Once again, a panel of random Americans has shown infinitely more spine to stand up to donald trump than literally anyone else in the world

god I hope the sandwich cop is really mad right now. just red and nude shouting at his ex-wife during the drop off of his monitored custody hours about how liberals don't care about the safety of our first responders

there's definitely an essay in this, about how this entire generation of right wingers have spent their entire career smashing the drywall and kicking the legs out from under polite society, seemingly so sheltered that they honestly never considered that it might end up affecting them too

Republicans really stepping up to be known as the party that made it impossible to eat or see your family on Thanksgiving.

barely a metaphor lmao

I know there is a shutdown on but can we get SOMEONE on the heart attack gun who can AIM

his entire world view is he hates sick people and wants them to die. part of this is a denial that sickness could ever come near him, thus his immediate panic

Now might be an especially good time to read the novel and/or listen to the podcast for...reasons

Very excited for this all to end with me getting paid $300 per book they stole from me to feed to the Plagiarism Machine That Lies

That the jury hasn't come back on the sandwich case is making me imagine the world's dumbest version of 12 Angry Men with the one guy who thinks he's guilty

CNBC - US job cuts last month surged 183% from September and went up 175% from than the same month a year ago. This is now the worst year for layoffs since 2009. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/job-c...

"did you even read the article???? the headline is bad but the article is good!!!" buddy if I see a restaurant called Dan's Fecal Stew i am not gonna go in there to see if maybe they printed the sign wrong

if the headline sucks I'm not going to investigate. they should write better headlines! i clean up after too many people already

This could be us if we weren't strangling the solar industry to help keep oil prices up

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

People will be mad at me for saying this, but I think we have to do it. Nothing is more important for the future of this country, and indeed humanity, than the app that makes you schizophrenic and helps you forget how to learn. The juice is worth the squeeze.

I can't help noticing the Supreme Court conservatives expressing the first doubt of a Trump assertion in oral arguments the day after the election day where every Republican running lost by 20 points. But they would never be swayed by such worldly things in their consideration of The Law, right?

Parks and Recs good. While we're at it, so is Hamilton. Stop living your life by what strangers online think is cringe.

For him to say this out loud has to mean they're in a full-blown panic

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀

military coup when

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this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

That whole thing about how The Art of War mostly just says stuff like "be sure to feed your soldiers"

Great time to have a flight I absolutely need for a big job thing. Thanks Trump

That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today

The dynamics of the last 3ish decades are predicated on only republicans being allowed to coyly suggest that dems deserve to suffer and die, not for them to reply “you’re a piece of shit, I want to shoot you in the face” like the newly elected AG of Virginia basically did lol

Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.

one difficult thing with being a writer, especially one working on stuff you're releasing yourself or with minimal editorial guidance is: when are you done writing? when is it ready to release? to address that, I've developed a consistent editorial practice for myself. it looks like this:

I am very much against the death penalty, but I truly think that some people are going to have to be hung (after a fair trial) to keep this from happening again. There's no way around it.

We must take the high road here. These monsters should get a fair trial before they are hung by the state for their crimes

Imagine being under this much stress and your son still won’t let you crank one out

yeah, watching it, I was struck by how much he captured the anger of the moment. yes, he's a charismatic guy presenting a hopeful vision of the future, but he's not obama. he's also up there saying "these people are pieces of shit, and fuck them forever"

Not even 24 hours after the Democratic Party utterly sweeps Election Day, four Democratic Senators vote to confirm Caleb Orr as an Assistant Secretary of State. Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

last night I learned that the entire archive of Thomas Pynchon's drafts and papers are held 15 minutes from my house, and now I need to figure out how to be allowed to see them

This is about as clear that Fox signaling gets. Audience of one and all that, and trying to get through his head that he's fucking it all up.

this reminds me that it wasn't until I read a Cory Doctorow book that mentioned it that I learned that the Tragedy of the Commons was basically made up on no material basis, and in fact that the commons in England that it's named after had the exact opposite happen and were well taken care of.

No, I refuse to believe this and will continue to use it as a metaphor for all organisational life. If anything, I might do it more.

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

hahah yes yessss

I really did think that Obama had a once in a generation political charisma, and I've been very glad to see AOC and Mamdani and hopefully more to come prove me wrong

I don’t know this for a fact but I would bet that a *significant* percentage of the GOP has had their brains so utterly pickled that they genuinely did not see last night coming and are walking around in a shellshocked haze of desperate cope today and that makes me happy

“A horse!” - William Shakespeare

A consensus seems to be forming that the new Pynchon is a minor work, less interesting and important than what he's done before. But I still remember that that was the contemporary consensus on both Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge, and they were profoundly wrong about those