aaron petcoff

heroically competent. software engineer & socialist.

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

Have this on repeat

[JP @jpbrammer]

[me immediately after Plato anxiously proposes the concept of the world of forms] this dude thinks beds borrow their bedness from bed world LMAO

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump on Egyptian President el-Sisi: "He was in a hotel and I met him. We fell in love, deeply in love ... we didn't know each other before that. We had great chemistry, and I stayed twice as long as I was supposed to."

[William B. Fuckley @opinonhaver]

It remains an incredibly grim but admittedly very bleakly funny running bit that we got an administration obsessed with LETHALITY and WARFIGHTERS and then almost immediately had one of the most humiliating defeats in American military history

[Schwabster🇱🇹🇩🇰🇺🇦 @Ziggydank]

HE DID IT

THE FUCKING MADMAN ACTUALLY DID IT

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

Same reason they don’t step in to save the SF Opera or the Met: these are fully bourgeois capitalists who have shed even bourgeois self-consciousness. They feel no obligation to justify their wealth, so they spend it on being internet famous instead of colleges or the arts.

[HOLD THE LINE STARMER #MISTAKESINTOMIRACLES @GarlicCorgi]

It was when everyone was convinced that an uptick of fireworks in early July was a sure sign of a psyop to keep everyone crazy

[george @idobadtakes]

No they won’t. The tech oligarchs are the most useless set of elites imaginable. No set of rich people in American history have been as useless a drain on society as they have

[ostonox @ostonox]

"can you guarantee a knicks championship in your first term?" "inshallah"

promises made, promises kept

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This is the true legacy of DOGE - the utter decimation of medical research.

MAGA idiots will try to tell you this is just cutting DEI programs. Keep in mind DOGE was filled with such idiots they killed physics grants that mentioned 'polarization' (of light) because of "DEI".

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

The media is obsessed with this race.

That obsession doesn't seem to extend to healthcare or housing or any of the life-or-death issues at stake in November.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

peak liberal take

[aaron petcoff @ughitsaaron]

@DougHenwood @CynicalPublius He also actually invented a few things.

[Claire Penis @ZeroSuitCamus]

Canada v. Bosnia

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

SpaceX prospectus is the most monorail salesman shit of all time

[Velodus✨ @velodus]

There's no better case for socialism than the world's first trillionaire being a massive loser who cosplays as his mom and baby online and lies about being good at video games in an attempt to give his life meaning.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The NBA just did something leagues almost never do: side against one of its own owners, in his own market, during the Finals.

Live broadcast rights are the most protected asset in sports. Disney and friends paid $76B in the latest media deal partly for moments exactly like this. Bars need licenses just to show games. Yet within hours of James Dolan pulling the plug on the watch party outside his own arena, the league cleared New York City to stream Game 4 free on public street furniture.

Dolan's stated reason for canceling: a 999-person cap was an insult when "we're about millions of people."

So the city took him literally. LinkNYC runs roughly 2,000 kiosks across the five boroughs, built on the corpse of the old payphone franchise. Dolan controls the Garden. The city controls every sidewalk around it.

One detail makes the whole thing sting. MSG requested the 999-person permit itself, then canceled when it was approved.

Owners win these standoffs when they own the only screen in town. Dolan just found out the city has two thousand of them.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Curtis Sliwa goes off on James Dolan for the stunt he pulled yesterday related to the Knicks watch party at MSG:

“Before the Knicks championship run against the San Antonio Spurs, the most hated, loathed person in New York was Jimmy Dolan. People hate him, and now everybody is lifting him up and saying, “This guy, he's a party guy. He wants us to party to the break of dawn and celebrate the Knicks.” And so he threw water on Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

But especially Zoran Mamdani yesterday, when he canceled the viewing party. And he blamed the police commissioner and the mayor, and then said, “Hey, Mr. Mayor, you're not a real Knicks fan. I wanted everyone to party. I wanted everyone to enjoy this. You're the party pooper.” Jimmy Dolan, I'm coming after you now for sure. I'll have the mayor on my side to make you pay your property taxes.

$48 million a year. I think, finally, the mayor may say, “Yeah, let's tax that rich guy who blasphemed me.””

[William Gerrard @Bill_Gerrard]

The Onion's "Adults Go Wild Over Latest In Children's Picture Book Series" video is a masterpiece