Also funny comments expressing disbelief that children could read 300 page books (as if Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and so on hadn't come out in recent history...)

To be clear, I just thought this was funny. I won't extrapolate from dumb tweets to "society is collapsing!" But for the curious it started with some tech bro saying he was reading The Hobbit to his kids, who liked it, and it inspired a lot of comments like this:

The big literary discourse on twitter right now is whether The Hobbit—a children’s book that won children’s lit awards and was literally written for the author’s children—is appropriate reading for children or in fact such a difficult book most adults can’t “get their head around” it.

little late to the draw on this one but: Charley Crockett? more like Charley Crock-of-Shit

Me reading Democratic pols' tweets about Lindsey Graham.

Good to read an obit that doesn't tiptoe around this

That Democrats see mass-murdering fascists dismantling the country as nothing more than "colleagues they dislike" is why we've been in a non-stop plummet. Incredible this is still debatable, by people who ostensibly oppose fascism, ten years into this?!?

victory lapping on this one

that's my boy!!! i love hiiiiiiim

If you buy an indie game on steam with a short completion time and refund it after beating it you are the scum of the fucking earth

Bob having a new mystery guitarist every night is a great bit, four stars.

keep your fucken twunks, i didn’t even want any of them.

Oh so fuck this game, actually.

that's my boy!!! i love hiiiiiiim

Reiterating my theory that the company WILL be firing basically everyone and her job is to pretend to care, do the firings, get screamed at, apologize, and leave to go do it at another company.

There Will Be Blood Rave they spray oil all over the crowd. "I've Abandoned My Boy" drop. Paul Dano is there

Show me your OC's I'll pick some of them and draw them. To participate : - like and share this post - follow my account - comment with your OC ! ❤️

by the way it's otherkin day happy otherkin day 🌟✨🎇✨✨✨🎇🎇✨🎇✨🎇✨🌟✨🎇🎇✨🌟✨🎇✨🎇✨🎇

third attack for @juunipupu.bsky.social, big furry man,,, [ #art | #artfight ]

we are scarily close to general artificial intelligence

the playfulness, generosity, indulgence, experimentation, worldbuilding, and excess of Nirosta Steel's MY SKYSCRAPER or Cindy Lee's Diamond Jubilee is a distinctly queer sensibility that is worlds away from the analytics-minded, algorithmically-guided bloated blockbuster releases by major pop stars.

hyden calling this album a "dropbox dump of semi-fleshed out demos" is dismissive in a way that's intentionally insulting and feels like a refusal to engage with it, and with Hall's philosophy of deep playfulness, on its own terms in a way that comes across as vaguely if unintentionally homophobic.

it’s Always a good idea to tease wolves about their literally endless appetites

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Democrat Graham Platner says he plans to withdraw from Maine US Senate race after allegation of sexual assault.

the rise of internet gambling is arousing genuinely puritanical feelings in me and I don't like it but like, it's bad enough when you know the casino or the track always has an edge. it's worse when the house is AMONG THE RICHEST GUYS IN HISTORY AND SEES A WAY TO GET MORE OF YOUR SCRATCH

Summer Reading.

Volcanic in impact, no matter what else. Didn’t hit America until some time later, but arguably just as notable in the moment there. The wider downstream effects from everything about it and everyone involved still ripple, and it’s not just the music by any means.

anton chigurh: heads or tails. you must chose. me: is that a Prince Valiant cut? anton: yeah it used to have more volume me: you want to use something light on it, no silicone-heavy washes and of course... both of us (laughing): blow dry from the roots! me: alright heads anton: it's tails

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes https://theonion.com/study-97-of-average-americans-day-spent-retrieving-6-digit-codes/

Every time someone is like "prison abolition? but what about RAPISTS" bitch we have basically abolished prison for rapists as it IS, and we aren't even trying anything restorative or whatever

Thank God for this article. These things have been sprouting up all over the place in the last few months, and it is driving me up the wall

Seems to me this Emma Waters lady has it all handled. She can just have all the babies she wants and leave the rest of us alone.

Patricia from #WidowsBay got an Emmy nomination! I KNOW THAT’S DAMN RIGHT!!!!!

Uranium Fuel Rod - Pellets of uranium clad in a zirconium alloy tube, one of the densest sources of potential energy on the planet Approximately 36 billion calories Best suited for robots, especially robots capable of storing energy as 'fat' Free if the power plant's security guard is asleep

Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage the movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot you just don’t usually hear about it

I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ARI ASTER WAS AT TAYLOR SWIFT’S WEDDING

I spoke to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes and he told me this is the water, and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes, and dark within.

still insanely funny to it how just straight up breast expansion hyper lactation smut got accepted into the scp wiki for series 1. they were just doin fuckin anything back then hell yeah

wanna see some photographs of a beautiful transgender woman?

in case you were wondering how things are going over on tumblr, people are now trying to argue that "T4T" can only be used by trans women.

MTG is doing Platner rape denialism via paid partnership post with Polymarket

This model that we own nothing is amazing isn’t it. Not your house, not your car (PCP), not your record collection, not your film collection, all so corporations can achieve the holy grail of monthly recurring revenue. Even car makers ask for subscriptions to enable travel news or heated seats

Their next statement: “whether he’s alive or dead, Senator McConnell looks forward to continuing his efforts to kill Americans”

i always wonder if people who post like this also talk this way IRL and what kind of weird looks people give them

You know you have a great political system when you get one “is that congressman alive” scandal per month

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

The story here is not this stupid movie – which will never get made and never come out – but how the Tilly Norwood people keep getting these credulous articles placed in national news sources despite zero demonstration of any success or demand for this.