We joke a lot about "Chicago Pope, tonight on NBC" but Leo coming from a city and a state with a strong union tradition no doubt influenced his thinking on this matter.

If I told you ten years ago all of the Jeopardy winners, doctors, lawyers, stat-focused sports nerds, and premium shitposters escaped Twitter on a pirate ship to a website that was completely inhospitable to Nazis and phrenologists……. I don’t know, man, I’d be pretty excited.

I find it revolting to see the posts of one single nazi never mind hundreds or thousands of them. I am aware they exist without having to encounter them. I am aware there are maggots and worms writhing under a wet log in the woods too I don't need to check every day.

@dylanroth.bsky.social intrusive thought hour: how much do I have to pay to have you do the Scenes From An Italian Restaurant -- very specifically the Brenda and Eddie part -- as Homestar You can say "zero dollars, go away"

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

valnet management shouldn't be allowed to walk the streets unpelted by rotten fruit

So here's an insane movie fact: An actor named Duke Miglin appeared in Air Force One as the pilot who saves the president by flying his own plane in front of a missile. Two months before Air Force One was released, his father Lee Miglin was killed by Andrew Cunanan www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJS6...

An underdiscussed part of this is that Harper, who here complains about "the professional class" pretending to be cultured, left his previous job as a tenure-track professor of environmental at a respected liberal arts college. There is no more "professional class" than that!

I miss Grantland every day and I'm so mad that ESPN never supported it and Bill Simmons rigged it to blow after he left. The Ringer is fine. Good writers, mostly. I never type their URL into my browser like I did Grantland. It's not the same.

He's at Church of Spiritual Technology base in Twin Peaks, California with Shelly Miscavige

It's true, no one has time to make home cooked meals and never has. French peasants ordered from DoorDash constantly.

@wellgoshacs.bsky.social believe me I was thinking about your rejected obit when I wrote "death doesn't bring perspective"

it's kind of nuts that Frank, who should have been widely celebrated today, decided to spend his last days on earth finding microphones and going "trans people need to wait their turn" Don't ever believe that death brings perspective, it's just biology

Love that Microsoft went "remember when Apple made everyone mad by putting a U2 album on everyone's phones without consent? What if we put Metal Machine Music in Notepad?"

Mark Cuban realizing in real time he's having a Gretchen Whitmer-hides-face-behind-folder moment

"The 2016 Bernie campaign edited his campaign videos on iMovie" is not me telling a joke, it is a fact as much as the sky being blue. I was there, I voted for him, and that campaign took itself seriously FAR too late

Cassidy learned what Elise Stefanik and dozens of others have: the price of selling out your principles to Trump is "leaving public life forever in humiliation, with no legacy but that"

YouTube keeps trying to push the Needle Drop Man on me and, no, I do not wish to hear music reviews from a guy who recites lyrics like a study hall teacher

@depechejoe.bsky.social today I got to tell Jessica about Julebox and Juicero. It was like remembering my favorite characters from a TV show

Hey, it's me, Gmail search. I see you put your search term in quotation marks — very cool! I'm going to ignore it

TWO MINUTES INTO RAMBO Trautman: There are POWs still in Vietnam The 1985 Moviegoer, Drinking A Cup of Diet Dr. LeadWater: Yes, we agree this is a fact

"Succession can be played in Dolby Atmos," HBO Max tells me. I am skeptical, as this show does not require booming audio. Out of curiosity, I switch it on, and every window in my house cracks after Brian Cox yells "fuck"

I try not to speculate about health matters, but 1. They're basically inviting us to do it here 2. I think @reginageorgebush.bsky.social was bang on when he said "rehab"

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I've dealt with New Jersey politics and North Carolina politics. Both are deeply weird in unique ways and have their own challenges, but at bare minimum we don't have a "candidate is suspiciously close to Scientology" news story every few years, or more importantly, ever at all.

Juggalos are the only good Fandom: - they genuinely love their thing - they aren't offended that you don't like their thing - they don't proselytize about their thing - they celebrate their thing by going into the woods once a year and leaving everyone else alone

Today I saw someone share some war crime that America did and go "where do you think Israel learned it? hell, even the Nazis learned it from us!" and not to defend American imperialism, but I promise you that we weren't the first nation in the history of the planet to do war crimes.

It's kind of nuts that Wyclef Jean is the only member of the Fugees who has never been to prison, despite running a sham charity

Bram Stoker's Ruth's Chris' Steak' House'

@shadowtodd.bsky.social a rare live performance of Cry Out was quietly dropped on YT last year. The whole crowd is wearing green shirts? youtu.be/GvThNtzdO8o?...

Fascinated by this section of the Wikipedia article about mayors of Wilmington, where it stops counting for a while, loses track of dates, and casually mentions that a mayor with no Wiki page at all was "lost at sea" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Not exactly a novel observation, but one of Mamdani's skills that literally every incumbent can and should copy is "loudly and repeatedly state your policy wins"

Shout out to map-knower @reginageorgebush.bsky.social for pointing out that you couldn't draw out Clyburn without dummymandering the state.

One of my all time power moves was holding up a book written by a Bluesky friend (The Ringmaster by @josie.zone) and then flipping to the acknowledgements and showing off my name

oh man, these were *fantastic* ways to spent the lunch period in middle school. Damn you, Adobe, damn you to hell. Thank you, archivists

Hey man, you need to stop taking my fucking videos, cropping off my handle, splicing it with other clips (which you presumably also stole), and then slapping your name on it. It’s one thing to download my TikTok and post it instead of just sharing here, but we’re hitting lawyer territory here.

Mass Effect presents a universe where you can fuck someone so good that they stop being racist. I don't know where that falls on the political spectrum but I find it an aspirational vision of the future

Sometimes you need to make something to get it out of your head. To whit: Here's Godot from Ace Attorney reciting the monologue that got Lisa voted off of The Traitors this season

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Fuck off. Absolutely nothing Greene has done shows that she’s changed. She doesn’t give a shit about Palestinians, and you’re an absolute idiot if you think she does.

she was introducing genocidal legislation against the trans community *six months ago*

Devil Wears Prada 2: It's Pretty Good

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

"[Thing] bros hate it when I shit all over [thing] unprompted" yeah I suppose that seems a likely chain of events

Visiting my 3 and 5 year old nieces means something very important: I can watch Bluey for socially acceptable reasons

Democrats across every state *and* the House are absolutely meeting the moment here. You can say a lot about the Dems, but anyone trying sell either "Dems need to fight back" or "Dems aren't fighting back" isn't paying attention or is just a grifter. They're locked in here.

The WWE Hall of Fame is a joke that doesn't even have a physical building, but Ted Turner was one of the only people who unironically deserves induction. Maybe this will do it?

It's extremely funny to put Marco Rubio up at the podium, because I've seen few politicians as prominent as him so bad at thinking on their feet. Never forget that Chris Christie, for all his flaws, bullied Rubio into oblivion over exactly that