Order: “the case is dismissed on ironic hilarity grounds.”

good update thread

My kids (9 & 5) just watched The Princess Bride (1987) for the first time this past weekend and loved it.

Other than discovering that I’m apparently John Oliver’s son, @lastweektonight.com’s deep dive into the shadow docket is really quite good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeq...

All of (former) lawtwitter watching the show last night:

Crazy how being really shitty to everyone & loudly ruining everything is unpopular

This is actually even better than "the website for 38 year olds"

(my eyes glow with hellfire and horns sprout from my head at the term "copy-write")

the iran war is a really fascinating lesson in global supply chains did you know a key component of (insert thing here) travels through the strait of hormuz? now you do!

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

I had an acquaintance who was like this, and was a compulsive liar to boot. It's astonishing how long she had people believing that bad things just happened to her without warning. (Spoiler: there was always warning and they were always avoidable. But she always spun a tale.)

They have a story about how everyone in their life has wronged them.

NEW: Secret Handshake installed working arcade games called Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell at the DC War Memorial. The game features "furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow shower heads, and other threats to American freedom like DEI and The Pope..."

because ppl still think of it in terms of "ruling" and think getting to be a lord is its own reward

so does this take into account all the service workers who could not afford to take jobs in DC if not for public transit, or naah

This is a wildly misleading headline. Hawaii passed a law that purports to do this, but no court gas blessed it and furthermore it would not seem to affect entities incorporated in other states.

“The Odyssey is a very serious book, Odysseus is a very sympathetic, brilliant character and you should not make fun of it” - someone who has clearly never actually read the Odyssey.

after a devastating streak of two World Cups without official songs by Shakira, we are so back

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

The correct director for an Odyssey adaptation is Taika Watiti. I will not be explaining any further.

Running up and down the street as if I am Paul Revere to tell people that there is finally some great World Cup News: Shakira is doing the official World Cup Song

I'm literally writing about a set of Tennessee segregationists in the 1960s at the moment. I swear to God, they were not *this* comically and overtly racist.

Best I can do is this unhinged text from my husband in 2024

Has anyone gotten a truly bananas break-up text? And would be willing to share it with a stranger (me)?

Well well well looks like those art degrees aren't so useless after all

Remember how Sarah Fitzpatrick said the first story resulted in a flood of new sources wanting to talk about Kash's drinking?

I’m officially caught up. Bring it on.

The nominal strategic purpose of the U.S. Navy is to ensure global freedom of navigation to guarantee stable global trade. It has not only not done that, the United States instigated the conflict which undid it. This is known in foreign policy analysis as a “whoopsie doodles.”

DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL (I’ve got about five chapters left in book seven. Book 8 drops in two weeks. My body is ready.)

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

Writer-types: what's a franchise you were born to write, but you never will? This is the part where I sheepishly admit that a group chat got out of hand spitballing ideas, and tl;dr I have plotted and partially drafted an 8 episode, Leverage-but-on-the-outer-rim Star Wars series

There are times I simply Do Not Enjoy living near the seat of federal power, Duck

oh dear

Is he. Is he quoting Ice Cube

Can confirm, I saw and heard them too

Timeline cleanse.

Every senate primary debate and related interview should lead with: how will you fix scotus, will you vote for statehood for DC, and will you let republicans stop you with the filibuster.

This is now what passes for “science” from the BBC. Hackneyed cliches, faux mystery, factually incorrect statements. 1. Archaeologists are, once again, “baffled” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love how this dress mimics thickly textured brush strokes of paint à la Van Gogh

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet is the apex of late 90s aesthetic and no one can tell me otherwise

For a long time, Donnie Darko. When I was in college, it was everyone's indie darling movie. Couldn't stand it. The only thing that's changed is people don't talk about it much anymore.

CVS cancels my prescription order again: This is the equivalent of the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in the 7th century.

Slightly diminish a book A Ditty for Leibowitz

You cannot possibly guess what this is in response to

(McDonald's forgets my second tub of chili crisp sauce) This is the equivalent of the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in the 7th century

The move is funded by George Clooney and then raw milk cures one heroine’s lactose intolerance. I am not joking, that’s what happens.

When it comes to background/edge characters, there is no story you can tell about them that's better than the one that resides in the viewer's imagination. Period.

looking this uncool smoking cigarettes is genuinely impressive in its own way

The most interesting characters in Star Wars have always been, and will always be, the ones that are never fully fleshed out. The second the spotlight turns on them, they invariably turn to garbage.

It's Pancake Day! Time to EAT PANCAKES in HONOR OF MACHIAVELLI! What do pancakes have to do with the founder of modern political science? Our boy Nick was obsessed with pancakes! & wrote about them at length in his "Art of War." Why pancakes? He'd been studying the ancients of course! 1/?