You'd think I'd be good at writing an obituary. It's basically a book blurb for someone's life, and I've written thousands of book blurbs. And yet

The real value of social media is being able to post something like "The ass is the father of the legs" and potentially have multiple members of congress see it

Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

If you send the gasp emoji with disappearing ink, wipe it clear, and let it fade back in, it looks like the end of The Emoji Movie: Infinity War

1912 Titanic 👎 1997 Titanic 👍

I was looking at this picture (rip my parents) and it got me wondering: I’m 44. Would it have been worse to live from 1900 to 1944 or was from 1981 to the present worse? Pandemic Two World Wars Great Depression Pretty bad tbh

To lose one of your kids' grandparent in six months seems understandable. To lose two seems like carelessness. To lose three though, what the fuck

I have asthma and diverticulitis, both of which I control without medication. They are still chronic diseases!

The Pope's Exorcist, 2023

Why is this dog Kash Patel

Operation Epic CTRL+Z

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

I'm gonna start mentally replacing "I asked chatgpt" with "I asked grima wormtongue"

Just to point out, he is not talking about the United States blowing up dozens of Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean Sea. I know it can be confusing.

happy star wars day to this tweet in particular

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ikea has this new storage chest for kid's rooms that looks like a mimic, and I applaud this kind of thinking. it's good to teach children about the dangers of mimics early, so they don't fall prey to one the first time they go adventuring

What are your feelings on taking your kids' names from pop culture? If we have a girl, we're planning to name her Daenerys. And if we have a boy, Bort.

Tech culture is for old people. The biggest boosters are always Gen Xers and boomers who reflexively embrace every sham because their big reference point is the birth of the internet and they don’t want to get “left behind.” There’s nothing hopeful or inspiring in companies that do/make nothing.

What’s up all you

Remember that news story about the dad that read to his daughter every night, even calling her after she went away to college? Honestly, goals

who is going to tell them

the voting rights act actually worked, which is why the conservative legal movement immediately went to work on dismantling it this has been the focus of john roberts' entire legal career

My favorite albums of the past few years are from Huntrix, Mother Mary, and other artists who definitely actually exist

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Bring it on, we got through the last Bond crisis (Die Another Day)

TACOCAT

Have learned that my fellows do not know the tiger poem so here it is for you

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this is how i learn "fr e sh a vaca do" was a meme and not something my brother-in-law made up, sad

Sam Altman more or less publicly asks victims to file a class action lawsuit and bankrupt his awful company

To be fair to Joan Jett, she never got asked to star in Videodrome

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

You can get my new favorite silly little e-reader for under $60 on Amazon for the next five hours or so. It's an impulse purchase you (probably!) won't regret!

Excited to see the movie about the problematic pop star tonight

Still mad Barnes & Noble took down the original blog version.

*Sean Connery voice

gonna tell my kid this is the super mario galaxy movie sequel

Maybe this weekend go see a movie that doesn't require you to write a tortured essay about when it is and isn't OK to overlook credible accusations of child rape.

how i'm entering silicon valley after the Great Unraveling

it's becoming increasingly clear that the Hagseth Doctrine boils down to "Strategy and Logistics Are Woke and Gay"

War Columbo

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

smoke 'em if you got 'em