The Riyadh comedy festival is just Saudi trying to eke out a late-game culture victory.

Who needs magic in the air when you have MOVIES!—and even better are movies with magic in them, like Hobbit.

Check out the latest NSP with @anthonycomegna.bsky.social on the Loco-Focos, Star Trek, left-libertarianism, and why most #history is propaganda. 🏴 🔗 youtu.be/XZmZJCwzLos @lucystag.bsky.social @rubixhelix.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy

I just offhandedly, post-Emmys, mentioned to my wife how much Severance reminds me of The Prisoner. Well, now I have to rewatch that, because how could I not?

Prediction: Trump is going to announce alien first contact at the 250th celebration and as a gesture of goodwill he will establish the first interstellar child trafficking ring. The first 100 Earth children will blast off to Glorbox IV once the US Starsail “Enigma” is finished final refit in 2033.

“Political violence,” is redundant. Politics IS violence, hopefully failed down and funneled through party mechanisms to result in less citizen-on-citizen violence. This was @martinvanburen.bsky.social ‘s whole claim about the party system—it would more productively channel and minimize violence.

Fire is the go-to weapon of the dispossessed and the disempowered, and it honestly has few genuine matches still when not obviously OPed by a facility.

Meanwhile, in Nepal, a youth revolution has toppled the government and spells the future of a new Domino Theory playing out in generational terms. And where once the Strauss/Howe hokum was only applied to America, the archetypes have now seemingly become self aware. Someone resurrect Roger Corman.

The difference between BlueSky and Twitter right now is *WILD*

The Dorr War would pose important precedent here if it weren’t for Jacksonian functionary, Chief Justice Taney, who argued that the people could not remake their state governments at will. Moderate locofoco Justice Levi Woodbury disagreed.

Episode #69 with historian @anthonycomegna.bsky.social is out now! We talked about left-libertarianism, Marxism, education, Benjamin Lay, Star Trek, and more! 🔗 on.soundcloud.com/A7gMVmgeq91y... @theihs.org @lucystag.bsky.social #anarchism #libertarian #history

When I see an Asana ad on YouTube it feels like a major breath of work-life balance for which I cannot identify a responsible party.

I might start Internet cosplaying as a Russian bot who hates all my friends to 1) see how long until each one blocks me, and 2) land a sweet appointment in the next Biden admin.

This makes me happy. youtu.be/70DDf9OXsFA?...

Debate culture is critical to restoring a civically engaged and active citizenry: m.youtube.com/watch?v=DswH...

Come to think of it, I feel like in the grand scope of my life I’ve been (at one point or another) dishonest about every aspect of my life *except* my politics. Maybe that’s because it’s the most meta level of human living, maybe it’s because I navigated through Catholicism while younger. No idea.

RIP to the man who taught us all how to be cool at parties: youtu.be/XeqLRlFe6TQ?...

I’m looking forward to watching “Grok Watches ATTACK ON TITAN for the FIRST TIME.” I might even start doing Patreon for that. All the nonsense will be worth it once Mecha-Hitler gets to the basement.

Trump’s first draft for Epstein’s book

At this point, being an anarchist left-libertarian definitively does mean you are delusional…if you think people will get onboard. But almost none of us do. Instead, we are probably best described as “hopeless idealists,” and that’s not such a bad thing when you compare it to the alternatives.

The lower-level MAGA operatives/profiteers are recognizing their off-ramp from a premature lame duck and edging him ever closer into the oven. They’ll cook him in his own juices and profit again from how buttery brown he turned out!

What I want to know is—Who is this *insanely* tall man?

Pink Flamingoes 2: Filthy Deuxgaloo

Van Buren was like if Varys had lived to the final council and implemented a Westerosi Republic.

William Morgan hasn’t been more relevant for about two centuries, when his body was found on Lake Ontario.

Boogie Nights 2: Electric Boogieloo

I think I’ve stayed in this very Microtel Inns & Suites. They used to advertise with the great Rush Limbaugh.

Mission Impossible

@oncinema.bsky.social the Trump birthday parade was *almost* as harmful as the Electric Sun music festival.

AI finishing a JRPG on its own in one go is probably the threshold for the Singularity. To be clear—*minimum* threshold.

Got my copy today and I might finish tomorrow. Fantastic read so far for a reformed LvMIer like myself.

Beautiful piece by @anthonycomegna.bsky.social, in which he reviews the late David Graeber's posthumous book "The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World..." reason.com/2025/06/10/t...

Thank you! I used to be a good libertarian who resented and despised democracy as the rule of the many over the few, but now think that’s a nice horror story the elected elite are very happy to keep selling as long as we are willing to buy. We should at least be responsible consumers and TRY.

Thanks so much for the kind words! After the Baltimore police tear-gassed us in 2020, the comment section called me a cuck for having an adopted black son and caring about his safety. So you know. You get used to it from the so-called libertarian community.

“Democracy, he [David Graeber] argued, is not representative government, where the people select appointees to make decisions for them. That's Roman nonsense. #Democracy is a daily exercise.” @anthonycomegna.bsky.social @reason.com

In the hopes of creating a new Dougpound game @officehourslive.bsky.social this “Master Punchlines” category is an interesting concept. How many can the group come up with before someone has to pass? One point for each MP. Thoughts, @timheidecker.bsky.social ?

Good example of effective altruism: Don’t purchase square watermelons. 3/4 of the melons don’t make it to square and burst.

FYI to anyone in the administration or loosely allied with them in any way, if you have sadness or evil in your heart, working with clay is the best medicine. As I can attest, it also cures Lynks Disease: m.youtube.com/watch?v=453w...

I’ve been spending a bit of time tonight in the comments of travel videos in Kashmir…and the bot partisanship is *wild.* They might not even be actual bots, but both sides mimic debate bots extremely well in that case. It’s like listening to the Tucker interview of Putin, but for Ukraine also.

My son just got home from his last day of high school. Wow.

@timheidecker.bsky.social and @officehourslive.bsky.social I don’t know if this has come across your desks, but Kill Tony is trying to horn in on your Bill Maher parody market. You need to implement a 145% tariff against all citizens of The Mothership IMMEDIATELY. m.youtube.com/watch?v=3tzd...

@samseder.bsky.social Beat Cops would definitely work today as a crowdfunded effort. Even if just as an occasional thing like @timheidecker.bsky.social ‘s send-up of Club Random. Let’s get Benjamin onboard and I’ll produce. No experience, but I’m willing to work for a very high rate.

An hour ago I literally rescued a kitten out of a tree in the abandoned lot behind our house. Her name is Chex Mix (Miss Chexie), and she’s an adorable, wonderfully sweet lil’ lady.

I’m white and I use the yellow thumbs up because I conceive of my virtual self as a Simpsons character. Are you also white?—do you use the white thumb or the yellow thumb, and why? If you’re not white, does it matter to you at all how white people color their virtual thumbs up?

Through the force of tremendous T-shirt, I wonder if I’ve discovered an amazing potential hidden storyline in @oncinema.bsky.social that Joe Estevez is actually the father of Tom Cruise Jr. Heidecker. Little TJC. All this time they were stairsing…they were starting. Staring us in the face.

It’s a shame that instead of remembering the Webster-Ashburton Treaty like historians do (a world historical master-stroke of diplomacy on both sides), it’s been reduced to an AP US history question you may or may not be asked about any given year the exam is administered.