Eddie and Hooks' personas are two versions of the same wounded vulnerabilty; the terminal yapper and the guy who says the least he can. The contrast on their styles in the ring is also great; slugging and flailing versus jabbing and snapping. They've got a great run in them for sure.

Like, the amount of crashing out on good kids that happens and the amount of not teaching (but sometimes expecting kids to do stuff you yourself can’t do) is depressing. It cultivates nihilism about the whole meritocratic ideal.

My basic opinion is that if a teacher can’t be smart they can at least be cool and if someone is neither I kinda don’t blame the kids for fucking with them cause the baseline for respect and intrinsic motivation is not very high.

Hard to describe how fun it is to watch teenagers fall into “Smells Like Teen Spirit” the way I did at their age. The song is on so many levels of irony to begin with but the core is, if not timeless, certainly in resonance with adolescence as it’s existed for most of living memory.

Epstein isn't going anywhere; its ok to immediately cackle when you see that he's talking about Amelia Earhart and to turn saying her name in whatever version of his voice you do into a little vocal stim or whatever.

Our Bugs Bunny, everyone. 🤼‍♂️

*clapping like a seal in anticipation*🤼‍♂️

This thing smote me just on it’s own terms but I just found out today what it really is and where it fits into the broader story of the album and why its such an outlier and now I want to read the rest of the short stories that go with the album. craigfinn.bandcamp.com/track/luke-l...

Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice Coheed and Scalia

Heel needs to heal so I can run again.

Really stress testing Hanlon's Razor with this "losing a high school worth of people when they emptied Alligator Alcatraz" thing.

What’s your Bluesky superlative? I was voted most likely to use all 300 characters.

Yesterday, a student asked what we were going to be doing today because his family was pulling him out of class for the Rapture and he didn’t want to be behind when he came back Thursday.

Part of why a lot of us choose to just be stupid from only reading headlines and posts and TikTok is that when you DO click through to read an article, this shit happens every other time.

TriplePlex!🤼

"What're you gonna do, stab me?" moment. 🤼

This was such a cool mix of artistic and high impact.🤼

Post a panel/page illustrating why you Love Comics This page from "Watchmen" is great in a way that's really specific to how a comic page can be used to not just narratively but also formally integrate a whole set of visual rhymes, interior/exterior character conflicts, ironies etc.

Me catching up on the primo sicko shit from yesterday's ppv. 🤼

Everything about this; the shading, the line work, the lighting the pose, the perspective and the composition makes me want to draw and is why JR Jr. is the goat to me.

A thing endorphins made me forget is that trail running in minimalist shoes at race pace is way more bruising than the road/trail mix I do most days.

Got second place! Woulda probably won first if I’d been paying more attention!

Got lost and threw up but I still finished this 5k in basically 35 minutes.

Scholar Of Authoritarianism Voice:"This episode echoes the Audiobafflen, when an epic poem in tribute to the recently burned Reichstag building was supposed to air on every radio station at once, but it sucked so they had to air 'Otto and Otto' instead; a comedy about 2 men who tolerate each other."

“Venerate Urkel” is a “going out like Stan Chera” level brainworm.

The worst new Bluesky policy is the one where they're forcing us all to hand it to Ted Cruz.

the woke is stored in the pumpkin spice lattes which is then in turn translated into microplastic vaccines which deliver the 5G to cryptoballs via weather machine sponsored by BudLightOrange by Post Malone

If the optimization is to just have your product fully be slop, your monopoly on the flavor and form factor of the slop is ultimately where the value lies.

Also fun to conceptualize in terms of software eating the world; these art forms were already hyperformulaic, further optimization dictated a narrower range of what that formulaic work could be about and algorithms flattened things out beyond even that. Just having a clanker write it instead tracks.

This is a version of AI’s model collapse problem, but with content and multiplied by the impossible incentives of capitalism; excellent thread here.

Jimmy Kimmel thing probably registers less than it should with me. Guess I’ve seen corporate media as such a deep part of our problems ever since I watched the Iraq war runup as a teenager that I sorta figured the audience of a guy on one of those networks is complicit and they get what they get.

Team: “you’re not special” vs Team: “you all just found each other”

If Bandcamp felt as good to use as iTunes did 20 years ago, they’d really be onto something.

I just hope they dox everyone celebrating the firing of Jimmy Kimmel.

I like that it's understood that they're gonna beat each other but we put many many TV minutes into how badly they will beat each other. 🤼

AAAAAA! Why is Ezra Klein still talking? This is a sustained freakout cuz the Jester Class wanted to be focii of ideological hyperreality and the sense of betrayal that it’s got some existential risk to it is the closest some of them can get to feeling solidarity.

Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day! www.npr.org/2025/09/16/n...

The run of fletcher/vocation/cane on the new Craig Finn is just unreal; unique to capital A albums to have this good a third quarter I think.

The Mormon influencer guy who did the live of himself fleeing and promoting his account allegedly looped back to snap up the blood soaked merch so as to eBay it later; which is some modern shroud of Turin shit if ever I saw it; so it won’t be that deep a circle.

Sorta parallel 2 why our worst libs all rushed to eulogize him. They know that brutality undergirds their ideology; surely as it does Kirk’s but they don’t want to believe that it’s something they’ll actually go to Hell for or that it might complicate their legacies as oracles and nobles of the age.

There’s also a tragic dimension that the Candace Owens tribute made me aware of buried in this; Kirk could just be a fun, goofy guy and instead chose to play a heel for the sake of the meme. Working oneself into a shoot is a major theme within the rw griftplex but the ending is rarely this literal.

There's a SamusCycle! And it looks like it sorta makes shit more openworldy? Still shouldn't have taken this long, but it comes out first week of December and I consider my Christmas Break spoken for in light of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJNC...

I think this album is always gonna be the perfect balance of punk aggression and vivid, intellectually blistering abstraction; both on a lyrical and musical level; for me.

Shit like Ezra Klein debasing himself becomes funnier in light of this as well; the man didn’t die because of what he believed so much as he died because he was a meme whose spidery thrashings tickled one man’s schizoid webbing in just the right way in just the right subcultural context.

If you’d told Charlie Kirk he was going to be assassinated, he’d conjure the most clocky antifa super soldier this side of the Mississippi as the person to do the deed. Instead, it’s just a fellow white boy with a weird head that he cooked the insides of by being on the computer too much.

Realizing I’m gonna have to just do no chips or candy or fast food until I get down to 155. I’m reaching the age where I’m having to trade my love of Eating That Garbage for how long I get to do everything else; at least to some extent. As ever, I want to see how shit plays out/how weird it gets.

Kids are Hamiltonpilling me all over again so I’m randomly thinking about shit like how good the wordplay is on runs like “polymath a pain in the ass a massive pain” and turns like “fits of passion/pits of fashion” just goated verbal dexterity; regardless of how you feel about everything around it.

Just got a bass in literally today that’s as much for me as to loan out to the kids.

This mindset has preserved so much of my sanity.