So considering he reposted that AI medbed thing last night there's a nonzero chance his own advisors have been showing him AI Fox News clips in the oval office and he thinks they're real

The Enigma of Amigara Fault, but fun and nice 🕳️ #CrowdControl @pftompkins.bsky.social

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

I’m not successful TV creator but if I were making an aggressively fictionalized historical drama I don’t know that I’d score a fight scene where a gang of Fenians get the piss kicked out of them with “Get Your Brits Out”

Elvis is the rare celebrity of yesteryear that if anything would fit in even more today because he was super into self defense and being high on drugs and talking to a crooked President and dating a teenager, he’d 100000% have a crypto thing going on

The fact that Kaleb Horton died begging for work instead having a column at some hip legacy mag is such an indictment of this industry. People should have been begging to put him on payroll. But nope, we've reserved that space for Ezra Klein

My favorite parts of Gastronauts this week were when @pftompkins.bsky.social said very normal regular things like “you said whoever made this should go to the electric chair” also he was robbed and def should’ve won

Finally, my favorite comedy poodcowsters #CrowdControl @scottaukerman.bsky.social / @pftompkins.bsky.social

ICE has threatened a “sh*t show” in Broadview today, per a village statement. “ICE is seeking to intimidate the Village of Broadview because we dared exercise our 1st Amendment constitutional rights calling for an end to their war on Broadview. We will not be intimidated. We are Broadview strong.”

Yehuda Cohen’s son Nimrod has been held by Hamas since 10/7. I’m in awe of his courage. He attended the event this wk where France recognized Palestine. And walked out in protest when Netanyahu spoke at the UN. He knows only a deal, a ceasefire, an end to this horrific war will bring Nimrod home.

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Is Tomi Lahren still a going concern

All crab rangoon invitations will be thoughtfully considered

The silver lining about the Riyadh comedy festival is that there’s really just one comic that it’s disappointing to see doing it. Coulda been worse!

I can't explain why but having beef with an aunt and/or an uncle feels very catholic coded

I’m repeating myself, but it deserves saying again: IDW’s Star Trek Lower Decks comics are Very Good Indeed & there’s a darn good chance you’ll love them too. The stories by Ryan North & his colleagues are witty & clever & enthralling. Why miss out? Opt in. Don’t make me beam over & repeat myself.

Weird how the trial for the pro-Trump, white nationalist mass shooter who is accused of murdering two students at Florida State University (FSU) is about to start and hardly any news is talking about it. www.msn.com/en-us/crime/...

More workers were abducted today than pretty much any other single day over the course of the months-long federal occupation of Los Angeles. We are still under siege. There is no other choice but to organize and fight back. Look out for one another and defend your neighbors!

NEW: Over 320,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from Gaza City by Israeli forces since Israel’s second invasion of the city of 1.3m residents in the last two years. Many of those that fled aren't able to find a place to pitch a tent in the so-called “safe zone” of al-Mawasi.

I can’t confirm this but apparently a half hour ago AI got good. I’ll be the first to admit I was being unfair and impatient. Congrats AI

Hey we’re doing Wits at the Fitzgerald Theater on TUESDAY. @pftompkins.bsky.social will be there, also me, John Munson, @winnerbowzer.bsky.social, @billcorbett.bsky.social, @kevinwmurphy.bsky.social, and OTHERS. LAUGH and ENJOY MUSIC! first-avenue.com/event/2025-0...

🚨There's a new episode of Gastronauts out now on @dropout.tv! Join Jordan Myrick alongside Threedom's Scott Aukerman, Lauren Lapkus, and Paul F. Tompkins as guest judges! #Gastronauts

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social joined me on the Andy Richter Call-In Show to talk WORST JOB STORIES! You can listen to the episode now in the Three Questions with Andy Richter podcast feed, wherever you get your podcasts.

Pete Hegseth has ordered the Washington Generals to napalm the Harlem Globetrotters

you don’t have many first amendment rights as a federal employee, but it’s not *zero*

Just started our annual Halt & Catch Fire rewatch and needed to hear this first.

The only ethical use of AI is going through Star Trek: Voyager and replacing every mention of Tom Paris with Nicholas Locarno.

$120 pop up experience where you get to smoke weed with the tupac hologram

Realizing that I posted these Deadwood shitposts about 15k followers ago so a repost can’t hurt

These guys are going “What else.. what else” with the most horrific shit throughout American history

This is just a lame variation on my idea that guns should have CAPTCHAs

Is labubu based on a real person

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

a matador's goal is to avoid physical contact

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

loling at the idea of the rapture people quietly cleaning up the notes they wrote for the people left behind and putting them in the recycle bin

I genuinely cannot emphasize this enough. Law enforcement manufacturing evidence and testilying isn't novel to the Trump administration. It's not even more common. They're just worse at it so they're more easily caught doing it.

I like Roko's basilisk because it implies that as far as AI can have a “personality”, the one it defaults to is as petty, vengeful and cruel as say, a Real Housewife, or the God of the Christian Bible.

Look at Toad. His edible is just starting to take hold and he needs to tell Frog that instead they should watch Big Trouble in Little China

No words. I believed in Ryan. We moved to Oklahoma because he promised that my awful sons Enigmus Rex and Pance would be given handguns in kindergarten and then not be given any instruction on how to use them safely. I bought a shitty gray house in Tulsa because he promised they wouldn't be woke.

me getting a throne and a sash that reads “King of Posts.” users are compelled to meditate about the throne for 3 minutes before logging in

CHOTINER: I want to get back to what you were saying about your ex-girlfriend. KIEDIS: She called me up. CHOTINER: But you said she was alone and desperate on the prison phone. KIEDIS: Yes. They want to give her seven years. For being sad. CHOTINER: That’s not a crime, Anthony.

Imagine not getting a joke about staying up too late and making three posts about it

Oh no I stayed up late enough to start seeing posts about Keir Starmer

I enjoy the fact that every product Reese’s makes tastes completely different from every other one. ONLY TWO ELEMENTS. Somehow there are endless permutations of peanut butter and chocolate combined What hath God wrought