The Curvature had a five part series on this back in the day. thecurvature.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/y...

NEXT UP: Defending Courtney Love (who, I will never tire of pointing out, was MORE famous and had sold MORE records than Kurt when they met)

Democrats should shove their way in front of every microphone they see to demand Republican campaigns and orgs give back every dime they ever got from Thiel, Musk and Sacks. Nonstop for weeks.

Not even Charmin. It’s the half-ply stuff you still have in the carton you panic-bought online in March 2020 and will never bring into contact with your delicate anal fissures if you don’t have to.

Toilet tissue

The Five-Step Program for Recovering from Yoko Ono Hate. But try not to blame John Lennon for breaking up her art career either.

Pro forma listing for post where company has already identified their candidate

She set an unworkable communication protocol with the US Navy, they missed their handshakes, she and her navigator ran out of fuel, crashed and died. Her disappearance was neither “without notice” nor sudden, exactly. But read up, sure.

If you are in a dinner rut and just need something easy to make tonight, just make this. I double the amount of carrots but otherwise leave it as is. You can skip the part where you pull it out after 40 minutes to spoon juices on top of the chicken if you're feeling super defeated.

Also a lot of them simply supported the Nazi regime

Play Taskmaster as an icebreaker

She didn’t even win!

a sniveling coward who makes up for his deep-seated feelings of inadequacy by worshipping death, violence and the domination of others — many such cases

It’s tempting to assume Thiel is cynically gulling the gullible here. That would be unfair. All tech billionaires believe they’d be leading experts on any subject they bothered to look at. Thiel probably really believes he has insight into biblical prophecies. Motivated reasoning? What’s that?

Hey teachers of tonal theory, if you need to give beginners a challenge in identifying I, IV and V in various keys, give them "I Walk The Line"

What comes of being an avid reader with poor memory: I thought “dosh” was just archaic slang, so I was going to use it in a lyric—even though that might mean DJs refuse to play my song in clubs… But it turns out to be *British* slang, not American. It was just floating in my brain’s big word cloud.

We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.

Our enemies are plutocrats generally, but especially the ones atop closely held businesses, and above all others, Silicon Valley billionaires. People have lost faith because ungodly amounds of money have been spent to make that happen.

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

It just occurred to me, child actors are kinda boned by the streaming TV medium, no? That adorable 10-year-old in S1 is 12 or 13 by the time season 2 gets made, and 14-16 if the show gets a third season.

Love Gary Oldman. Looking good too.

Yes! I feel the same way when Dem politicos take the slightly better approach of referring to “Trump and the MAGA movement,” or “MAGA Republicans.” They just are the contemporary Republican Party. We need to make sure the stink is on all of them.

Sometimes they maintain ignorance is somehow praxis: without liberals shining lights on them, right-wing extremists wither in the dark. But QAnon grew in darkness. The III%ers. The Groypers. And of course the tech bro message boards and party-lines. You know, the people who run the GOP now.

Mandate local ownership of local stations!

I assume #ttRPG players here have heard of Alarums & Excursions, the RPG APA which shut down earlier this year? Well, a bunch of A&Eers set up a successor APA, in PDF form, called Ever & Anon, and you can download the first four issues here, for free: www.everanon.org

Surely my Senator is aware Sinclair isn’t bowing to Trump, it’s cheering him on. Dem politicians need to be developing plans to break up these right-wing media monopolies and laying the rhetorical groundwork for it.

i have to keep pointing out i voted for harris because blue maga weirdos think the democratic party is their mom and dad and not a political operation that has to be criticized for its failures so we dont repeat them and doom people to death. we keep losing because dems dont fight.

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

You all know how much I hate Bush. But one positive thing I’ll say is he never spiraled out in public with Will Ferrell and others mocking the shit out of him for years on end. Still one of history’s greatest monsters, but not a giant piss baby about comedy.

He’s running. Attn: @daveweigel.bsky.social

Jesus *ate dinner* with (fellow) Pharisees. In their homes.

honestly im offended by the blackface

As an example, the media has memory-holed the fact that, when the 2020 election was called, people literally danced in the streets

Make them ride circuit. Cancel a Supreme Court term. No more clerks. And strip jurisdiction.

American Midnight (Hochschild, 2023) tells of quite a dark era: Of the postmaster general censoring the left, Of Alien & Sedition Act being passed to throw random leftists in jail, Of wobblies being beaten up & run out of towns. On and on!! Dreadful. www.harpercollins.com/products/ame...

Better Call Saul? I say, Better Call Soul. And dedicate it to the Lord.

oh this is awkward...but you all misheard

My theory is it would be great if certain white people *were* replaced

My replacement can't get here soon enough.

Despite what people with Blueskyism will tell you, The Rapture is real. IMO it is also very worth the $3.99 rental fee — not only because you get to see Mimi Rogers and David Duchovny, in their prime, naked. It uses the Rapture myth as a lens to look at redemption and its discontents.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

tfw you command the most comprehensive information-gathering and analysis institutions on the planet but lol, nothing matters

if there are no dogs in Heaven, what's the point of heaven?

The whole neoliberal argument was based on the belief that they knew how to win agaisnt republicans. Then they lost to Trump....again. Now everyone sees that they have no idea what they are talking about.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

I know you know this, but. It's to mock us. It's a dominance play. It's about rubbing it in our face that they are Nazis, daring us to accurately call them Nazis, then getting us fired & on lists for telling that truth. They can do whatever they want. We do what they say. That's the lesson.

Settled on a name for my breakfast place with the Celtic-tribute Spanish-Irish fusion cuisine: Tapas the Mornin’ to Ye.

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.