*walking past a hideously designed building* who designed this shit? Frank Lloyd Wrong?

Has anyone analyzed trumps posts to see when he started talking in the full royal third person with “our” and “we”

None of my to-do list items include scrolling the feed but I am nonetheless finding it difficult to ignore Events.

the thing where decades of policy choices have made it so that it is mostly impossible to travel in this country without operating a deadly machine and now the government is using that as a priori evidence of murderous intent demanding deadly force in response is haunting me a little ngl

"did you try to bribe the president of the united states by giving him your nobel peace prize so he will declare that you are in charge of venezuela after abducting its leader by military force" is just a thing that someone can be asked in an interview now and we all have to deal with that

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

magical

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

day one in mamdani’s new york

"its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do" is one of my all time favorite tweets, but as a public service I share this tumblr collection of the entire 26-tweet reply chain it was part of (courtesy of haywire4) www.tumblr.com/haywire4/173...

When I used to fly for work regularly and also carried a Leatherman often, I would keep a flat-rate prepaid box folded flat in my carry-on bags so I could mail myself anything that I forgot to check that couldn't clear security.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

LEFT: @asharangappa.bsky.social four weeks ago RIGHT: new NYT report Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Avatar is the James Patterson novel of sci-fi films and everyone is getting mad that a James Patterson novel is popular instead of just putting down the James Patterson novel and picking up a non-James Patterson novel that they like instead.

This blistering review of the new avatar prints a quote I hadn’t seen before where Cameron just blatantly espouses the racism that defines the movies. The most spectacularly boomer movies in every sense of the words. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...

It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS

she bari’d the story

Last night there was a mass blackout in SF; thousands of homes still w/o power. Waymos were malfunctioning all over the city, stopping dead in intersections. Extremely dangerous. What if there’s an earthquake, fire or other major disaster? Are SF residents just Guinea Pigs for private companies?

Can’t wait to find out what has to go wrong for 40k San Franciscians to lose power

Trump is grotesque

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

Wake Up Dead Man is wonderful. Might be my favorite of the three! I remember on a podcast Rian saying he grew up religious and this is a beautiful wrestling with religion by an atheist. See it in theaters!

me: at 100 followers i will post a picture of my dog! jesus the christ: at 12 followers i will kill myself!

Me making my bed: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck. Me laying in it: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

The issue with Neoliberalism isn't that it doesn't work, it's that it only works once. You can sell the family silver once, you can strip the copper out of the walls once, you can burn the furniture to keep warm once. But then you have to come up with something else!

Deep look at the decline of literary fiction as bestselling works. I fully buy the idea that the internet destroying lit mag's revenue hollowed out the farm leagues for novelists. Less sure personally about the idea that critics starting picking bad books. oyyy.substack.com/p/the-cultur...

Home Alone could've had a very different ending if it was made more recently.

The ceiling should be one billion dollars

Is Columbo the only canonically happily married detective?

Okay I'm feeling like a damn fool today so I'll contribute to the Machine Learning Discourse, Pat's standard rule of false dichotomy* nonwithstanding:

It's become abundantly clear that the wealthy are incapable of happiness, which makes the fact that so much of our society is structured around trying to make them happy particularly obscene.

"@realgdt.bsky.social made Frankenstein and everybody wants to fuck the creature" is a sentence that makes just as much sense to someone today as it would have twenty years ago

really funny thinking comparatively about how little trump was successfully charmed by elon or jd vance

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Whoever named it a “rolling boil” was cooking

Devastating discovery

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Polling places are open until 9:00 p.m. in NY, so it will be a while.