a fun thing about doing research for a history blog is stumbling on stuff like this fucking demented plan for a 4th of July Party (from "Parties for Young Americans", 1940). I apologize for posting 6 real pages from a book but try reading this and not picturing a Get Out-style descent into madness

Caramelizing onions. My apartment has transformed into what I call "Onion Space"

Thinking about becoming a slippers guy

ICE field manual

lots of huge victories last night and I'll add another one to the pile: I've completed some massive improvements to the wikipedia page for A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990)

briefly unmuting the names of a bunch of right-wing weirdos so I can see all the zohran victory meltdowns

Say what you will about Dick Cheney, but a lot of republicans talked big about leaving if Zohran won and he actually did it

Good thread discussing some of the wider Elvis mania of the time

Good morning my friends, please enjoy this first post about a joke that was absolutely everywhere in the late 80s and early 90s: www.imightaswellexplainthejoke.com/elvis-is-ali...

First post up tomorrow! A little peek ;)

I don't follow baseball but I am going to miss my timeline being active at midnight

Last four

I regret to announce I am starting a blog www.imightaswellexplainthejoke.com/welcome-to-i...

delighted to discuss this game. A horrifying experience, I'm glad that New England isn't real

voted for Zohran

zoomers will never know what it's like to deal with the gremlins that came in the night and fragmented your hard drive and gaussed your monitor

not to boil it down to "one thing" but to me the most upsetting thing about the Graham Platner story is how many people are mad at journalists for doing their job. You can't be pro journalism and also smearing journalists because they did rudimentary background investigations of a guy you like

I guess it's perfectly fine for progressives to have nazi tattoos and yet I'm punished for posting on Nude Africa?

watched Alucarda tonight and knew I recognized those nun costumes from somewhere

I bet this feels so good if you're a plane

Imo you can feel good about the No Kings protest without a sneering disdain for the people doing it. "Good for those idiots" is not a savvy take, it just makes you sound like someone primarily concerned with your persona as a hardened poster

yeah I'm into unboxing videos

want to give special props for whoever chose the thumbnails on pbs.org for the reruns of forgotten public television gameshow "The Pennsylvania Game"

spilling food in the sink means you get to buy yourself a little treat

Adding "man vs moderator" to the list of universal story types

"Chardonnay set" is such a funny term to use in 2025, like they are laser-targeting boomer audiences who checked out of culture in 1994

I don't hate anything as much as men in the 90s hated new ways of drinking coffee

Sorry you all must have misheard me, I said you're getting one of these

sincerely, anybody who has ever wanted to start a blog or podcast or something could probably do something with greater and more immediate impact, at no real cost besides an hour or two of time, by picking a neglected wikipedia page and whipping it into shape

The thrill of publishing a brand new wikipedia page

I tell ya, it's getting dangerous out there. They're punishing comedians just for telling jokes. So I tell my wife, I'm not suicidal. If I die, it's because someone killed me. She turns to me and says, don't worry, honey, I'll be the first to know!

Kindly asking people to stop paying attention to these weird protest op sec accounts. These posts discourage action and go against the goals of the organizations out there doing actual work, who are asking you to publicly and proudly protest and, yes, get your contact info for future organization

Filtering out the riffraff by putting "editing wikipedia" in the hobbies section of my dating profile

Last four, Delivery Boys can go to hell

Mise, in this place?

Day out on the Hudson #photography

GBS poster mad about FYAD

I think Orson would like this. I also think he loves all the official partners of the NFL and that's why we're proud to announce that Joseph Cotten's character will be updated to exclusively use the FanDuel Sportsbook app

Silksong reminds us of one of the fundamental pieces of video game grammar: you can rightfully kill anything with spikes on it

watched Brazil for the first time last night, great picture, and it also makes me think that baby boomer men get horny in a generationally specific and insane way

always feel tricked when I click a headline and it's a podcast transcription instead of a real article

I think related to this, "Trump 2.0" has been an underrated and imo sinister euphemism, implants the idea that Trump somehow reset or broke the clock on term limits. Even his opponents use this phrase and I think it is wrongheaded, like we're proactively giving up the fight on enforcing term limits

what job would you have on the Enterprise? Me, I wouldn't have any job, I would definitely fuck up in any position

Some random shots from the summer #photography

everybody has lost privileges to sarcastically post about "vote bl*e no matter who", adding it to the mute list

bought myself luggage and socks for my birthday and I am THRILLED

The Amazon War of the Worlds movie even more foul than I expected. Shocking how much contempt it has for the viewer

a big reason I actually like using bluesky is every time there's a new "stupid rightwing blogger people love to post about for some reason" I add that person's name to my mute list

What celebrity do you most delusionally believe you could be friends with?