Peter M. O’Donnell

It’s a violation of something

It’s really just that when the right is talking about tech they are talking about the employees and the left is talking about the bosses. Everything becomes legible under that construction. bsky.app/profile/radl...

Look at the Moon to see Jupiter left beside her

Danica Roem is the best illustration of how transphobes are more obsessed with trans people than any actual trans person because all her campaigns are like "it's time to fix these potholes" and her opponents are like "the children will not be safe unless you explain how you go to the bathroom."

This piece captures the heartbreak and horror that I feel for my suffering Jewish friends & colleagues. Fuck Hamas, fuck antisemitism, fuck right-wing fascist governments, and fuck indiscriminate violence.

G-d bless Bess Kalb for this powerful piece.

besskalb.substack.com/p/explaining...

when everyones phone buzzes tomorrow thats how you know Lawnmower Man made it inside the system

there are like 5 crises that are all accelerating at once in America now, but a fun game to play is to pick one and say the other four are just the media's way of distracting us from the one you picked

if you’re a politics nerd and wanna watch these things for sport, go ahead, but if you’re sitting there while Nikki Haley or whoever speaks thinking “hm, fascinating” you’re a straight up fucking moron for real

everyone's parents: You will get more conservative as you age

me at 43: Children Should Be Allowed To Vote Monthly On Which Congressperson To Leave Upside Down At The Gas Station

But bigots have always been the same

You are extraordinarily special. A light in the darkness always is. 

Pretty sure this joke has been made before but we are 100% going to get a kaiju out of this. 

you approach the altar. the priest holds the eucharist out to you with both hands. as you take it he whispers "start with 1/4 of it. if you dont feel the body of christ within 2 hours eat the rest"

Did an encryption key management service write this

I believe you *do* know those things, and it is because we share them that we can feel so interconnected 

They are seeking parasocial

Something I have never believed is that you should read conservatives to get their perspective. It’s actually very easily gotten; a little goes a long way. Conservatism is an intellectual defense of selfishness where the conservative is always in a superior in group. That’s it to me.

Pretty sure that’s hatred of self with extra steps

something something esso station upside down

Given that she disrupts crime and protects people from criminals, I’m not so sure that comparison tracks

let's not hate on the stinky bubbly wheat juice, that's the best part.

It's true. The Blue Check was The Perfect Deal. One might say it was "Too good," which is possibly why everyone migrated here anyway after handing $8 to the most prolific con man on the planet. All the stupidest people in the world were correct this whole time, and I am sorry.

Veep & 30 Rock forever

I don’t like cops just like everyone, but I think he must mean that unions can also unjustly protect members from proper accountability and shield them from consequences of bad behavior.

I’d say it’s closer to wanting to play tennis but enjoying the more approachable game

it’s so funny to me that twitter could have been, like, the nazi bar and also functional. instead it’s the nazi bar and also a worthless piece of shit. like on one hand they made a nazi bar but on the other hand they set fire to the nazi bar. who’s the real antifa now

I think anyone even remotely to the right would consider me a radical leftist, but I’m pretty sure that a radical leftist would find me to be a soft & compromised member of the PMC.

I said this a year ago elsewhere, but I’ll say it again here: It's impossible to overstate how much the big tech CEOs & VCs are being radicalized within their bubble. The level of paranoia & contrived victimization is off the charts, and they increasingly only consume media that they have funded.