Centrism is the belief that society achieved perfection around the same time as you became a homeowner

no order "Like a Rolling Stone" "I Wanna Be Adored" "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" "Smooth Operator" "Farewell Transmission"

hey man what if it's you

they're calling it the "heads I win, tails you lose" economy

if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities

I missed Mamdani making all but explicit that he is not going to reconcile with current Dem leadership. the party's brand is not only not useful to him now; it's a drag.

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

It's so rare to see the old world dying and the new world struggling to be born in the same room together

someone alert the Harper's Letter signatories

why would this guy sell me a pickaxe if there weren't gold in those hills

Ireland winning goal and end of match with Irish commentary

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

Why do we bash 'deathtrap' fortresses full of swinging blades, man-serpents, and giant rolling balls; but we never question if the chosen hero simply had bad vibes? Or is just unpleasant to be around?

found a new guy for Peter Thiel's batshit antichrist suspects list: the Vicar of Christ himself. the Pope! the Supreme Pontiff.

wrote about games again—and team sports, Andrea Pirlo, sociality, "tech." but mostly about how I love kicking the ball around with my friends in the videogame Rematch (2025).

yes. get grant morrison to write it. black casebook bond.

"More than anything, the Pale seems to be a metaphor that has broken containment." read this in my print copy this morning and loved it: a reflection on Disco Elysium, Kurvitz's vaguely translated novel, and worldbuilding

football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it

a brave commitment to printing both sides of the story: it would be patriotic to mint a coin glorifying our imperial patriarch, forever may he reign vs. no it wouldn't

normal country, working great

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

I wish every moderate Democrat, every feckless party leader, every squealing donor, a long and sleepless night

the Republican party and their sponsors may have made a grave error when they mistook people being mad about the cost of living as a mandate for authoritarianism and naked corruption

an underrated feature/bug of the modern right being so online is they've totally deluded themselves about the appearance and habits of the median right-wing man. this is funny! and it's disastrous.

as an Irish dude who fell in love with the game after immigrating to the U.S., baseball is about our valiant, doomed efforts to stave off loss. if you don't lose today, you will lose tomorrow or the next day. this is true for 29 teams each year and every last team in the end. yes, even the dodgers.

just one more arc raid bro. I swear bro just one more, I swear. one more arc raid will fix it. I'll loot the apricots required to upgrade my rooster.

the viziers are spooning the big guy renovation projects like its baby food

god no. not a new paradox game. not now, lord.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Mellon's robber-baron wealth continues to plague America. we wouldn't have FAIR, NumbersUSA, or the Center for Immigration Studies fomenting anti-immigrant slop without Cordelia Scaife May pouring her family money into them: www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/u...

Peter Thiel, wet with perspiration, adds Meghan Markle's face to his corkboard of Antichrist suspects

when i was younger we had different things than the things people have now

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

what does it say about us that we've been losing to a regime that can't even assert itself on a niche microblogging website

the "every lifelong catholic/adult convert" tweet that people repost sometimes is instructive, because anyone who is into niche Catholic hermeneutics (and eschatology) is actively searching for textual support for their evil bullshit

A game like that doesn't deserve a normal recap. Here's my retelling of last night's Tigers-Mariners game, broken into splinters. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

This is one of the most incredible games of one of the most fascinating postseasons I can remember best sport best sport ever

Kyle Finnegan on to face middle of Mariners order in 7th after a historic outing for Tarik Skubal: 6 IP, 2 H, R, 0 BB, 13 K 99 pitches, 69 strikes Most K's by a starting pitcher in a winner-take-all postseason game.

A really striking thing about the US is how it feels like everyone is constantly trying to rip you off. You have to hold constant vigilance against scam. Absolutely corrosive to social trust and a core part of our current political problems.

we should immediately redeploy all ICE agents to Innsmouth

104.5 MPH from Mason Miller lol

lol remember "The Washington Post," the newspaper?

Director Charles Laughton’s classic suspense thriller ‘The Night Of The Hunter’ starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, and Peter Graves opened in theaters in New York City on this day in 1955. 👊🏼 💸 📖 #OTD "𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝-𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚝𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜."

llms are cool because it gives talking to yourself the authority of a subjective conversation with another (bird pecking its mirror rflection till it dies)

as someone who grew up in a majority Catholic country who has traveled to several other majority Catholic countries, the U.S. Catholic church is schismatic