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patatas bravas

A fun thing about my life is that at 12:20 I started chanting, to myself, "one more knish, one more knish" and because I had frozen knishes in the freezer I started heating one more knish. There's a lot of terrible stuff going on right now, but at least I can have one more knish.

"The Sexual Politics of Handshakes in the Baking Show tent" in this lecture I will...

Hey quick question why do I pay federal taxes

there was never a time when this was not going to happen not even one single day

much like coppola’s dracula, branagh’s frankenstein is Actually Good, especially deniro’s performance as the monster. they were both too slow and baroque for nineties audiences who wanted zippy, talky movies

feel like this is the type of thing that if it broke through would be really offputting to not extremely online people who pay fleeting attention to politics. i feel like one thing that needs to break through is that these folks are just massive, unserious dorks who don't want to govern, only troll

This from @kristenarnett.bsky.social's latest "Am I the Literary Asshole" is going to every single artist I know who has even ever been tempted by the machine: lithub.com/am-i-the-lit...

The worst thing you can do to a movie like Ghostbusters is try to take it seriously. Atherton isn't a villain because he's "from the government", he's a villain because he's an unfun prick in a suit, it's classic slobs-vs-snobs.

Also, go read @clairewillett.bsky.social's thread that I reposted just before this, because she, like me, is also freaking out at this possibility! She describes Opus Dei as "the Scientology of Catholicism" and she is absolutely, 100% correct in doing so!

Okay! This is going to take a while so I had to finish some stuff first, but: Why Da Pope Fucking Up Opus Dei Is A Huge Fucking Deal: a thread

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI. MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.

I’m not a stinker, but: I think I could push these folks into a single-payer healthcare candidate, as long as they mean business about imprisoning Trump folks

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted." That will change the frame of the story.

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end

We constantly talk about Dems' struggles to reach deeper into the culture and access people who ignore politics. You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere! newrepublic.com/article/2018...

When this regime is over and buried, I don't want to hear about oh it's not worth the money or it's too petty to worry about. The order to bulldoze this illegal and unconstitutional monstrosity should be signed on Day 1.

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record: This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

The world’s richest and most powerful people were too weak to stand up to the tiniest bit of accountability and people yelling at them online, so they simply purchased online and the Presidency, with an assist from inflation. That’s the story of the last five years.

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Excellent thread explaining the technical details of a profoundly illegal action. If I were a financial manager I’d really notice that ADA violations carry a 5 year statute of limitations.

As a baby lawyer in the Reagan White House, John Roberts was writing memos arguing that violations of the Voting Rights Act should not be "too easy to prove." This is not just any legal issue that happens to come before him. This is his life's work. He just wants to finish what he started.

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

The great thing about phone software is every time it updates the phone looks worse and, at best, works exactly the same.

The thing about young republicans is they grow up into old republicans

Lately, Inside Man has become a bit of a comfort watch, I'll throw at least a chunk of it on a few times a week, but let me be clear I will never watch Inside Man: Most Wanted the what used to be called a straight to DVD sequel that Netflix keeps putting at the beginning of all my algorithmic lists.

Can that generation fuck off already? Have they not ruined enough for all the generations that follow?

Whoever got Leo to, probably without thinking, say he was interested in heat 2 & thereby got it green lit, even if it falls apart immediately, at least spurred me to finish the book, so they did some good.

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday. www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

Lol down so bad that he can't even get the most corrupt SCOTUS in generations to rule in his favor

Using ChatGPT

Legitimately disgusting that were getting legal rigging of elections and nobody cares in the media or the electorate. This is not that functionally different than tossing out thousands of votes to help your side win.

Chris Van Hollen for Senate Minority Leader. We need someone at the helm who understands the fight we're in and is willing to fight it. As far as I've seen, no one in the Senate Dem caucus is speaking with more clarity or conviction.

The last season-killing strike happened after a 5-year period in which Minnesota, Cincinnati, and Oakland won the World Series, with Montreal having the best record in baseball

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

A joyous Indigenous Peoples day to you all! And if you're struggling to quit the OTHER mid October holiday cold turkey, may I interest you in an Italian who was a better mapmaker, better explorer, actually visited New England, and didn't (as far as anyone knows) murder anyone? Giovanni da Verrazzano

Originalism is that thing where the constitution means what I say it means

The idea that there are activists and citizens who attend protests because it’s what they believe in is completely foreign to them. If it isn’t a personal grift, they don’t understand the motivation.

Yep when Trump says he loves coal miners he means the guys who own mines — as always the little guy was good for conning out of a vote and after that the mass grave. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c...

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

One of the biggest demonstrations of star power is at the end of Ghostbusters three of the Ghostbusters are entirely covered by marshmallow foam but Bill Murray just has a tiny little dab of white covering up his bald spot

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

You don't have to stand for God Bless America! It's actually more offensive if he sat down during Take Me Out to the Ballgame, b/c the rules of baseball say you're supposed to stretch then.

God Bless America is just a song by Irving Berlin. It’s not the national anthem. America is so far down the moron hole it will never get out

I hate profiles of conservatives who are worried that their country is changing and would welcome profiles of liberals and leftists who are afraid of same thing from the opposite direction and treated their concerns the same kind of reflexive deference