Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

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Legit thought this was The Onion

I don’t know how many of us in the world get all of these references, but for those of us who do this skeet is akin to a Monet painting.

A John Carpenter fan busting in like Kool-Aid man to say, "DAMMIT! HOLLYWOOD USED TO MAKE THINGS! ACTUAL THINGS! SPECIFICALLY, MODESTLY BUDGETED ACTION FLICKS WITH MAINSTREAM APPEAL AND WITTY CATCH-PHRASES!!"

I gotta say that a world filled with people virtue signaling for the likes and subscribes seems a significant step up to whatever it is the Senile Orange Pakled and his followers seem to want to build.

I think this is the most interesting question to me about AI Coding Tools. Basically, was Alan Cooper more right than wrong when he wrote "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum".

I second this emotion. Would dust off my cane with the flames to limp in line for this.

I will now be using this as my explanation for, well, everything.

<KEANU VOICE>whoa</KEANU VOICE>

The East Wing really is the metaphor for the whole thing.

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

Grateful for this, the best advice I’ve gotten in a while. It is indeed a fine moon.

Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

Utterly tangential, but this is a first class example of using alt text for humour without in any way detracting from it's true purpose.

The only true way is the Canadian way (As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)

The Christmas record I didn’t know I needed, thanks to Craig Charles on 6music:

low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like. we forget these things at our peril

I wonder if it's just an endless flood of FF外から失礼します posts

While I don't personally embrace our new age of schadenfreude, I get this.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

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Festive Marsupial is my new Aussie band name. Calling dibs.

Since I’m a big fan of this comic (hoping we get six seasons and a movie) I’m starting a new routine in its honor and that of its creative team. Songs past that I know it inspired due to a future paradox yet to happen. This issue clearly lead to Take Me to Church by Hozier.

"A phrase I have heard a lot from people in business since 2022 is “this stupid war”, as though it is all a sort of accident or misunderstanding, and not the choice of an implacable state." Terrific column, this: www.ft.com/content/36c2...

"No mainstream reporter has the stomach to say, 'By the way, this administration lies all the time and we should assume this is a lie too' after every unsupported statement." They should, because it's true.

robust social democracy + abolition-democracy = bouieism

i am convinced that most people making a strong argument for an ideological presence on twitter simply do not understand what recommenders are or how they work

Also, I am 40 years old. None of my friends needs to know how bad I am at shooters. That's knowledge just for me.

The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.

This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir

This is such a good insight that I hope someone with money and talent opens the Dishroom for Sri Lankan food the world (ed note. he really just means himself) deserves.

government by Fox News addicts for Fox News addicts, which acknowledges no reality beyond that which exists in the Fox News Cinematic Universe and which serves no function other than generating new content for Fox News

bill kristol is scoring off of the democratic house minority leader from the left. and he's right.

I’m kind of new to the Democrats, but I thought we were FOR respecting the legal process, and also that we were AGAINST political corruption. And that it was especially important to hold to these principles at this time. But I guess there’s some insider memo I didn’t get that would set me straight?

Hearts and Prayers

Can't believe the Abundance people passed up on Live Mas.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

*slams print out of post on table* "This is what we believe!"

Worth it

Cheetahs continue to be scary predators.

evergreen

and here in our beloved America, those of us who have the ability and power to do so must see to it that the full rights of the weak and defenseless are safeguarded against the violence and the intolerance of the strong and the mighty. Clarence J. Brown, 1940 /2

We hear much of the struggle throughout the world to maintain democracy. From the lips of those who oppose this measure comes... at other times... the loudest protestations of belief in democracy. Let me say, here and now, that if democracy is to continue to live throughout the world, /1

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

I’ve been saying this for ages: These folks are doomed to be permanently angry because they’re angry about aspects of the culture that policy ultimately can’t change. They’re seeking political power as a consolation prize for lack of cultural power, and will always be dissatisfied.

impressive xkcd energy

Evergreen skeet

Menu at an Indian restaurant near me: