“Closed markets don’t work anymore” says the guy using tariffs to artificially close off the access to the world’s markets.

We have to hunker down and spend less but he gets a parade. And yet they’ll still defend this nonsense.

Stephen Miller looks like a dude who definitely wears leather heels and a ball gag at home.

Meta also expected the meta-verse to be the future of the web and thus rename their company, Meta lol

It feels like Zuckerberg is out of ideas and just chases the trends to stay relevant. He was all in on the “metaverse” until he wasn’t because the concept disappeared. Now, he’s all in on AI because everyone else is. Even the quest, before it became the face of the metaverse, was him chasing another big idea from someone else.

He and the company haven’t had original ideas in a very long time. Even the smaller ones, like Stories and Reels, are just ideas copied from someone else.

I had to disengage from the news a bit, too. I put my News follows on Mastodon on a separate list and stopped listening to NPR Up First.

We’re fucked, but hearing about it non-stop wasn’t good for my mental health.

People do that so that the content doesn’t get shadow banned by automatic systems on social media.

Musk is far wealthier and controls X, but Trump’s cult is locked to him.

It would be an incredibly funny implosion of their relationship.

We need to keep needling him. If successful, it would be incredibly fun to see him turn on Musk like he’s done to pretty much everyone else.

Looks like ole Matty Boy was trying to expedite his upward movement in the GOP.

You think they high fived him after writing the report?

Another sad case of progressives winning in policy but failing in messaging.

The right ONLY focuses on messaging (what’s the last real policy win for them?) which makes them incredibly difficult to keep up with.

How the hell does she not retire immediately? She’s in a senior home. She’s not representing her district at all.

Another soulless billionaire kisses the ring.

I hate how much I laughed at this. I’m never growing up.

It upsets me too but I don’t think being angry about it will change anything. I’d rather take a moment to learn a lesson from her because I’m not sure I’d be so publicly level headed about it.

She’s on a big stage and this is a big moment for a community of marginalized people. She needs to be strong, not just for herself, but the people who find a reflection of themselves in her. Her ability to stay calm in this silly storm is admirable.

I don’t know much about her, but she’s clearly handling this situation with an incredible amount of class. I respect the heck out of her for that.

If they voted then they aren’t illegally here?

I don’t think you understand how determined the buyers are once they’ve been convinced by the scammer. I used to work for a major retailer that had signs at the register AND messages that the customer had to accept on the signature pad confirming they didn’t believe they were being scammed before going through with the purchase.

Additionally, my team was instructed to call me over any time they had a customer who they felt was being scammed to try to talk to them. Sometimes, I was successful, but other times I wasn’t. There is still one guy who goes in weekly to buy $500 of various gift cards for his overseas “girlfriend” on WhatsApp. I tried talking to him multiple times and he became increasingly angry at the conversation. I just had to accept I couldn’t help him.

At first I was like “this shit makes no sense and isn’t funny”

Then I got it and was proud of myself like I had actually accomplished something.

Take your fucking upvote and get out of here.

The word “weird” gets overused a lot but this is weird as fuck. Pretty creepy.