can someone tell me, a tender thing who can’t handle too much stress and had to leave a screening of obsession tonight, if i will enjoy backrooms or feel terrible and tense the whole time

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i have no evidence of this but remain convinced that answering this question with conviction is more appealing to more voters, including those who tell pollsters they disagree, than trying to thread any number of needles to find the maximally acceptable answer

my favorite thing about my ebike is the dramatically reduced friction for most trips. not having to worry about parking like with the truck or about whether i’ll be up for a return trip at night like with my pedal-only bike just increases the possibilities of what i feel comfortable doing

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republicans who won texas by a larger margin than trump did in any election: nixon, reagan, george hw bush, george w bush, george w bush a second time, mitt romney

the applause here absolutely killed me

when we were in the final stages of acquisition for The Fight For Midnight (which you can buy if you want to read a YA novel about abortion politics), we spent days confirming who owns the copyright on a filibuster given on the floor of the texas house (the people do) bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

genuinely amazing to claim in court to an angry judge that it is somehow luck that none of the people you wrongly charged with a crime had a gun and shot at an ICE agent, and that if they had done that it would have been right to charge them, therefore they are at fault if you really think about it

huge month for commencement speakers with a humiliation kink

APD facebook page, which residents were directed to for information, says suspects are in custody. APD alert blast says suspects are now “east of austin,” as though they got away. unclear what is happening or why the discrepancy

for those looking for information about the actual situation, apd says they have two suspects in custody and the shelter in place is lifted

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hear me out, what if you just put the urgent alert in the text message instead of making me go to x, the everything app

my contribution to the odyssey discourse is that the only time i was in the same place as elon musk was at a fallout premiere party during sxsw, and he absolutely cornered jonathan nolan for the entire night and i felt very bad for nolan that he spent the whole party for his show that way

did anybody ever make an edit of the richard spencer getting punched video where the drums come from the chorus to “crucify” by tori amos

i don't know why this tweet is going around again but after spending my early twenties obsessed with timothy leary and robert anton wilson and ideas like "reality is what you can get away with" and "what the thinker thinks, the prover proves," These Times sure are a bucket of cold water on all that

the texas gop senate primary runoff between ken paxton and john cornyn requires you to be deeply, wildly invested in the minutiae of ken paxton’s life to make the slightest bit of sense of cornyn’s campaign against him. i tried to explain it a lil bit here www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

it’s so weird that hating windmills really does seem to be one of this man’s core beliefs

there are so many examples of this but i think a lot about how sexual assault survivors with title ix cases were told that doing class remotely to avoid their assailant was simply not possible, and then the pandemic happened and suddenly it was entirely possible for every student at every campus

do people even know what the word “infinite” means anymore

is there another medium besides comics where you can watch a creator’s skill and understanding of the form develop in real time? seeing someone go from being a good writer to a good *comics writer* as they get reps, observed monthly, is one of the joys of the medium i’ve only just started noticing

got a bizarre ai-written pitch trying to sell me an unspecified service for a book i did not write, and i could not parse it until i realized that someone did a ctrl+f to remove all the em-dashes but just left a blank space instead of dropping different punctuation

this is so romantic

the idea that the reason it seems like everybody is smoking again is because of a mix of nostalgia and nihilism is probably true, but this piece is a great example of how that sort of observation can get lost in a wave of self-justifying bullshit

it finally happened

this is a good time to recommend rough house by alison lyn miller, a really wonderful account of what makes wrestling meaningful wwnorton.com/books/rough-...

“Alex Jones was once a local oddball, shouting his black-helicopter conspiracy theories on the city's public access cable network. Now we're all living in the post-truth world he helped create.” An obituary, sorta:

i am not opposed to autonomous vehicles at all, but the argument for them starts with them being generally safer than human drivers (because humans are mostly very bad at driving), and programming them to ignore laws that bad human drivers ignore really invalidates the strongest case for them!

if facebook started with five employees, went up to 80,000 employees, and then fired 8,000 of them, how much of a workforce reduction is it by presidential steiner math

saying farewell to the large red man who helped ruin society www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

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anybody remember "the gulf of america"

imo if you don’t want someone to bomb another country it’s self-defeating to call them a chicken when they don’t bomb that country but i don’t mind low engagement numbers on my posts

my edgy covid take is that i had it as easy as a person could (i worked from home, my wife had just come back from three years of spending most of her time in LA, my job was stable, we had a yard) and it was still terrifying and isolating, and we are overdue for a broader reckoning with all of it

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if you’re curious about who this judge is, here’s some more detail about her handling of the trial from former @texasmonthly.bsky.social intern saliha bayrak www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

genuinely asking, is running the fbi a real job with responsibilities or just like a ceremonial title

“i just whooped your ass” - john 3:16

get lakeith stanfield to reprise his role as snoop and incorporate this into the straight outta compton cinematic universe variety.com/2026/film/ne...

my hunch is that the worse people feel like they’re doing, the more resonant a corruption message becomes. suspect that “give those bastards who got rich off this what they have coming to them” is a better kitchen-table issue than the price of eggs even (especially) when people can’t afford eggs

make the pope tough on crime again

imagine a united states with a 6,400 member house of representatives and how transformative it would be in ways big and small

the first day of summer is canonically whatever day you first hear “smooth” by carlos santana feat. rob thomas of matchbox twenty in the wild each year

just heard a radio ad for a grocery store promising “no AI” in their food, the worm has truly turned

in an uber to the airport and the driver has a chuck e. cheese play pass where a taxi would have a registration/ID

apple music has a “marc cohn essentials” playlist and somehow it isn’t just “walking in memphis” thirteen times in a row

mine is that airlines that beg, threaten, and cajole passengers to gate-check their carry-on because they decided to gouge them on checked bag fees and now there’s not enough room for all the carry-ons should bribe them by letting them on the plane early or something, just some sort of sweetener

i have read police reports where the investigator proudly explained how he used standard interrogation techniques on the survivor filing the report, got her to contradict herself, and then concluded that she was making it all up! the system does not work the way you want it to