what liberals should prioritize if they win the trifecta in 2028: 1) court reform (1 single judge the size of godzilla) 2) ending gerrymandering by making the whole country one state and one county 3) mandatory Linux

"if I had bought Zero Parades, all those people would still have jobs" is irrational, but man. guess I should have bought Zero Parades

1988ers were 13 when 9/11 happened, so they listen to Einstein on the Beach, but 1989ers were only 12, so they listen to the Koyaanisqatsi score

it is absolutely insane to me that 2026 image search engines have a toggle you gotta set to "off" for "do you want hallucinated pictures that show the exact opposite of reality" or else you'll glimpse an alternate universe where beavers are sabre-toothed carnivores

how many GULP sexual erm.. (tugging my collar) p-p-partners have i had .. ?? well ah.. nine (reading the room and feeling like a loser) hundred (realizing this might make me seem like a womanizer) men (afraid of coming off like a serial monogamist) at once

Denis Villeneuve opened my eyes to how vertiginous some monoliths can be

my contribution to ugly-genAI-looking-charts-about-generational-body-count discourse is "hey! the new Dean of Doom is out! it's an hour long!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBGu...

it's too bad "the full saying was 'the customer is always right IN MATTERS OF TASTE'" is false. it sounds pretty good, and the original phrasing was like "assume the customer is right until it's patently obvious they aren't," so the spirit is there. alas

it's funny that the perversity of requiring a 2/3 majority for all significant legislation in the Senate was addressed in Federalist 19 and 22, regarding the problems with unanimity and the 2/3 majority as principles. good thing our national Founder-humping selects for wisdom and isn't random

me getting increasingly worked up and heated on the pnin podcast I’m doing tomorrow with james wood: and they hated him because he had the ideal male body type … and they hated him because he had hoes

Pornhub is actually for imagining what it would be like to have a big, poorly decorated house for yourself

so uhh. we gotta do something about the maha guys, huh. so that when we lose one day we don't return to Shitting Ourselves Literally Not Metaphorically

extremely good Game Changer ep this week. good cast of contestants, good cast of "crew." Door #5 is an evil idea out of someone's nightmare

it's good that Cetaphil sunblock's formula doesn't sting my eyes when I sweat, but I would like them to develop a formula that doesn't look like whiteface next

it's funny to imagine the letter writer's brother as a dashing playboy war photographer coming to Thanksgiving in a private helicopter and also to imagine him as a slightly more annoying office admin than the letter writer archive.is/86D6T

BEING SURE OF YOURSELF MEANS YOU'RE A FOOL

Your skill with a sword is remarkable for an information technologist…your daimyo has gravely misallocated your skills

there has to be some awful movie trailer that slows down Vampire Weekend's "Step" a little and does a sick bass drop after "I'm strong enough, I'm ready for the house/such a modest mouse." and the person who made it has to face justice

They could have won 💔

Hollywood should give David Wain millions of dollars every two years to make a They Came Together. Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass was fun

never heard of this before now but it is fucking horrifying that there's an upcoming chipper romcom whose premise is that 99.7 percent of the time, people will be abducted and imprisoned in a concrete box for having sex with another human

One Night Only (2026), the movie where it's the Purge but for pre-marital sex, feels like it should not have a jolly ha-ha-what-if-this-was-the-law type of tone

thinking it over: sometimes a 20something guy just has a cool or graphically disgusting mirror in his bedroom and a woman wants to see it, without there being any romantic intent there. that one was not as good as the other one

A friend of my wife's said once at a house party he was talking about the mirror in his bedroom and the girl he was with went, "oh yeah? Can you show me?" so he took her upstairs, showed it to her, and then went back down, and like a month later he went, "..... Mother FUCKER!"

I don't care if they're essentially "Dear Penthouse, I can't believe it did NOT happen to me." posts about obliviousness to flirting are always gold

just remembering this time at a party a girl was said she had nipples pierced and was like wanna see? and i was like yeah so she took me into the bedroom and lifted her shirt and i was like 👍 and then we went back out and later i found out she was into me. she should have been more forward i guess

Was going to say 'this is comparable to when EA killed Origin' But it's so much worse. Origin was a long, painful downward spiral of meddling, mismanagement and hubris. Id made banger after banger without fail until their literal LAST DAY. Released their biggest expansion the day after the layoffs

deciding to leap feet-first into getting old and putting a couple of Garry Wills books and some books on contract bridge on hold at the library

I love Roberto Bolaño and 2666 was pretty great for a while but the Part About the Crimes is some real "once you put it down, you simply cannot pick it back up" business

imagine reading WG Sebald when you would have needed a good sense of UK literary culture and 101 reference books to check his facts and not just a search bar

turns out making your phone stupid, deactivating social media accounts, using it only from the desktop, etc., is not sufficient to make you not want to read and write posts

So... criticism of the left flank is powerless and dying?

the voters won't care what's "politically acceptable" to the old man if they hate the Republicans bad enough to vote Not-Republican to make them stop

2.5/4. too skin-crawling of a premise and not enough laughs to be a good movie, but I like Jennifer Lawrence and the theme of class conflict. "I can't afford to live in Nassau County so I decided to move to California" is a funny way to end it

felt the steam shooting out my ears so I called my rep the Minority Whip who probably agrees with Jeffries #DamnILoveTheDemocraticProcess #Congress #Senate #legislatures

"it would be politically irresponsible to impeach an administration of corrupt and violent neo-Nazis even if we had the votes" is an argument for constitutional reform, not for sitting on your ass and proposing tax cuts for cops

OP I hate to tell you this but if they refuse to impeach the best possible example of an impeachable administration, they're not gonna do the anti-corruption stuff either

I am becoming a Performative Male soon

the opening of No Hard Feelings (2023) shows the violence of having your car taken away from you in a car-centric society. there would have been outlets for a take of this variety 15 years ago

cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island

2020s is just finding out you were in the group chat "small penis summer" with the shooter in the news

not even a week into playing Puzzmo puzzles on the reg and I'm already feeling like I should pick up a New York Times crossword book if I want more of a challenge

I fav so many posts compared to the guy in the news. if you're too busy faving posts, you let life and its rich opportunities pass you by

Bird by Bird is a little grating. "Writing is so hard. I am so neurotic. I hate my friends and I hate their success." But the anecdote where another teacher gives writing advice by taking a pad and pencil and writing on it makes up for some of it

I'm so excited for when the sleepy Oregon town in the new season of Dimension 20 turns out to be the most supernatural place in America

yeah yeah OK. next he's going to do a bit where Napoleon is master of Europe and oceans are now battlefields, we get it

Australia's cyber security co-ordinator just dropped what I think will be a very useful reaction meme

Guy Who "Just Needs to Put Himself Out There and Do Something With That Energy" Nearly 40, Should Be Planning to Pay for Parents' Nursing Homes

finished A Physical Education and thought it was an inspiring story of what you can do when you recognize the problem in your 20s and then do something about it. I still have not put my 3-hole-punched print-out copy of Liftoff in a binder