becoming addicted to one continuous loop style puzzle after another. the summer of non-word puzzling

euphemism for act hitherto undescribed in the literature

little lady loved first (half)day of daycare. "really fun" "kids there"

gonna grab a hot dog chili fries large hurricane and small bottle water babe you need anything

explaining entrepreneurship to americans

calling the town dunce on the ideophone and laughing when he picks up

in sicilian you can apparently call someone stupid by just quacking at them

Dying sensei: Please, be mindful.. If you remember just one thing... A butterfly flaps its wings... hurricane, across the world ... Me (writing down in my notebook): Butteflys Dangerous

that one chill handler

astonishing to see BigLib faction try to resuscitate 'the media stabbed biden in the back' jeezus we have to keep on these fuckers 24/7

you have to meet my friend who works with ants

it's been four hours since you were last aspirinpilled so you can aspirinpill yourself again

My sons favorite book is "Stories That Go Hard"

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

a frankly bizarre set of characters awaits you online

I read all of Vivek Chibber's books + what he published on Jacobin and here's what I wrote by way of response substack.com/home/post/p-...

Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) and Nasser Odeh, the lawyer representing Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, warned that his life is “in imminent danger” after visiting him in Ramla Prison.

DeboraGlonch: sitting on tarmac for hour and 20 minutes now unbelievable!! NotTarmac: You’re likely sitting on asphalt! As tarmac is rarely used on modern taxiways Biffdog: believe you are “sitting” on a plane ;) DeboraGlonch: making changes vis a vis weapons and impulses previously controlled

A lot of govts have limited this guys company in order to ensure affordable housing, but he has a different explanation for housing shortages, one courtesy of an organization too racist even for William F. Buckley. And he also in charge of digital branding for the US government under Trump.

Syong Ryul (South Korean, b.1994) "Palm Tree," 2025 Watercolor on paper

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

did some chainsawing with an adorable electric chainsaw. of dead trees though which cast a sort of morbid pall over everything

“.. Their faces covered in white masks, the men carried shields, drums and flags — some upside down, others Confederate — as they chanted, ‘Reclaim America!’” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Daily Wire editor in chief Brent Scher alleging that the Trump administration, for some reason working in concert with the Southern Poverty Law Center despite pursuing criminal charges against the org, planted a white nationalist group in DC this morning.

The cycle of the gods is in rejoicing at thy rising; the earth is in gladness seeing thy rays; come forth the ancestors with cries of joy to see thy beauties every day. (BDB)

anyone got that ssn acct + routing number?

1 dollar a day billed as a million dollars every million days

it's cool for sure but sometimes people make too big a deal of etymology

This is someone who previously used private financial information to target the presidents enemies with legal charges. So good chance he is now trying to do the same with intelligence information.

If you’re a “patriot” you think a country is your dad #CountriesAreNotDads

This really is the lede here, to which I would add that Thiel et al have been enormously successful at lobbing obscene amounts of money at anything that promises to shift anything even adjacently woo/crystal-hippie rightward. Perfect example in the piece of orchestrating diagonalism.

The most annnoying man of the 20th century

future Trump voter

gotta love a sunshower at 8:30 PM. gotta love summer

watched enough youtube videos this week to make me search for this one from the archives

begging physical media people to get a grip

Repost if you and your friends grew up hanging out at the Culvert and not the Culvers!

imagine being married to an online journalist and the day after you forget to get them something for their birthday it's like "I wrote about the loss of celebrations, public and private, and what it means for an increasingly polarized, atomized America"

was going to pitch this exact same article down to the semicolon placement at liberal currents...wtf

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

This is a reminder that some schools have already begun closing girls’ athletics teams because the requirement to verify gender was too onerous. Even just a form signed by a parent confirming their child’s gender identity is a barrier beyond what boys are required to do to play sports.

reddit government

Just one more thing: exactly what chores did you say you were doing in this jacket? Oh, you didn't say? That's very interesting sir, very interesting indeed

I appreciate that Gen Z/Alpha are discovering the “We Have Sid Meier’s Civilization at Home” that had to tide us nerds over in the long years between Civs II and III. They’re probably baffled by the fact that you can create armies of lawyers, televangelists, & ecoterrorists; a true 90s time capsule

oh he on DRUGS drugs

I saw this one the other day and imagined a customer getting pissed off when their soda doesn't come with garnishes

essentially 'surfer' means 'wave rider' or 'one who surfs [on waves]'

a nice feature of the ideology of machismo / toxic masc is that it includes a self-service option so the mark can cool himself out bsky.app/profile/carl...

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.