August J. Pollak
@augustjpollak.bsky.social
Your face is good. I am a Soos.
I’m sorry to break it to everyone here, but this guy absolutely is the platonic ideal of all of your celebrity faves who post nothing about politics on social media outside of the lens of “I think this made Trump sad and I’m happy now”
but........... why? deadline.com/2025/12/news...
Newsom 2028: Hollywood Donors Start Lining Up Behind Expected White House Bid; “He’s A Fighter, That’s What We Need!”
Gavin Newsom is Trump's greatest political antagonist, & the CA Governor could ride that wave all the way to the White House, with big bucks backing
deadline.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I’m sorry to break it to everyone here, but this guy absolutely is the platonic ideal of all of your celebrity faves who post nothing about politics on social media outside of the lens of “I think this made Trump sad and I’m happy now”
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Hey everyone great news, high prices are good now. I can’t believe the Washington Post realized this only after Amazon bought it
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hey everyone great news, high prices are good now. I can’t believe the Washington Post realized this only after Amazon bought it
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“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To
More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
"The First Amendment says mentioning Jesus is an automatic A on my homework" is yet another example of the obvious good-faith discourse from conservatives who deeply, seriously believe there is a problem with educational fairness on college campuses that our entire media should continue entertaining
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"The First Amendment says mentioning Jesus is an automatic A on my homework" is yet another example of the obvious good-faith discourse from conservatives who deeply, seriously believe there is a problem with educational fairness on college campuses that our entire media should continue entertaining
The scary part of this for the GOP is even with a (likely) Van Epps win, the margin won't be any fault of the GOP fielding a weak candidate or some electoral fluke. These numbers are about a single thing that is replicating nationwide: everyone just fucking hates Republicans.
ICYMI — Inside Elections moved TN-07 from Solid Republican to Lean Republican two weeks ago. New poll last week from Emerson shows a dead heat in the Trump +22 seat. www.insideelections.com/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The scary part of this for the GOP is even with a (likely) Van Epps win, the margin won't be any fault of the GOP fielding a weak candidate or some electoral fluke. These numbers are about a single thing that is replicating nationwide: everyone just fucking hates Republicans.
I realize this comes off as hyperbole and/or just trying to farm likes or whatever, but I seriously do believe it’s an actual national security issue that the largest social media site in America is now an open forum for white supremacists because its owner is also one
This is not true. Musk is endorsing (again) a version of the white nationalist great replacement theory, as told by Stephen Miller.
It is a conspiracy theory and it was confined to the fringes of the Internet until 10 or so years ago.
If true, Harris would’ve easily won in 2024.
It is a conspiracy theory and it was confined to the fringes of the Internet until 10 or so years ago.
If true, Harris would’ve easily won in 2024.
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I realize this comes off as hyperbole and/or just trying to farm likes or whatever, but I seriously do believe it’s an actual national security issue that the largest social media site in America is now an open forum for white supremacists because its owner is also one
That Oklahoma student’ shit-terrible essay is a great example of why folks need to stop claiming every right wing outrage is some “coordinated event.” No it’s not. This is just what it looks like when white people are told they can’t do something for the first time in their lives.
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
That Oklahoma student’ shit-terrible essay is a great example of why folks need to stop claiming every right wing outrage is some “coordinated event.” No it’s not. This is just what it looks like when white people are told they can’t do something for the first time in their lives.
Your occasional reminder that two of the top selling games of 2025 were the Oblivion remake that removed gender binaries in character creation and the Assassin’s Creed game starring a woman and a black man and the neckbeards spent two sales quarters wailing about both of these to no avail
Even by the standards of anti-woke journalism this is lazy dreck. The first piece of "evidence" that older gamers are mad about wokeness is a random Reddit comment — that isn't a complaint about wokeness.
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/2...
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Your occasional reminder that two of the top selling games of 2025 were the Oblivion remake that removed gender binaries in character creation and the Assassin’s Creed game starring a woman and a black man and the neckbeards spent two sales quarters wailing about both of these to no avail
The funniest part about this is rather than offer a lifeline to centrists it highlights the objective reality that nothing in 2025 politics crashed and burned harder than Abundance
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The funniest part about this is rather than offer a lifeline to centrists it highlights the objective reality that nothing in 2025 politics crashed and burned harder than Abundance
If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
Working 36 hours straight on Thanksgiving so Grok says Elon is in better shape than LeBron
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
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I'm at work right now but I'm genuinely mad I couldn't troll at this level it's pretty breathtaking
I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I'm at work right now but I'm genuinely mad I couldn't troll at this level it's pretty breathtaking
Lil Jon just performed on the Toys R Us Float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and if you said “wait what year is it” it could be referring to four different parts of that sentence
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Lil Jon just performed on the Toys R Us Float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and if you said “wait what year is it” it could be referring to four different parts of that sentence
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I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
The Fani Willis bed shitting is the epitome of liberals acting like historical revisionism is an emotional support animal. I'm sorry, I don't accept this. No, I don't care that you have a doctor's note from the internet.
oh come on. we’re at the defend Fani Willis stage of coping?
There was no reason to remove Fani Willis
She had no conflict of interest
The fix is in in Georgia
She had no conflict of interest
The fix is in in Georgia
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The Fani Willis bed shitting is the epitome of liberals acting like historical revisionism is an emotional support animal. I'm sorry, I don't accept this. No, I don't care that you have a doctor's note from the internet.
I don’t think our collective brains are prepared to handle three years of the new discourse insisting that Biden saying “we beat Medicare” in a nationally televised debate is now Olivia Nuzzi’s fault
Look I don't want to say you're a rube if you fell for the "Biden's incompetent" trope but it was clearly a con coming almost exclusively from bad faith actors and had almost zero solid evidentiary basis.
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I don’t think our collective brains are prepared to handle three years of the new discourse insisting that Biden saying “we beat Medicare” in a nationally televised debate is now Olivia Nuzzi’s fault
It’s actually wild when you think about how this was made by the same guy whose most famous movie was the one about the Jewish mice who escaped Russia because of the pogroms started by the heroine of this movie’s family
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
It’s actually wild when you think about how this was made by the same guy whose most famous movie was the one about the Jewish mice who escaped Russia because of the pogroms started by the heroine of this movie’s family
Folks if we’re having this conversation, then it’s time to actually have this conversation, this is also the exact reaction you evoke when you use the word “skeets”
If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Folks if we’re having this conversation, then it’s time to actually have this conversation, this is also the exact reaction you evoke when you use the word “skeets”
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he’s the creator of Flask. he’s literally the creator of Django. you dipshits he invented Zoop. better watch how you talk to the actual inventor of Peebo
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
he’s the creator of Flask. he’s literally the creator of Django. you dipshits he invented Zoop. better watch how you talk to the actual inventor of Peebo
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almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
A casual reminder that these are the actual episode titles for May I Ask For One Final Thing, an anime that if you are not watching, then you're dumb
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A casual reminder that these are the actual episode titles for May I Ask For One Final Thing, an anime that if you are not watching, then you're dumb
JD Vance is objectively the least qualified vice president in modern American history, but at least he’s also unfathomably stupid
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
JD Vance is objectively the least qualified vice president in modern American history, but at least he’s also unfathomably stupid
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The Kamala Harris book is so excruciating
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Kamala Harris book is so excruciating
Your continuing reminder that "Trump is going to cancel elections and declare a military dictatorship" was never a rational belief because amongst all other reasons it requires the military to not actually hate him
SOUTHCOM is curbing holiday leave as it prepares for potential land strikes in Venezuela within the next 10–14 days, NewsNation reports.
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Your continuing reminder that "Trump is going to cancel elections and declare a military dictatorship" was never a rational belief because amongst all other reasons it requires the military to not actually hate him
Okay but Republicans don't care because the point of all this isn't to actually punish anyone; it's to taint the very perception of prosecutions starting in 2029. They want to spend three years making federal investigations look vindictive and meaningless for when they all face them themselves.
Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Okay but Republicans don't care because the point of all this isn't to actually punish anyone; it's to taint the very perception of prosecutions starting in 2029. They want to spend three years making federal investigations look vindictive and meaningless for when they all face them themselves.