't even look at them so much anymore. It doesn't help that I keep defaulting to thinking surely people are wising up for real now.

I thought everyone on this website had a single hivemind. How does debate work?

I think I saw the joke that launched spreadsheet people then I come back a few hours later and it's making people mad? I like Bluesky, I only post on Bluesky, but I do see the naysayer's point now and then.

Looking at the Dobbs opinion again and we really don't talk enough about how much of a hack Brett Kavanaugh is. 1. Many states passed anti-abortion laws after your 2018 confirmation *because* they wanted vehicles to target Roe 2. Do those 26 states represent a majority of the population, my guy?

"she had the idea for “Life of M” a little more than two years ago” ... "When she began writing it, she struggled for a long time with the book’s structure." The book's being published next week, so she may well have struggled, but not for even close to a long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/s...

Natalie’s outside the White House gates holding up a boombox.

I like the way this photo looks like a publicity still from some chilly nordic awards bait movie. Too bad "The Worst Person in the World" is taken.

are we great again yet

I think the thing that's worth analyzing a bit is why the media needed the excuse Jon Ossoff gave them to dive into a story that's been in plain sight for months.

kinda gross, kinda terrifying

Not to be too gossipy, but is Trump's hardworking and critically important not at all weird assistant ever seen near him on the rare occasions that his wife is?

Angie Nixon is calling the shots.

this is kinda gross. www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

Democrats can do this if they liberate themselves from the habit of asking the media for permission to be Democrats.

meanwhile us wordperfect 5.1 people are just over here not bothering anyone

very serious people: the debit is real high, only one thing to do: cut social security dirty hippies: we could spend less on war very serious people: it's a shame but social security gotta go dirty hippies: this dumb war is expensive! very serious people: sorry grandpa, simply no other options

Paramount will either completely collapse under incompetence and debt or turn into another really large and shitty tech company sympathetic to authoritarianism or both!

It’s like he’s micro targeting different outrages for different interest groups.

High-quality school meals can take on hunger, health issues, and poverty at once. See how @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social is doing just that in our nation’s capital. www.washingtoninformer.com/protecting-s...

this guy is dumb as a sack of hammers and sure seems to want to get a whole bunch of kids killed but at least he sounds like a 4,000 year old with throat cancer who has been cursed by a witch to live forever while continuing to age

I cannot believe elon musk has once again engaged in some lazy-ass bullshit

800k views at 10 seconds per view means this guy has destroyed three months of a human life

[sung to the tune of Barry Manilow's "Copa Cabana"] 🎶His name was Tugboat, He was a pitcher

oh weird its almost like the tech overlords and the fascist politicians are in a symbiotic relationship where a percentage of tax cuts and government subsidies will be used to fund republican campaigns www.axios.com/2026/08/19/g...

@mawaldman.bsky.social joins @mollyjongfast.bsky.social on the Fast Politics Pod to talk about the challenges facing the 2026 midterms, from AI to the Trump administration.

@mawaldman.bsky.social joins @mollyjongfast.bsky.social on the Fast Politics Pod to talk about the challenges facing the 2026 midterms, from AI to the Trump administration. open.spotify.com/episode/…

Name a band using only emojis 👨🍽️🌎

"If we immiserate civilians it will help us" is not an even theoretically viable approach to war against non-democracies. What's the mechanism of action by which you think "making the general populace of Iran miserable" leads to different action by Iran's government?

Speed is essential for containing foodborne illness outbreaks. But after intense lobbying from the food industry — which spends millions on political donations — Congress delayed safeguards that might have helped contain cyclospora more quickly.

Note to Democrats: Now is not the time to be playing party politics. From: A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can't Sleep -- August 19 Edition You can find the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcV... www.youtube.com/shorts/Jtipg...

Anyone who knows me at all knows that I am, to put it mildly, *extremely* bearish on LLMs. But I'm not going to reject the evidence of their utility that I've seen, either -- and while that utility is limited, it's extremely real and the evidence I've seen is very good.

High-quality school meals can take on hunger, health issues, and poverty at once. See how @dccentralkitchen.bsky.social is doing just that in our nation’s capital. www.washingtoninformer.com/protecting-s...

letting PE take over law firms like we have learned absolutely nothing from anything

what will be the funniest vehicle this guy is going to get hit by? first thought is cybertruck but I think it's a school bus.

spreadsheet girly pop ✨💁🏽‍♀️

This is it. Data centers have become a target not because of the specifics of their water usage or whatever but because they're the one visible, local leverage point for ordinary people to push back on the "turd mountain" of AI that's being foisted on them with little tangible benefit and no consent

@booman23.bsky.social: "Do I think the Democrats just blew a ripe opportunity to win a Senate seat? Yes. "But ... Nixon has won the right to give this election her best effort, and I will be rooting for her all the way." martinlongman.substack.com/p/was-vindma...

urgently paging @bencollins.bsky.social and @theonion.com

I think sometimes people forget that a large chunk of office workers are also part of the working class.

I won't defend Swalwell, but at the same time, I don't trust Kash Patel to run a fair and lawful investigation.