I’m a big alanis morisette defender: 1. Many of her examples are, in fact, situational irony (ie, a comic or dark subversion of expectations). 2. For the rest, the narrator thinking she’s listing examples of irony when the audience knows she is not is, in fact, dramatic irony.

Another exciting game of pretending to root for Mexico while secretly rooting against them because I’m still mad they fouled Beasley in our world cup game 24 years ago.

Four year old is supposed to bring her favorite book to school and I think it would be funny to send her with volume 2 of Remembrance of Things Past but my wife is being a narc.

Oh my god jay leno is going to steal joe rogan’s show.

One easy trick to avoid this: heat your raw milk to 163F for 30 seconds then quickly cool it to 40F

Neither snow nor rain nor HEAT nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Asked claude to brief an issue i just won an appeal on and boy howdy, is ai ever a malpractice machine.

I’ve got a couple of problems with this 1/4

talarico is going to be forced by attack ads to spend all of his time hanging out with his hot girlfriend and eating central texas barbecue

Was showing the four year old the Greek alphabet and after I went “This is alpha, beta” she said “like alphabet!” Am infinitely proud right now.

Do Japanese people who watch shogun think it’s weird clavell changed all the names of the historical figures? I imagine it’s like watching a revolutionary war miniseries and here comes General Porge Washingman.

There should have been an episode where Worf became a woman do I can more easily make my Sapphic-Worf Hypothesis joke.

Reminder that when LBJ had his own ball room project he did not expect the public to foot the bill. youtu.be/nR_myjOr0OU?...

It’s funny to me people think casting Eliot Page as Achilles in Nolan’s Odyssey is woke since Achilles appears in the odyssey as an unhappy shade and shades are generally described as palid, insubstantial, and less than they once were. In that sense I think it might actually be transphobic?

I have been too ecumenical lately and now have like three translations of the Lord’s Prayer fighting in my head to the point I sometimes just blank at the debts/trespasses/sins bit.

I feel like this political cartoon works as a moving representation of what it is like to have schizophrenia.

I don’t like these “I would have simply eradicated the slave power” takes. Obviously we should have done it, but using the army to make the South a functioning liberal democracy in the 19th century would have been substantially harder than, say, when we tried to use it to make Afghanistan one.

Hantavirus is no joke 😂 That's why I've started washing my hands after touching rat feces 🐀 What are doing differently to fight hantavirus?💪

Ballmaxxing is "electrifying, addictive, euphoric and transcendental"

Billy Joel moves on too quickly from the old man sitting next to him f—ing his drink.

Why does this ancient Chinese horse have neck teats.

Not seeing enough insane shit from this met gala so far. Where are the celebrities who are dressed as a naked hamster wheel that is also on fire?

This is also the basic problem with most people imagining how technological innovation will change warfare. “Drones will make the battlefield a living hell where no one is safe and death can come at any time.” My brother in Christ the battlefield had been that since 1914.

I’m late to the discourse but my apocalypto take has always been Gibson doesn’t present the good guys as noble men of the land and the bad guys as ahistorically bloodthirsty out of racism but because that’s simply how he makes historical epics, ie he did same in braveheart or the patriot.

For sale: baby, never shod

My only UK politics take is they should change the law so Black Rod has to be a black guy named Roderick.

let's try again

Failed assassination attempts are pretty common and rarely get much media attention. Obama’s White House got shot up by one guy and broken into by another guy. A dude rammed the perimeter of Biden’s whitehouse with a truck intending to do… something? Violent? He was pretty insane.

“I like art that preserves the rough edges of the person.” Why @bradneely.bsky.social thinks artists should embrace errors.

I’m really disappointed how few headline writers work the phrase “Vancian Magic” unto pro-veep opeds.

This is a terrible decision but this part seems clearly right. “Legal” vs “fact” is in this case a term of art. Think of it as the difference between the questions a jury decides and a judge decides. Obviously, “how should we interpret the establishment clause” is a question for judges.

Been watching some track and field and it turns out the race is to the swift, like, all the time. Major flaw in the scriptures.

Daughter is playing with her unicorn academy dolls and Wildstar just trampled Ravenzella to death.

Four year old thought the lyrics were: “Watch me unravel, I’ll soon be naked Lion on the floor! Lion on the floor! I’ve come undone” Which is obviously better.

So we basically pulled off an eagle claw lmao

I think it’s funny that Trump is just trying to appoint normal right wing sycophants and instead he gets, like, “anti-Catholic Methodist from 1920” to run the pentagon and “thinks the four humours theory of disease is making a big comeback” to run HHS and etc.

They should make it illegal to take pictures of the earth where South is up. I don’t have the special reasoning skills to handle this kind of “no objective reference frame in space” nonsense.

At last we once again send forth out warriors to tame the arrogant moon.

This is an insult to Star Trek. The battles aren’t just this, sometimes someone says “attack pattern [random Greek letter].”

We are getting on six years since the last Ian W Toll book and come on man write another book.

Charlie Brown canonically had hoes (h/t to @danlehner.bsky.social )

Iran is an important reminder that the Obama doctrine was, in fact, smart and good.

I just realized that in 35 years of reading about European history I don’t recall reading about anything happening in the Balearic Islands once. Like, why do I have this insane gap? why do the f—ing Faroe Islands get higher billing?

Revenge Bedtime Procrastination

As am I.

I used to organize my files in documents, but “throw everting in downloads” won out because thus far it is the only vaguely relevant folder windows does not routinely decide needs to be uploaded to the cloud regardless of my previous settings and wishes.

I am stunned to say I have been scooped. My book "Why Odysseus?" is being released the same day as "Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre Presents: Godzilla’s The Odyssey" June 10, 2026

Showing daughter the good Dune (ie, the bad one) and she is very excited it starts off with a princess. Very invested so far.

At no point in the tantrically orgasmic schadenfreude of watching the Russian Navy lose a maritime conflict to a country with no Navy have I thought "we should try that."