Stephen Miller looks exactly like Snively, Dr. Robotnik’s sniveling assistant from Sonic the Hedgehog. Pass it on.

The worst part about not being a gentleman is the inability to declare something on your word as a gentleman.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Rock! Into Mordor

A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Nick Cave Troll

Susie Wiles looks like the American God of Facebook Boomers.

Rome got a Nero who fiddled. We’re stuck with the Nero that diddled.

If ICE will pepper spray a priest and lie about his being antifa, then I’m antifa too. Pass it on.

Having read Alan Derschowitz’s book defending Israel, in good faith, and seriously considered his argument, it’s high time he wrote another and explained this shit.

Ah yes, the two titans of literature together at last.

$115 for one bag of groceries, after discounts, choosing storebrand wherever possible. I’m tired of being Great Again, can we go back to Woke?

Having steadily played video games for 30+ years at this point, my new metric for what makes a truly bad game is whether or not you need to rely on spamming a move to make progress. Ninja Gaiden, looking at you!

Indiana Jones is _significantly_ better at punching Nazis than he is at archaeology.

In Schumer’s defense, it’s important to bide Democrats’ time doing nothing in the minority, letting the GOP hoist themselves by awful, destructive petards, so that Democrats can do nothing as the majority too.

If you’d said this back when it mattered I’d still be subscribed, you overly comfortable fucks.

Soooooooooooooo how’s rapture?

There is a lot about this that is infuriating. I am most infurious at protest voters and other people with which I share a point of view electing not to vote for Not This because [insert reason Harris wasn’t Perfect TM] Elections are always a choice.

As this era progresses, what I care about, politically, has honestly simplified over time. If you stand for ignorance, misinformation, or harming another, all I hope is to be in your way.

In my lifetime we’ve gone from the impromptu, hijacked concert in A Goofy Movie being a silly fun reflection of disobedience, to modern students who would probably think they are in an active shooter situation.

Rob Zombie’s music is decent but his lyrics suck. “Demonoid Phenomenon! You get it out! You get it on!” What? This is like Cocomelon for goth kids.

That awkward moment when you realize, that since there are significantly easier ways to be completely insufferable, crypto truly doesn’t have _any_ use cases left.

I’m choosing to read the MASSIVE line for Costco’s $1.50 glizzies as a dire economic forecast.

One possibility for why libertarians are so quiet through all of Trump’s overreach is they share the views. I think the more likely is cowardice: decades of cosplaying Gadsden and crying fascism when screaming at a safe target you secretly know is safe. But now that they need their voice they hide.

Restaurants, movie theaters, and retail have all managed to survive and remain beloved, if smaller, in spite of tech telling us they’d all be killed by progress. I’m increasingly thinking (and I’m a tech worker!) that tech people don’t understand that something can have value just by being enjoyable

There is no appreciable movement from libertarians or independents against the deployment of troops into our cities. I have put a LOT of effort into trying to understand opposing views because I want to make things work for the most people possible. Turns out tons of it is just utter bullshit.

I just had an awful premonition: I was thinking about how certain views in Seattle will now only be good when we’re not in wildfire season, and I’m now certain our future contains surge pricing for restaurants.

As someone raised around guns, who learned to use them safely, and generally enjoyed them, the last 10+ years have really sucked, because I see no place for myself in the culture. The idea that second amendment maximalism will make us safer is just indefensible. 1/6

The problem with too many people who use the “marketplace of ideas” as a reason to peddle their views (RFK Jr…) is that ideas that are thoroughly debunked are bankrupt and thus have no place in the market. Continuing to accept bad dumb things in the discourse is a bailout for bankrupt ideas. #RFKjr

Flash is deprecated when I fucking say it is.

There are far, far more incredible people in this world than not. Brilliant, creative, caring helpers. It’s really incredible how few utter fucking losers it takes to wreck things.

If someone like Peter Thiel believes that democracy is irreconcilable with liberty (actual thing he said) then why in God’s green fuck didn’t he just move to an oligarchy and setup camp instead of trying to kitbash one?

Maybe after $TSLA bursts/Elon goes to jail for fraud, Martin Eberhardt and Marc Tarpenning can retake control and make Tesla back into a company worth supporting. It’s fun to dream.

What is a man? A miserable little pile of 25% Rotten Tomato movies he would doe defending.

I was just thinking “that man is from the Speedwagon Foundation!” and how insane it is that Jojo was such a chad that Speedwagon meets him once and changes his entire life to become a titan of industry and science, then I realized this is exactly how characters react to meeting John Galt.

Remember when Kid Rock put lyrics about how he likes underage girls in the song he wrote for the OST to a kid’s movie? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Release the fucking files.

@scalzi.com just wanted to drop a thank you for answering my question pre-WorldCon! It gave me a lot more confidence and helped avoid a faux pas by having the wrong stuff ready. I got to meet @mattdinniman.bsky.social who was awesome, so, good con!

@scalzi.com hello! I am going to Worldcon this week in the hopes of networking (I’m doing one of the meetups) to shop my manuscript. I have no one in my circle I can ask this question: what should I bring? I figure business cards and… 10 copies of my first 30 pages?

$76 for toilet paper, coffee, 12 mini cans of Diet Coke, 6 mini cans of tonic, and dish soap. Thanks Trumbama.

For crypto advocates who think it would solve government corruption: why would a by-design unaccountable tool solve government unaccountability?

Business Man is a consistently shitty superhero.

On my second viewing of Sinners, as a very white, straight, well-off man, the line that stands out to me is “a place just for us.” Tolerance across all metrics will eventually mean that there are things entirely not for “us,” and finding the beauty in that (assuming no threats to another)

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

He used the word “enigma” at least twice on the campaign trail to refer to Ben Carson. The 7/21/2025 Jon Stewart monologue has the receipts. IYKYK youtu.be/TwOLo_U6bTw?...

The problem with Elon is less that every problem is more complex than he thinks it is than that he doesn’t care about collateral damage and always thinks the ends justify the means. [Joseph Mengele has entered the chat]

I’m old enough to remember when Google was synonymous with things that work.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social you’re the most hope I feel right now, man. Thanks for giving a framework on how to run and win on the issues. I hope people pay attention.

Lisa Murkowski, you had more power to stop this than literally anyone else in congress. It’s not fair to put 100% of it on you, but for one moment you held the fate of the 17mil people who will lose healthcare and SNAP and you fucking fumbled. Sleep well, asshole.