Make America God Awful

Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

Unpopular Opinion: if the film adaptation is just going to *exactly* mimic the text of the novel, I am less interested in seeing it. The point of adaptation is to *adapt* it. To change it for purpose. I am interested in the filmmakers making choices.

Hey so what's going on this morn— Oh fuck.

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

man i am trying to win by saving what i love rather than fighting what i hate but these fuckers sure don't make it easy

RACS 'N' DRACS: a suburban nocturnal strategy game for up to eight players.

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

Diane 11:30 a.m. February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks

Masterful Troll, TCM.

I know opinions can't be wrong, but technically, this one is. The answer is cantaloupe.

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

People need to understand what’s happening in Washington state because it’s outrageous and barely being covered by the news media. But I think it matters, and I think you’ll agree. The state is facing growing legal & public scrutiny over widespread sexual abuse of juveniles in state custody. 🧵

Non-Jews need to stop parsing Jewish identity using categories linked to defining religion strictly in terms of belief.

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

No matter how this game turns out, I hereby nominate Connor Hellebuyck for the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the commission of Kentucky Colonel, and the ESPY award. #hockey #olympics #teamusa

5 authors I've read at least 5 books by: N.K. Jemisin Philip K. Dick Ursula K. Le Guin Iain M. Banks George R.R. Martin

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

There should be one Supreme Court Justice that wears jorts

It’s Friday please don’t make me wake up in middle of night to were at war with the Islamic republic thx

AI is going to make it nearly impossible for anyone to afford a new PC, phone, or gaming console -- all in the name of a future that will never come to pass and a present that will just make a few dudes rich. This is unacceptable

Remember folks it is vitally important that we tone down the rhetoric about armed agents of the state brutalizing Americans and only apply it to rational and appropriate historical parallels like raising property taxes 3% to pay for greater city services

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" Billions for ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich... "That's just how it is."

Sharia Twain

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The only reason I didn't walk out halfway through was the fact that I was there with about twelve other people.

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

Current mood, after making the foolhardy decision to scroll LinkedIn for two minutes.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

while you were studying the blade, I was also studying the blade. we have the same blade exam and I want to do well.

The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't. They won't only be for brown and Black people. The targets will keep expanding. It will not end. The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

If you used AI to generate the cover art for your novel, I assume you also used it to generate the text.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

2/3 of Winter Olympic sports sound like something i made up after four glasses of wine

Name a video game you've put 500 hours into.

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

On fire today! I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 14th 2026 (Hard), in less than 12 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Roses are red, They look nice on a shrine Here is the skull, Of St. Valentine. (Photo taken in Rome’s Chiesa di Santa Maria in Cosmedin of the relic of the 3rd Century martyr, a cleric who ministered to persecuted Christians and could apparently restore sight to the blind.)

“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend” is words to goddamn live by

There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Ah, the good old days when people stole books to read them (or sell them on to people who would read them). Nowadays stolen books go straight to secret facilities run by international cartels where they're fed to machines to produce a highly addictive drug that turns people into zombies.

Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS