“You fool! You foolish fool!” (Funny thing is, I worked on the first 72 episodes of this series, including this episode, and did not remember it was Al Gore who said it and not Fry, despite how much the line cracked me up or how many times I’ve said it over the years.)

This is what happens when you have an unhinged liar for president: nothing he says is true and the other side knows it, and then sets about proving all his statements to be lies, then the cycle begins anew

It's essential, but also a fitting punishment for someone who spent so much time and energy protecting the statues and memorials of the white supremacist traitors who came before him in the Confederacy.

I wonder if the Palantir screed was in response to this, if they read this and felt the need to respond with their own thread justifying their actions.

i think it’s SO SUPER TELLING that a lot of this manifesto, which demands that we allow Silicon Valley to enact fascism and endless genocidal violence at home & abroad out of a “moral debt” to the govt that funded its rise, is expressed in the language of anti-wokeness and cancel culture discourse

This whole thing boils down to “WHY DO YOU MAKE FUN OF US WE ARE SMARTER THAN YOU OUR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF WEALTH IS PROOF WE KNOW BETTER AND SHOULD BE IN CHARGE DON’T QUESTION US SUBMIT SUBMIT SUBMIT TO YOUR BETTERS WHICH IS US THE MEN WHO RUN PALANTIR YOU IDIOTS YOU UNSOPHISTICATED FOOLS”

I really wish more people had paid attention when several observers tried to warn about the technofascist and eugenicist tendencies of thiel and karp and that group, for rolling up on two decades, now. And i *Really* wish the media & political actors would take the threat of them seriously, today 😕

And so I will circle around to my constant point: the instinct for a comforting aristocracy is endemic in the human populace, and the job of democracy is to ruthlessly destroy it whenever it appears. Not build a political, legal and moral (prosperity gospel) framework which fucking encourages it.

I’d add that this is also evidence of just how mentally and morally cooked the tech oligarchy is. They used to know this was “inside voice” stuff. Now it’s meant to be the organizing principles of society.

Look at this pumpernickel bagel brought back from New York for me by my brilliant wife. Look at it. It is perfect.

Finally finished edits on the book this afternoon. Will let it be until Monday, when I’ll give it a last read through and then send to the publisher. Definitely ready to put this project to bed.

Pretty sure the Pope answers to God and not Donald Trump.

Memo to the fake news - sticks and stones my break my bones, but words will never hurt me! Sincerely, Ka$h Patel, FBI Director

We complain a lot about the New York Times here, and for good reason, but today they published some outstanding reporting on the origin of the Court’s shadow docket, and it leads me to believe that the whiplash within the Times organization has to be greater than what we feel outside of it.

And he’s about to take $10 billion directly from the Treasury in a bogus settlement over release of his tax returns. Literally looting the coffers of our taxpayer money. The corruption is blatant and staggering.

I’m guessing Biden has not spent any time working on a forgery of Trump’s signature.

This is looting of a government by its leader and his family in such a bold and open way that a Boss Tweed or Huey Long would have stood righteously opposed and explained to underlings that they should dare. It's stealing in plain sight. And everyone involved will need to be one day prosecuted.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

👇🎯 Yes but it needs to go further: - No shadow docket - No clerks - No building - Riding the circuit We can debate necessary structural reforms like more seats & such. But first, immediately, the next Congress needs to strip these Wizards In Robes of every perk & power not explicitly in Art. III.

No longer believing that America in its current form is a force of good in the world doesn't make one anti-American or pro-Iran. And criticizing what Trump is doing is not criticizing America, no matter how much Trump insists they are the same. Criticizing Netanyahu is not cheering for Iran either.

Tell me that the FBI director hasn’t been compromised by foreign intelligence, I dare you

In my heart of hearts, I loathe every one of you lying assholes and you can bank on that, Mr. Treasury Secretary.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

WTAF the corruption is fucking limitless

the VP being a fucking groyper nazi should probably be a bigger story

The President of the United States is colossally out of touch dumbass.

Everyone he fires is terrible, low IQ loser. Makes you wonder why he hired them.

A scientific study shows that watching experimental animation is good for your brain. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig... Animation: Jonathan Djob Nkondo.

Getting up at 3:15am, driving to the airport and back, climbing back into bed at 4:30am-ish, not falling back to sleep until around 5:20am, then waking up again at 7:25am is not a sleep schedule that is conducive to productive writing.

Maybe he can name it the “Trump National Security Ballroom and Top Secret Military Installation and Global Summit Meeting Place and Ballroom.” He would, too, because he is out of his fucking mind.

From @anamariecox.bsky.social: "The only constant in Trump's decision-making, whether he follows through on his latest insane idea or backtracks, is his enormous capacity for delusion." trib.al/Vx3HX9s

The stupidity of this is stunning. We’re not in WW2, Trump is no FDR, and you could just look at newspaper archives of war coverage from the 1940’s and see for yourself what it was like instead of having ChatFuckingGPT tell you what you want to hear.

This is not how a public servant talks in a democracy. This is how a dictator’s henchman talks.

Subscription streamers should be looking at what YouTube ISN'T providing, not what it is. Looking to capture half the audience of an already successful thing doesn't seem like it'll lead anywhere worthwhile. Why will people subscribe to your platform for that if they're already getting it for free?

What I find infuriating is how this loads even more risk onto the creators. Now we're not just doing development work for free, we're meant to actually make the bloody thing and grow it into a success. It severely narrows who gets to make these things and the kind of things that get made.

Hey Execs who are clearly new to this. If someone could get 8 million people to watch their content, why in the world would they need to make any kind of deal with you? That's not how this works. YOUR job is to look for talent that DOESN'T have an audience. That's why you invented marketing.

This thread is 100% correct, and I’d just add that so much of this is driven by the streamers being completely risk averse and execs, even good ones (they exist), being justifiably worried about losing their jobs in an industry in freefall. Fear of failure is real, and this is how risk is mitigated.

Some have told me I’m too “out of shape” and “lazy” to have an athleisure line, that middle-aged animation producers should just stick to making cartoons. My response? I would, but the business is terrible right now! So…introducing Futzing Around by Elliot Blake, full line available now.

Very disgusting

This man should be heckled everywhere he goes everyday for the rest of his life.

It should include a free ticket to Mars on a SpaceX rocket.

This is real and this is indeed dumb. New owners trying to take advantage of a recognizable brand through whiplash, I guess.

I don’t know who this guy is and don’t care to, but anyone who says stuff like this and makes it his personality absolutely jerks off 5-10 times a day and hates himself for it.

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The ego on JD Vance is really something to behold. Sure, dude, go ahead and lecture the Pope as if you’re a more knowledgeable Catholic than the guy who leads the church.

So close to being done with final edits for my book that I can taste it. After this, just final copy edits then off to the printer.