Slightly diminishing a book: Dictionarish

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

I love how someone called the new White House gold aesthetic as "Saddamcore".

There’s “leaning in” and then there’s this

A company can’t be estd. in 2023. Estd. doesn’t work like that.

Ichiro Comedy Special Somehow Already Up on Netflix: tinyurl.com/mry8xvj5

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

You know that scene in an action movie when the bad guy runs through the kitchen of a restaurant and pulls down all the pots and pans behind him to slow down his pursuers? We're in that part of the Trump presidency.

This Herblock cartoon was published 71 years ago, and it’s just as pertinent now.

I once told my daughter how we had to tune in at a specific time on a specific day each week to see a new episode of our favorite show and if we missed it, we might never have another chance. She told me that was completely stupid.

eh…what kinda sauce are we talkin’ about here?

Google's AI previews have destroyed traffic, so in their benevolence they have offered "microtransactions," "surveys" "pop-up ads" to the companies they bled dry. A better Internet was stolen from us, and I won't be shamed into calling that nostalgia. www.socialmediatoday.com/news/google-...

it turns out that embracing a multi-racial, multi-faith democracy is the best path towards peace in this chaotic world.

For a pro-life party, they’re kind of pro-death.

Opinion | Our porous borders have allowed too many thieves and drug addicts to infiltrate our country. by Elon Musk

I hate that I know what every word of this skeet means

“Henry David Thoreau was born David Henry Thoreau”. WHY?! Why swap the names, Henry, or should I say DAVID??!?!

NBA final four teams and their last championship: New York Knicks: 1973 Indiana Pacers: Never Minnesota Timberwolves: Never Oklahoma City Thunder: Never* * won in 1979 as Seattle SuperSonics but Thunder do not hang a banner nor claim this title as their own.

Starting to wonder if we took one for global civic democracy. Electing Trump basically seems to have knee-capped every revanchist far-right candidate in the world. You're welcome, world.

It is also worth noting that Jeff Bezos' February letter stating that the @washingtonpost.com opinion page would write "every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets," was one of the most ill-timed manifestoes in history./7 www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...