Always incredibly depressing to hear that most lit mags have more submissions than readers.

It’s kinda crazy they brought Maduro in chains to the speech, right?

Save us, pansexual figure skater.

Because she is going to be President of the United States.

Now that I’m Canadian, I can’t wait for the next monarchy election.

Just found out I’m a Canadian citizen. I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna move to Canada.

It’s sort of funny how much woker the US winter olympians are compared to summer olympians. They’re much wealthier, whiter, more educated.

Food takes are all ridiculous. Food is ridiculous. Oh you’re craving some specific dish? Grow up and drink a beer.

I don’t want the trains to run on time. I don’t want trains at all. I just want the roads to have no potholes.

You can tell someone didn’t grow up in California when you walk into their bedroom and see a painting hanging above the headboard.

@memles.bsky.social I’ve been reading some of your old blog posts on Mad Men. Great stuff, thank you.

Donald Trump is bad.

Hard to see any good future for the United States at all.

Just remembered that Peter Thiel was one of the original anti-polling guys.

It's simply true that young people are paying higher taxes than old people paid in their working lives, to fund benefits they will likely not see. "Pay 6.2% tax to fund the retirement of someone who paid 3.85% in their working life" is obviously unfair. www.ssa.gov/oact/ProgDat...

Going to get really into Zen in 2026.

I feel like everything costs a thousand dollars now.

the question is, to what degree is it possible for Electoral Moderation Pragmatists to recognize that having won governing majorities, they need to pivot away from Electoral Moderation to Actually Governing in ways that can lock in future majorities not by messaging but with the power of the state

America needs 100 years of austerity

They’re cooking the data, they’re eating the jobs.

This is what eating oreos feels like

The median Xitter user these days is someone who imagines they will preside over tribunals of political enemies.

#NJ #VisibilityBrigade

The Chinese are likely going to return to the moon before Americans and it's going to hit the American space establishment like a nightmare

Pretty funny that a single Trump post triggered the biggest liquidity run in crypto history

Came up with something in my sleep. Rye pizza dough with caraway.

One Brandon After Another

New lib signaling phenomenon in my neighborhood: taking down their stars & stripes, and putting up the California Republic flag.

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

I get a bit doleful when a dryer ball starts to fall apart and I have to retire it.

great birds

nobel cheese prize. for significant contributions to cheese.

The jokes libs tell each other about Trump are starting to sound like Soviet политические анекдоты

Invoking one’s citizenship as protection against government abuse has a long tradition. Gavius cried out “Civis Romanus sum” as he was tortured to death by Verres.

Don’t worry, the pharma company has no idea either

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’ english.elpais.com/culture/2022...

There was a story from this time about some hippy family who lived in a bus, and how they took their young daughter to Forks, WA because she was a big fan of the Twilight series. The town thought this was an ‘antifa bus’ and worked themselves into a frenzy on facebook and terrorized them.

They're putting chemicals in the air that make Fridays not hit the same anymore.

What do Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso and Gabriel García Márquez have in common? The US once denied all of them visas because of their beliefs.

In the Northland Tom Thomson 1915

If a Gen-X person is trying to make you take them seriously, just remember they probably have a panini press at home.

Happy Football to all who celebrate

One point: central bank independence was the core tenet of neoliberalism, but it was the rise of market-based finance and the deflationary bias in fiscal policy, key features of the neoliberal era, that forced central banks into a position that made political backlash inevitable.

American Lysenko

Good morning and happy August 42nd

Just saw two guys yelling racial slurs at each other in a parking lot and then they got in the same car and drove off together.

you want to see Silicon Valley covered in skyscrapers. I want to see Silicon Valley covered in orchards of apricots, cherries, prunes, oranges, plums, crab apples, tangerines, persimmons as it once was world-renowned for

just got free chipotle for no reason from the store manager. inflation is fake if you have rizz

In the future, everyone will be employed for fifteen minutes.

From booming metros to culture-defining exports, the South has become a demographic powerhouse — and a battleground for American identity