Chub Heartman

@griefmachine.bsky.social

Favorite non-sexy euphemism for sex?

Porkin'

Chris

@reefermadness.bsky.social

If US democracy collapses, it will be much more difficult for other Western democracies to survive.

We're at a critical juncture in history and most of the talking heads are normalising it.

Or celebrating it.

Henrik Plaschke

@henrikplaschke.bsky.social

1. "The EU's policy of paying border states to prevent migrants from reaching its territory only serves to increase Europe's vulnerability and tempts these countries to weaponize migration. Plans to outsource detention centers for deportees, now backed by Brussels, further exacerbate these risks.

Space Things

@space-stories.bsky.social

You're in a combat suit in the trash compactor. It's mostly goo, now, but this was the broken cyborg. It's punching a sack of opaque fluid.

FT Weekend

@ftweekend.com

Anita Brookner — a beguiling portrait of a maddeningly inscrutable writer https://ft.trib.al/HiPpTkH

𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂

@aub.bsky.social

"in which language is an LLM intelligent" seems like a really poor gotcha but a really interesting empirical question about relative cross-linguistic performance

Salon.com

@salon.com

“It makes no sense: Erika Kirk really wants to lead TPUSA while also insisting that a woman’s place is in the home. This dissonance is why she is failing,” @amandamarcotte.bsky.social writes.

Lucas Magalhães

@lvcasmag.bsky.social

I know there's a fear of abusing the terms "fascist" or "(neo)nazi" due to their historical weight, anachronism etc, but sometimes safeguarding it too much makes you miss labelling actual nazis that would proudly claim the label.

第一の手記.

@talesofmacabre.bsky.social

the snow seemed like a dirty bandage hiding the open wounds of the city, hiding those irregular gashes of haphazard streets and tortuous alleys, courtyards and occasional plots of bare ground, that form the only beauty to be found in the panorama of our

Washington Post Opinions

@postopinions.bsky.social

"The more the president pressured [Jerome] Powell to leave, the more resolute he became about staying," David Ignatius writes.