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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.

Santa Claus Has Come to Chi-Town. Merry Christmas!

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

thrilled to inform you that in the proud populist tradition of opera, the family production of magic flute at the met includes papageno counting 1, 2, … 6-7… 3 uproarious applause and laughter

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Not sure about this new Fahrenheit 451 remake. Rather than burning books, they've banned sick burns. It's a disstopia.

The only upside of making ISPs sever internet access for illegal downloads is that the next AI company to torrent training data has their internet permanently shut off. And that’s still a terrible idea.

The reason it's Five Nights at Freddy's and not One Week is because of unions. Remember what labor rights got you.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

What we have learned across Godzilla, Rogue One, and The Creator is that Gareth Edwards is fantastic at making a certain kind of extended battle sequence utterly captivating, and that his films come alive in these scenes. Because otherwise, they are sort of lifeless.

This cover raises the important question: Why didn’t Superman ever use the cool S on his costume?

So... spells. We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning. And trapping evil cars in circles of salt. The old ways are new again.

"All we get is one life, and there are too many books" is going on the family quote wall next to "Willful, but naive" and related bangers.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

nothing says you’re kicking ass at Buddhism quite like having an insatiable desire for something

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming by the perimeter fence day to all who celebrate. A solemn 30 second screaming before vanishing will take place at 11am.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

AIPAC sucks, supports genocide, and is a hub for Christian Zionists as much as anyone. *And* at the same time: When you vaguepost like this about issues unrelated to Israel suggesting an org associated with Judaism is to blame, you are at least FLIRTING with antisemitic conspiracy theory.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Attempt it over four days in May every year and no other time. Trust me. I speak from experience.

Do you love the Chicago Public Library? Do you not want to wait weeks for books? Do you still want to be able to go to programs? Send a letter to electeds ! In the budget, Brandon Johnson is proposing 89 cuts to positions, and cutting our book budget in half. actionnetwork.org/letters/no-l...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

This is a great idea

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

It's a Chicago holiday

We watched gremlins 2 tonight, which my wife had never seen. Going from the film to Key and Peele to this was pretty great.