recent reporting that the ICE shooter spent more than 6000 hours playing various FPSs on Steam. Europa Universalis players:

I was just thinking about this yesterday, in the context of the Kirk shooter. Labeling these people as "extremists" conflates their extreme methods with having extreme goals (e.g. being far-right or far-left). The two often do go together, but don't have to.

if we survive this era of government, I have a feeling that Americans will never trust their government again. which is maybe a good thing I don't know

all these people going on tv and talking about how the UN escalators "broke" instead of "became stairs" are really showing their ignorance of the life & genius of Mitch Hedberg

if they keep like this tariffs are going to have an outsize impact on academic Library collections. it's going to be the small specialized presses, who publish for the academic market, that will be hit the hardest. our collections will become much less interesting

Kamala Harris's reputation was at its peak after the election because people still didn't really know her. she should never have published that book

What's hilarious about this take is that today's library users are more or less grumpy that we can't beam information directly into their heads & the idea that they would spend 1 hour *touching cards* to track down 4 or 5 citations would probably make their heads explode

when they came for acetaminophen I did not speak out because I am an ibuprofen user...

worst thing to happen to Tylenol since the 80s potassium cyanide affair

guys guys of course Homan didn't get to keep the 50K, the hookers took it all

Schumer and really most of the Democrats in the Senate have already won their last election they just don't know it

many Christians are hoping this week the rapture will come and take them away to heaven leaving the rest of us sinners behind. speaking on behalf of the sinners I'm hoping the same

Let people like things they like even if you think it’s not cool.

one thing most historians can confirm for you is that every generation thinks it's the last to tread upon this Earth and that the tribulations they face are unprecedented

So Tom Homan is a criminal who's locking up people who have committed no crimes

Congressional Republicans are so fucking stupid they think they are becoming more powerful because Trump is attacking their enemies but don't realize he's also getting rid of the structures that give them any power whatsoever

I still think the best thing information professionals could be devoting themselves to right now is to teaching the public that no matter how sophisticated a machine learning application is, it's not intelligence

Republicans pretend the endowment tax is a way to get back at elite universities but do you know what most universities do with their dividends? help kids who can't afford tuition

no, the world is not going to end during our lifetimes. we're not that special

wish @valvesoftware.com would add a feature to Steam that would play a random installed game from your library for when you cannot decide what you want to play

Republicans are so fucking stupid they don't realize they're riding a tide that is going to leave them high and dry and they are going to have to crawl back on all these fucking positions and it will be pathetic and laughable

went to cancel my Disney+ subscription and it turned to have autocancelled like 3 months ago due to changing my debit card. Guess it won't be particularly missed

ABC to replace Kimmel with The Late Night Scab Show

Steve Reich is great but he just got a lifetime ban from my "chill tunes while I work" playlist

the outright disdain the ABC and Disney show for their own viewership is something to behold

The defining political project of Trumpism is the promise to mobilize the coercive powers of the state and a constant threat of violent aggression to impose a reactionary orthodoxy on a changing, pluralizing society. That is the opposite of “agree to disagree.”

If you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to start building your indie shit

it's sad be cause ABC has always been a purveyor of sophisticated free-speech oriented content that speaks truth to power en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fli...

because of their treatment of Jimmy Kimmel I will no longer watch ABC, which to be fair I probably haven't watched since I was 12. But now my not watching it will be intentional

ABC Is Doing Cancel Culture the Right Way by Ezra Klein

there will likely come a day when these media companies come to deeply regret the abject cowardice that they've shown the American people in the name of unfettered. when that day comes, remember today

the worst thing Trump could do to Fallon at this point is not get him fired

the bitter and likely truth is that we never had the freedoms that we thought we did, and elites have always merely played lip service to the concept of government by consent of the people

I haven't watched any cable news since the 2nd Obama administration and it always surprises me that people still watch that shit

with perfect candor, I never thought the meme guy was Robert Redford or Zack Gallifianakis.... I thought it was Grizzly Adams

you going to have to spend the rest of your life in a cage with a hungry tiger but if you're really nice to it maybe you'll be okay and it's the right thing to do to be nice to a tiger

Ezra Klein, extremely boring mid thinker, finding the most boring and pathetic mid thinker way to turn evil.

sometimes the monumental stupidity of the democratic party overwhelms me. you don't win elections by saying these are our policies but we're going to run away from them because they're not popular. you take your policies and you say, this is the mainstream, and it's popular

I can't believe Joe Abercrombie wrote a whole book about what would happen if Carthage had won the Punic War but you don't find that out until like page 400

they are trying to rebrand Slice as the "healthy soda" instead of the "we've got Sprite at home" soda

Republicans are promising if we just surrender all of our rights they will make crime disappear forever and a lot of dumb fucking people are falling for it

legislators are important but why do we make them the leaders of the democratic party? Donald Trump couldn't legislate his way out of a wet paper bag

No acrobatics necessary to distance “the left” from the murderer. It now appears to me that he held a vague & simplistic version of leftism to which he applied *his own* murder logic. That murder logic is his, not yours or mine. He isn’t “mine” to apologize for. I condemn as I would any murderer.

pundits like Ezra Klein are much more interested in preserving their own reputations than in preserving the Republic

just remembered that "recordable CDs" used to be a thing I would have to catalog

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

it's dangerous to be an outspoken leftist leftist because a crazy right winger might shoot you. it's also dangerous to be an outspoken conservative, because a crazy right wing person might shoot you

right?

I never use abusive language towards real people, I save it for my operating system

Saruman dying at Isengard may have been tidier for the film narrative, but his literary death in the Shire was Tolkien's warning that fascism endures and it can and will follow you home, so be watchful.