We are in the Age of the Agentic Slur.

Guys who talk about anything in their life (supplements, home computer setup, income) as a “stack” - straight to the reeducation camps. Struggle sessions for influencers taped in vertical video where they get beaten with sweatsocks filled with manure while begging their followers to unsubscribe.

I don't know how to explain this but Casablanca is a movie for adults. There are lots of movies built on an element of fantasy about being young or brave or defying the odds. Casablanca is not that. Everyone in that movie has back pain and they have all just accepted it.

Watched Casablanca with my 16 y/o two weeks ago. The interpersonal dynamics in that movie are insane. Each character, even the minor ones, have histories with each other that are fully lived in but never unnecessarily spelled out.

health of a society is inversely proportional to how badly you need a dashcam in it

It’s important to keep in mind that whatever shitty thing this administration does, the reality is always more horrific and morally debased.

Biggest and dumbest sin of Firefly.

No, I don’t think any of this ages well. And I say that as a fan who has the DVD box set and Serenity on Blu-Ray. Leave it be.

It's so degrading watching the Secret Service clean out someone's fuck pad. They walk outside with cardboard boxes and upend them. There are shattered Poison CDs all over the ground, glinting in the sunlight atop a towel that can't bend.

I'm worried when Kristi Noem finds out she's been fired she's going to become America's first obedience school shooter.

JB’s a petty bitch and I love that for him.

Stevia Replacements

Too lazy to do the Dr. Manhattan meme.

know the funny papers rules

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

This festival looks like it should be sponsored by Nabisco Saltines and Campbell’s Clear Broth.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

I think that Jamelle Bouie is a good person

It's very bad! And the well-resourced Jewish communal organizations that should be on top of this burned all their credibility defending Israeli war crimes and are still primarily focused on playing Israel's lawyer rather than addressing the rapidly spreading gangrene.

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

🚨 Special Urban Report 🚨 Pump N Munch Minneapolis, MN

This dumb shit wants to en banc the only court that’s always en banc.

It’s illegal to build this in America Legalize Non-Euclidean Zoning…

What if we remade a Tim Clancy novel but everyone was a complete dipshit?

It’s fascinating to see this whole thing play out in real time. AI scares me on a fundamental level, but I appreciate and admire the way Anthropic conducts itself, especially compared to its competitors.

Imo what is happening on x is that the algorithm loves racist and anti semitic content, and the people who are on there marinate in it all day, and the epstein files has offered an excuse for even left identified people to indulge in the trangressive pleasure of public bigotry as a little treat

Major under-discussed issue is how Jewish men of a certain age use Israel as a balm/proxy for their unreconciled relationship to masculinity. Luckily, I found more mundane ways to work that out, like mowing my own lawn.

I see a lot of folks upset about this, but give the litigation risk, the result of this bill would be the removal of all suburban bicycle infrastructure. Chicago would probably keep its existing infrastructure and Divvy system but would not expand it.

Crypto donations need to become as radioactive in Democratic primaries as AIPAC. No pro-worker, pro-civil society candidate should be taking $ from an industry whose only use cases are pump n’ dump scams, tax avoidance, & money laundering for drug cartels.

Hey, what's your favorite album cover? Doesn't have to be your favorite album, just a cover you never get tired of looking at

Eugenics Shit.

We've got to stop faceless agglomerations of capital from owning property...

this is basically what every single bit of critical infrastructure looks like: someone you'll never meet in an office exactly like this ensuring that the shit pumps continue to move the shit away from your house.

All of my test and school anxiety dreams have returned due to having a child in high school.

After watching Mandami’s blizzard warning videos, I have to concede that short form video is the rhetorical vocabulary of our age and… it can be done well. Cuts as punctuation, scene shifts as thematic transitions. I am also completely incapable of communicating in that way.

I guess this makes Indiana the Sinai wilderness, which makes sense.

Me on my morning commute when I realize there’s a new Jill Scott album that I haven’t listened to.

Down with Euclid v. Ambler (except for concentration camps)

modern upton sinclair: it is difficult to get someone to recognize their bad take when their salary depends upon them having a bad take about it

For ya’ Ole Dirty Butthole.

Russian General-Ass Cardinal out my window considering my punishment for failure to replace the suet blocks.

I love this. My most stressful moments biking in the City involved crossing Ashland at Berwyn with my then toddler daughter in the rear child seat. This will definitely improve cross-town mobility on the far north side.

They said it. We’re all thinking it.

Gonna tell my financial planner that this is Clavicular.

BlueSky finally gave us Drafts, now we demand true innovation…

Absolute Khan Shit.

Unity Ocasio Cortez/Massie ‘28 ticket wins 49 states and a filibuster-proof trifecta on a “Butlerian Jihad Now!” platform

Why is everything in Chicago covered in a thin layer of splattered shit today? Is this related to the weird smell that encompassed the Midwest last week? Can we all agree this is Indiana’s fault somehow?

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Who’s up Hüskering their Dü?