Comedians who accepted the Saudi dime: You people telling me I’m wrong can’t silence me! I speak truth to power! Also comedians who accepted the Saudi dime: "I certainly wasn't gonna show up in your country and insult the people that are paying me the money."

What's your sign?

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Steve Silberman is not here to shout it — so it’s up to all of us. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!) The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness. LOUDER.

Big old shaky EARTHQUAKE!

The Verge continues to publish some of the best political analysis of this era.

All you need to know about me: This track is currently Number 60 in my “Replay ‘25” most played tracks of the year. music.apple.com/us/album/bbc...

“But are there not many Fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.” - Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

THAT’S TODAY! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

In ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ news, this morning I was able to get the new Cardi B album delivered by DoorDash(?) and claim both a $7 "breakfast" discount(??) and apply my Chase credit card $10 "groceries" credit(???) to it.

It would be fucking amazing if folks gave their cancelled Disney+, WaPo, etc money to worker owned media! Those couple of dollars would make a genuinely huge difference to us. www.coyotemedia.org

Just wiped my old phone to get it ready to trade in, and ngl, kind of jealous that it has forgotten everything it’s seen over the past two years.

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

I wasn’t even really “paying” for Disney+ (my Amex card gives me a $20/month credit for it) but I’m still voting with my wallet.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

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"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

This, this, a thousand times this.

Thoughts and prayers

damn that's so crazy. picture unrelated

“One tampon always tells the truth, one tampon always lies” is one of the greatest sentences ever written on social media.

RIP sweet prince. May you sploot forever more in the giant cardboard box in the sky 🫡

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Brendan Eich is a piece of shit for both his political views and inventing javascript

I can’t be the only person that has many enemies that I agree with almost completely? It’s not hard to share policy ideas with someone and still also hate their guts. This is just basic leftist praxis.

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

Always on, ethernet, PMS, microcassette. Killer bee, inside voice, Second Gentleman. Type-B, wannabe, Shroom, synth, public-key. French press! Protein C! POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY!

Methods of logging in to a website, in my order of preference: 1. Passkey 2. Username & strong password plus 2FA code generator 3. Sign In with Apple 4. Getting walloped in the balls by a security guard with a cricket bat 5. Entering my email address and waiting for a magic link to be emailed to me

When it finally fucking happens, I'm fully expecting to find out not from a major media organisation, but rather by trying to reverse engineer the meaning of a series of obtuse jokes by folks I follow on Bluesky.

New commission: a Muppet version of GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS featuring Count von Count, Lefty, Mr. Johnson, and Guy Smiley! Mixed media on 11 X 14" watercolor paper. #MuppetMonday

Say what you will about Gavin Newsom, but he’s a fighter, whether that’s against Trump, trans children, or his own constituents with nowhere to live.

There are exactly 10 Gilly enamel pins left. Once they’re gone they’re gone. (Unless I get more made. But that’ll take a while.) If you want one, now’s better than later. www.mulebooks.com/store/gilly-...

More of this sort of thing please, San Francisco. (Spotted on the 5/5R Muni stop at McAllister & Divisadero)

I think I speak for every Brit of a certain age when I say… Bernie Clifton could never.

Grateful to live in a city where there’s a free Diana Ross concert in a city park, and BEYOND grateful to have a friend who thought of me this morning when she had a spare ticket to it. On my way to Stern Grove now!

I remember Apple mentioning “spatial scenes” as a bullet point in the iOS 26 announcement, but holy shit it’s actually pretty magical.

This week’s Blind Date in the Guardian ends with a perfect Shyamalan-esque twist. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It would search and replace all the people who say “Edinburgh Fringe Festival” instead of “Edinburgh Festival Fringe”. I gain precisely zero (0) value from knowing what the “correct” name is. Only the pain from recognising when people get it wrong.

I had a lot of fun writing the ALT text for that image.

Laughing out loud at how perfectly and specifically this piece of merch for Death Cab for Cutie's Plans 20th Anniversary shows evokes a moment in cultural history. Real "iykyk" energy.

Get the fuck off Substack already.

I turned off the game an hour ago to dial in for meetings, assuming that England were about to be knocked out. Now I discover I missed some of the best football of a great tournament! Damn you work for dragging me away!

The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.