ME: (first day practicing Bug Law) May it please the Court— BUG JUDGE: (sternly) Bug Court.

Can I walk these ten miles instead of running them? If so, yes, I can do this.

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

This is bigotry, pure and simple. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

sure wish i could count on the democratic party to loudly and vehemently condemn this and all the persecution of trans people that's happening across the country (and work strenuously to prevent and undo it) but apparently we're the ones who are being unreasonable if we expect such things

“You finished those DC metro stations?” “Sure thing boss, beautiful, moodily lit and oddly unsettling, just like you asked.” “What?”

Also, a couple Piranesi illustrations:

important announcement

Honestly we should have all known we were in a dangerous global decline as soon as Hollywood struggled to make a new movie about Blade

We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

"In a novel, one expects (or at least I expect) the ability to make sense of the text without already knowing all the details of the author’s life." Unfortunately, that's not the case with Patricia Lockwood's latest book, writes @billcoberly.bsky.social. www.thebulwark.com/p/are-you-ex...

"If you’ve never had the tiresome experience of listening at length to a friend whose consumption of psychoactive substances has filled their mind with dreams of absolute reality, Patricia Lockwood’s newest novel, Will There Ever Be Another You, will serve as a decent proxy."

I wrote here about Patricia Lockwood’s “Will There Ever Be Another You” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Bill and Julia are going to see Nine Inch Nails!

Julia, saying something true and upsetting: “all conversations with you about the early 2010s eventually lead to Gamergate” alas

I wrote a song.

This is the stranger’s case.

Couple lessons here, first one is 'don't be a Nazi shithead,' the second one is 'don't pick a fight with 25 of anything'

god I hate this dude. When in law school one of my well-meaning classmates learned I grew up in a trailer park and said “you should read Hillbilly Elegy” I had to resist the urge to start screaming, and this was even before he made his full heel turn

YAJB is taught in high schools and universities. It's a great rhetorical tool, even if the numbers are a little out of date now, and it usually sees a few downloads a day, even when Bezos isn't a hot conversation topic If even a fraction of those who played left a tip, it'd really make a difference

Also the author of this (me) lives in poverty so if everyone who clicks tipped a couple dollars I could afford some cat food direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff...

The only time Azzie really ever looks at me with anger in her eyes is when I start putting away the components of her Laundry Throne

short reviews, here, of Dune Messiah and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

I’m sure if we made everyone who ever emailed Jeffrey Epstein for any reason take the black and go to the Wall we’d get a bunch of false positives, but I can’t help but feel it would be a net gain for society regardless

Muriel Spark, Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1918, in Edinburgh “He always kept his invectives and profanities for his nearest and trusted friends.” (‘Loitering with Intent’)

Some capsule reviews of the stuff I've read recently: A bunch of Amal El-Mohtar and also Dune:

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Suddenly I am reminded that owning a house means I have to shovel snow. Thought they patched that out in the last update. Mods?

Out of words. Down with ICE and all the rest.

THE WIZARD KNIGHT

Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil

When I first saw Applebee's advertisement for the O-M-Cheeseburger, I was terrified. I trembled. I cowered. Then I opened my heart to it. Here is what it revealed to me. johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/god-cheese...

Is Samurai Jack the greatest tv show ever made? Discuss. (Note that I’m only like 1.2 seasons in)

Wow. That's very insightful. It *is* a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of something—a wife. If you'd like, I could help you draft a "Wife Marriage Acquisition Plan" or a "Good Fortune Business Plan."

New hat!

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

By Jove it's a casted pod! Listen here to listen to Bill and Joel talk about books while (at least in Bill's case) drinking a little too much!

In the interest of casting out messages in bottles: I am looking for a new job! (I still have the old job! I am being proactive!) I have loved being a public defender but I am seriously exploring other options.

current mood

Wrote some short reviews about the books I have read so far this year:

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

imagine watching this and not thinking that this is the whole goddamn reason to even *have* America

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Abolish ICE. Really.

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

abolish and prosecute and shame and ostracize if they ever get released

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

I want to find the consultant who convinced Dems to stick with this framing, tie them to a stake, light a match, and tell everyone they have to decide between caring about saving them or caring about milk being 2% cheaper