SHOWER THOUGHTS: the existence of a Ryan North implies a Ryan South who's from Mexico and once got stuck on a hill

Man, two all-timers in the space of a month. Nice job, New Yorker cartoon editors. The idea of this one is brilliant, but the execution is maybe even more so—getting the figure in the coffin to read both ways like it’s supposed to is something.

I have been thinking about how happy this fish is for four days.

James Joyce's ALLYSSES: "...and first I put my finger and my thumb in an L on my forehead hey now and looked kinda dumb so he could feel my hole in the satellite picture all star hey now and the years started coming like mad and they didn't stop coming hey now I said hey now I will Hey Now."

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

Several people have said this is gender. It's also parenting. And buying things when you travel.

Wow I guess we should call it Santa… con www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

🚨 For nearly two years - and even now, depending on the day and model - AI models could tell you all about bixonimania, a totally made-up disease in a paper funded by “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation". My @nature.com story on AI's fallibility in medicine www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One has to wonder - would this have sold more with a gorilla on it?

Proud of my birth city

What's My JND? 0.0041 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

okay okay okay so Neopets has a partnership with a company called Geekify for all physical merch. Geekify ran a kickstarter a while ago for a Neopets TTRPG and raised around 425K to ship a unique noncombat focused TTRPG centering around the existing Neopets world and lore.

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

get weirder 🫵

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

“Great Man” theories of history may have been wrong but “That F*ing Guy” theory looks increasingly plausible.

When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.

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Basically, the right-wing wants you to think that being racist is the most dangerous (and cool) thing you can do right now. Films like The People's Joker and Nirvanna The Band The Movie prove the most dangerous thing for algorithmic streaming platforms is actually copyright infringement.

OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

Yeah, this is addictive. dialed.gg

One of my fave short stories I've ever created, this one in tandem with the illustrious and masterful @dustinweaver.bsky.social. It's... The Adventures of Thing Thing: The Blue Cheese Affair.

Sacco AND Vanzetti? In this economy?

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

employed guy

A brief sample of past year highlights from me -The Chad Spectre and the Virgin Europe -Collective Effervescence Champagne Hangover -Balatro Methadone Clinic -Hegelian Diacritics -Monkeys with Anxiety -Hot Side Hot Takes Manhattan, Then It Takes Berlin

“ICE delenda est“ is the product of several strains of culture overlapping in a beautiful way, and possibly the best political name that this process has every come up with

MORMONS: look its very clear that God and his established authority on the earth, do not have the power to actually influence sporting events. Thats why BYU doesn't win anything important. That would be way too hard POPE (roller skating backwards while eating a hot dog) not that hard

Y’know as a Philly person I honestly feel very warmly toward the image of the Pope cursing and kicking stuff rn, relatable as fuck

Another absolute banger in his obit

Biblically accurate angle

One thing the current Matt Fraction/Jorge Jimenez Batman run is doing really well is Title Pages, as a vibe.

This is another articulation of the whole Caring and Sincerity are Cringe, but Cringe is Good argument. Language and enthusiasm both matter - we recognize when people are being passionate, but articulate and passionate has to be the real target.

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

2025 recapped

This is a Hellblazer story

You do suspect Ozy may have been a STEM-only genius.