i once sarcastically asked to someone riding one of those blue bikes on sidewalk if they'd ever heard of a bike lane and this woman said "i'm trying my best" in the saddest and most helpless way possible and i felt like a jerk but i stand by it

Ah crap CNN is going to defer to the cops and the military and American imperialism and business interests now. For the first time.

You would tend to think that being wealthy beyond imagination has to feel pretty good.

"i think our ticket prices are quite reasonable" - someone who is worth $85 million

standing in front of a rolex sign - perfect

oh whoops forgot i was supposed to stop skeeting about a certain band that pretends to be from vermont, lol

tfw you wish the peasants would quit complaining about how expensive ticket prices are

chuck schumer is in the epstein files and this should inform everything we observe about the so-called "opposition" party

He literally is!

Happy release day to Shane Parish's Autechre Guitar! shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

hey @harvard.edu larry summers needs to be arrested for child rape, not given some cushy landing spot- your college is pro-pedo i guess

i like conan fine and he's as likable as anyone who went to harvard can be i suppose but his aww shucks, fake humility thing is pretty annoying!

senile perpetrator of genocide who stayed in the race way too long and screwed over his own party has concerns

For posterity (and because I just found it), a thing I wrote almost 20 years ago (!) for the AV Club.

phish prices their tickets that way for a specific reason and i feel bad for the normal phans out there but they are not your friends and dont give a fuck about people w/ regular jobs being able to attend shows, it's not really for them any more if it ever was

Your election got rigged. Your SCOTUS, laws, voting machines, actual vote etc... didn't matter. Just how your senators and congressmen are absolutely absent except a handful, your democracy was handed over quietly and without opposition all thanks to a sucessful Israeli and Russian operation.

"and let me be queer" gender fluid obama

it's kind of interesting how the people who were dismissed as crazy conspiracy freaks were entirely right about the gates and clinton foundations and come to think of it the entire global financial system

Israel, Epstein, Wexner's foundation, AIPAC, Limited Group, Iran-Contra, Chinagate, the mob and possibly Hong Kong triads, Wexner as main money launderer for US mobs, the Clinton Foundation, CIA, Mossad, Epstein as middle man, don't expect the DOJ to go after them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIJ...

Still traumatized by learning about the existence of Mr Baseball, a giant creature who emerges onto the outfield during the seventh inning stretch at the Diamonbacks’ AAA ballpark in Reno.

they should've put the bob dylan center in NYC or Minnesota or perhaps even cambridge - i dont care how much money a rich person gave u

Note the motives that Wallace ascribes to the rich people who facilitate fascism. They are mostly interested in gaining political power to advance their own economic power, but are very willing to use bigotry-stoking demagogic politicians in pursuit of that kleptocratic power.

Just a note for everyone outside the Twin Cities: Yes, ICE is still here harassing and kidnapping our neighbors

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

a long time ago i wrote for the same place as the person who would go on to publish jacobin magazine and he wasn't impressive then either

The United States government is currently covering up evidence the President sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl and is demanding every AI company allow their products to be utilized for mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous weapons systems. Not great!

"In the willowed sands of the American River, within the city, I gaze up at the enthillion stars and bless the giver. And she shall be multiply blessed, for at every approaching dusk I shall thumb my nose at tomorrow..." Harry Partch

let me go back to college but just to take creative writing courses

oh wow, you're really into email and networking...just like one mr. jeffery epstein...hmmmmmm

Getting free passes to our local comedy club into circulation is my crowning achievement as a professional librarian. I have peaked.

Autechre Guitar is out today! shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech... This has been a truly magical time. From the making of this record, to seeing how many people it has connected with, and now as it leaves the nest. I’ve never experienced anything like it. 🙏 youtu.be/VkQPG5eELe0?...

hakeem jeffries opening an email video of an eyeless keir starmer from the bridge of the event horizon saying "we are the future of your party." picking up the phone—trembling—voice breaking as he asks to speak to DNC social and gravely tells them to go hard on the dangers of circular firing squads

why does my email still think i live in vermont?

defrost ted

“i think a farm should be small”

“historically, at the world’s fair who was rounded up at 3am and herded off the fairgrounds as undesirable?” “the sober people”

we’re gonna find out epstein and mossad and the russians all work for some unassuming old dude who goes to the same diner every day like the greek guy from the wire

mossad is blackmailing trump and kushner is the go between i guess

Time to run back the single greatest live music performance in history

this is an important point. it sucks that CBS, and now probably CNN, have been given to Bari Weiss. But when was the last time you watched CBS news even before it happened?

martin scorsese was so desperate to be a musician that he broke up the band in order to get as close as possible

CBS, Fox, the Washington Post, and Twitter are all owned by Trump-loving billionaires and soon CNN will be too. Here's why American media has a liberal bias problem.

A lot of problems in this country could be solved simply by enforcing anti-monopoly laws

maybe i will take a break from the news