The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

oh goodie got an update the SNAP program is gonna be without funding if the government shutdown continues past the 31st and that seems SUPER LIKELY and jfc 🚬😬 we are already so slammed bc of this shutdown and the food bank system can only do so much to bolster it

A Vermont lawmaker stepped down following revelations regarding his involvement in a racist, pro-Hitler chat associated with the Young Republicans. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Grant Morrison is seemingly dropping the use of AI in their newsletter following a backlash to comments on the subject in a Reddit AMA.

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.