do I really wish I had gone to law school, or do I just enjoy seeing the "uncool S," or §

(12 years too old to get drafted) you know what: maybe the all-volunteer force was a bad idea

Very proud of my colleagues right now--especially @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social and @alexabdo.bsky.social. But we could not have got this far without the superb trial lawyers at Sher Tremonte. Grateful to them for all of the time and energy they put into this case. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

A friend of ours, someone we've known for ten years, was recently abducted by ICE, is being detained, and will likely be deported. She is a mother of three, her kids were left behind while she's been detained. A go-fund-me has been started to help with expenses for her kids. Please help if you can.

user the_rec0gn1tions believes the medium of video games was finally elevated by the plot of Grand Theft Auto IV

the only three games I consider "good" are Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out, Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail, and Bioshock

Adam Cadre you are a singular creative mind whose work I love, but I hate your genAI "cover art" for Varicella adamcadre.ac/if/

Maybe not my game of the year but definitely in the running

there is so much Silksong in Silksong dude. maybe too much. at some point the magician has to stop pulling scarves out of his hat and I have to stop finding new areas

anyway, the game is easier than Getting Over It or QWOP and the theme of failure to live up to a masculine ideal is very heavy-handed. it's like a parody of those "walking simulators" of the early indie scene, but it's still trying to make a serious point

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

I feel misled by the reviews. aren't the donkey penises in Baby Steps pretty normal sized?

Jill Lepore's article about originalism and the death of constitutional amendment is funny. It's a standard liberal history excoriating originalist jurisprudence, but here and there, suddenly there's a paragraph saying MSNBC and the NY Times went ka-razy in response to Fox News

It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.

my husband @kalebhorton.bsky.social hated the phrase “passed away” and had nothing but scorn for softening euphemisms in general. he was a firm believer in the comedy rule of threes, but only if the third thing can hit as a surprise. and he just died

"getting eight hours of sleep makes you feel like the Master of the Senate. setting up the day so you can get eight hours of sleep makes you feel like you got hit by the Power Broker" -- Robert Caro

@cheatlines.co this feels like too much of a gimme and too much of a seasonal name, but I heard "Murray Christmas" the other day and realized it was a cheatlines name

it's 2007. you're scrolling your favorite rss feeds in google reader. the internet ad market has led to a boom in mid-sized blogs that can employ tens of writers and editors in a relatively niche subject. you don't know it, but this is the last time journalism will be any good.

when u see someone else getting a lot of success and admiration and youre feeling envious take a deep breath and remind yourself that there is only so much love and happiness in the world and they are hoarding it

gonna take the cue of the new Blowback season to read up on South Africa and Angola to get a peek past the curtain of happy music whenever Mao or Stalin is mentioned

CHOTINER: You've often said you think you would be able to "lock down" Jucika and get her to marry you.

me: i think with most things, if you look at it on a case-by-case basis, you'll find that especially these days it ends up being this whole issue where you have to sort of look at it through a lens of, hey, you know when it comes to this thing by its very nature isaac chotiner: i completely agree

8:32 PM after seeing RFK Jr: definitely gonna be a "zero tolerance for woo woo bullshit" type of guy from now on 9:03 PM after my beautiful friend says this is a very Gemini attitude: well, shucks,

the lights in my new house flicker to the rhythm of a sinister heartbeat like the lights in The Cradle from Thief 3

I've tried the "make your smart phone as dumb as possible, delete all the apps" thing and while I understand the merits, I hate it

freeways and roads provide an important "third space" for people to hang out in cars

someone pointed out that "Fade Into You" is just "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," but I disagree. it's different when a sleepy beautiful 90s woman is singing it

LET 👏 THE 👏 LAMP 👏 AFFIX 👏 ITS 👏 BEAM 👏

you can tell the past is another country because if liberals did a Wide Awakes thing now and did a torchlit march in uniform, the whole membership would be arrested in a day

Republicans should chill out and enjoy a soy milk latte in a coffee shop full of yoga babes imo

Your timeline has been blessed by the extraordinarily rare SMILING REZNOR. Repost to spread his mirth!

i don't think there's anything wrong with referring to a writer as her last name. and as far as i know, thats her main career, is writing. i believe that's the main thing for which she is known. at least, that's the only thing i know about this writer. is just writing. she write, she writing. that's

chatting about How to Do It columns is fun because you have to write out "Jessica Stoya" in full every time. "Jessica" is parasocial (bad) and Stoya is parasocial (worse)

the posting box is not a journal. the posting box is for posting the same ideas as 400 journalists and the cooler, hotter people you follow, but worse

I think the Hollow Knight guys should kick back, relax, and play as much Powerball as they can

Like Robert Redford, I, also, have never struck out with a woman.

I love reading a Tom Perotta short story where the sad lower-middle-class man who missed, and then misses again, the love of his life, is 32

I'm sure, but why not get off bluesky and report on how things are at the Sparks show?

every 40+ gay dork in New York City is here

three social security numbers, addresses, and mother's maiden names that would get the place bumping!

“The unexamined life is not worth living” is cope for neurotics

(to "Sing Me Spanish Techno") Ordem e Progresso

hot Salem baphomet, hello

thank you, salem, mass social media manager, for bringing the whimsy back to train travel

walked into my folks' house and saw my right-wing stepfather watching the Fox News coverage. good way to get "Trouble Every Day" playing in your mind

"the health guy should look and sound healthy" is unfair, intellectually, but cmon man listen to him. Diane Rehm gets slack, not he

a smart Republican would at least try to guilt millennial liberals and socialists over all those Simpsons memes. unfortunately the dumb Republicans are still, inexplicably, in charge

"liberalism relies on positive persuasion to make the world a better and more inclusive place" ntnl_guardsman_w_bayonet_pushing_white_sthrn_boy_t_school.jpg

hooting laughing at the inclusion of the little bronze Scotty dog next to the statue of FDR at his memorial

good wiki article alert en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossar...