I had a dream that I found a strange looking digital camera at the thrift store and when I got it home it had pictures on it of some deep sea wreckage on it. Eventually I got to a picture of a piece of wreckage that had “RMS TITANIC” stamped into it

So we now have people betting on Spotify chart positions on prediction markets and then using bots to make their bets come true. $400m has been bet on music on Kalshi already in 2026. People are making more money betting on artists than the artists are making from releasing music. Great stuff!

Every member of Opus Dei just broke into a cold sweat and is wondering why...

this is extremely useful advice, as most candidates simply don't try to manage coalitions. by intentionally not turning off his left support, mamdani unlocked tons of volunteering and energy, and minimized critical voices. he just chose to do it rather than punching left

disagree here. the polarized culture means any hypothetical america 250 celebration will turn off a lot of people, for better and for worse

Then, in 2017, we get the last Gilchrist 9/11 Tribute- the candles again, but relegated to the header (which would not have run in all newspapers). Given that the punchline involves planes, I think this must have been a last minute addition. I think they forgot about 9/11

“working class” has ironically become a tool that’s used *against* class consciousness by appealing to a small mythical privileged class of “real workers” which you, desk job rentier with barely any assets, aren’t “worky” enough to identify as part of.

standing outside selling "Taylor Swift is ripping off Sly Stone" t shirts and making a million dollars.

I think the thing I like the most about Claire Valdez is that she not only takes bold stands in support of trans people, but that when people on the right try to use those positions to attack her, she's just like, "yes, that is correct."

is there a democrat who panders to 2020 election deniers? it'd be an interesting lane for someone to try

for only seven Pikachu candies a day, you can help preserve Swampert environments so they can evolve and grow stronger in their fights against Charmanders...

Graphic design is my passion.

my omni-cause is being anti-karen

If I may be allowed to pitch my (familiar) not-quite-omni-cause: I think modern consumerism and “customer is always right” ideology, which have arisen in the post-war world, are genuine sources of pro-authoritarian sentiment.

Costco Connection magazine just published a full article about why and how to stop your car

As was foretold:

Had a long chat recently about how civics, even when people get it, doesn't really teach people how anything works in practice. In civics, you learn Congress alone declares war. This is not true. The filibuster, reconciliation — I took civics and these were things I learned only by being too online.

dems are like, it's not hawkish just to criticize trump on the grounds of he should've just nuked iran

I do sometimes think about if we didn't have term limits we'd probably be in the 4th Obama term right now.

the enthusiasm republicans will develop for collins will shock you

'trap' coded

unironically this

I've just come from the future. In 2056 Staind is as big as the Beatles now. They're all famous. They have a circus musical. Their B-sides are always getting rereleased. There's a movie about a guy who woke up in a world with no Staind and got famous doing Staind songs. They sent me back with a gu

He seemed like such a lovely man, and he had a beautiful voice. RIP Ripper 🖤

i love you james talarico but this is not the way. no such thing as real or fake men 🧠

i love you james talarico but this is not the way. no such thing as real or fake men 🧠

North Koreans laughing at us

aw man I sure hate it when operational decisions directly affecting combat on the ground are being influenced in real time by a foreign country. really feeling bad for the IDF guys here us18.campaign-archive.com/?e=2128a5bfb...

no! no!!! it starts with social media sites devouring first traditional media and then like, even blogs and the original social media. so now creatives are all forced to compete for attention on tiktok, ig, and fb through their preferred format, the reel

probably Metallica’s funniest song title

I almost forgot how much I love looking at Nels Cline playing guitar because he looks like this odd old scarecrow man who goes to the same diner every morning and at the snap of fingers he starts shredding so fast his wrists nearly fracture

what if LBJ was trapped in a fantasy dungeon and had to level up his wizard spells by fighting gnolls... you have to admit it's an interesting question

i bet robert caro could write a really good YA SciFan western roguelike romantacy litRPG if he put his mind to it

me-coded

dipshit blue check journalist: I get better engagement on Twitter. Bluesky is dying me: no *long pull on a bottle of whiskey* no, but it probably should

Are bouncy castles problematic? Is MasterCard feminist?! Are we doing ENOUGH to address COLONIALISM in DOUBLE-GLAZING?!!!

I like the idea that Hutts are like any immigrant family and Jabba refuses to speak anything but Huttese at home and his kids are like jacked zoomers that are a full foot taller than him and only speak Huttese specifically when explaining how the Samsung remote works on the phone.

Few people have ever fumbled the bag as hard as Gina Carano playing a muscular-thicc sci-fi character with a side shave and alienating trans people

A huge component of the post-Trump MAGA civil war will be the divide between people who claim he is speaking to them from heaven and the people who claim that he simply faked his death to outwit the deep state

this line about human dignity, swapping out the single word "machine", would fit squarely in the previous pope's polite diatribes against 'gender ideology'. i cannot trust you people to think

see, the privacy concerns were valid

re: the cranberries and their perfect classic album 'everyone else is doing it so why can't we', the 2026 remix is very very cool except for the spectral mystical opening track where the original is still v superior

one thing rock songs are losing in the age of everyone on a click is the drummer playing the hihats/ride during intro parts...

i have - in the purest legal sense - played a concert at the real trap arena (at the upstairs bar not pictured in the film 'trap')

they are worse now tbh! (was in uni during '08)

most fun characters in street fighter alpha 3: cody, sodom, e honda

a conservative street fighter player who switched to being a charlie main