Saw a meme about how you gotta double check the politics of a black metal band before engaging with them (which is very true for most metal, unfortunately) and the comments then devolved into a weird thing about how you should check to make sure they're zionists too and fucking just chill out.

One thing I loved about Marty Supreme is the montage of him with the Harlem Globetrotters traveling the world. You really get the sense that he doesn't give a fuck about seeing or traveling or any of that.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains FUCKING EFFIGY OF THE FORGOTTEN GAVE US THE BEST FORM OF THE BEST MUSIC FUCKING DEATH METAL youtu.be/utwmnkw9Rf4?...

This post is the sign you’ve been waiting for to get into painting miniatures in 2026. Don’t worry about your skill level, or learning the lore, or having to play the game after - I promise you, you will thoroughly love the journey of simply painting a mini. It’s also so therapeutic. Do it :)

"Mutual aid" is when your roommate is behind on bills so you chip in extra for rent to cover things because you and them are a collective unit that relies on one another. Plus they'll get you on the get back. Everything else is charity and that's ok, it's actually good that people are charitable.

I think it's cool a candidate is running a charity with their election funds, I'm less convinced its political upside is greater than the downside and optics of what it'll look like when that charity ends. That's about all I got on that discourse.

From what I'm reading a lot of people aren't able to understand the very easy to understand, like it's not quite as blunt with its message as THE SUBSTANCE but it's close, message of Marty Supreme?

At the stage of being a Wizards fan of trying to collect the stats of all the Wizards players that have been traded away the last few years and coming to the conclusion that the Wiz would be, in the worst case scenario, in the play in tournament.

I think the adults on the left need to do a good job of threading the needle of "it's good for more people to have more available lanes to self actualize in and that's going to look different than what works for me" and "I just don't think every under 30 left wing person is disabled".

I think it would be very weird and bad for NPR to have 3 men giving Priscilla a mediocre review.

There's a bunch of games I lump together that don't quite go together but they still feel like a genre I wish still existed. M.U.L.E., Sid Meier's Pirates!, Rampart, North and South. Things like that. Is there anything that feels like these or is it really a type of game that doesn't exist anymore?

Can't overstate how the last twenty years is just people being so stupid they end up getting radicalized into ever more reactionary politics because you got so mad at a person your idiot brain invented.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Just remembered that hack ass Christopher Nolan, a director created in a lab to make mediocre movies to make average intelligence people feel very smart for watching, is making an Odyssey movie but we never got the Vin Diesel Hannibal movie that is geniuses would have appreciated.

The greatest movie ever made is FREE on Youtube btw

I'll say this about the right: in the best case scenario they look AI generated.

Not sure if the Epstein Files have been released in any meaningful way.

New: The Trump administration had a 4-part plan for the labor market in 2025. None of it worked. The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and breadwinners to seal their working-class coalition. The economics didn't pay out. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...

I think there is a general consensus coming about: Higher taxes on the rich, and guaranteed services for housing, healthcare, food, and education for everyone. A free market for everything else. I don't love it but I do think that is what the new American consensus to look like.

Catching the Theophite block because I got annoyed at him posturing as an expert about literally everything while he also somehow had time to be a high performing Googler who posts all the time. Can we get over this dude having his unearned status on this sight please.

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

sorry people who hate the NBA Cup are very likely the same people who like having basketball opinions while watching basically zero games

this is a crazy interview.

One of my favorite episodes of Babylon 5 is about the Vorlons freezing Jack the Ripper and thawing him out so he can be an inquisitor to question, well torture really, if someone is worthy of their help and that sort of thing would never happen if it was 5 10 episode seasons.

I don't know but it feels very bad to me that Jacobin and others that insist, often correctly, that antisemitism and antizionism aren't the same thing when they have nothing to say about Bondi Beach.

is kind of funny to see people still refer to things like "Russiagate" as some own on the libs when it was basically proven to be correct and true in every conceivable way

Was thinking about how 20 years ago the What Would Jesus Do? bracelets were a big deal for Christians and the right more generally, and they have totally disappeared. I can't help but think there was a deliberate severing between thinking about what Jesus would actually do and Christian Nationalism.

Played our first game of Grimcoven last night. I love the mechanics. I love the emergent narrative. It's fucking hard and thinky. I like the minis and my paint jobs on them (AR should be more like CMON at their best and have less busy minis tho). But holy shit is set up and table space bad.

Not sure why I thought doing the Golden Girls as defenders of the Walls of Minas Tirith was funny but here we are. Plus two Reaper Trolls I touched up and I really like.

Does it feel good knowing that my 30 years of thinking Tarantino is shit is going to get rewarded by everyone else figuring this out too? Yeah it's pretty great.

it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society

is the Starz Sparatcus show a great show? Probably not, but it's in the running for one of my favorite shows of all time and I'm excited to watch the new one

It's this that makes me extremely pessimistic about our future: the necessary reforms will cause a secession crisis, and those reforms not being implemented will similarly result in a secession crisis. America as it currently exists is untenable and it's just a matter of who tries to leave first.

The best thing about 90s and 00s RPGs is that White Wolf made Vampire and Werewolf and then thought it would be conspicuous if they didn't make games based on the rest of the classic monsters so we got an awesome Mummy game and an interesting if bad Frankenstein game.

Underappreciated how the entire right is not just without honor but they have absolutely zero self respect. What person with an ounce of dignity would ever go on national television to say this shit?

I just want Matthew Lillard to know that Tarantino has never made a movie as good as Wing Commander(1999).

My latest for @fightisland.bsky.social - Why You Should Be a Fan of Retired Fighters open.substack.com/pub/fightisl...

here's some painted Medbury Uruk Hai Scouts for MESBG. Lord of the Rings is GW's best game.

Kind of excited to listen to this Bill Simmons and Max Kellerman interview. Really miss that guy.

Let's fucking go Washington Basketball Wizards

I've seen lots of bad answers to this and there's only one correct answer and it's Stephen Root.

The Trump team seems serious about saying mass deportation is a housing affordability strategy. I ran their numbers, and, at best, it'll save renters less than $5 a month. RealPage's algorithm, for instance, is estimated to cost impacted renters $70. mikekonczal.substack.com/p/mass-depor...

Getting this Grimcoven game painted. I hope it's fun, not yet played, but I'm optimistic based on the rules and playthrough I watched.

if fascists want to win they need to have more "they hate us cuz they aint us" energy instead of whatever the fuck this is

After decades of building for singles, cities are realizing the bill has come due. I wrote about the dearth of housing for families — and what it’ll take to fix it www.vox.com/policy/46981...

happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

I'm going to continue fighting an almost twenty year fight but I actually blame Glenn Greenwald for some of this as his dog shit reporting on the Snowden leaks confused people about metadata and what is and what isn't constitutionally tracked and logged.

is still funny to me that being 15 and 16 in 1998 reading Thresh's FiringSquad for framerate reviews of different 3d accelerator cards and now one of those companies being the biggest company in the world

can't believe Valve is doing a VR remake of Daikatana