not a duck

the Personality Disorder is Political!

[💗 @ma1ybe]

Aposematism is there to warn off predators, not sexual partners. If you’re repelled by it, it’s working.

[not a duck @blaaaarvb]

@MurrayHillGuy1 Your “legitimate Chad” friend didn’t notice he was in the gay part of the city because none of the gay dudes hit on him. So “legitimate Chad” is fucking chopped . Like Quasimodo chopped.

[A woman has no username 💙 🇺🇸 💙 @Firni]

@Fritschner @joncoopertweets

[Transleytanked @transleytanked]

Just realised Cher is older than Israel-

[Alec Gunter 🇵🇸 @PunishedAG]

let me help you understand this better

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Noah Hawley attended Jeff Bezos's private Campfire retreat in 2018. His wife broke her wrist. He told Bezos directly - not as complaint, just as human information from one husband and father to another. Bezos looked horrified, an aide materialized instantly, and he was whisked away.

No "I'm so sorry." No "do you need anything." Just escape.

Hawley's thesis in The Atlantic is not that the ultra-wealthy are evil. It is something more precise and more unsettling: that moral reasoning develops through consequences, and the environment of extreme wealth systematically removes consequences from a person's life. When you can buy your way out of any mistake, fire anyone who disagrees with you, and exist in a social circle entirely composed of people who need something from you - the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark.

This is different from classic narcissism, which typically masks insecurity. What Hawley is describing is something rarer: a self-definition in which the individual has genuinely grown to the size of the universe and the universe has contracted to fit. Elon Musk calling empathy "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization." Trump asked about checks on his power saying the only thing that could stop him was his own morality. Peter Thiel concluding that freedom and democracy are incompatible.

These are not poses. They are the logical endpoint of a psychology shaped by years of operating in a world that never pushed back.

The Bezos encounter is the piece's sharpest detail because it is so small. He was not cruel. He was not contemptuous. He simply could not locate, in that moment, the impulse to respond like a person who understood that another person's wrist hurt.

[Not Now John @fryspati]

The fat nazi who runs this website keeps trying to sneak right wing bullshit onto my timeline thinking I won’t notice

[Rando Calrissian III 🍉 @putxiwhipped5]

@sfchronicle

[not a duck @blaaaarvb]

@KyleKulinski They’re going to have to bring back that Botched show when this administration ends.

[not a duck @blaaaarvb]

I’m convinced Laura Loomer has died and been replaced by a Laura Loomer impersonator. I’m personally amazed I didn’t know there was such a thing as a Laura Loomer impersonator.

[not a duck @blaaaarvb]

@DecodingFoxNews Greg is supposed to be a comedian so he doesn’t really think that. He’s just joking.

[Lauren Thompson @lauren_tho4607]

@UKBackintheDay2 Dicken's Daughters. (1992-93) 🎶 French and Saunders 🎶

https://t.co/ZmQckRAH4s

[Boob Jobs, Founder and CEO @cool_hot_woman]

insane that we generally have yet to discuss widely accepted washington insider gossip that pete hegseth pays for racial domination roleplay and likes to dress up in women's clothing. because it explains a lot

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Serious Reminder:

When it comes to the midterms, vote like you don't want to be imprisoned in a former Amazon Warehouse for criticizing Donald Trump.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

The oldest written hummus recipe in the world is 776 years old...

It was written in Aleppo, Syria in 1250 CE by a historian named Ibn al-'Adeem. Not a chef. A historian. Who also happened to document one of the most extraordinary cookbooks of the medieval period.

The base of the recipe is identical to what you make today. Chickpeas, tahini, lemon, garlic, salt. That part has not changed in 776 years.

What has changed is the garnish. After the hummus is spread flat on a wide plate, the 1250 CE manuscript says to drizzle it with sweet olive oil, scatter chopped parsley and pistachios across the top, dust it with Ceylon cinnamon, and finish with crushed rose buds.

The manuscript also notes that the dish will look quite nice if you arrange whole chickpeas on top. A medieval Syrian historian giving you plating advice.

#archaeohistories

[Najlaa . @Gredtoo]

"I think my back is broken."
- The final words uttered by the martyr Rachel Corrie before the criminal bulldozer driver reversed and ran over her for the second and final time.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

im sorry for blocking so easily. it's nothing personal. it's just that you're stupid and annoying and i don't want to be inflicted with your thoughts again

[Rosanna Pansino @RosannaPansino]

Are all Billionaires this whiney the second a small fraction of their wealth is threatened?

Bro, you invested in LUNCHLY of all things. Your contribution to society is making a bargain-bin rip off of hyper processed slop for kids.

California would be noticeably better without you. Billionaires use every loophole they can to not pay taxes anyway, we wouldn’t even notice you were gone.

Honestly, the thought of all the weird, entitled, talentless, tech bros finally leaving the state is a dream come true.

Why haven’t you moved yet btw?

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

We should probably stop putting people who are preparing for the rapture in charge of anything