i dunno it's kind of weird and sad that i'm taking solace from being pandered to by a dictionary but i guess that's where we are and i must admit it is nice to be pandered to sometimes

pausing a moment to daydream of a world where every trump-affiliated property changes its name or is razed because people won't stop treating it the way his fans treat the emmett till memorial

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

This is in (incredibly swift) response to the govt giving permission to the postal service to *end home mail delivery completely.*

Apropos of nothing but is there something about being an eyebrowless white guy that makes you more likely to be a sociopathic billionaire? Thiel, Zuck, Altman. Not an eyebrow between them. What gives

I think if you're GWAR, having Libs of TikTok introduce you to her entire dingbat audience is probably the best thing that could possibly happen

dudes rock

I take public transportation a lot, and I have now gone weeks without a single trip in which someone isn’t playing something on their phone at full volume sans headphones. Normalize hitting people that do this on the head with a section of pool noodle until they stop

Considered doing this earlier today but the reading in question is Proust. I *cannot* be that guy

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

Every single interaction with this post — replies, QTs — is perfect. I for one thinks it looks like pistachio pudding, which I like, and so is causing me some pretty hilarious cognitive dissonance

I scream You scream The ice scream screams Stop eating it It's sentient

this exists it is called thinking

Look I am an English and creative writing professor; 20% of my students really ARE trans and you know what. It rules

I think they should have a parallel show called Stupid Andor that's about all the stuff going on at the same time that would have been too stupid to put in Andor and would have ruined the vibe (Jar Jar stuff, Palpatine meetings) but also a smart person could come up with something interesting about

In Tagalog, an equivalent phrase to "Jesus take the wheel" (for leaving things to fate) is "leave it all to Batman" (Bahala na si Batman)

The Bible makes a huge point about how John the Baptist's whole deal was like "I'm pretty cool, right? But there's somebody EVEN COOLER coming, and then I'm just gonna fuck off forever" I always preferred the version where that's editorializing, and the relationship between the two was more like

This is insane on like five different levels. Where do you even start with this. Jesus tapdancing christ

SIR,, ,

It's funny to think about how when podcasts started out, it was like "Hey cool, I'm going to be able to listen to new versions of This American Life forever" and instead failed comedians used them to ruin society

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

how to explain canada? the town I was born in changed their name in WW2 because of the Nazis, and so they renamed it to honor a guy who oversaw concentration camps in south africa. at the same time there was a town named Swastika that the government tried to rename but the residents removed the sign

This is as good a way as any to be “pleased to announce” that I won my faculty’s Distinguished Teaching Award this year, which resulted in nearly precisely this happening

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

There is a general and really harmful tendency to conflate “persuasion” with *organizing.* Kirk was a good organizer, which often looks like being a good persuader, because of the below: suddenly all these people who already held these views got permission to be loud about them.

You have. Thirty-one. Messages. First message. "yeah, it's Kash, i'm stuck in the hotel room toilet--" Deleted. Next message. "a duck stole my badge and--" Deleted. Next message. "are we supposed to have, uh, luggage?" Deleted. Next message. "ok, uh, we're both stuck in separate toilets--" Deleted.

The Uncertainty of the Poet, by Giorgio de Chirico, 1913

dude skipped the oh no part entirely and jumped straight to anyway

wtf is wrong with Canadians

Carport Owl Timeline Cleanse

i cannot believe they are expecting us to play along with this "might not be his signature" farce and that a lot of people actually are, i feel like ive lost my goddam mind

I had an old colleague who was kind of an ass in many respects but he had this term he would use—“Family Nazi”—to describe the sociopathic tendency of many parents to drop all pretense of living in a society if it means their children will get ahead. It lives in my brain rent-free.

Look ok I know I’m exceedingly late to this party as up until now I had avoided listening to RFK for more than like a word or two but I have now endured a longer clip and he sounds like an ACTUAL SEA MONSTER?

try to be normal guys, this stuff is weird enough on its own and it doesn’t need your help

I am in an uninsulated cabin for the week and the new kitten is like “man what is this. The floor is COLD? COLD FLOOR?? I demand a refund”

Tremendous thread. They sent many poets.

There should be bumble versions of every organism.

ah yes the two types of poets

I imagine many of you were doing long weekend things on Friday. I strongly encourage those of you who missed it to read this article I had way too much fun writing and researching.

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

The decadence theory of imperial decline remains unmatched imo

ME: god, he’s looking so old. he looks fucking sick. his brain is mush. his skin looks like wet tissue. it’s gotta happen soon (100 years later) GIGANEWSCASTER: Hyperpresident Trump wins Tour de New France, shares embrace with wife Melania IV and infant son

I both do and do not want to know the name of the novelist-friend into whose mouth Louise Glück put these words:

Thanks to Liam for hosting this. I've wanted to write about the idea of nonviolent anarchism for ages. It's what connects three of my favourite ethicists - Tolstoy, Gandhi, Coetzee.

This is tremendous. The absolute pinnacle of this type of thing. Someone hit the real big switch, we can turn off the internet now