TJ Harris

🇺🇸Nerfherder. Papa Bear of @sucktoesmakedoe and @JamesonHarris5 Oh, the places I've been: 🇦🇼🇦🇹🇧🇸🇨🇦🇨🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇲🇽🇳🇴🇸🇮🇨🇭🇹🇨🇬🇧

[Kevin Kugler @kevinkugler]

Feeling overwhelmed by political ads?

Upset that your football team has lost again?

Some Wednesday perspective: Next Sunday, the sun sets at 5:20pm, casting your evening into a cloak of darkness. Just before a cold, dark winter.

So it can be worse. And it will be.

[Conspiratorial Templates @mynamehear]

America has to protect itself from its president. Never forget it was the Republican party who did this.

[TJ Harris @tj402]

@JamieBonkiewicz Pepperdine has to be so proud.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

“If you don’t want to watch the execution, then don’t watch.”

Ok… let’s go with that.

Also, if you don’t support same-sex marriage, don’t have one.

If you don’t support drag shows, don’t go.

If you don’t support abortion access, don’t have one.

We can do this all day.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Complete list of developed countries that don’t have universal healthcare:

United States of America.

(End of list)

[Publius @OcrazioCornPop]

🚨 MILTON FRIEDMAN (1978): Young lawyer asked Milton about when it is okay for a Govt to force a free citizen to act.

Did you get the nuance in Milton's question about the difference between "society" and "govt"...

Do you think a man should be free to sin?

[TJ Harris @tj402]

@BarbaraComstock Unites is obviously bad, but what in the absolute fuck is with that 3 year old handwriting of Greg's?

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This election we can’t allow them to tell us we can’t vote or that our vote didn’t count because this election is one of the most important in this Country’s history. So don’t take no for an answer.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

[Charly Wargnier ♨️ @DataChaz]

Best use of AI I've seen this year

[Ed Lettis 🌻 @edbobgreen]

@Acyn

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Every major policy decision coming out of Donald Trump's leadership ends up leaving the US weaker.

Whether driven by incompetence, greed, or outright disregard for the public interest, the results speak for themselves. The US faces eroded purchasing power, rising deficits, and skyrocketing public debt, all while working families bear the financial strain.

At home, falling vaccination rates and gutted public health initiatives leave the nation more vulnerable to preventable disease.

Abroad, failed wars, failed trade wars, and abandoned commitments have alienated traditional allies, crippled US leverage in Europe, and left critical military stockpiles depleted.

The strategic damage extends to lost conflicts and diminished global influence. From domestic health to international credibility, the country emerges weaker on every metric. Trump's record stands out as a masterclass in presidential failure, marked by corruption, ignorance, and a total betrayal of national interest.

Putin and Xi must be happy

[Andrew L. Seidel @AndrewLSeidel]

Things that DO NOT make you a good person:
👉"following the Bible"
👉"going to church"
👉calling yourself a"Christian"

Things that DO make you a good person:
👉doing good

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(if you know who made this let us know)

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Modern information systems do not need to censor the truth when they can simply drown it in noise.

We are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed by force (that is the former communist societies, and modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden – it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait, and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

Why censor the truth when you can drown it?

A fact no longer has to be disproven – it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition, and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes, and 15-second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it looks like just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation, and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

So rather than ask whether you know the truth, I would ask:

Are you indifferent?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Author: Marijn Markus

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

One of the most jarring things about adulthood is the realization of how many truly incompetent people are in the most important jobs. When I was a kid, I just assumed everyone “important” was smart or they wouldn’t be important. Boy, was that fucking wrong.