We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

I’m in DC for the weekend for Warped Tour and I assure you everyone going to the UFC thing looks and acts exactly how you imagine

My favorite part of taking Amtrak is I get to describe it as a “train journey” which just sounds phenomenal

I can’t remember where I saw it, but I recall words to the effect of “the most powerful phrase to fight the fascists is Fuck You, Make Me”

Goddamn, Platner sucks so bad in basically every dimension and from every angle. You mean to tell me there wasn’t a single other late 30s white guy in all of Maine who can say “pack the court” on camera? The guy with the totenkopf tattoo and all the credible sexual assault had to be The Guy? Sure

I can only hope and pray that it happens while I’m in DC this weekend

Should I be concerned that all of the NJTransit buses have advertisements about what to do in a radiation emergency?

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

Inside you, there are two wolves. One is Sheetz. One is WaWa. They want you to call a sandwich made with cold cuts by different names. You are Pennsylvania, and the primordial hatred and enmity of the western and eastern sides of the state will not be calmed.

Sports app baybeee.

I genuinely never thought I would live through a period where the U.S. government was so erratic and unstable that even the basic fundamental communications over something as consequential as "are we in active combat or not" were impossible to parse as being entirely fabricated or not.

This has only gotten way worse with the World Cup and NBA Finals

My corporate nemesis today is the woman who keeps emailing me the same question worded slightly differently hoping to get the answer she wants

If you're an enemy in line to get a vote STAY IN LINE. If you're in line during the ceasefire they have to let you vote.

it’s so funny realizing that saying “you’d make a good lawyer” to a child is the only acceptable way to tell a kid they’re being a pedantic lil shit explains a lot of my childhood

Juneteenth is a good day (at least for the white Americans) to also contemplate Thaddeus Stevens Thought: we should have deported slaveholders, rebel elites, and their families, and we can see the costs of failing to Finish The Drill, even to this day.

I’ll give this movie some credit, there wasn’t any gratuitous devastation porn

Had a really good range weekend for drill so now I’m pricing out new optics for my AR because it literally only takes one zero/qual for me to revert to my inner Piney

I think it’s probably a good hopeful thing that the first big historical event most of Gen Alpha will remember is mass public celebrations of the death of an evil man

I WANT FOOTNOTES WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE FOOTNOTES

I can read (and type) much *much* faster than you can speak, unless you are an auctioneer.

Good news, I’ve managed to hold it at bay thus far but it’s definitely getting less easy, especially since I’m nursing a couple injuries and haven’t had a chance to actually relax in like two weeks

“Visit the country with armed deportation goon squads doing ‘random’ sweeps” is pretty bad as far as tourist marketing goes, tbf

I had an exhausting drill weekend so I’m drunk and watching A House of Dynamite and Rebecca Ferguson’s accent slips are jarring enough to overshadow what’s actually on the screen

Literally the only valid entry on this list is Hawaii

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

Picard management tip: If a crew member needs to become more responsible, give them more responsibility.

Between the allegations of domestic violence and the entire “had a Nazi tattoo for 20 years” thing, you’d think there’d be at least one other person in Maine they could find to run for Senate on the “I’m a Manly Dude but also on the left” platform

Campaign consultant: "Hey, man, things are looking great. We need to think about opposition research; past things that can be used against you as a candidate, like debts, racist statements, illegitimate children...is there anything you need to get off your chest?" Graham Platner: "...No."

Oooh time to break out this old chestnut again!

read theory

I’m not an especially smart guy, but “the Strait of Hormuz will reopen by Labor Day” feels simultaneously super optimistic and like a tacit admission of strategic defeat

This is wildly irresponsible speculation, but, more importantly, it's also very fun.

In the last 24 hours: -injured myself playing rugby -got rear ended on the way to work -got my 4th of July weekend canceled because of work -8YO threw up at the dinner table If one of you cursed me just lemme know so I can emotionally prepare

Can’t wait to be the guy on the left of this meme in two years when we’re invading Canada for reasons

Hurt my knee playing rugby yesterday by just…trying to change direction moderately quickly? Anyway I’m too old for sports now I think which really sucks

I made some great chicken cacciatore for dinner tonight and it’s taking all my self control to not eat the leftovers I packed for lunch tomorrow

Hi Internet friends, what do you do when you can feel yourself slipping into a funk and you wanna head it off or mitigate it? The last few days have left me drained and I can feel a low point coming on

The phrase “ok so here’s the thing: he’s the pope right” is one of the greatest openings in history

My Algebra II teacher in high school. When I had trouble with the material, his response was “read the book” and when I did read it and still didn’t get it, he’d just tell me to do the practice problems until it made sense, and then had the gall to leave a “see me after class” on a quiz I bombed

Look man I’m willing to extend a lot of grace to young stupid men who made young stupid man choices But you don’t just accidentally get a totenkopf tattoo and keep it for 20 years until the press starts asking about it if you’re actually remorseful Thank god I don’t live in Maine

Okay there’s an anime on Netflix called Leviathan and it’s got: The son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand fleeing Austria-Hungary in a battle mech full of gold bars, and A Scottish girl doing a Mulan and serving in the Royal Airship Navy that’s made up of genetically modified flying whales

I really wish we didn’t have to deal with Trump Bullshit during the 250th anniversary it was going to be tacky and ignorable and now they’ve ratcheted up the tacky and made it basically impossible to ignore

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

Nature abhors a vacuum but nobody wants to pay to be a security guarantor

Lmao I’m sorry what. I guess a lot of Old Guard guys are gonna get to hang out on the lawn if no one is getting DTS for it