billionaire is short for williamionaire

I'm pretty sure I could have the least successful Kickstarter for a tarot deck (and there are THOUSANDS of Tarot projects on Kickstarter) for my "soap opera newspaper strips" deck Mary Worth/Apartment 3-G (RIP)/Rex Morgan/Judge Parker tarot. At least I think @jfruh.bsky.social would back me.

new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2025/0... me reading your posts

glad the rest of the world is getting labnepilled

Just learned they’re selling a French dip in the west village for thirty five dollars and people line up for it for hours. we need crime to go back up

I wouldn’t tell anyone I’d won $2.50 on the Powerball, but there would be signs—

Just thinking about someone asking Siri to play The Last of Us and getting this instead

actually, Transformers The Movie transitioned, and that was her deadname

I’m watching a movie where Charles Dance plays the President of The United States and I imagine before filming started he was asked if he could do an American accent and Charles Dance said “I honestly don’t know but it doesn’t matter because I wasn’t going to do one anyway”

they’re jingling keys at bill kristol to lure him back

oh no. what the hell

Hard times make soft men Soft men make soft cheeses

it's a shame because it would be very funny if his private messages were like that SNL Reagan sketch.

'Dear Pamela, It is with disappointment that I find myself forced to send you this message, composed as it is in a tone of necessary ire. Yet as the poet Blake said, "I was angry with my friend, I told my wrath, my wrath did end ..."

“ill see you in valhalla” is not something i would ever say in memory of a friend. its something i would say to a $28 Hamburger

Canceling Disney+ because they canceled Kimmel is well and good, but if you really want to make them pay attention, there is no better way than fucking Goofy's wife

are the contras still around we should get them involved

lmao

yeah -- the thing i'm trying to get at here is that what is happening in New York is, in a very real sense, normal idiosyncratic ethnic politics, but heightened both by antisemitism and the horror of what is happening in Gaza. it's like if Serbian nationalism was a live issue in 1997.

Presidents email like "Ummmmm we have a DM for you. In your TRUTH SOCIAL" and then the DM is like "Hello I am your favorite president DJT."

i'm sorry is the president ..... communicating with his cabinet .......... via truth social DMs ......................

what movie do you consider "perfect" www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5xp...

i think it's pretty clear at this point that trump cannot be dissuaded from the idea that asylum simply means that these are insane people from other countries entering ours

This is a me problem but I’ve learned too many acronyms over the years and when quickly scanning “ijbol” I read it as an unpleasant combination of “israel”, “bipoc”, and “nazbol”

I think the reason for this is pretty straightforward: the largest cohort of cross-pressured swing voters in the United States are people who are cross-pressured because they are secular but racist

this is an interesting thread and i will say that as a kid it was not clear to me if stormtroopers were supposed to be humans or robots!

new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2025/0... when i open the newspaper and decide to read the comic strip Crankshaft, expecting to enjoy myself

In honor of farm aid being up the street from my office, I’m bringing the bus driver post back from Gehenna:

The oath of allegiance sworn to the King of Aragon in the early modern period is amazing. "We who are as good as you swear to you who are no better than we, to accept you as our king and sovereign lord, provided you observe all our liberties and laws; but if not, not."

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

“If you want ARLI$$, if all you greedy little pigs want your ARLI$$ so damn much, well there’s only one place you can get it and, baby, you’re gonna pay.”

this is not how i would do it but it's sitting on top of the wrapper, it's fine

Probably because it’s so good!

This is how i feel about Quibi. I could have stopped it

I mean honestly, good fucking God. What else can you do sometimes but keep showing up?

Silver solemnly shaking his head as he goes back to betting the last of his 538 money on Eric Adams winning the 2028 Democratic nomination

An slice of life episode about all kinds of regular people talking about their future plans like an old couple planning to sail around the world when they retire and a Bobby Hill type kid who wants to be a comedian and at the end it's revealed they're all on Alderaan

One of the episodes is a mockumentary about the rapid rise and equally rapid decline of the pod racing industry, following a horrific accident and scandal, called This Was Pod Racing

Palpatine calls the head of the ISB and the first ten minutes of the scene are getting the audio and video settings to work

One episode called My Dinner With Android where a memory wiped C-3PO has a long free-ranging philosophical conversation with R2-D2 about if robots have free will and by the end he remembers everything so they wipe his memory again

Can you imagine putting a hit out on Jar Jar, of all people? Like one of the Empire's top brass in glaring white shuffling through senators and going "This Gungan is a loose end. Disloyal." And then J'erk Van Der'klerk lines up the shot while he's eating a frog and then balks. "This fluking guy?"

starting up the coffee machine also involves plugging six big beefy cables into ports for inscrutible reasons

Just cutting back to him sitting in a filthy apartment once an episode. Bottle of booze and a blaster on the table in front of him. Maybe this time? No. For he is a coward.

[darth vader listening to The Jar Jar Binks Experience] now THIS is podcasting!

I think they should have a parallel show called Stupid Andor that's about all the stuff going on at the same time that would have been too stupid to put in Andor and would have ruined the vibe (Jar Jar stuff, Palpatine meetings) but also a smart person could come up with something interesting about