There are emails where I feel less like a crazy person than the one I just sent explaining that I needed to source about ten gallons of whole, shell-on walnuts.

Skill issue.

Trump's too fucking stupid to realize what Siebert clearly does: a grand jury would laugh this "case" right out of court, and it would be a gigantic humiliation.

Disney's learning the same lesson Target did. Destroy them.

What's the word for rule by word the last person to @ the President on his private social media site was?

A hazard of being a cultural critic is that anything you’re interested in becomes work. So you really need to wall off some hobby. For me, that’s cooking, and specifically eating as locally as possible. Which means September is just Preservation Month. (This is a small fraction of what I’ve done.)

His book on tape

as well as this, may I recommend the @eruditorumpress.com take: www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/capital...

Patrons have a new chunk of Last War in Albion, looking at the final days of From Hell as a strip in Taboo, and Alan Moore's 40th birthday party. www.patreon.com/posts/139289...

See, I kind of appreciate Nuzzi’s career resurrection. Most hack journalists you’re left staring at their copy thinking, “do they just really want to fuck old white guys with power or something?” But with Nuzzi you know the answer, and I think that’s comforting.

Yeah, I don’t think I’ve said as much, but well done purity-minded queers. Great work silencing trans voices in mainstream media. I’d say “you get a gold star,” but it feels a bit on the nose.

Tron soundtrack is fun and all, but it doesn’t quite overcome the inanity of having to have a Tron soundtrack on the Halo list next to The Fragile or Fixed.

Interesting to see Trump making so many probable overreaches in rapid succession. The silly NYT lawsuit, this deceptively high risk Kimmel thing, and the likely rage-inducing vaccine bullshit coming out of RFK this week he’s really putting himself in a position to take some Ls.

You should definitely boycott Marvel Comics. Not because it’ll make a difference in Disney’s bottom line; it’s just a good excuse to spend less on repetitive cape books. You already dropped DC after all.

I would suggest that a key lesson here is that liberalism has fatal flaws and must be moved on from. Just in a different direction than fascism.

Fuck's sake. Do you have any idea how much shit I've been banned from over the years? Grow a pair.

Deranged authoritarianism that isn't being actively propped up as a client regime has a much shorter shelf life than you might expect.

Rereading Cryptonomicon for wholly arbitrary reasons, and I just love that Neal Stephenson can generate a sense of “let’s fuckin’ GO” with a line like “and so we have to do a kind of quick Cliff’s Notes number on the ancient Greek Theogeny here.”

damn, welcome to the club dude

For those who missed it, here's my obituary for Charlie Kirk, a man who made the world worse every day he drew breath. www.patreon.com/posts/on-vio...

Glad that I’ve literally never been tempted to spring for a refrigerator with more complicated controls than a damn ice machine.

It amuses and pleases me that, despite my heavy em-dash usage—and I always use the proper em-dash without spaces—I’ve literally never been accused of being AI writing. (Also funny, the AI cut-up post of Eruditorum doesn’t, at a quick glance, actually use any; probably the only one that’s true of.)

One wonders if the Kimmel suspension will stand, tbh. It’s an appalling overreach and overreaction from Disney, and is going to spark outrage. Trump can absolutely be made to experience a visible defeat on this one.

Uh oh

Sweet. I’m a terrorist. Didn’t expect to check that box purely by having a political belief and without actually engaging in a single activity.

Hollow Knight, which I’m catching up on having bounced off of it a little bit when it was new, is in fact quite fun, but it has a couple elements of outright malevolent game design that it really should have gotten more criticism for.

Corporate media is malignantly useless in the face of kleptocratic authoritarianism.

I regret nothing, I don't apologize, kiss my ass.

Shady's back. Tell a friend.

I genuinely believe that in the face of the illiteracy crisis people who care about art are more willing than ever to pay to support it. Make worthwhile stuff, put it in the world, and give people a means to pay you. It’ll work at least as well as grinding through the gatekeeper system ever did.

Joke's on you, I don't feel safe doing anything.

Fun challenge: read this entry in a compendium of artists describing how AI has negatively impacted their careers out loud to a partner without laughing. Hard mode, attempt it without reading it to yourself first.

Again, all right bro. Get me off the streets then. Come on. Otherwise, I'm gonna keep working on my elaborate plot to *checks notes* destroy western civilization by writing about From Hell? *shrug*

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

In the fucking tank, Tim.

You know who would use some royalties today? Gretchen Felker Martin. Read this fine review (from @eruditorumpress.com) and buy her new book. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/review-...

yeah i ran out of space to write “nothing is inevitable but our eventual victory.”

And lo, the crackdown on the left begins and it’s incredibly stupid and clearly not going to work www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is so important. It’s easy to mistake their threats about ending and persecuting liberal orgs as a sign of strength, when it’s anything but. Their current actions are a sign of the weakness, stress, and strain afflicting their movement and their political efforts. Nothing is inevitable.

This article and the rabbit holes it led to provoked the worst abyss gaze I have experienced in some time. www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

this is actually an evergreen skeet for El

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

How the fuck did we end up in the timeline where a Nazi shoots another Nazi, and suddenly the government stops pretending it’s not about to camp all the queers? What actual hell are we living in, here?

I really don’t know what to say about this beyond that I’m going to keep being a leftist writer until they put a bullet in my damn head.

"I would care about your podcaster, but your ICE just chased out the factory that was going to give me a job, your pogrom against trans people made my dentist leave for a blue state to protect their child, and corn flakes are now 17 dollars a box."

They want to criminalize the use of your freedom of speech, if you don't use that speech to flatter and praise them as they crush you. They want to make it illegal to exercise the rights you were born with in this country. They hunger for it.

Well this certainly doesn’t look good.

I’d love to know the list of people who are too conservative to be trusted sources in the NYT. (I joke; I do not for a moment believe such a list exists)

I didn’t agree with Charlie Kirk about much, but his death was absolutely a reasonable price to pay for the Second Amendment.