“I Never Thought He Would Ask Me To Build Doombots,” said the contractor who builds robots for Doctor Doom

show me the monkey

When I was a kid, like 12 years old, I’d take the double-VHS of “The Longest Day” up to the upstairs tv on a Saturday afternoon and watch the whole thing. No internet or smartphone to distract me. Just drink in “The Longest Day” or other movies like that. Kids today don’t know what they’re missing

This week on SNL, they are missing a huge opportunity if they don't have their actors perform the Bondi hearing verbatim. Just use the actual transcript.

And when all those millions of people are laid off they won't be buying the products/services of the companies that replaced them with AI.

the fake conspiracies are a distraction from the real conspiracies... this is what I found again and again while researching Doppelganger. And Bannon is doing it in overdrive these days.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.

Trump es un vendepatria.

Why is it that only Gen X and Boomer musicians are releasing songs about Minneapolis?

This is spot on. Trump and republicans are willing to name the enemy, but it’s a lie. Democrats don’t have the courage to tell the truth about who the enemy actually is.

Trump can oligargle deez nutz No notes for that sign.

Too often today when someone on the left says “for now we really need to focus on X” other people on the left reply with “OMG why are you so toxic about Y!!”

I think trumpism, in absolute terms, is quite weak but has also been largely immune to certain factors that many people assumed would constrain authoritarianism. The key is not to assume trumpism is all-powerful, but to be specific and realistic about the ways in which it is actually vulnerable.

I didn't write this for people in the Twin Cities. I wrote this to everyone else, my feeble attempt to try to be witness to the occupation of Minnesota and the chaos of every single day right now. open.substack.com/pub/wburdine...

Not even once. Why rely on a plagiarized, probably inaccurate and incomplete summary of a bunch of different people's ideas, when you can go to a primary source?

@democracynow.org You played a clip of the incident in MN in which a door dash driver ran into a home. The way you edited it was misleading— the homeowners did NOT hand the dasher over, they kept asking for a warrant and ICE eventually left.

not even ambiguous

Fantastic news. I was worried about this. You should watch Season 1 if you haven't already.

Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.” Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.

What if you were that guy who in 2025 is slinging quotes from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective in normal conversation

Benoit Blanc and Philomena Cunk independently investigate the same murder and come to the same correct conclusion for vastly different reasons

marxists OWNED by REVELATION that their HERO Bill CLINTON is in the EPSTEIN files. “this is like Trotskys expulsion meets Khrushchevs secret speech plus the sino soviet split but worse” says local commissar. “we will never recover from this. all is dashed”

This is going to be me soon enough.

Force Awakens came out 10 years ago today. Since then Star Wars has both delivered something better than my wildest dreams and also ended up in a place worse than I imagined it could.

It costs $0 to retweet this photo of Sy Ableman on the cover of Wife Magazine

Let’s hope he’s as good as Eric Ramsey

Will I be able to follow the plot of Metroid Prime Beyond if I haven't played Metroid Prime Bed and Metroid Prime Bath?

Preview of The Wire, S2E1 as revamped for Netflix: *int. Baltimore Harbor Police office, night* Night janitor: McNulty! What are you doing working so late? McNulty: Earlier today I found a dead body in the harbor! And I'm studying these tide charts so that I can prove it's our responsibility! 1/2

Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936 Right: 1936 electoral map

Maggie Smith stayed “about 60” for like three decades.

I kind of think this is true, and it is going to bring about some VERY strange bedfellows that will be an interesting experiment for the left and liberals.

Trump proposes 50-year mortgages. Tay Zonday predicted all of this: So when they talk about the housing crisis They never say we need to lower housing prices We need better devices to afford high prices Meaning higher debt/lower interest cuz you're underpaid to begin with youtu.be/37eqoYbj1QM?...

Yes, but usually there’s a third candidate who might win, who got an MBA from some Ivy Leave school

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

What a MLS game this has been. Man oh man.

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One of the weirdest things about buying a car is how the people you bought it from almost immediately start asking you to sell it back.

As Marx once said

POSTER: I made my classic post about tech CTO’s creating the torment nexus to highlight the recklessness and poor media literacy of tech CTOs TECH CTO: the torment nexus post is a cautionary tale about being mean to me

only a tech guy could miss the point this much

the muppets are enduring cast of characters because each of them represents the duality of man kermit is nervous but charming fozzie is confident but untalented gonzo is deranged but dignified miss piggie is rude but elegant sam eagle is socially liberal but fiscally conservative

This little shit ass has cat food available to him 24/7, but he’d rather jump up on the table and lick a spot where cheese USED to be

Terrible from Armas. Attacking the one guy who has been consistently covering the Rapids for ten years. I don’t want to see Armas back.

My letter writing campaign is simply to send as many DVDs of Django Unchained to Clarence Thomas as possible

Welp news of Hegseth’s big meeting next week has got me hoping there are a lot of real Jiggs Caseys out there.