My grandmother used to complain when people were "poor-mouthing" (exaggerating their poverty) but I don't know if I've ever seen such an extreme example.

Joe Rogan looks like one of those henchmen who goes "OHH NO! ITS DA BAT!!" in a Brooklyn accent when Batman swoops in

Today, as Pride Month hit its midpoint, I woke up to find a decor assist and show of support from nature on my bedroom ceiling.

Isn’t this man insanely rich?

Bluesky Friends: I'm looking for a concept similar (opposite?) to sandbagging, where you intentionally exaggerate some need/desire/value/opening offer so that your ultimate (lower) result seems more reasonable. Seems super obvious but a word or short name for this is not coming to mind. Ideas?

I know some ppl have spent years of heartbreak devoted to a team even when they’re still quite young. But it just feels so… unearned?… to see Chalamet sitting courtside with people like Ben Stiller and Tracy Morgan. I mean it’s all unearned in a way, but with him it’s just so glaring.

According to Wikipedia, Neville Chamberlain basically invented the game of snooker. That sounds like something they would put in the “Wikipedia” on the Truman Show (or similar) because they were rushed (& it’s too inconsequential) so they just threw two random historical references together.

I’m enjoying a great film in 4k right now, prompting me to consider movies with deeply reactionary politics that I still love. Right now the list comprises the Dark Knight and Dirty Harry (my current viewing).

eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time

Every TV writer should have to take a basic course on the germ theory of disease. I will probably go to my grave screaming the phrase, “Cold weather does not cause the flu!”

Work is incredibly slow and I'm between cross-stitch projects, so I've made a little Pride flag out of hexagons. Might pop it up on Redbubble as a sticker.

all that ICE money is buying new slaves ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

we're in the group chat talking about how awesome you are and how proud we are of everything you've accomplished and how lucky we are to have you in our lives

trans athletes is number one with a bullet these days of course

Opinions on bikers is indeed a very good canary in the coal mine for determining if someone sucks when it might not otherwise be apparent yet.

Every part of the text here is great, but this is also the guy who idolized Bernie Sanders and supported Medicare for All before he abruptly turned on that last issue and began attacking other Dems on it. So I'll keep my excitement measured.

I had forgotten just how much of this sketch revolves around the totenkopf. Almost all of it!

I don't think I'll ever get over the fact that the Totenkopf is the symbol worn by Mitchell and Webb in the famous "Are we the baddies?" bit. It's what they chose as the impossible-to-ignore sign of villainy. Und doch...

I know I shouldn't talk about ME Senate, but genuinely I hate everyone of these people in this image. Fucking 'bigotry against white men'? Are you serious? And comparing it to people coming out of the closet? Genuinely these people areutter *reactionaries* then of anything on either center or left

Have to disagree w/ @sahilkapur.bsky.social and @natashakorecki.bsky.social here. Roe was settled; Kavanagh didn’t technically lie. The unstated follow-up is that the Supreme Ct is the court with the power to *change* settled law. It was strategic ambiguity (obfuscation), as many said at the time!

Stumbled on professional transphobe B*n R**n’s latest piece. He’s vexed that in Oregon (super woke, as he notes) in ’23, 1/240 ppl who were AFAB received “gender-transition drugs” while 1/630 AMAB did. That’s 0.4% & 0.16% respectively. Fractions of a % and still comprise his all-consuming panic.

Alejandra doesn't complain much, (which I really respect), but this behavior by Ben Ryan towards her where he narrates everything she posts as if it's news is uncomfortable, unbalanced, and has a dark, menacing undercurrent.

Right-wingers really do seem to think concession speeches (or calls) are binding on their opponents. I remember how outraged the W campaign acted that Gore so rudely rescinded his concession call after learning he may not have lost. Like any GOPer would EVER stick to a concession in such a scenario.

The Washington Post editorial board printing a straight up right-wing lie

Because I’m not a sports fan or knower, I generally avoid making fun of them. But this line still made me laugh out loud.

Still not on either the NYT or WaPo homepages: Trump: "I love inflation"

You guys just wait. Once someone finds something likable or good to publish about Graham Platner—anything at all—it’s going to be curtains for you haters. Now we just bide our time. Statistically, our day has to come.

The reason we have “Dem HR lady” politics (i.e., legally protected dignity at work) is nearly all b/c of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (2nd only to the decimated VRA among civil rights movement wins). Unsurprisingly, this sentiment is a rejection of the core of contemporary progressive values.

there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care

Platner’s sexting scandal has been a bat-signal for misogyny among certain “progressive” men. Ken Kippenstein called his critics and other mainstream Democrats “smoothgroins.” Kyle Kulinski said Platner could sext his mother. I wrote about it all here: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-men-defe...

Thanks to @marisakabas.bsky.social for pointing to this article by Alan Elrod that really captures what's been pissing me off... and this article was written before today's NYT article. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-men-defe...

(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon

every few weeks I hear more about this guy in Maine and every few weeks he is somehow worse

"Billy, this is Graham Platner. He's an ex-Marine, wildly charismatic, and has great politics. His only defect is that he's all defects."

A hostile work environment is a term specific to discriminatory behavior and I’m really sick of people throwing it around in other situations.

hello, it's your child's school! it's the final week of the year, so please attend the English expo, spring sing, the art fair, the PTA gala, the science fair, commencement ceremony, and teachers' picnic. all of these are during the work day. p.s. your kids have half days all week BYEEEEEEE

I am curious about the effect that almost everyone I know, even people who are doing relatively well, thinks they would be more successful economically if they sacrificed their ethical principles and just became a grifter of some sort.

*Norman Rockwell freedom of speech painting * He was right to do this

Imagine being call a fag by this piss-drinking cartoon weeble wobble.

Expressing a preference for Soyrizo and distaste for chorizo has lead to the girlfriend making a series of statements that I believe that the current justice department may consider anti-white crimes

Every time I’ve recently asked for “a couple” of something in a store, the response has been, “So how many? Two? Three?”

The new AP Stylebook, 58th Edition, includes an entry for couple of, which clarifies that it always means two.

Its June 1st It’s Pride Month

years from now we're gonna crack the fsb books and find out brianha got an annual subscription to planet fitness and they gave jimmy dore a shirt that said "jimmy dore"

Just saw a gay porn star with a JSTOR tattoo and immediately blurted out “Marry Me!”

A couple of years ago I almost threw out my Blu-Ray player, but ultimately decided to hold on to it. I am now such a physical media convert that today I bought a *new player* anyway to handle 4k discs. Quite a change.

this is true for mayors too. between wildcat strikes, manipulating data, and maybe kidnapping your kid, the cops have all the leverage.