"After consulting with my capos and reflecting, I will no longer be known as 'Andy Bagga Donuts' and will step back from the protection rackets and grifting until this whole kid-fucking thing blows over. Outta respect for 'our thing' and because of the accusations."

Whoa I should probably go pick my kid up from SUNY I had no idea

I think one thing not mentioned here that's key to his appeal is that he likes other people, or performs liking people very well. He could probably have done nearly anything he wanted (except maybe be a rapper) and I'm convinced he chose this (or was disposed to do so) because he likes other people.

🧵 There are machines that are spoken of with awe and reverence and not a little fear by those who operate them. Maybe in my life they're different to yours but bandsaws and chainsaws are in that space for me.

I mean at least AI is doing apocalypse the right way I guess.

This moment has driven people into a very "maybe I should cut bangs!" place, and if it's gonna get done, might as well do it right. CURLY HAIRED PALS THIS IS NOT FOR US WE WILL LOOK LIKE POODLES. ALTERNATE BETWEEN STRAIGHTENING, CRIMPING AND CURLING IRONS AS USUAL. EVERYONE SMOKE THO.

Tadashi Yanai my friend! I think I have figured this out for you. Make the clothes bigger! Whatever else they are, Americans are extremely well fed and at least a little soft. Go measure a pair of 34s at any American retailer. I bet it's a 38! Govern yourself thusly. I'll help you count the $

On the one hand, I can understand looking at extremely derivative works, maybe even jumped-up fan-fic, turning into billion dollar ip empires and thinking this is worth it. On the other hand, one of the things about the 50 Shadeses of the world is they are intensely human contraptions.

"Why prosecute the attorney general when prices are too high at the Dollar General?" Amazing how threats to his professional class motivate him in a way the mere citizenry cannot. It's all just yappin til he actually risks something. He never will.

I don't get mad at Krugman per se but this makes me wonder rather forcefully if there's much point in tying AI (which to my mind hasn't got & may never have an acceptable professional use case) to the 1840s railway boom in England (which had trains).

The audacity of men, to believe you or I can own a tree. #haiku

Oh, it's just the one generation? Anybody check the math on that?

Shared workspaces are horseshit this guy keeps bugging me.

Artistically? I mean, McCartney II was pretty widely hated. Aerosmith's 14th record was Honkin on Bobo. They can't all be bangers. Commercially? I mean 8 different colored vinyls is a lot but how mad am I supposed to be that an artist figured out a notoriously hostile industry and gamed it?

Trying to on new frames and I feel a lot of opinions about white fertility and beef tallow coming on. I'm a terrible suit away from a column at the Atlantic stand back.

Will not be surprised when it emerges the guy's full name is Omelas Beast.

Lionhearts at the Times lasted less than six hours. You know they had this loaded at 5:50 yesterday afternoon when they called it a night.

Every once in a while I open this app and scroll a little and really get a little upset because it seems like shit's reaaaaly fallen off in a bad way but then I realize I'm in the discover tab.

I feel like this is what it might look like if Chotiner got jiujitsu'd during an interviewer. The comparison falls down because Klein just isn't in his league but still.

Ol' Salad Comb gonna be devastated when the Wallet Inspector finds nothing but counterfeits in her wallet later today. Thoughts and prayers.

"Our republican colleagues have made this an easy choice. Elected to govern, they have chosen to rule. They have chosen to use the government of the United States to sow fear, hate and divisiveness. They must do it alone." That's it. That's all they should say.

At first I was gonna say yeah it's just common sense to hold the handrail on an escalator but it's this guy so

I don't know nothing bout nothing but 10-12 years I think Jesus, isn't there a non-Tory party in England? and then Labour demonstrates why I only think about them decadely. I'm not bragging but I'm reasonably certain democrats, despite everything, are more feckless than actively hateful.

My college years were a very different time. But even in the 90s there were dudes who, in their late 20s and early 30s, hung around campus sharing their wisdom & debating undergrads. We'd mostly avoid them unless we needed someone with ID. WTH man there's no graduate studies here go get a job.

I do fuck with fall a very little bit.

After pandy, I drove my youngest to & from high school for two years. I loved doing it. Mornings I'd usually put on the news and sometimes I'd say to him "you know this isn't normal, right?" I regret to inform you that for my 19yo this is completely normal. Obama was the high water mark.

Monday: Sinclair: let's put together a network-affiliate quality 22 minute documentary in four days Editor: you're out of your mind. Friday: Sinclair: ok we'll run family feud. Put the rough cut on YouTube. It's fine. Editor: 8m of it is a card says "tk" with scratch vo Sinclair: IT'S FINE.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

It says a lot about society that he thinks this, I guess.

So are we sure historically speaking that Horst Wessel wasn't killed by other SA members who just blamed communists?

has he ever done a goddamned thing besides be corny

You think he's got a song about being a shitbag to Tina Weymouth? IDK I don't follow his solo career; his old rhythm section was most of the charm tbh.

I'm not anything but a moderately interested bystander but it will be such a shame if the express-speed top-down debauchement of federal agencies leaves them unable to make any progress. This is a group of people who seem shocked by normal reality; I'm not sure what a real surprise will do to them.

fuck me up fam

oh these petty bitches. I resent ever feeling as if it ought either be given up for or handed to them. I don't but if I ever do I will. anyway free to read!

Super wondering how Sotomayor's next girls night with her pal Barrett will go.

We've been watching Mobland which is crazy good. I like how it upholds Ritchie's "Gentlemen" thesis that the harder the drugs the more psychotic the circs. A really uncharitable reading of the arc is grimdark millers crossing. Tom Hardy is like if cauliflower ear was a gorgeous man. It's uncanny.

this angry dipsomaniac being unable to indict the proverbial ham sandwich is not worth the cost of her existence, of course, but if we're on fire and hellbound it's nice to laugh a little.

Look I am a lapsed Catholic and people wander in and out of the church all the time and I try not to judge but imo/e male adult Catholic converts 100% think conversion is a sort of holy orders marry, have 4-9 kids and still act like the biggest fucking incel ever. All the mechanics none of the joy.

Weird. Anyhow I'm gonna go shopping in a few hours, might get some pastries & stroll a little, maybe watch a show on one of the streaming services which weirdly don't have any news on them. Can't imagine living in a country where you're distracted by funfairs and forget the crimes of the regime.

I read stuff like this a lot and I think that while our extinction and that of our most charismatic faunae and florae is somewhere between inevitable for us and likely for them, the ecosphere will be fine. Ecosphere-wise? An apex predator with few multicellular rivals is bad news for the ecosphere.

I'm not militant about it or anything but I don't believe in any kinda god. It's a grave disappointment to my mom, who I think harbored a hope I might hear big G god's voice and take holy orders out of devotion to the bb J. All that said I am still occasionally moved to pray.

I'm visiting my folks at the same time as my uncle and he dropped this on me today; this is peak 70s uncle performance. Every single one of their lives could fill a book with stories. Nobody would believe most of them. Every single one is true. Michael, Spike, Kevin. Michael (L) is my godfather.

Let's be very clear about this. This is an announcement that the deficiencies in their product are now an externality and the government will now be in charge of user health and safety. This is like saying "we're going to call the firemen when the house we built of oily rags catches fire."

That tweet of Travis Kelce reporting excitedly about feeding a squirrel bread is going around and I don't begrudge anyone a laugh but mostly it makes me think about how when I was 21 I was an infuriatingly opinionated snotty art student and I'm intensely grateful Twitter didn't exist.

I can see as how the crackers would be mad about their barrel

I think one way to frame Newsom and his moment for Dems squeamish about or actively hostile towards the man who are worried about him springboarding off of this is "this guy is one of the absolute worst pieces of shit in our party and even he can't help but score at will on these dildos."