if i could have any two people -- living or dead -- over for dinner, i think i'd go with roger ebert and meg white

hey check this out youtu.be/CuOd_mTABn8?...

TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit

The US Senate is a worthless institution that has, with a few very brief exceptions, been a reactionary force in the US for all its history, holding back progress, holding back the will of the voters, upholding a grossly oligarchic, patriarchal, racist hierarchy. Flush it down the toilet.

john carpenter's career is a testament to Just Letting Them Cook

thanks for da shirt, admin @dasharez0ne.bsky.social

i think the most straightforward explanation of ezra klein's deal is that he thinks he's a politician. his brain goes straight from "dem politicians should say this" to "i should say this"

Evergreen sentence from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's great book that made me laugh out loud: "In the meantime, Bill Clinton had pissed people off again."

i'm declaring today a nationwide emergency "touch grass day" until we figure out what the hell is going on with this country. everyone, please touch some grass as soon as possible. please touch grass yourself before assisting others towards the grass

one of my tiktok followers made this

lmao paul, get their asses

TRUTH BOMB 💣 this guy is a Pedophile. I also made him President

reporter: donald trump has announced that americans must evolve into a race of hardy metal men via mandated injections of liquid mercury. your response? klobuchar: *visibly straining to remember line consultants came up with* donkey kong donald’s economic policies are “bananas” for small business

Smoke em if you get em, baby

No. It's awful I hate it. I was trying to do exaggerated satire and reality came bursting through the door like the dang kool-aid man

me: [announcing loudly to no one] "my corn is here!!!"

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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

e f f i c i e n c y

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

a thing i keep thinking about is that when joe kahn, executive editor of the ny times, was asked about a second trump term in july 2024, his response was "fasten your seatbelts." and then 10 days in, an airliner crashes into the potomac. i think there's a metaphor in there somewhere

If I die of some preventable bullshit, please feel empowered to raise Hell on my behalf to make the world a better place while my memory is still fresh.

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

this is the energy i'm taking into 2025

i read this Defector commentor's life hack this morning and i haven't been able to think about anything else all day. i am stupefied with how hilarious this is

apparently comets have been systemically interpreted by people as bad omens for thousands of years, for basically no reason. re: covid incumbency disadvantage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet#I...

How it feels using BlueSky after 12 years of Twitter

there's like three predictions in this 2016 column making the trump-berlusconi comparison and explaining what not to do that were indisputably correct and the democrats completely whiffed on

this one is just going to haunt me. might get a tattoo of it.

i think that the people interested in recriminations and score settling right now aren’t seriously grappling with the magnitude of what happened and the implications for the rest of our lives. most of us will probably die living in the political order that will emerge out of this election.

A Brazilian phrase about a fishy situation (similar to “I smell a rat”) is tem gato na tuba. It means “there's a cat inside the tuba”