Oh I'm "holding the bag?" You better believe it. A bag full of smart investments for my financial future

looks great. if we can’t get it, we should get rid of the 435 cap on House membership. that’s just a law! we could have a 6000-member house now without it

Sometimes I check out local free Craigslist just for fun. Found a hot tub that doesn't want to hear about Greg and hates Emmas

Classical music has gotten too far from its roots. We need to bring back traditional practices like: - performers cutting passages they don’t feel like playing - putting random pieces of unrelated music in between movements of a multi-movement work - hiring audience members to faint

every screen, pop-up or button i have to see after clicking "cancel subscription" and before i see "your subscription has been canceled" should cost the company ten million dollars

As a longtime toaster-shaped car lover, I am neon green with envy.

I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown

this is deeply offensive to me as a device-enjoyer american

I was one of the first media figures to point out that policing trans people out of sports meant doing genital inspections on children and i got labeled a "crazy extremist trans activist" for doing so.

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

Now I know I’m not supposed to say this as a poet, but there are entirely too many metaphors at play in real life of late. Cut the shit with all the metaphors.

it took me like 15 minutes to find the appropriate screenshots for this one but that's why I'm a true artiste

look all I’m saying is I’ve never seen Nancy, Mafalda and the Utz girl all in the same place

The thing about the left needing a positive vision for masculinity to counter the right is … they don’t have one either. Their whole thing is “don’t be a woman” as arbitrarily defined by whatever they consider feminine. Apparently some people find this admirable and wish to imitate it

Hell, I can write ya a James Bond movie title. Here, have some free ones: NEVER IS NOT AN OPTION SHADOW MARKET TODAY IS YESTERDAY'S TOMORROW MEASURE OF PITH EVERYBODY'S WORKIN' FOR HER MAJESTY PERMISSION TO DISMEMBER LIFE IS TERRIBLE INCOGNITO SUPREMO

Refreshing. Tired of the worst men alive defining what it means to "be a man."

Not sure who needs to hear this but admitting you're wrong doesn't kill you instantly

Merge 2 movies: Zoolander No. 2: The Search for Curly's Gold

Merge two movies: The Fant4stic And the Furious The Lord Of the Rings: The Return Of King Kong Where the Wild Bunch Are Spider-Man: Home Alone The Magnificent Se7en Abbot And Costello Meet Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein The Empire Strikes the Backrooms Twister: Gone With the Wind

merge two movies: All the President’s Men: Weekend at Bernie’s

This is cosplay manhood for the weak. I think of guys like Jimmy Stewart who played good dudes defending the little guy but also IRL torched Nazis from a B-17. You can be a no shit killer and still be smart, decent, kind, sincere, and empathetic.

ketchup. hard to get in the US but I think of them often

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

lol this is like when the cake shop makes a cake of a thumb drive

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

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Poor Unfortunate Swoles: I’m just going to post this completely detached from its original context.

I didn’t know Mike Johnson knew about “ish” meaning “shit”

🚨REAL🚨Discovered something so incredibly dangerous to me personally, which is that every food item on the grocery store app has reviews

skeets from 1916:

At this point I don't see how I could in good conscience advise any graduate student or academic researcher with other options to take up a position in the United States.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

my favorite erick erickson moment is when he said that his family refused to eat asian food on the anniversary of pearl harbor to honor the tragedy. a reporter reached out to his mom to confirm whether this was true and she was like “i don’t know what the fuck he is talking about”

every news story these days is the kind you see in the background of apocalypse movies. it's what's playing on the tv before the nukes drop

i love environmental storytelling

No one has a more pessimistic view of young people’s reading habits than the adults who produce those books

My 7th grade social studies teacher was a cool butch lesbian who kind of looked like Dennis Leary and she once told us "the more you know, the more jokes you get" and needless to say she really made an impression on me

this is incredible

I really think the skyrocketing nominal prices for electronics, maybe most dramatically in video game hardware, is one of the clearest pieces of evidence against the “vibecession” claims. yes, the vibes are very very off, but so are the numbers

Actually, it turns out fossil fuels are intermittent energy.

Something never discussed in the "vibecession" debate is that the country lived through a huge expansion of the welfare state and then saw all of those programs taken away. It has long been conventional wisdom that taking away social programs leads to huge backlash. Nobody applies that to COVID.

Professionals turned contrarian pundits are funny because their credentials are meant to lend weight to their opinions but they only make them sound extra stupid. You did 4 years of medical school and now you post stuff like "They Are Lying To You About Soap"

it's so relieving for a politician to just come out and say it. the best we've been able to hope for is dodging and quiet support later, it feels significant that a candidate is making a clear stand in favor of trans people even on this wedge issue

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...