I suspect I’m an outlier for my age and gender in that I cannot *abide* soaps, be they scripted or reality TV, daytime or prime time/streaming. I just cannot summon the fucks to give long-term unless Actual Plot is happening, preferably involving Structure.

Apparently I can’t experience someone using Zen Buddhism to troll or gaslight without having a SERIOUS visceral reaction to depictions of Buddhist philosophy in fiction. Huh. Go figure. /sarcasm

Wscripted with their AI stuff going on seems super sketch. Anyone have any insight? #scriptsky

The reason you have congressional hearings is so stories like this HAVE to get coverage for the normies. There were TEN Benghazi investigations. Give me twenty ICE investigations, with big damn press conferences.

Which is why they need to be removed from their positions.

All, please be aware from Oregon -

Well, I’m definitely going to have to update my guidelines as an editor to say I won’t edit ANY material that espouses a real-world religion or philosophy because the Christian’s have stayed away but the new age starseed people and the zen Buddhists have found me and NO.

This man converted to a faith that makes it its mission to remind him at every turn and at the highest possible levels that it fucking hates his guts, so at least there’s that.

now THIS is what the Colbert type of faith looks like in action, gotdamn, no idea how this man finds pastor-appropriate pants that can accommodate the testes he is packing, respectfully

Sen. Tillis says he’s put a hold on DHS nominees “I’d simply like the Homeland Security Secretary to respond to what are now two requests by the chairman to come before the committee, and that's the reason why I placed the blanket hold before the shooting yesterday on anything related” to DHS

Just below the headline I want to note that House Democrats had full attendance and matched the total number of Republicans voting on the most important measure of the year so far. Republicans cannot pass party line legislation under those conditions!

PASSED: 17 Republicans just joined all House Democrats to extend Affordable Care Act health care tax credits for three years

Yep! I haven’t stopped fighting I’ve just stopped arguing.

ok I may be being lib-pilled but I feel like everyone saying this is weaselly is kinda missing that this is the kind of thing officials say when they are prepping a lawsuit that will argue federal obstruction is making it impossible for the state government to perform its legitimate function, no?

Just spoke to CA Senator Benjamin Allen’s office (reps mostly coastal communities in LA and parts of the hills/WeHo) - he is on the committee that will hear this bill next (Judiciary). Sounds like he is supporting but if he’s your state senator give him a call to make sure: 310-414-8190

Today’s earworm: Mary J. Blige “Family Affair”

Well, he's f*cking the *actual* Constitution, so no reason he wouldn't f*ck *that* one...

He's about to get dragged again

Troll Farm moderation list. This will not have the Julie's on it because I don't have their predictable username pattern, but it does have a bunch of others, and more as I notice them.

Looks like part of a troll farm, there's twenty or so? accounts with @alpine bunchanumbers as a username. I've added them to my Troll Farm moderation list. (link follows)

Elseweb someone started an “apologize according to your zodiac sign” and every Virgo and half the Scorpios were like “I’m sorry I was right”

Today is Elvis’s birthday, so it is one of the days my Velvet Elvis gets elevated to the living room mantle. For the story of this family tradition and a generous gift from @geofflatulippe.bsky.social, read the quoted thread.

A delightful news story Sheep made it into a supermarket in Unterfranken (Bavaria) for a shopping spree. 😂 Apparently they separated from the nearby herd and followed a person with something in their handbag. No damage was done. Just some faeces lol. It was all fun. People laughed. Amazing story

So some of the shows getting the awards right now wouldn’t even qualify

"It doesn’t mean making your male protagonist white or making his love interest younger. It doesn’t mean writing to the lowest common denominator... "I understand that many of you think that’s what it means. Someone probably told you that it did. And I want to be very clear: "They lied."

this is just a private equity equip list

I hate adulting, meanwhile like 35% of the country and our entire government apparatus is fine with adolfing

States have the right to prosecute federal officials for acts that violate state law and are egregious, unreasonable, or unauthorized, so it seems like a court could reasonably be asked to find that the federal government owes a state, at the very least, the name of an agent who kills their citizens

The thing to understand about a lot of pop culture discourse these days is that for a lot of people, their interaction is driven entirely by negativity and anger. That's just HOW they engage now. It's their default. The first way they engage with anything is with aggression, not curiosity

A reminder: Our only mystery box of 2026 is up for preorder on January 16th. Spots will be limited. Legacy customers have already received their early invitation emails. Theme: The Dragon's Den. New to how we do mystery boxes? Eyeball this: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The day has not gotten away from me. In fact, I am actively running away from the day but the day is faster

Fine's office number is 202-225-2706.

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

unsubscribed from Reliable Sources because this f*&khead @brianstelter.bsky.social can't help himself but to both-sides the murder of Renee Good. Straight garbage.

A common (indeed, universal) tactic of abusers is to brazenly lie about events, forcing victims to (at least outwardly) bow to that lie. This isn’t about truth. It’s about power, dominance, and the sick satisfaction of “getting away with” the abuse AND the lie.

Last share is from a nurse. Listen to healthcare providers. DO NOT TELL CHATGPT YOUR HEALTH SHIT

Nooooooooooooooooooooope DO. NOT. DO. THIS.

"Get This Party Started" is older than ICE.

I desperately need Internet Culture to stop preying on genuinely good-hearted, caring people by making increasingly onerous demands about how exactly to prove that you’re good and caring — and that you HAVE to prove it to anyone other than yourself and your inner circle.

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

I wish I had access to all my old coverage because there was this one novel I covered that was absolute self-indulgent rich white lady fuckery and I KNOW I gave it my best ice-cold, formal, withering denial but I don’t remember what I said.

Wait, they made AN OPERA out of Kavalier & Clay? A book that was made for the era of massively budgeted miniseries based on blockbuster IP?

From 2021. (Gift link, generated with free access through my local library.)

Check the sponsors list and if yours is on the list your call is a thank you call (PLEASE still call, they get even fewer of those than the angry calls, it helps) legiscan.com/CA/sponsors/...

For CALIFORNIA: You can call your state senator and tell them to support Weiner's SB-747 as amended: legiscan.com/CA/text/SB74... (There is some weird political game playing nonsense where old versions of this bill had some behavioral health stuff lumped in, careful what version you read.)

There are so few people who actually give enough of a shit about state-level races to make the effort to meet a candidate and speak to them in person about an issue, there is a very real chance you can actually talk them into stuff. The smaller your state, the better your chances here.

One thing I hate about social media is how everyone, myself included, is compelled to Issue A Statement whenever anything Happens so other people know how we feel about it. Because we can’t just trust that people who know us know we’re woke lefty etc., we have to make sure strangers do too.