We're Ani-maney! Totally insaney!

Why plan for the future when you can just strip copper wire right now?

To use every part of a buffalo is one thing, but I question using every part of every buffalo.

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Sometimes I worry that the swing factor in popular politics is exactly as stupid as Right also meaning "correct" while Left conjures leftovers, bad relationships, and deadbeat dads.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

I first asked to get my prostate checked out when I was 30. The doc said don't bother, you can wait until 35. At 35, a different doc said 40. At 40, my family doctor said 50. I am now on a waiting list only because my younger brother developed cancer himself.

Just going to leave this here

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

There's a comedy rule that it's better to be funny than right, and that's how I knew I could never do comedy.

Finally saw One Battle After Another. It was fine! But I don't get the awards push beyond PTA arriving at the "It's Time" stage of his career.

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

People talk a lot about the Avatar movies having no cultural impact, but did you know the Winter Olympic started?

Here's what I'll say: while discourse around Gen Alpha brain-rot is in the conversation, within the podcast space the Millennial slop-pilled slang of it all is actually giving low-key shit-coded vibes.

Loot that drops after defeating me: - 3 Halls losenges - Elbow brace - 2026 agenda with 3 days filled - pop culture lore that ends at 2015 - dead pen

Money is so stupid and obscene right now, it's like billionaires know that it won't be worth anything in 5 years.

Gotta bring back "cred" first

I can't sleep at night because of simple dread and yet there's motherfuckers out there spite-snitching people into camps FOR FUN and sleeping just fine.

Whether as an audience you are capable of separating art from artist is one's individual challenge. Collectively it's much more important to separate money from artist.

IT'S NOT A VIDEO PODCAST IT'S A NON-UNION TALK SHOW

I'm increasingly cool with the idea that the Toronto Blue Jays got as close to a World Series title as possible without having to find out how many guys would be willing to visit the White House.

I'm increasingly cool with the idea that the Toronto Blue Jays got as close to a World Series title as possible without having to find out how many guys would be willing to visit the White House.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

I am begging podcasters to stop citing Google AI summary results in their real-time fact-checks. I'm sure the intention is either as a disclaimer or a bit, but the effect is advertising and norm-building.

It’s hard to imagine someone more universally enjoyed than Catherine O’Hara where the opinions range from “I like her and her work” to “I love her and her work” and that’s a pretty good legacy

Collaborators.

I reject the Great Man approach to history but I gotta say Trump, Musk, John Roberts, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Zaslav are making increasingly compelling arguments for Shitty Man historiography.

As a Canadian growing up on American TV, I thought the future would be all worrying about missing my annual physical because I dropped my parking validation in the garburator, not witnessing the deranged death throes of an empire.

Owned by right wing billionaire fascist supporters and/or welcoming to fascists: X Instagram Facebook Threads WhatsApp TikTok Substack Plan your exit strategies if you haven't already.

There was only one policy and that was Policy-22, which specified that you can't work from home, unless offices are closed, then you must work from home. “That's some policy, that Policy-22,' they observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed.

Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day

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My theory is that human civilization is a term paper, and we've collectively realized we're not making the climate change deadline. So some of us went to the bar, some of us went to sleep, and some of us are throwing a RAGER.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Money is so stupid and obscene right now, it's like billionaires know that it won't be worth anything in 5 years.

I'm 100% glad it was salvaged but yeah Vintage Onion would've just read "Troy considering career in law enforcement" and conveyed the same thing.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

I promise I don't mean this in a scolding way, posting about non-horrible shit is totally fine, but seeing video of what happened in Minneapolis interspersed with posts confirming which prospects are going to the Marlins for Edward Cabrera is making me feel fucking insane.

It'd been decades since I last read Umberto Eco's description of the hallmarks of (ur) fascism. Reading it now, all I can think is 'oh shit.' www.openculture.com/2024/11/umbe...