Just as a bit of a tangent, I'm always surprised when people believe that like Gotch & Hackenschmidt was still real wrestling. It wasn't. Hackenschmidt was just like a bodybuilder. It was basically like getting Sid Vicious or somebody. Is he any good, no, but you can sell him on size & muscle.

I remember having this exact thought a long while ago. Just learning about these old timey hucksters and thinking "Oh this is the most American shit ever, this is like America distilled"

When I was in college, studying creative writing as an undergrad, Junot Diaz came to speak at the school and while he was talking to a bunch of us undergrads he was like "creative writing is dumb for undergrads to do". Now, I hate Junot Diaz, but he was *kind of* right. It's not good for undergrad.

It's so embarrassing that the government acts like this now. We don't need more revealed but this moves me to say that like... this is it. This is the whole thing. They hate that anybody else has any say and they're just lashing out in the largest way possible. That's all of it.

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People gotta move on from "this is what YOU'RE like" as comedy, just dreadful. Saw this short about a "Brooklyn Coffee Shop" that was just like what if we made every character speak in annoying hipster words, is that funny? Is that a funny thing we've done? No!

This piece by Asad Haider dropped for me at exactly the right time. Extraordinary talent. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/3...

I would probably hit like on more YouTube videos but the thing is YouTube is so thirsty that any time I hit like it tries to make that one of the new things it shows me. I went back to the Fantano vid my bio quote is from and liked it and now it's like "oh you like bad Instagram music?" and no.

I generally don't think of myself as inhibited but I must be considering how many people want to be anti-some shit but then just do it a little as a treat.

I thought we didn't believe in eugenics.

Don't lie to me and doubly don't lie to me about a thing I know enough about to know why it doesn't make sense. I don't really think this thing was initially done for a malicious reason but this just isn't the kind of technical problem they're describing

Oh it's The Saudi Orb We Have At Home.

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The really depressing thing is that I just see everyone reporting on this as a foregone conclusion. Which maybe it is. But it shouldn't be. We should demand better regulations. We should keep yelling about it even if we know what the outcome will be.

There's a guy on YouTube (probably TikTok too) who's not that funny but he does a bit where he tries to make up new phrases for office stuff and the phrases all suck and in that vein I want to start saying someone is a "bad euchre partner" if they're irresponsible about remote work cooperation

This is correct. And I get a bit of joy out of stuff like superheros, I love pro wrestling (and not just for serious graps reasons), I love kung fu movies, etc. But Tarantino isn't like a deep filmmaker. Deep for him is humiliating Bruce Lee, an actor who has been dead for decades.

One of the most frustrating things about American leftism in general (obv not talking about op) is a refusal to take this point seriously. I think it's because people dislike what it implies about free will etc. But you have to understand very fundamentally that people are not informed.

More proof of what @prisonculture.bsky.social says that most people in this country have no idea what's going on: Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.

Okay fine here's the stuff you like are you happy, here's all the oligarchs and democracy stuff, "The Voter Is Dead" blog.nearzone.com/2025/12/04/t...

I'm not a fan of Eurovision it's just interesting to see how politics are affecting it. My feeling is that Eurovision is not going to survive because this fight right now is probably going to be matched with a historic low in viewership.

Seeing Eurovision fall apart is awful, having grown up with it, years of enjoyment, a shared cultural experience across so many countries. Last year was difficult to watch. Israel have committed genocide and have used the contest to rub Europe's face in it. I'm not sure how this can be fixed now.

Well after everybody drops out of Eurovision 2026, Israel will have a really good chance of winning. It's gonna be Israel, Germany, and England.

“Eurovision isn’t political” Russia was banned over Ukraine, yet Israel commits genocide & gets a free pass. Music has always been political: artists have been censored, exiled, jailed, even killed for their songs. Pretending Eurovision floats above all that is pure denial. #BoycottEurovision

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You shouldn't be okay with assholes. A really depraved way to look at the Tarantino comments is "well he is being a gigantic piece of shit but he is correct about Paul Dano" not necessary. Did Paul Dano steal your girlfriend or something? Shut the fuck up.

I'm gonna give it a few hours before hiding that dumbass post. But there wasn't blood in the water and you look like a piece of shit imo.

lmao welp let's see what happens with AEW, was probably a good move to put all their eggs in the WBD basket huh

It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies. This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week. This is almost everything the government is doing.

This is what I mean when I say I do try not to be condescending but people make it very difficult. It's even more difficult when people who start conversations don't feel any responsibility to them, so they just cosign whatever their friends say when they jump in. It's hard to mediate.

Okay fine here's the stuff you like are you happy, here's all the oligarchs and democracy stuff, "The Voter Is Dead" blog.nearzone.com/2025/12/04/t...

Damn man RIP

Very straightforwardly, how do you get yourself to work for a company where they say "no, we have no duty or loyalty to you, we will keep open every possible means of firing you later"

It's funny to look at an old picture of Simon Cowell and go what a pleasant seeming man

The voter is dead. blog.nearzone.com/2025/12/04/t...

Again. The thing is that I need the newsletter writers who actually have followings to write agitation and not just commentary. I need the people who are telling us that they know what's up to use their platforms. If I had a platform, that's what I would be doing.

The voter is dead. blog.nearzone.com/2025/12/04/t...

I just wrote this up into a blog post: "The Voter Is Dead" blog.nearzone.com/2025/12/04/t...

You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them. There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”. You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not. People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.

re: Amazon, move your plans forward

If you want a peaceful revolution I would start putting that together yesterday.

Put a welcome post on my Patreon, since I'm gonna use it as a free newsletter (I already have it and you probably already have it). Check it out, it also has a rundown of my writing from the year: www.patreon.com/posts/shifti...

Imagine looking at what Jeffries has been doing and then when someone goes "we should get a different guy to be the leader" you stop actively boiling your brain to go "huh so you don't want a Democratic leader of the House huh" how fucking stupid are you. It should be illegal to be that fucking dumb

Zohran's biggest negative mark so far is endorsing Jeffries. He can argue all the strategy he wants, and he might even be correct, but there has to be a line when someone this incompetent and destructive to an effective party must be opposed.

I could really use help. my bank account got blocked because I've fallen behind on my credit card payments. I need to come up with $90 before I can access my account again. I won't get my first paycheck from my new job for about another 2 weeks

Put a welcome post on my Patreon, since I'm gonna use it as a free newsletter (I already have it and you probably already have it). Check it out, it also has a rundown of my writing from the year: www.patreon.com/posts/shifti...

People are going to act like an anti-weed propaganda push is "just reporting news" until they start citing that shit in laws banning weed.

"For You" is the title of the song

If you think it's just like people haven't realized that there's a lot more of them than there are elites, then I hate to say this but you are a moron. Why would that be the answer? How stupid do you think people are, exactly?

It's funny to me that people keep going like "guys there's so many more of us why don't we just take control" and the fact that this doesn't happen somehow doesn't tell people that we have to figure some more shit out. It's always about how we're not all individually choosing to do more.

I've seen two different tweets on very different topics which both boiled down to "we could fix this bad thing by doing this which completely ignores the problem" and it's just tough to deal with.