If anybody wants to say "Hi," at Fake Fruit tonight, I'm the middle-aged white guy wearing a band T-shirt for another local band.

But but but but Roko's Basilisk. Are we not still pretending to believe that shit anymore?

Didn't finish it but didn't like how Wicked it was looking.

truly a jarring sum. i can barely believe it. preserves

Well he had a lot to juggle.

internet is crazy

I guess "left vulnerable to exploitation" some kind of weird weasel-speak for "exploited," a device only trotted out for horrendous statutory rapist Republicans. You know, like "racially tinged" for "racist"

Along came the good fairy, and she said, "Big and brawny Batman I don't want to see you Picking up the bad guys And boppin' them on the head." But the next day...

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

You might have read something about Ross Douthat’s podcast last week. Becca Rothfeld reviews the new book by Leah Libresco Sargeant, one of the guests on that show. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

I'm the guy who invented the "highlighted a comment for you to check out" feature. I make half a million dollars a year and have worn only flipflops for six years.

Proud.

the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

Interesting email here from Elisa New, Harvard professor and wife to Larry Summers, to Epstein, reflecting on Lolita. "...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."

Somebody blew my mind by pointing out that The Craft was locked in the 90s because the teen girls in it wanted their butts to be *smaller*.

Before the 2000s, the only famous White person I even heard of liking big butts and legs was Robert Crumb, & he was well known as a deviant freak.

All Things Considered anchor audibly furious that Dems are pursuing the Epstein file stuff.

Epstein, unprompted: so then I gave Trump my 20 year-old girlfriend NYT reporter in 2015, refreshing a Twitter account called ReporterWARP: no yeah for sure

Seen a few of the epstein emails now, all with different people and it's not the main issue here but is everyone illiterate

I would have killed Jeffrey Epstein too if I had to read the way he typed emails just saying

I have in my hands definitive evidence that my opponent has committed a world-historic evil. Evidence that, were it to be released to the public, would cause his supporters to abandon him and his entire world to crumble to dust. I therefore have no choice but to give in to every one of his demands

when i saw uncut gems in 2019 i remember leaving the theater thinking “one of the directors of that should voice bowser jr. in a movie. the other should make a movie where timothee chalamet plays ping pong with the mean guy from shark tank”

before litigation doc review was refined to heavily screen out chaff i would have to spend hours of paid time marking nudes that brokers sent to each other via their work accounts as "non-responsive"

Does...Harvard have a big issue with admitting lots of people who abandoned / beat their babies?

people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad

Apparently this is going out super slow, either because of the long break or because of all the gooning content, or possibly both, so if you're still in line to receive your Tabs, STAY IN LINE

This is being done -- funded by rich assholes who hate everything good -- in the bay area and it fucking sucks. So long as the money power gets to run politics, petitions like this will be bought and paid for.

Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

Good blog, here. Also I have learned exclusively that I am in fact the one unnamed "cool" employee in Deadspin's history, as mentioned by Megan in here.

Everyone is dunking on poor Noah Smith for getting lost and frustrated at Heathrow Airport and blaming him, which is victim-blaming and I am quite disappointed in all of you. Put the blame squarely where it belongs: on whoever failed to pin his name and destination to his sweater-vest.

Vaxxed?

If Jay Caspian Kang has a million haters I'm one of them. If he has 5 haters I'm one of them. If he has 1 hater then I'm THAT ONE. If he has no haters, that means I'm dead. If the world is against Jay Caspian Kang I support the entire world. Till my last breath I'll hate Jay Caspian Kang.

i blogged it defector.com/everybody-st...

It brings me no joy to announce that Remy "Gambit" LeBeau lost his greatest battle today to a 2005 Toyota Corolla

Hey ladies, check out THESE gales of November ⬆️ is this anything?

suddenly finding out a lot of people are apparently emotionally invested in james bond. same thing happened on twitter ten years ago with wrestling. no one it gets harder to trust people every day.

Also acceptable “shemale Rye Coalition,” and “dickgirl Didjits.”

Million-dollar idea: I write a poem ... about *whiskey*.

I sank it. Sorry. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Have you considered kicking out the people who gave up the fight and picking a new leader who is capable of leading the same

*Gordon Lightfoot voice* it was fresh on the scene back in twenty-fifteen when I saw a new movie called "Carol" in the row next to me a woman said with glee "I think those are lesbians, Harold"

We're not "internal." We had no say. That's why we're mad.

Yup, pretty much sums it up

How...is a movie about Michael Jackson...not entirely about child exploitation at the beginning and end?

Nancy Mace on why Nancy Mace isn't a woman.

chuck Shumer, imo

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

Gooning

it’s absolutely astounding democrats think getting republicans on the record opposing ACA subsidies is a win when republicans have screamed loudly for fifteen years that they want to end Obamacare