One under-discussed aspect of 30 Rock is that Jack Donaghy is almost as much of a Tina Fey self portrait as Liz Lemon

What I really want from the Dems, among many other thing, is a point by point plan for how they will abolish ICE and then claw back and re-distribute ICE funding bc I can absolutely see this becoming normalized and sold to us as Police+.

I’m almost done with the most stressful part of my day job and after that I’m quitting Twitter. I haven’t posted there in years but I still scroll even though it sucks. Brain cigarettes

i really appreciate it when phone scammers all add the same little touches to their art at the same time. with every scam call i've gotten lately, they all clear their throat after saying "hello????" every single one all of a sudden. makes it easier to hang up

average bluesky user

Kinda funny how Pod Save America is playing the Chapo Traphouse role in this Platner mess

“save our community parking spaces!!!!” Man I don’t know about that

these are getting weird

Rocking the Cindy Lou Who

Gonna start describing middle aged and older men who are expectant fathers as being on their fertility journey

i don't think they should be able to call themselves "pod save america" anymore. like it's been going for nine years now and the country's just gotten worse. just call it "I Know Barack Obama"

trying to stay positive but it's hard for me to imagine a realistic path from where we are now to any future where pod has saved america

pls hold me accountable if I’m posting about anything that isn’t my novel!!!!

BLOGGER WHO HAS NEVER HELD A REAL JOB: you bitches sound just like human reources

one of the best things about 22 episode orders is that sometimes the best episode and the worst episode would be right up next to each other. almost kissing

right at the start of s3 of LOST, which is clearly the exact point where ABC told Lindelof "alright, but you gotta tell us what's in that mystery box eventually, so start figuring it out"

and just like that my week doesn't seem so bad!!!

55 hour workweek (which I absolutely cannot handle, it's a good thing I didn't become a lawyer), this mess in Maine is bringing me down, and I sort of not really but kinda fell for an AI book club scam. Not my best week

I don't like biscuits. And yes, I've had real Southern biscuits. Something about the texture. I've accepted I'm wrong about this but that's how it is sometimes

platner keeps returning to the bizarre video of himself shirtless and pantsless singing Miley Cyrus at his brother's wedding. even without the tattoo how does that video make him look like someone you'd want for a senator. and he's invoking it as a defense?

I wrote two books about axe murder and I am only barely familiar with the incredibly crude and dehumanizing phrase Platner used here. That is a.... well, a deep cut.

you judge someone by their actions, and also their ability to admit they did something seriously wrong and change. a guy who handwaves away his past domestic abuse as being a bad boyfriend has not changed in any discernible way

(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon

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

Perfect storm too because no one ever likes to admit they were wrong about someone and will double down on dogshit to avoid saying "I'm sorry" and he knows it. I saw someone say Mainers push back harder when we hear out of staters complain and it's like yeah, exactly. That's what they're betting on

The fact that Platner and his team are still trying to stay in this race is enough to disqualify him at this point. Anyone who was actually prioritizing the future of this country would step aside. It's about his personal glory.

The way male journalists write about Graham Platner is the way Anthony Lane wrote about Elastigirl in The Incredibles 2

"fiction normalizes—" idk abt any of that but I think social media has normalized absolutely batshit behavior and social conventions that are inconceivable to anyone that is actually well-balanced and thriving in the real world and that's a bigger problem than fiction will ever be

One of my most closely held feminist beliefs is that more women should feign incompetence to get out of bullshit jobs. It just works!

I find that the people who are prone to dramatically demanding explanations are the same people who didn’t listen when it was calmly explained earlier

COMPLETELY forgot about the michael emerson arc on LOST. what a show!!!!!

haven't seen either yet but i really can't hold with pessimism about backrooms/obsession. the american filmmaking industry has been anemic for years and we're finally getting some momentum going with young people again. unequivocally a good thing

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my husband is reminiscing about the days when megadeth had a forum on their official website upon which dave mustaine posted regularly under the handle "Megaman". can you imagine how easy it would be to ragebait dave mustaine in 2001

📅 #OnThisDay 1 June 1927 🪦 Lizzie Borden dies at 66, still haunted by the legend she never escaped. @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social cuts through the myth of the “40 whacks.” 🪓 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/353f3e#OnThisDay#History #Podcast #otd #TrueCrime #LizzieBorden

The thing that stops me from getting a catio is that cats don’t want to go outside for the fresh air and sunshine. They want to go outside for the crimes.

People who are inclined towards sexual indiscretions generally don’t curb that tendency as they gain greater prominence and power

Graham Platner is running Kyrsten Sinema software on John Fetterman hardware

The fake ads in the print version of The Onion are 🤌

The most Tom Cruise episodes of Mad Men: 1. The one where his cousin is drug buddies with Roger 2. His ex-wife Mimi Rogers hits on Peggy and somehow it sucks 3. Whenever Pete Campbell and/or Ted Chauogh talk about dying in an airplane 4. All of them because Peggy is a Scientologist slash Catholic

Been watching a lot of LOST, which has aged SO well but also makes me sad. We used to care so much about making high quality television shows!! For a moment there was nothing we did better.

Going “I’m getting too old for this shit” and the shit is a normal emails job

Who I think I am whenever I get upgraded to Comfort+.

How long before we start seeing enormous caches of tote bags at estate sales

People really struggle with this concept but: How will you prove YOU deserve due process if you aren’t afforded due process?

Bluesky is a college town and brother I love a college town

Need a mockumentary sitcom where Meg Stalter is the biggest pop star in the world. 22 episodes a season

Trying my hand at short fiction lately and just got bodied while scrolling

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...