I went to York in the spring a few years ago and the place was overrun with roaming Hen Dos. Ladies with northern accents and way too much lip filler puking in the gutters everywhere you looked, all against the background of a largely preserved Medieval city. It was unbelievable

Imagining a game called “Viziers!” where you play as one of many scheming viziers of a weak autocrat. Don’t know why that’s on my mind

Never Trumpers spent 40 years riding the face eating leopard thinking they’d never get bucked off and are steaming mad a shit-stupid game show host who was never part of their closed-loop human centipede is the one who finally did it

The Phillies

I paid actual money to see Battlefield Earth in theaters and I couldn’t even walk out because my friend with a driver’s license didn’t want to

The last five minutes of The Pitt should be someone rolling up to the ER with a bunch of these and everyone parties, including the patients. Dr. Robby sees the ghost of Louie smiling in the corner, he smiles back and raises his Solo cup to him

To the extent this shithead is right about anything it’s that people do want neighbors who share their values, which is why I’ve spent my adult life living as far away as possible from the white flight exurbs people like him think are paradise

“If you were in charge of Star Trek, what would you do?” New series set in between First Contact and Enterprise telling the story of how a shattered post-WWIII civilization rebuilt itself into a socialist utopia. Mostly set in the Solar System; think The Expanse with warp drive

Dating over 40 update: going to Costco with a woman next Friday

Updating my resume just in case

The problem conservatives had with teenage pregnancy turned out to be that teenage girls were having babies with teenage boys instead of adult conservative men

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

PROOF. God bless my country, Philadelphia.

Trying to think of an idea that’s caused more suffering and misery in recent history than the ethnostate and it’s hard to come up with many examples

Palestine was the test to see what they could do. Not standing in solidarity with Palestinians was not only a major moral and ethical failing it was a strategic mistake that everyone will pay for.

Gotta say I’m not feeling enthusiastic about paying my taxes this year

I thought Munich was going to be a boring Workberg but I actually liked it quite a lot. Oktoberfest is a tourist nightmare but I’d like to see it around Christmas

If I’m the Dems this is what I say: 1. File articles of impeachment. If it fails, the GOP explain why they’d prefer an obvious lunatic to JD Vance 2. Until Trump is gone, do everything in our power to jam up Congress. No D votes for legislation, budget, or confirmations

In many ways I think Vance is more dangerous than Trump but I do think Vance is less likely to accidentally (or deliberately) start a nuclear exchange so there is that to consider

The thing that really pisses me off is Dawn’s entire life has had to be PERFECT bc the entire world is waiting to punish her for making one wrong step.

POV you are an empty food bowl

Maybe I’m falling for a joke from the “Stop appropriating Daddy” person, but the real “die with zero” strategy is “live long enough to need nursing care”. Everything your parents spent their whole lives working for, the nursing home industry will make certain it goes into their pockets and not yours

Temu Dexter Holland

Stg if Elon claimed he could fly by flapping his arms really hard it would take 6 paragraphs before the first skeptic was quoted

For our Euro friends asking “why don’t they just get rid of this guy?”

Every good city builder turns into a fiddly infrastructure management sim in the mid game (the endgame is “save file hopelessly unstable from high population and way too many mods”)

Richard Nixon just came to me in a dream and called me a kindred spirit

<I’m wheeled into the Pitt> Santos: male, 36, at happy hour, now saying “tummy feel crazy” Al-Hashimi: 47% of men’s bodies reject modern IPAs. They’re too hoppy now Robi: the silent killer. Get him to surgery McKay <alone now, staring straight at camera>: I am the same type of communist as you

I should have used salted butter on the grilled cheese but otherwise 👨‍🍳 💋

Boy dinner

In honor of the Internet’s favorite holiday (Conrail Day) here’s an educational video about Conrail’s largest predecessor railroad, the mighty Penn Central

In honor of the Internet’s favorite holiday (Conrail Day) here’s an educational video about Conrail’s largest predecessor railroad, the mighty Penn Central

RETVRN

This is stupid but I’m sure if pressed he would say Rolling Thunder forced Hanoi to the peace table and if it hadn’t been for a stab in the back from the hippies and the Democrats in Congress we *would* have won. This is also stupid, but less obviously stupid and for MAGA that’s all it takes

I’m not good enough at photoshop to color a Romulan warbird in trans flag colors and I’m not using AI for it so just pretend I did that for trans day of visibility

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

Great job NBC Sports Philly letting Taryn Hatcher go right before a season where she might be the only thing worth looking at during a Phillies broadcast

Sorry everyone I got this Saturday afternoon just before first pitch this is clearly all my fault

Going into the back half of my forties soon and thinking “tatted up silver fox” is an achievable look

Car-cinization

I don’t blame normal people for not understanding why space data centers are a profoundly idiotic idea, but you’d think the tech press that’s ostensibly paid to know what they’re talking about would. The whole idea is like saying we can solve the housing crisis by building apartments on the moon

It *is* darkly funny that an administration hellbent on containing China and turning back the tide on renewables has accidentally caused exactly the kind of oil and gas price shock the world needed to rapidly accelerate renewable buildout using Chinese solar panels and batteries.

The obvious retaliation for Iran if this happens is to attack the Gulf Arab oil terminals and loading platforms on the other side of the water. At which point however long you think oil will be in triple digits go ahead and double it

I really hate this fucking newspaper

I promise there are no politics in my novel about a detective working for a small, beleaguered federal agency investigating a deadly explosion at an oil refinery owned by a corrupt and connected hedge fund

The army guy thing is crucial because without it you get an entire cast of cry-quippers with imposter syndrome instead of professionals doing competence porn

If I get all the tattoos I’m thinking about the ratio of skeletons on the outside of my body to skeletons on the inside of my body will be like 5:1