I hope this meme follows him for the rest of his life.

if nothing else Jim Comey is living proof that it is possible for powerful people in this country to suffer consequences for the huge mistakes they’ve made

Evergreen skeet

The people getting kidnapped and sent to concentration camps are not rich white men. As long as it’s not rich white men, these fools think they’re safe.

Kitchen tables are now being tariffed at 50%

1. Child of Light and the Perfect Sonnets and what they mean! 2. Promethium from GE999. And i mean just Promethium (Eva can confirm) 3. Disneyland

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. Horses and the joys of horse ownership 2. Crystallography 3. Being an American in the UK

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. Early literacy/learning to read 2. Planning, presenting, & assessing library storytimes 3. Key factors in balancing a cookie gift box by ingredients, flavor, texture, recipe provenance, structural integrity and visual presentation

Star Wars Professional wrestling JRPGs

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep 1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer extended universe 2. The history of Japan's oppression of Korea in the early 20th century, including the Comfort Women system 3. Waco/David Koresh

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2. Lord Peter novels by Dorothy L Sayers 3. The Tolkien legendarium

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. Star Wars 2. Tennessee Vols and Lady Vols athletics 3. Gender philosophy What a group, man

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. What the hell happened to RWA. 2. Editing fiction, & how it differs from editing nonfiction. 3. What the romance genre is doing now + bangers of yore. (I know this is all ridiculously on-brand for me but there you go.) #Romancelandia

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. Instantpot recipes 2. Baseball 3. Pastoral care

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. Leverage the TV show (everything is better with heists, esp. when the villain gets the comeuppance they deserve) 2. Greek mythology 3. The romance genre & the sheer breadth of its subgenres mean there is something for everybody

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. TV show House and what fandom gets right & wrong about it 2. Personality typing and why CliftonStrengths is the best one (tho Myers-Briggs can be useful for writing fanfic) 3. How fucked up the US health "insurance" system is

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. Tolkien's legendarium, especially (but not limited to) LOTR 2. Music theory 3. Local history Honorable mentions to astronomy and bourbon

Me: What he’s doing to Comey is horrid. Also Me: 🎶Karma is my boyfriend Karma is a god Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend Karma's a relaxing thought Aren't you envious that for you it's not?🎵

There goes the Wayborhood.

There's no longer a David Brinkley, Eric Sevareid, or Andy Rooney to point out obvious [bipartisan] realities to tens of millions of TV viewers who aren't really engaging them. For example: This country needs to get better at keeping guns out of the hands of lunatics.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep 1. Watergate 2. Best time loops / time travel in film and TV 3. Weird Catholic saint lore

One of the big asymmetries in US politics is how Republicans getting more votes from men is a major crisis for the Democratic party that must be addressed, perhaps by abandoning some values, while Democrats getting more votes from women is a nonissue for the Republican Party, not worth discussing.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. British shows on streaming and where to find them. 2. The rise in popularity of political pantos in the 21st century 3. Star Trek & Doctor Who as cultural bellwethers of their respective countries.

Sherrill in 2025 really does remind me of Kerry in 2004 — they’re coasting on a military background that voters just don’t care about while her opponent is savaging her as an out-of-touch elitist liberal. As a NJ resident, I’m begging the Democrats to get their shit together

Non-journalists really need to understand how everyone in the industry has been laid off, those who wanted to stay have joined an already massive pool of freelancers, and companies have cut freelance rates to almost nothing. Then they sent all the cash left over to their venture capital CEOs.

Something that never gets discussed: longtime freelancers who are trying go full time will never get that chance with all the layoffs. There are no jobs & when there is one, it will promotly go to someone, laid off or employed, who’s been in the f/t pool. We are always at the back of a growing line.

When Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace in 2005, it collapsed in less than a year. We can do it again.

Seen on the DC metro:

I know it's ethically a no-no, but I still think the New Yorker could make a fortune if they had a Cameo-like service where you could pay for Isaac Chotiner to call a friend saying he'd like to schedule an interview to ask them a few questions.

Also didn’t they try that with the Kirk shooting? And that went south quick.

lol sure Jan.

If there’s anything that could turn me against digital id cards it’s the amount of press releases from tech start ups that they have unleashed

lmao

Hallo Spaceboy alone, man…

That place in #Virginia would be in Prince William County, specifically at Quantico Marine Corps Base. For no particular reason, I feel like y'all should know there's a Cracker Barrel seven miles from there near the 95-234 exit.

In which @adamserwer.bsky.social makes a useful distinction between "chickenshit" and "cowardice." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“The investors, composed of lawyers for the American Federation of Teachers and Reporters Without Borders…” This is a really interesting form of shareholder activism!

A lawsuit laying out, step by step, just how cluelessly, dangerously wrong Justice Brett Kavanaugh's opinion and the majority's vote from earlier this month were. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...

Of course it’s French.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Annnnnnd scene!

What is the best David Bowie song and why is it “Thru These Architect’s Eyes?”

CHOTINER: how spicy is the spicy tofu? SANDWICH GUY: CHOTINER: look I don't do it all the time SANDWICH GUY: CHOTINER: that would be like expecting Sammy Davis Jr to tapdance everywhere, I just want a sandwich SANDWICH GUY: I'm saying fucking nothing until my lawyer gets here.

This lettuce is spicy

Bad news: Riot Women won't arrive until January 2026. Good News: Ten Pound Poms will debut on BritBox in October instead.

When you seem to want to restart the troubles….

2025 in a nutshell

"This used to be the best job I’ve ever had, the best environment I’ve ever had, the best culture I’ve ever had—and they fucking ruined it. I will never ever forget how much they ruined it."

Chotiner: So, you and Jane Eyre are engaged. Rochester: Yes, we are soulmates. Chotiner: You were married before, right? Rochester: It didn’t work out. Besides, I was tricked into it. Chotiner: So were you able to secure a divorce? In 19th century England? Rochester: … Bertha: ::thump thump thump::

Still can’t quite believe this is a real movie, but the fact that Spaceballs 2 decided to unveil its cast by spoofing the Force Awakens table read photo (*and* by putting a pizza on a chair in tribute to the late great Pizza the Hutt) is an encouraging sign. screencrush.com/spaceballs-2...