this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Finally saw Project Hail Mary tonight, because I didn’t realize Amazon had their claws in it. Decent movie, entertaining, a solid 7.0. It shares a lot of DNA with The Martian, which had the same book and screenplay writers. Felt like Interstellar if Interstellar had more comedy elements.

A wonderful sentence from this story, describing the video of the man who threw a rock at a seal for no reason getting beat up by a local: "Meanwhile, an unidentified gentleman begins wailing on him."

White southern conservatives are rebuilding Jim Crow piece by piece.

it’s pretty wild how american evangelical christianity has abandoned even the pretense of the christianity part

Woke 2.0 has begun.

we need this lunatic firebrand passion back to Christians, they have to be storming ICE encampments singing hymns

"as he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free" is pretty up there for a statement of intent and I'm not even an Christian

Looking forward to Jake Tapper detailing all of this in his book that will come out in 2029.

Gas prices have increased to $4.90 at my Chevron station. It was $4.50 a week ago.

"NEW YORK CITY!?"

This is what you backed, WSJ Editorial Board

Nah, fuck that guy. Factio Republicana delenda est.

Today’s newsletter has a rather lengthy description of my erasure from twitter, the day after posting a story about Elon Musk’s racist screeds. And why I’m feeling fine about it. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Trump's probably just mad he's not getting a cut.

And of course Dear Leader's name is slapped on it.

As expected -- or dreaded -- the Phoenix City Council passed restrictions on feeding and treating unhoused people in city parks. Some say it'll make parks safer. Aid groups say it'll make homelessness worse for those experiencing it. By @morgfisch.bsky.social:

Very capitalism. Much free market.

holy shit this is real shop.indycar.com/products/inc...

What if Cory Doctorow's enshittification theory also works for democracies? www.thebulwark.com/p/the-enshit...

Again: why would anyone come here for this under this regime? ⚽️ nypost.com/2026/05/04/b...

Jesus. The fact that they tipped off Fox News seems like a red flag that this is bullshit.

Looking forward to Leafs fans blaming McKenna for everything, and then he eventually signs with Vegas as a free agent.

Yeah, well, we traded away our balls with no protection.

Arsenal booting a free kick 80 yards up the sideline and straight out of bounds. Folks this is the game at its highest level

”An engineering team at a large AI vendor decided that the user's machine is a deployment surface to be optimised for the vendor's product roadmap, not a personal device whose owner is the legal authority on what runs there.”

“The president is bored with the splodey splosions now and wants to get back to his ballroom.”

The battle for my waistline is "separate and distinct" from my eating habits

As Kirk told Saavik in The Wrath of Khan, “You need to know *why* things work on a starship.” If you don’t have a college education, how are you going to notice when the AI hallucinates?

Fuck this fucking guy.

I'm .... actually kind of hoping this ends up being a disaster. #DefundFIFA

Slightly diminish a book. The Sound and the Passive Aggression

I don't think Platner is a Nazi, but given all the Nazi-adjacent stuff around him (the tattoo, going on antisemitic podcasts, etc.) I think he has questionable judgement. Not a prediction, but could totally see him becoming Fetterman 2.0.

The only way the GOP does this is following a series of catastrophic election defeats.

Have the Dodgers been looking at my OOTP save?

It truly is kind of funny that Trump just guaranteed a future for EVs at the same time American auto companies are shutting down their EV efforts. We're going to be left with an auto industry that can't sell to anybody but its domestic market.

I’d argue, even as a fan, that The X-Files is partly to blame for the rampant conspiracism in today’s society.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only The Wire Mad Men Breaking Bad Better Call Saul Andor Halt and Catch Fire Bojack Horseman The Expanse Better Off Ted M*A*S*H The Twilight Zone Babylon 5 Twin Peaks Atlanta I'm Alan Partridge

4K might actually lessen some of the bleakness though.

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

Pope Bob pwning Trump and Miller

If everyone has a penthouse, then the penthouse no longer has the cachet that the super rich like Apartheid Clyde are looking for.

Boycott the World Cup. #DefundFIFA

FIFA announces it has $2.7 billion in reserves. I wonder if they'll ever do anything with that.

I already canceled my Prime subscription when they bought the Melania movie, you don't have to keep giving me reasons to cancel.

I filled up my tank on Monday for $4.50. Drove past the station on Wednesday and it was displaying $4.75.

Hard to imagine a less appealing tagline. Was ‘are we the baddies?’ too on the nose?

LMAO, as if we don't have enough security breaches at US companies already.

Via Sportsnet

The merger hasn't even gone through yet, and CNN is already toeing the Skydance line.