just amused

Thread of notable Australian aboriginals

@wil_da_beast630 @BillboardChris There'd be less pushback against "not all men but always a man" if there was some acknowledgement that it applies to all the good stuff too

If men didn't exist, there would not be AirPods. Or streets.

he's like the retarded forrest gump

@avidseries Less important when things are heading in the right direction

@canwepause Not really.

America's major cities are virtually all blue, many of them deep blue. But the homicide rate is falling — indeed, often plummeting — in almost all of them.

Every time Trump survives an assassination attempt he enters a kind of zen fugue state where he transcends his usual belligerence and radiates unearthly serenity. "I wasn't worried," he said after this last one. "I understand life. We live in a crazy world." In this photo he looks like the speaker of Yeats's "Lake Isle of Innisfree," gazing dreamily into the respite that awaits him when at last his labor on this earth is done. "Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade." This usually lasts about a week before he goes back to thundering obscenities at his enemies and wishing hellfire upon them at the merest provocation.

if only most econ papers had this good of a first paragraph

@TomChivers Where do they get their information from?

This seems really bad and I don't know what to do about it: not so much the differences in political attitudes, that's fine, but there's a strong gender divide in belief on straightforward factual questions like "is nuclear energy low-carbon?" yougov.com/en-gb/articles…

@ChristianHeiens "men's utility to women" has not diminished. They just don't need their own man when there are other men available to do the work. Problem is when those men have no family of their own to provide for they have less incentive to do the work at all

Checking in on the status of Wokeism, and it turns out Leftist academics are unironically saying that society needs to intentionally “marginalize men” even more to supposedly solve the birth rate. History shows us that what’s normalized in academia becomes publicly mainstream within a generation, and there is no sign the ship is turning or even slowing down.

@grok @SantasTavern @tylerblack32 Was Obama actually inside @grok?

Actual assassination attempts require action taken to harm (e.g., firing shots or direct assault), not just threats or plans. For Obama, the primary documented one was November 11, 2011: Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez fired ~25 rounds from a rifle at the White House while Obama and his family were inside. He was convicted and sentenced to 25 years (avoided full assassination charge via plea). Most of the ~11-13 incidents cited in reports were foiled plots/threats stopped early by Secret Service—no shots fired or approach made.

Obama: 11, including a guy who fired 25 rifle rounds at the White House. Biden: 5, including one arrested 4 miles from his house with an AR-15 and a checklist ending "execute." Harris: 2 federal prosecutions. Clinton: a pipe bomb intercepted at her home and a militia.

@FinallyAwake10 @avidseries

@canwepause @avidseries 😂

A photo of the summer 2025 interns at the Los Angeles Times should look relatively familiar to those of you who have seen similar photos of interns at other legacy media outlets. Zero white males.

@GalaxyDuster @SwipeWright The silence on this subject has been deafening

@SwipeWright Follow me for more on my upcoming scholarly dissertation: "Embodied Epistemologies of the Oppressed: Fat, Non-western, Non-Binary Femme Perspectives on the Intersectional Violence of Whole Milk in Settler-Colonial Lattes."

This new doctoral thesis claims to explain how “gender non-binary assigned female at birth (AFAB) individuals” resist and navigate the “male hegemonic gender binary.” The abstract is loaded with activist jargon: it is “guided by feminist queer theory,” seeks to describe how AFAB non-binary people pursue “liberation from gendered expectations,” and frames ordinary social reality as “cisnormative social systems.” It interviews just 18 people as the basis for their “grounded theoretical model” about how they “resist, reinterpret, and strategically navigate gendered power structures.” Despite the technical language about using “open, axial, and selective coding” and “constant comparative analysis,” this is yet another dissertation where a small number of ideologically sympathetic interviews are filtered through feminist-queer theory and presented as deep insight. It ends by claiming the data has “implications for clinicians,” but I somehow doubt that our healthcare system would benefit from incorporating these findings.

@avidseries Everyday hr narrow their eyes at him and wonder if he lied about being hispanic

Correction: I missed the guy in partial shadow wearing the baseball cap. He's probably white.

@friendlyjordies Sounds like you're in the market for some fit in or fuck off merch

"The news stories tell the tale"

@rogueducknet @chasedownleads

Run a cozy Japanese Vending Machine business! 🌸 (40% off on Steam)

@waitbutwhy I'd tell my kids to press red

Suddenly standing alone in the room, I begin by imagining humanity banding together and blue winning in a landslide, and I feel a rush of pride. Red is the genocide button. Blue is the “save humanity from this nightmare” button. I know what kind of person I am. As my hand hovers over the blue button, I can’t help but imagine a gun pointing at my head with a bullet in one of the chambers. I feel a surge of fear shoot through my body. Then I think about all the other people staring at the blue button and thinking the same thing. Surely some of those who initially decided to press blue will succumb to the fear. It starts to feel like a gun with two loaded chambers. A stronger pulse of terror. The more I think about it, the more I worry about other people thinking about it. My heart races. Then I look at the red button—a gun with no bullets in it. A glorious feeling of relief washes over me. Will I hate myself forever if blue wins because enough others were better and braver than me? But don’t I owe it to my family to protect myself? One vote won’t change anything anyway, right? It’s all irrelevant because the mammal I live in has already made up its mind. I wince and press red.

@politicalmath Rich posting

the problem with hasan piker is that he's not very smart

@MarioNawfal Not this australian

Australians are built different 🇦🇺 😳

They’re blaming the “manosphere”

@cremieuxrecueil As meatloaf said "2 out of 3 ain't bad"

I simulated 100,000 people to show how often people are "thrice-exceptional": Smart, stable, and exceptionally hard-working. I've highlighted these people in red in this chart:

@TheCinesthetic Not the conclusion his dad was hoping he'd draw from that lesson

Stellan Skarsgård reflects on his worldview : "My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it" "In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people" (via @vulture)