oh no! artists are repurposing decaying temples of consumerism! the horror www.latimes.com/california/s...

a country is truly broken when the best available career path is becoming an agent of state-sponsored violence against your neighbors for a piddling $80k/year

Asking the front desk person at the pasta factory if I can spend a night in the spaghetti room sleeping on the warm spaghetti they’re NOT selling and they don’t know what “I’M” talking about?

ready from the gecko

deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright

la la land may be the best movie ever made, discuss

"It’s probably worth noting that for all of the right-wing narrative around Minneapolis being unsafe, there has only been *one* homicide in the city so far this year. It happened today and was committed by a masked ICE agent." -Sam Deutsch bettercities.substack.com

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

We condemn ICE's killing of a Minneapolis woman today and call on federal agents to withdraw from Minnesota immediately. This tragedy is further proof that ICE is out of control, endangering our communities, and must end its lawless operations before anyone else is brutally hurt or killed.

“Well… we can’t just keep filing impeachment articles all the time.” Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.

if a store doesn’t have the main thing i needed i won’t buy any of the other things i needed out of spite

rare-earth metals aren't actually rare, they're just expensive and difficult to separate from surrounding minerals. china's monopoly on them is mostly due to the chinese government's tolerance of the catastrophic environmental effects of mining them www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Rob Reiner's dad, Carl, created one of the best sitcoms ever (The Dick Van Dyke Show) and directed the funniest comedy film ever (The Jerk). Rob, wanting to avoid nepobaby coasting, pulled off the most insane 8-year film directing run in history, making the definitive movie for every film genre:

Rob Reiner's first seven films: 1. Spinal Tap. 2. The Sure Thing. 3. Stand By Me. 4. THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 5. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. 6. Misery 7. A Few Good Men. Good lord. Even Spielberg included 1941 in his first seven. And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...

one weird thing about me is that i’ve nearly never had a job that didn’t feed you while you’re working. so the idea that there are any jobs that don’t provide free meals seems inhumane.

the value of delta diamond has dropped to near-zero, because delta now sells 88% of first class. if you buy twenty $500 tickets/year and delta has a ~20% ticket premium compared to others, you're paying a $2k loyalty premium. only a ~25% upgrade rate would justify that. at 88% load that's impossible

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

We packrafted 50 miles on the Escalante River, in the shadow of the largest public lands rollback in US history. A landscape millions of years in the making shouldn’t be able to be threatened by a single executive order. youtu.be/Zdd9NgQm3SA

it is crazy that the president is essentially just the project manager for a medium-sized hotel ballroom who tweets things which would yet someone with that actual job fired instantaneously

One of the greatest things anyone has ever said to me was to explain that when you randomly decide to pick up a rock it’s because the rock has decided it wants to travel. It gives me joy to ponder.

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

This may be the best sentence I’ve ever read

the dell u4025qw is a truly great product

wait, you expect me to believe that the quintessential anthem articulating our human longing for meaning, magic, and hope was originally sung by a muppet in a bog?

my suggestions to give chatgpt a less shitty name are chatg or chatty

in a world of non-linear editing, the whole concept of picture lock before sound lock makes no sense, and in fact it should be reversed

the final episode of the twisted tale of amanda knox is a stunner, due in no small part to grace van patten

feels like it's time to cancel @washingtonpost.com subscriptions. that "the-market-will-fix-plastic-bags" editorial misses that the "market" has failed to fix it in 45 years, and california already has bag fees. did the new republican editorial board talk to a single expert or do any research?

it is so amusing that "family values" politician dudes always have had a minimum of three wives and two divorces

younger generations trust real people, not brands. it's astonishing wapo didn't realize that the only way to halt its self-immolation was by giving dave jorgensen all the money. were all our brands and institutions just houses of cards propped up by baby boomers + gen x? gen z saw through all of it.

maya hawke looks exactly like if ethan hawke and uma thurman were to have a child

Successful movements are microcosms of the society they hope to create. [We need] a cross-class movement, one that join[s] members of the educated class with members of the working class, shrinking the social chasms that gave rise to populism in the first place. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

you should be able to get credit for a previous flight delay and use the delay for another flight you’re late for

An ice sculpture of the word “Democracy” has been placed on the National Mall in direct view of the U.S. Capitol as a vanishing reminder, its creators said, of rapidly eroding rights and an existential threat to the freedom on which America was founded.

regarding the girl who thought steve martin is only a banjo star: i knew both that he’s a comedian and plays banjo, but it wasn’t until i saw her video that i listened to his wonderful banjo albums. i now easily can see why she’d think banjo was his primary contribution to the canon

If you look closely, you can see signs of GOP lawmakers fearing the long-term political consequences of paying more attention to Trump's demands than to the voices of their own constituents - or consciences.

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

"A dominant position in A.I. might be, without exaggeration, the biggest prize in the history of capitalism." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

"The business that spent a century perfecting illusion is now begging the world to care about what’s real." theankler.com/p/sora-2-and...

welcome to our doctor's office. within a single chamber, three oracles await. first the nurse, then the doctor, and finally, the More Important Doctor. speak your riddle of pain thrice, hear it reversed, and end where you began: with the nurse at the gate, who will declare your fate.

was harold and the purple crayon just stolen from duck amuck

part of me suspects tech companies intentionally built their voice assistant speakers to make users despise their brand for some reason that is not yet clear

My Source News Opinion World? Even if they were determined to change the name, not a SINGLE person would have demanded they explain that it stands for something. HBO branding has been a fiasco, but at least they didn’t claim it stood for Humans Being Ordinary Make America Xtreme.

My gf doesn’t really like it when I talk about my ex which means I now have a lot of stories from college where I’m just alone for some reason

"One in 10 men aged 20 to 24 is effectively doing nothing — neither enrolled in school nor working." I think this piece's thesis is important. I also think that investment in boys needs to be paired with a focus on detoxifying male-only environments. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...

"a strange ritual where you propose to yourself through the vessel of a partner" airmail.news/issues/2025-...

tell gemini or chatgpt the size of framed photos you have and ask how to form a solid rectangle of them on the wall. the fact that every answer you'll get is wildly wrong (even if you try to help) reinforces the point that even the best ai models are still totally incompetent at many tasks

i’m not sure i’ve ever SEEN a movie with gal gadot and i still think @mattketai.bsky.social’s impression is the funniest thing i’ve seen on the internet this year and i‘ll never get tired of it, kal-el no

The faculty have been waiting decades to get this quote into the Times.