Wow, I hear ads for BetterHealth on so many podcasts, this is evil.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat

“Geoffrey Ingersoll is doing politics the right way” —Ezra Klein

all i’ll say about ezra klein is that the daily caller crowd wants “disproportionate violent action. pain & suffering.” starting at “should we win over [people who think trans folks should die]? do we compromise with them?” is neither a “salient question” nor even a bit plausible. stand or don’t.

it's genuinely some sort of greek tragedy that the guys in the '10s who were successfully like "i'm tired of pundits who rely on vibes, we simply need to examine the numbers" guys became vibe pundits within a decade

Both guys with extremely in-character views on what growing up in Irvine was like:

The media repeatedly told voters that the Biden administration supported open borders vs Trump who would deport criminals when the reality was it was Biden's policy to deport criminals and Trump's policy to just deport any foreigner they could regardless of danger or criminality (very unpopular!)

First of all, Atsuko Okatsuka is very funny. 2nd: everything about the Riyadh Comedy festival is a farce. Comedians who rail about cancel culture, and plenty others, performing elitist shows in the desert for Saudi Arabia. All while being censored on what jokes they can tell.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Well, it’s hard to argue with his thesis when you see the extraordinary popularity Keir Starmer has enjoyed by taking on more conservative positions.

good title format for a journal's internal file-naming system: "[title of paper] [journal name] for review.pdf" bad format: literally "manuscript.pdf" I love you Ergo, but

Charles Xavier: My school helps mutants control their powers. This is Cyclops, he was my first student and he is totally incapable of controlling his powers. This is Jean Grey, she started with Scott. She also cannot control her powers. And meet Rogue, yep you guessed it, can't control her powers

Me: Which is why I did a Chotiner interview meme post Chotiner: but you did want engagement Me: Oh, of course! But it wasn’t just that. C: You felt you could add to the conversation Me: My own perspective. C: By posting the same joke as everyone else Me: it’s a funny variation

Well don't I feel stupid

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

I will pledge to invite David Hume to campus

I admire Wittgenstein and Oakeshott as conservative theorists of knowledge but I am hard pressed to think how to invite them to campus.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

If I was Donald Trump I would not be drawing the public’s attention right now to my ability to release files

Morning walk

he continues to mark suckerberg

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Is it weird that no English/British king has ever named himself Arthur?

i was just saying how my interest in punishingly hard video games was borne out of my inherent desire for dance lessons

And what's the deal with church bells, am I right?

It’s autumn so it’s time for me to repeat my demand that Over the Garden Wall get a stage adaptation

I have the mayor pete view on transgender: Transgender for everyone WHO WANTS IT

Video below: “I am American. I am American.” A man pleads, “Ayúdame, ayúdame. Help me!” Meanwhile, an ICE officer pulls a gun on innocent bystanders — in Hyattsville, MD. This is happening in America. Right now. What are we doing about this? It MUST stop. @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats

The thing that I think makes me most crazy about Trump (and there are many) is that Trump can, for example, spend years (literally years) lambasting Obama and Biden for relying on teleprompters, and then he’s using them, and when his breaks he wants to arrest someone over it. And no one is fazed!

Is it dramatic irony or poetic justice if Comey winds up getting thrown in jail by Trump?

I have been misreading these labels as saying “extra ingredient” for months and I even made a joke about the Madagascar vanilla because I read the ingredients list and it was just the normal ingredients you’d expect with nothing extra.

We are so close to spooky season! I cannot wait for it to be time to watch Over The Garden Wall!

What’s with the influx of anti trans accounts on bluesky in the last few weeks?

“Kash Patel is doing politics exactly the right way” — Ezra Klein

Me whenever people start talking about declining fertility rates or gender relations

Is the electric light orchestra the official band of blue sky?

This is a problem.

Tuvix is the only member of the voyager crew I would rescue from that god forsaken quadrant

One day we'll decipher it!

Canonically in the 90s there were 3 of each

Keir Starmer's entire strategy to combat the far-right.

She has a very different Twitter style from Tim Pool, so that’s what makes this a funny juxtaposition

Some might need the reminder: Kathleen Stock has never been able to tell a truthful story about how she came to leave the University of Sussex. She’s just not capable of it. Screenshots of a past thread below.