Oh this thread made me extremely happy and also slightly angry

every time i send an email now i'm like "do i put in typos on purpose to let them know i wrote this myself"

happy gdq week to all who celebrate

the new moderate position has changed, is what im hearing

ah so that’s what gramsci meant about the interregnum

my official erotic gay sports media creator opinion: the gay hockey show doesn’t have enough hockey in it

It’s discussed a bit in the ep but this was one of the more surprising single games I’ve ever played at the table and it was SO fun and weird. Huge shouts to Bij, Jenn and Shan for FULLY committing.

now that we’re halfway through the decade, i do think the lesson of the 2020s is that some friction is both good and necessary. relentless optimization has clearly made a lot of things about society much worse. my wish for the back half of the ‘20s is that we put that friction back where it belongs

happy new year!!! for my first act i made a pipe out of a lime with a screwdriver

[haven’t seen heated rivalry yet voice] oh, you mean yaoi on ice?

walked into costco and immediately heard the FFVI random encounter battle music start playing

oh shit. man can’t survive on wits alone?

Western romantasy has entered its light novel era

oulipean game jam idea 👇🏾

[posting from 1998] mom they’re doing sexual tai chi in buffy the vampire slayer

even in fiction this is the bar

zohran mamdani if u reunite the bodega boys u will heal new york

ok im not a football guy but why is derrick henry that big. every time he runs the ball i feel like i’m getting pranked by a lineman

drinking a vodka sunset at 3:40pm in an ACC themed bar at a north carolina airport

new branch on the tech tree unlocked

you guys are all missing the point with avatar. the real “way of water” is buying a bidet for your home.

the past isn’t even past, pt. ∞

why’s del toro’s frankenstein look like voldo

not to relitigate anything, but: me and some friends published a blog during lockdown with contributors from all over, and while I can’t really look at it anymore it still exists as a monument to how bad things were. it’s an actual history, written before people started trying to score points

really excellent dismantling of douthat’s whole project (and perhaps more importantly, one written through a not quite secular lens)

*ahem* linda hamilton terminate me

PSA to people who still believe in A Christmas Carol… scientists ACTUALLY found tiny tim’s GRAVE in 1997. seems like your precious “muppets” are lying to you about what’s really going on. it’s embarrassing that y’all continue to believe their propaganda… do better.

But we put our trash in bins now. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/24/e...

when i had just gotten into journalism (and had been reading a lot of new journalism) i always wondered whether i was just worse at interviewing people because my quotes were never as good as the ones in the stories i loved. when i found out why i was fairly amused

the second to last piece from me this year — a review of essex honey, an album about grief that i loved

big shout to the total decimation of american airline travel. almost just missed a flight because of insane city traffic but because flights are never on time now im actually pretty early to the gate. 5+ years ago i woulda been fucked

9 away from 100,000! If you're still in line to subscribe to Garbage Day, stay in line!!!! Subscribe here pleaseeeee www.garbageday.email

Blood Orange's "Essex Honey," writes @bijan.bsky.social, is a wonderfully vulnerable and occasionally joyous album. It’s about loss, but it will make you feel less alone, if you let it. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

im pretty sure my final form is disappointing

Ah . So that’s what that is .

damn you guys ever hear about this show called buffy the vampire slayer? i think it’s gonna be big

@davecolon.bsky.social bro i didn’t realize you were in buffy the vampire slayer

[me as a rapper] got the obelisk in the crib, call that an odd job / use a hat not a gat cause my job odd

these days prob str or wis tbh

fuck everything else. what’s your dump stat

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

avatar 3 review: didn’t see the 2nd one but boy were those villains compelling. also big Jim how in the FUCK did you do that with the water

this ruins our lives btw. it's not consequence free

toilet. hospital. toilet in the hospital. hospital in the toilet. toilet’s hospital. hospital’s toilet. toilet hospital. toilet

[guy who’s always gonna recommend anime voice] damns of you like good shit like marty supreme you gotta watch this shit

not for nothing: i feel like the turing test is more a test for humans than it is a test for machines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_e...

today i learned that ludwig wittgenstein (yes, that one) was a huge fan of american crime fiction. "If philosophy has anything to do with wisdom there’s certainly not a grain of that in Mind [a philosophy mag], and quite often a grain in the detective stories.” www.mysteryfile.com/NDavis/Wit.h...

I read American Canto and I think it’s wonderful. haha jk

for the slightly more intellectual dumb guy: “ideological tribalism”