A multi platinum record that is essentially a circular firing squad resting on a sentient pillar of cocaine. It’s an achievement on par with the pyramids.

Reasons LIz Truss is Herbert Hoover reincarnated: 1. Obsessed with exporting pork products early in career* 2. Tanked the economy 3. After political career ends bitterly blames the ‘left wing establishment’. *niche ARA joke.

Maybe finding them on eBay was a clue

Lots of jokes about RFK brain worms on this site - which is good. Not enough jokes about Elmo, the IRA and exploding cars - which is bad.

Huh i guess it’s an existential threat to democracy to purge humanities and police thought on university campuses— but only in Russia

I have been detained on suspicion of causing the Great Depression

NYPD: we found a book called Moby Dick at the encampment, which is proof that the protesters are planning to ram the university with a whale.

Hi this is VERY IMPORTANT CONTEXT from a Jewish Studies professor at Columbia about EVERYTHING that has gone down, including cops, encampment, and the utter lack of expertise at the table, despite actual antisemitism scholars employed by university BEGGING to be put to use:

Quick guide: ANTISEMITIC: "Jews will not replace us!" NOT ANTISEMITIC: "Israel out of Gaza!" ANTISEMITIC: Supporting Israel because you think it will bring about the apocalypse, ending with Jews burning in hell NOT ANTISEMITIC Opposing Israel because it is killing tens of thousands of civilians

Trump hates dogs and loves performative cruelty - so it reads like a pitch for the VP post. And it might still work.

the right wing is so enthusiastic about cops harming and arresting college kids and faculty because they’ve been waging an intellectual war against them for so long and their blood-thirst finally has a physical outlet

@danmcateer.bsky.social -

I want better reporting on the motivation and pressure behind Columbia and NYU’s shitshow reactions. Which donors or politicians are making threatening phone calls? What/who are administrators afraid of and why? Coverage so far offers basically no insight.

Very funny to me how Weiss and Berliner both tried so hard to get fired so that they could become martyrs of liberal bias but their publications were so committed to letting conservatives do and say anything that they had to resign

I imagine when a cuckoo goes mad the others refer to it as going Naomi Wolf.

Many of us have been talking about what might happen if Trump gets into office. However, we really need to be paying attention to how the right to protest is being clamped down right now. This is bigger than Trump. Universities are being squeezed and students rights are being trampled on for donors

Anyone else noticed that increases in Elmo’s intensity of retweeting blatant and provocative falsehoods largely corresponds with big slides in Tesla share price. Almost like he is trying to distract people.

Iceland keeping it real

Renegade Nell seems fun.

Next up: Tesla's Autopilot is actually just some dude in India driving your car with a Playstation controller.

I just saw this and died

Hit by an epiphany this morning- quiche is just a poor substitute for the gourmet delight that is cold pizza.

Given Musk’s fondness for nonsensical winking references to particular numbers (remember “taking Tesla private at $420”?), he should get no benefit of the doubt regarding his announcement of a big reveal on 8/8. This is Nazi dogwhistling, nothing more.

Adam Jonas doing the Dead Parrot sketch here. "It's not dead, it's simply beating the rest of the parrot industry to the kind of post-life business model breakthroughs you're too dumb to even comprehend."

👇🎯 The two kinds of dissertations: perfect and finished

Genius level bit of trolling.

When Elon finally adds a “Black Crime” tab to Twitter and starts calling people “bloody kafirs” on main, it will be as predictable as noon is at 11:30.

Stoker: i've got a great story for you all tonight Koontz: dracula? Stoker: no dean it's not dracula Barker: you have other stories besides dracula? Stoker: Stoker: yes clive i do have other stories Barker: damn big if true!

Exactly. This country has zero intention of doing without the unpaid and underpaid labor of immigrants. It does, however, intend to make sure they live in a constant state of fear.

Just saw Dune 2. Spider-Man is so gonna kick Paul Atreides ass.

Saw a Cybertruck IRL for the first time today. Amazingly it is even more stupid and ugly than I had imagined.

A new First World War Studies issue appeared online and it includes an interesting special issue on states of exception. #fwwhist

New post just out With the PM talking of "mob rule" and columnists saying we're too diverse - I thought I'd take a look at what the data said... "The truth about integration" (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

This isn’t even the bigger story- since Musk announced his $44billion bid for Twitter in April 2022 the value of Tesla stock has halved. Buying Twitter destroyed his eccentric genius myth which was what supported the silly overvaluation.

Just been reminded of this piece by Beth McKernan, less than six months old - and from a different era.

Having one leading American automaker become an almost full-time Nazi propagandist is embarrassing. Having two is just bad writing.

Very concerning.

It would be funny if the Fremen made up that “avoid alerting the sandworms” walk as a bit to prank outsiders

If a certain someone starts ranting insanely about how AI needs to support misgendering in order to prevent nuclear war then you can immediately guess what happened to Tesla shares that day.

Should we think of ‘Ferrari’, ‘Ford v Ferrari’ and ‘Rush’ as the Enzo trilogy?

Overall I enjoyed the live action Airbender remake on Netflix. But they messed up with Azula. In the cartoon she is the best comic villain since Richard III. And just as the Hollow Crown on BBC trying to give him an origin as a ‘war traumatised kid’ was a tonal mistake, I don’t want her explained.

You mean to tell me the divorced drug addict whose adopted sister had kids with his dad, has ten kids of his own from four different women, and bought Twitter for $30 billion over market while on a ketamine bender to bring back his Nazi friends has never been to therapy?

An important read. We do have an example of what happens when totally unqualified white conservative men are recruited en masse to replace an administration - the plan is to turn the Federal government into the Baghdad green zone circa 2004. (Imperial life in the Emerald City - DC version)

the thing is Thich Quang Duc's suicide and the resulting wave of imitators *did* change U.S. policy - because it was one of the factors that led the U.S. to support the coup against Diem, whose persecution of Buddhists was *the actual thing being protested*, not the war.

‘One In three Republican primary voters in Michigan failed to endorse Donald Trump. We explain why that is bad news for Biden’. NYT, WP etc.