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Federal laws are not put to national vote, though. We would essentially have to restructure the entire Constitution to put such a thing directly to the voters.

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I knew a couple (now divorced) in which the conservative MAGA-supporting husband used to mansplain Catholicism to his wife despite the fact that she attended Catholic school growing up whereas he was a non-religious Jew.

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I don’t think letting voters micromanage decisions about how to run National Parks would necessarily give us better results given that these are the same voters who put you-know-who in power. Twice. I just want the NPS to be run by someone who actually cares about its mission and values.

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"I only pulled the trigger ONCE on that fully automatic machine gun, yet now I'm being held accountable for ALL the bullets that came out?"

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Stolen art can't be sold on the open market, so the only ways to make a profit are 1) Have a rich asshole lined up ahead of time who just wants to privately gloat about having a famous painting all to himself, or 2) Ransom it back to the people you stole it from It's no wonder so many get caught.

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I’m like 85% sure that the classic Bob Hope caricature was the primary inspiration for the appearance of “Condiment King” from Batman: the Animated Series (in that cartoon he was a famous comedian who was brainwashed into adopting a ridiculous supervillain persona).

Condiment King threatens Ketchup & Mustard-based violence as Batman looks on with disapproval.

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Fat Cat has had a revival of sorts since that Trump associate who fucked up the reflecting pool was in the news.

Reflecting pool contractor John J. Cafaro, a cartoon villain in human flesh.

Dan Quayle once misspelled the word “potato” in 1992 and to this day it’s the one thing most people know about him. We need to bring back expectations of basic literacy in our elected leaders.

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If you don't think governments exist for the welfare of the people then with all due respect what the fuck do you think they ARE for and why would we have any reason to support them?

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I will say this for Gavin Newsom: I have not yet seen any evidence he sexually assaulted anyone. But that is a pretty low fucking bar.

Most of these billionaires’ business models only work if they can convince investors that their companies have the potential to grow exponentially forever. Once you admit there is a finite market for rockets or chatbots or whatever the entire financial underpinning of the company falls apart.

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And Kimberly is hardly the only controversial romantic partner Gavin had. When he was a 40-year-old mayor he was dating a 19-year-old who was photographed drinking champagne with him at fancy galas. Years after that, he had an affair with his campaign manager’s wife. Just such a creep.

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This goes beyond lying. This goes beyond gaslighting. These are the words and actions of a man who literally believes that he has the power to speak things into being through willpower and repetition, and gets angry whenever objective reality stubbornly refuses to cooperate.

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MARKWAYNE: You said it yourself; she was practicing law without a license. She poses a clear threat to the integrity of our legal system.

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She looks like the Other Mother from Coraline just as she was starting to reveal her true form.

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This. We’ve had the technological capability to create enough food for everyone on the planet to eat and build enough homes for everyone to live for generations now, but we still have hunger and homelessness and the wealth gap is bigger than ever.

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Sam Altman is just as delusional. People think he’s an AI expert because he owns the company, but he is an investor with no personal experience in engineering or computer systems or economics or really anything other than how to make a lot of money for himself.

Somehow, I doubt any of these guys even have enough self awareness to realize that the Torment Nexus meme is about them.

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Pretty sure Iron Man, Hulk and Mysterio were already in a Zodiac movie.

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Is there any way regular middle-class Americans can insulate themselves from the impending market crash? Are there at least some index funds we can put our retirement into that aren't so heavily invested in AI?

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I assume it's for the same reason "Penn & Teller Get Killed" never had a sequel.

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Imagine hosting an event in San Antonio and not knowing which side won the battle of the Alamo.

That will surely be helpful next time we get involved in a war that can be settled via push-up contest.

That may be giving Musk too much credit since it implies he actually has some kind of engineering expertise.

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There is no conceivable circumstance in which Mars would become a more survivable location than Earth. The worst day in the history of life on Earth was still infinitely more hospitable than the best day on Mars. Even a planet-wide nuclear holocaust wouldn’t make Earth as toxic as Mars already is.

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No one who actually likes steak has it cooked to the consistency of boot leather or slathers it in ketchup.

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There is a very real decline in critical thinking skills that comes with surrounding oneself with flatterers and sycophants. All too often, the rich and powerful lack a person in their life who will tell them when they’re acting batshit insane.

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When Gavin Newsom inevitably runs for POTUS in 2028 everyone is going to get a lot of reminders about his incredibly disturbing love life, including his former marriage to this grifting ghoul.

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That idea reminds me of this old Far Side comic…

A single panel comic from Gary Larson‘s “The Far Side“ depicts a bespectacled nerd holding up a portable chalkboard with a complex mathematical equation. This draws the attention and affection of two beautiful women who had been standing near a nerd with a less impressive equation. The this second nerd is visibly upset and humiliated by being upstaged.

One of the reasons I avoid AI like the plague instead of accepting it as an inevitable feature of modern life. Just because the billionaire tech bros are pushing it doesn’t mean I have to buy what they’re selling.

He’s still talking about “gyms for the mind” as if intellectual pursuits haven’t existed for all of history. He’s also wrong about gyms, for that matter. Those existed long before physical labor became automated; just look at ancient Greece.

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I've skimmed enough of his writing to think that's not actually the point he was intending to make. He seems a big fan of AI, he just thinks so-called "high agency individuals" are using it right and "low agency individuals" are using it wrong. He seems kind of insuffrable from what I've seen.

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I have yet to see a single task that a humanoid robot could do as well as a purpose-built machine could. Tesla couldn't even get their ridiculous popcorn-serving robot to work right at that L.A. diner. These bots are a silly novelty product promoted by dorks who don't understand engineering needs.

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This guy makes Shaggy from Scooby Doo look like a gentleman of refinement and sophistication.

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Biden was in MUCH better physical and cognitive condition than McConnell and **HE STILL STEPPED DOWN** instead of pursuing a second term after it became clear his advancing age and declining health were beginning to compromise his ability to do the job effectively. Worst "whatabout" ever.

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"It's the same question people ask of Biden…" Biden, who famously DID step down during the 2024 Presidential campain when it became apparent he was no longer up to the physical and cognitive challenges of a second term? That Biden?

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Plus wasn’t the (false) claim supposed to be that Talarico is a vegan who eats lettuce all day long? Eggs aren’t vegan, man!

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Not the least bit surprising since ChatGPT doesn’t actually understand what a signature is any more than it understands humor or artistic expression or anything else. It’s an idiot algorithm that only “knows” how to rearrange words or pixels based on training data which includes artists’ signatures.

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Maybe instead of a unicorn or a dude riding a flying tiger or whatever it’s just a cow, which is an exotic mythical beast in that galaxy.

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PencilSketchy @brainspore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am a man who was stalked and harassed by a crazy woman for years (I had a restraining order against her and everything) and during the whole awful ordeal I still KNEW DAMN WELL that it would have been much, much worse for me if our genders had been reversed. Male privilege is very real.

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It is absolutely incredible that he was able to con so many immigrants into supporting him in the first place.

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PencilSketchy @brainspore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He even joked “I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton‘s first indictment.”

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PencilSketchy @brainspore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm reminded of this gem from "This is Spinal Tap"

MARTY: The last time Tap toured America, they were, uh, booked into 10,000 seat arenas, and it seems that now on their current tour they're being booked into 1,200 seat arenas, 1,500 seat arenas, and uh I was just wondering, does this mean the uh… the popularity of the group is waning?

IAN: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no… no; not at all. I, I, I just think that the… uh… their appeal is becoming more selective.

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PencilSketchy @brainspore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reminds me of the teaser trailer for 2002's "Spider-Man" which ends with a shot of a jerking helicopter strung up like a bug in a giant spider web. Slava Ukraini!