and to my Jewish friends, a happy go to the movies and eat Chinese food day

twitter: new update, every time you post, elon musk is literally going to break into your house and shit directly into your mouth users: that sucks but….i mean i HAVE to stay on there…..

Between this and vending machines that only dispense one pack every X minutes, I think it’s time to pack it up.

unfortunately

If I insisted that chanukah has no religious connotations because you can celebrate it without believing in god, I would sound insane.

My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

I will grant Palmer Luckey some credit for making it clear that any support of ModRetro is support of his shitty and evil beliefs, at least

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

Magic is not about winning games. Magic is about pulling off a totally sick, elaborate, surprise move that keeps you alive one turn longer than you thought and forces your opponent to do slightly more work to kill you anyway.

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

The whole "um excuse me why are we concerned about Horses being banned when it's about what it's about? Um red flag much???" shit is so fuckin... soft, man. Weak weak shit. Deeply unserious.

Do I regret not getting the $23 Marietta novelty cocktail? Yes, yes I do

I love my city!

"i hate writing NPC dialogue i don't wanna do it i need bobot to do it for me buhhhhh" you are like a little baby

The thing that makes “game of the year” a fun conversation is the absence of a widely recognized award and every attempt to legitimize or take “Game of the Year” (The Game Award) seriously just ruins the whole thing

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

I miss the days (and it could’ve conceivably lined up this way if they kept making Prime games after 3) where this guy would obviously only be in there as the companion player 2 character in brand new co-op campaign in this previously single player series

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it. All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference. Tanks

NEW 🚨 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social made time to catch up with @teenvogue.com in advance of Tuesday's elections 🗳️ we talked about the campaign's base of energized young people, and why politics isn't just about the ballot box — it's about "a sense of belonging in the city that you call home."

Don't forget that that's literally just equalizing the field: your employer uses the threat of financial loss to "encourage" you to work for them. It's only fair you could wield the threat of financial loss to "encourage" them to treat you and your colleagues fairly. That's it. That is all it is.

Buddy. We know.

A gem from @apzonerunner.com that I 100% agree with from my reviewer days: “a piece of advice I always give to younger critics when I'm editing or mentoring is that if I'm torn between two scores, I have never regretted going low on that wavering, but I have regretted going high multiple times”

Coming off of seeing the del Toro FRANKENSTEIN movie that is 200% drawing on his creative design, more of you should be aware of Bernie Wrightson’s artwork.

Public school teachers are already exhausted and running on fumes but I really really really hope they can still treat kids with a whole ton of grace especially next month especially considering how many kids (4,200,0000) are going to be even hungrier next month than usual without SNAP going out

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

So yeah you can vote for a racist creep or ya know… a cool guy who’s good at his job. Wonder who New Yorkers will pick

yes

we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced we are definitely not having any luck with “norms” what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”

Why?

emotional labor is a thing that happens *at work*. i will be pedantic about this until the bitter end en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion...

Taylor Swift should write and record more songs about The Simpsons seasons 2-9

i can't really be arsed to care about this entire brouhaha beyond noting that these people look like fucking amateurs in over their heads instead of professionals, and it's all entirely (and easily) avoided

The democrats are once again staring down one of the biggest layups in history and I’m really hoping they at least try to shoot the ball

Thirty days hath September April, June and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the Month of Absent Sun. ('Tis the month we dare not name; Be wary, lest it come again.)

Oh my god hahah you fools really let some stranger saying “what’s a good bideo bame” turn into a “discourse” hahahahhaa

I did not get through to Schumer’s office and left a message. But I did get a human being at Gillibrand’s office, so Dylan’s supposition applies there as well. New Yorkers, her office is at 212-688-6262.

Twin Peaks: Creamed Corn.

You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.

The cool thing about phones is they have something called voicemail. If someone important calls they can leave one to let the person know! I hope this helps you or someone else in your life who doesn’t know about voicemail!

Where’s my baby steps difficulty discourse huh?

we have to try

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

I am up doom scrolling and the mysterious yet distant sound of power tools in my bathroom continues randomly and at all hours. If I can solve just one great mystery in this life time let it be this one

people are all about "incel" now when they should be about "soft cell" and their 1981 hit 'tainted love'

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

REMEMBER: ABC owner Nexstar is trying to buy another media org and can't under current FCC regulations. Why do you think they're kowtowing to Trump now?

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...