This is the fifth or sixth time I’ve been served up a paid Times ad pushing their criticism of one of Epstein’s many victims, and I’ve spoken before about where you will find that paper situated on the matter, when rich and powerful people are accused of crimes. Water that always needs muddying.

instagram now has this wonderful new feature where the pfps of people who have liked a picture show up on the actual image, so you can't properly look at the photograph or read any text. insta just gets more and more useless for photography and meta really really want it to be a knock-off tiktok.

I kinda liked the Archer approach where the universe is a kind of espionage pastiche where people have mobile phones and Game of Thrones, but also there's still a Soviet Union somehow.

It’s funny because I am predisposed, and I imagine most people are, to be sympathetic to “Heathrow is not a well designed airport”

my own explanation of my numerous travel travails is that i am personally cursed. it's a much better explanation than noah's, not least because it can explain american cases as well as international cases

The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.

Demanding to be informed exactly how Robin Hood could be alive from the 1200s to whenever the most recent setting he's featured in is.

They should just open the movie with Bond doing Bond things and breeze past it. Literally no one needs this to be a connected universe, and no one could force it into being one as it is.

The collapse of Noah Smith from 'interesting writer whose occasionally a bit random' into 'complete idiot and mentalist' is one of the most clear cut cases of twitter-poisoning I've seen

I did end up beating silksong. Karmelita is the hardest boss I've ever beaten in my life and it's not even close, i never want to do that again. great game tho

The lesson all the lads learned from shitefesting Johnson over the line and then shitehousing him straight back out of office when he became too embarrassing was: we are golden geniuses whomst can achieve anything we want, simply by willing it with one voice.

my controversial opinion that nobody likes is basically that we have no escalation ladder, both here and for incarceration. there are a lot of people who should not be, properly speaking, free, but unfortunately we have basically one level of restricted freedom and it's "torture pit"

Sure, but it’s worse in Britain rather than better: in America, they historically had Fox News and a newspaper or two as the crackpot media outlets. In Britain, almost every media outlet is a bit Fox News and when there’s a new bullshit outrage, all of them have run with it.

this is not "everyone is twelve" theory. this is the slightly rarer but typically much more consequential "no one knows what lawyers do" theory

Its uncanny how much this feels like the 2010-2014 GOP

we need to bring back shame, man

This is the Canadian Premier League soccer finals and we have a bicycle kick goal in the middle of a blizzard … and that’s the most Canadian thing I’ve ever seen 😂

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

“where is my fucking dog”

I guess the other thing I'll say is that by january 2025 I was like "america is over. america is full of placid cucks who will let their country go to fascists without a fight" because the bulk of the country and the media didn't care about doge taking over payments infrastructure, and i was wrong

if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...

My last word on the matter

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision The Twilight Zone.

Gotta hand it to the Journal of Controversial Ideas, this seems like a banger of Kershnarian proportions

In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.

He's going on his phone to write 'how can you post this when there is a LITERAL CHEETO in the white house?' in response to a complete stranger's wedding photo, aka the sexiest thing you can possibly post.

"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Bond thing is silly but I find the general topic of perception of realism in fiction fascinating. What we can tolerate (or not), when we perceive realness (or don't)... I remember reading the first 3-4 books of The Wheel of Time, really immersed in the story

as i said earlier, the problem with calling someone "the black Napoleon" is the "Napoleon" part

Also Marlow: Faustus: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell? Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it: Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss?

The Dem Establishment's problem is that they can't stop having these moments. This comes right after refusing to side with Mamdani against Cuomo until the last moment (or never, even after the Trump endorsement, if you're Schumer!), which comes after voting en masse for all sorts of horrid noms...

This particular passage from Paradise Lost is one of those things that has stuck with me and affects how I see the world constantly. It really feels like it rewired my brain, to use the cliché.

related but my 100% serious take is the next John wick movie should be set in hell and they shouldn’t explain anything

How I feel before every talk I give on the book:

The attempts to rehabilitate Dessalines are bad, and very much of a kind with trying to rehabilitate the likes of Marat & Robespierre (also in fashion, for a time). This is a guy who mass-murdered real or imagined enemies, be they White or Black, reintroduced forced labor, and made himself Emperor.

15 year car loans and 50 year home loans. Now all we need is some modification to debt laws and we're back to back to feudal peasant debt bondage.

Recent Sonic pixel art in the Quake 1 palette because I like Quake 1's weird blues

Day 2 of the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium concluded with a panel discussion featuring the day's speakers: Alan Guth, Jennifer Nagel, David Albert, Simon DeDeo, Emily Riehl, and Anil Seth. Stay tuned for the exciting final day of the Symposium! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apnv...

Honestly, everyone is overthinking James Bond. He's a cool spy who goes on missions in exotic places and there is a lady he has sex with who dies and a lady he has sex with who doesn't die. The 'continuity' is maybe Jaws is in a few films because it's cool to have a big guy who bites people.

It's very strange to me that they think we need an explanation of why Bond is alive now. Do they think we need an explanation of Bond keeps changing his age and appearance in discontinuous ways?

this is so silly. people know the deal with bond. the writers should just embrace the metatextual aspects of the franchise

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

What if they made a 6:00 a.m. alarm that didn't feel like getting punched in the face when it went off

"getting dumped, going on a bender" really is the ockham's razor one here

Ye became extremely divorced, Musk has always had the air of divorce even before he was divorced. Could argue it both ways tbh

when Yakub was making my right tear duct he was not doing his best work.

"Nocturne" 1891 Childe Hassam (1859-1935) American Artist Pastel on Paperboard (43.8 x 36.8 cm.) #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt