Garfield hates Mondays because he burdened with the curse of Sapience that has led to unnatural knowledge of what Monday is. He is a Feline Prometheus who has stolen fire from the Gods and thus suffers eternal torment

Thanks everybody great posts today. We did some posts and a bunch of people read em and that’s a job well done. That’s the real shit. That’s what we wake up for every day. Nobody gives a shit about a post until they do. Lotta things are like that. Good posting everybody. Got those posts out there

as a publicly sober person i have the same problem with lent that i have with january which is that it means a bunch of fucking whiners blowing up my spot

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

the energy with which i am wishing you all a happy new year

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

if your only interaction with scrolling algorithmic video is watching 6 minutes of Reels on the toilet first thing in the morning you can derive signs & portents about pop culture without being directly exposed to its madness like ancient priests watching the reflection of the sunrise through gauze

it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks

you missed the best one

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Just hopped off a phone call with my grandmother. And she said something that I’m going to carry with me today: “God doesn’t care about how much people talk about you, but He does care about how often you talk for people who can’t.”

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

📽️ Favorite first-time watches of January: NO OTHER CHOICE THE HANDMAIDEN LADY VENGEANCE IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT I had a thorough exploration of Park Chan-wook's filmography and had a great time

I want everyone who has spent years in therapy wondering what is wrong with them, wondering why they had so many bad relationships, why they felt so much dread, to know that it was in part because you were living in a world run by evil, evil people and you could tell that somewhere deep down

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

It's comforting to know that dogs have just been the way they are for thousands of years Proverbs 26:11 states: "Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."

reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”

Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial: ▪️cottagecore ▪️extremely toxic fandom ▪️aggressive side part ▪️weird childish curses ▪️puritanical, but also ▪️horrifyingly perverted RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok

It’s pretty wild to love America as a sort of amorphous almost religious concept but simultaneously hate the people of America so deeply

I know it’s controversial but I will always side with “why should we change the idealistic symbols, they’re the ones who suck.”

One of the things I keep thinking about is how it won’t just be the job of the next president to rebuild everything broken, but the one after that, and the one after that. Whole generations will be living through the aftermath of this bullshit.

Chicken tikka masala pizza is American. The Confederacy is un-American.

so a movie called 'SINNERS' gets 16 oscar nominations while a movie called 'FRIENDSHIP' gets none. trump's america

Sometimes I think about everything I could do, all that I’d be capable of, if I wasn’t stressed at a bone-deep level about absolutely everything 100% of the time.

I look forward to seeing David's best-of-cinema compilation videos every year. Such a pure distillation of the beauty of movies as an art form

"a lot of people are posting about the bus kidnapping story, surely it can't be that bonkers" my friends this is an actual odyssey

My dentist can do it all, from a simple cleaning to identifying my charred remains

Amazing what ancient people built even though they were all skeletons

As much as this month has sucked, it has also given me enormous hope in the power of ordinary people to do extraordinarily selfless things.

ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home

my husband put on nirvana and my children instinctively invented moshing from first principles

I literally was telling my friend the photos and videos out of Minneapolis reminded me of the firehose images or the pictures of Selma.

📽️ About to see SET IF OFF (1996) for the first time!

Pluto employing his tail as an eye mask during a nap #greyhounds #skyhounds #dogsofbluesky

One of the better pieces of advice I got when I was younger is that if you’re having a bad day, go to bed.

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

Buddies #greyhounds #skyhounds #dogsofbluesky

new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up

broke: great man theory of history woke: great idiot theory of history

we’ve taken to watching live jazz sessions on youtube to quell some of the cartoon-derived chaos in our living room on weekend mornings, and an unintended consequence of that decision is that my five year old now has Jazz Opinions

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

I gotta find a way to spend less time paying attention to what's going on because all of it is completely insane and I can do very little about it

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

I think a big issue with content slop evolving in general is that I am already in a place where I’m not going to get caught up with every game in my Steam library and every movie and tv show I have on various watch later lists. Like who the fuck is going to pay real life money for an AI movie

It's this but then the exterminator sends you text messages asking for more money every 3 hours for the rest of your life

it’s interesting to see the start date different people attach to this condition of existential american embarrassment. ten years ago, twenty, sixty. everyone’s sort of right

Drugs are the primary boogeyman used to justify imperial intervention in Latin America. When academics and activists like myself talk about legalizing drugs, it's not only to keep drug users safe from the toxic supply (which is reason enough), it's about geopolitical stability. It affects YOU