Something like 1 in 2,000 Americans belongs to a Unitarian Universalist congregation. Something like 1 in 6 clergy assembled in Minnesota today is a Unitarian Universalist minister.

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

It was the Holy Shit of times, it was the Big Yikes of times, it was the age of WTF, it was the age of LMFAO, it was the epoch of Fuck Around, it was the epoch of Find Out

It’s a lot more fun to talk about the Cure than Morton Downey Jr., is partially what’s going on imho

I write with the urgency of an amphibious variety show host prepping the next sketch.

I’ll die mad at Chris Christie for canceling the ARC tunnel project for the sole purpose of giving Obama the finger. This “tunnels are woke” bullshit and so much other nonsense is the direct result, and meanwhile Jersey commuters will be screwed for a generation.

Slightly diminish a band: Toad the Moist Sprocket

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

It was extremely stupid (see freedom fries) but the current discourse tends to way overplay the idea that very few people knew the truth or saw what was happening at the time. Was there elite consensus? Yes. Did opponents get called names? Yes. Despite that, were there massive protests? Also yes.

if the press were a cat, trump’s mental fitness would be the toy and biden’s mental fitness would be the box the toy came in

many people are saying

Habemus papam

We love to talk about dystopias like 1984 and Brave New World but we do not talk enough about about Ender's Game, a book in which the locus of power exists on message boards and two children take over the entire world by Posting

The people lighting our country and the world on fire claim to love sci fi but can’t understand anything they read or watch

He’s the co-host of a self-described “patriotic podcast” that has done one episode on British colonialism in India and one on British colonialism in the Caribbean, out of hundreds. As an American I’m not familiar with him as a media personality but I’m also not surprised he’s this way.

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Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard mode: No villains.

America’s “We will not be discussing taking over Canada” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by its shirt

I would read the heck out of a book analyzing how selling out went from the worst thing you could possibly do to seemingly everyone’s highest aspiration.

tfw the old world is dying and now is the time of monsters

This was revealed to me in a vision

if we’re going to abandon reason, embrace superstition, and regress as a society, we should at least bring back tunics, houppelandes, and elaborate hats. we do not need to look this boring while we’re at it

“Trump’s surging popularity in NY” narrative is like Journalism Innumeracy 101. Pop quiz, which changed more, the numerator or the denominator?

It is my pet theory that waking up and reading "The Bad Report," listening to "HorribleCast: A Podcast About Bad Things" and checking the social media accounts for everyone at "Awful News Inc" may perhaps have some negative psychological impacts over the long term.

“Rentiers Object to Law Against Rent-Seeking” would be a more accurate headline for this story.

I refuse to join Bluesky — I don’t want to be part of an Eko chamber

I haven’t seen anyone mention it yet, but this is actually the highest federal office ever held by a brainworm-American

BREAKING: President-elect Donald Trump announces choice to lead Small Business Administration

Retvrn (to Prodigy message boards)

They all love Blue Sky

MLS haters if Inter Miami won it all: Look how washed retirees absolutely crushed this mickey mouse plastic league, what a joke MLS haters now that Inter Miami is out: Of course world class players were never going to be able to show their value in this mickey mouse plastic league, it's no surprise

seems like it’s just “people I think think they’re better than me” which has weird nexuses with the idea that cultural capital, whatever that is, is a more important class signifier than relationship to the means of production. which is why baristas with bfa’s are elite and Elon is not.

Midday yesterday there were a lot of folks asserting turnout in Philadelphia was very strong and on pace to exceed 2016 and/or 2020. With 95%+ of the vote counted, it’s well below both. Do we know what’s up with that?

Crucial reminder that Democrats aren’t the only people with agency in this benighted country

Fun* fact: The House is the final arbiter of all disputes over its own elections. *terrifying

A shitty thing about Bezos killing the Post’s endorsement of Harris the same day Blue Origin’s CEO met Trump is that it forces you to question whether this story was done in the public interest or the oligarch owner’s interest.

Some of us have been posting since you had to build your own site to post on first

Maybe a nuclear take but it was better when cranks and weirdos had to put this stuff on their zero-traffic Typepad blogs because major publications understood it was beneath them to publish it

Morning, everyone

I thought my Medusa joke would make my friends laugh, but they were stone-faced.

when the editor tells you the story is missing something they made you take out three drafts ago

A new study from the U.S. Academy of Science Fictions warns that in ten years, 66 percent of all Star Trek episodes will take place hiding behind consoles and avoiding temporal interference with older Star Trek episodes.

The mere concern Biden could have this kind of week forced him out of the race. Will it have any impact at all on Trump? 🤷🏻‍♂️

University Commas xkcd.com/2995

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Seeing all three (at the time) Indiana Jones movies back to back to back at the beautiful and gigantic 1920s movie palace in my hometown when I was a teenager. I remember we left to get pizza during Temple of Doom. Close second: second-run screening of Return of the Jedi in the HS auditorium

Who’s the next mayor of NYC? Wrong answers only.

Much like the law, journalism is a self-appointed secular priesthood with all the pieties and improprieties that connotes.