I am begging you to remember that the cringe youth slang you are using ironically to make fun of today WILL BECOME A PART OF YOUR EVERYDAY LANGUAGE TOMORROW. That's how it works! All usage etches it into the cement of our culture!

Honestly it has to be bizarre as an actor to see they're casting for "Stunningly gorgeous, impossibly sexy character the protagonist is obsessed with" and correctly think, "yes, that is me, I fit that role." Like at what age do you know that about yourself

It's not only that they're not going after "the worst of the worst" in any way, but their whole approach of going after whoever is easiest, to get their numbers up, means they are punishing the best of the best, the people who are putting in the most effort to follow the rules and do what's right

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

In case you missed it over on SciFi Now, Titan Books will be publishing THERE ARE NO GIANT CRABS IN THIS NOVEL! 🦀 New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin's nightmarishly hilarious John Dies at the End series returns to entertain all who dare enter… Coming November 2026!

a society losing the plot in real time

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

The ads you see during the Super Bowl every year always reinforce my theory that 85% of people in the ad industry have absolutely no idea what they're doing, and no sense of what makes customers buy or not buy their products. Just throwing stuff out there to see what happens.

A lot of Bad Bunny fans didn't recognize the fifth song he sang, that was a cover of a song called "Crack" originally by the Northern Boys: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF1N...

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Drake's second worst Super Bowl ever

*standing up and saluting tearfully* god bless you potato chips

“Mr. Beast Salesforce ad” - they’re calling it the least appealing phrase ever assembled in any language. They finally did it

You non-sports fans have to understand that for people who are really into pro football, today is basically their Super Bowl

Let’s check in on twitter

Mystery solved

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Almost half of gofundme-type fundraisers don't get a single donation. I rarely post these but this one is from a fan about to lose their home who put up theirs 5 months ago and it just had no visibility, and thus no donations. So I'm using my visibility: www.gofundme.com/f/temporaril...

POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

With bitcoin down 45% in six months, has there been a similar stretch where the dollar lost that much of its buying power? If not, what’s the closest it has gotten? Again the pitch was always that this would become a widely used currency…

Almost half of gofundme-type fundraisers don't get a single donation. I rarely post these but this one is from a fan about to lose their home who put up theirs 5 months ago and it just had no visibility, and thus no donations. So I'm using my visibility: www.gofundme.com/f/temporaril...

hardest I ever laughed at the Simpsons youtu.be/36JoI8w3LOQ?...

Trying to explain the tow truck wars to people not from here is sure something.

"I hold at your neck the gom jabbar," she said. "It's a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Don't pull away or you'll feel that poison." From the folds of her gown, she lifted a green metal cube. One side was open—black and oddly frightening. "Now put your dick in this box."

"I just can't get my meals at home to taste as good as what I get at a restaurant! What's their secret?"

Funniest part about this "anti-woke halftime show" is that the undeniable absolute best halftime show of all time was staged on a giant glowing symbol of gender fluidity

everyone involved in this could be played by paul giamatti

Is there a site that clearly lists who, of the people in the Epstein files, 1) confess to trafficking girls 2) obliquely reference activities that *could* be that 3) only talked to Epstein about unrelated things (yes I get that being friendly with him at all is also gross)

Let's check in on the Twitter Files guy -- who insisted that the behind the scenes decision-making on content moderation was the most important issue of our time -- and see what he thinks about the publication of communications involving the most notorious sex predator of our generation.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.

rich guys love to send jeffrey epstein emails with messages written in uncrackable code like "how it going Jeff, we shuold get 2gether soon 4 sex weekend w/ underage u no whats ;-) ps your my #1 freind bcuz wut we did 2 teens on you rfuck islamd"

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

I think one thing that makes mansplaining more common online is that it takes two turns of conversation to ask "do you already know about X" and then, if no, tell the person about X. Which many people in real life skip anyway but on social media you feel even more like you can't spare two turns

every epstein commentary is these immensely rich/powerful/influential people raving about what a genius epstein was, and every one of his emails is just “helo, my name jomfrie”

This feels like something that should get an Attorney General impeached and disbarred.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

ok not the main point here, but: did epstein have a non-vacation email address

Catherine O’Hara of Beetlejuice and Schitt’s Creek has died at age 71. RIP to one of the all-time greatest women in comedy. people.com/catherine-oh...

I’ll take it www.reddit.com/r/books/s/hB...

"How can I stop overthinking everything? I'm constantly imagining what might go wrong in every situation and making endless contingency plans for disasters that never happen!" Good question. Unfortunately, the answer is that we need people like you to keep society from falling apart.

This is from Darren Aronofsky’s AI content startup, and separate from it being narratively incoherent and rhythmically off, it is absolutely fucking bonkers how lifeless motion pictures are without actors OR even animators to breathe life into performances. These are corpses.

Brockway’s book is out! Like right now! Buying it is the only way to keep our website’s entire staff from going to prison!

It's once again time to trot out this research that shows Lexis and Westlaw still hallucinate case law 17% - 33% of the time. dho.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...

Two Federal Agents Who Shot Alex Pretti Are Placed on Leave www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

It's release day for I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200! It exists now as an item in the world. It should be at your local bookstore. If it's not, if your local bookstore doesn't stock the best books, I see no reason why they should exist. You know what I mean. linktr.ee/killyourimag...