This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving

What stage of billionaire-owned media is this?

Sooner or later, I guess we’ll have to invent a new kind of college/university for people who want to actually learn something to differentiate them from the credentials-for-pay institutions that will suspend a professor for failing someone who didn’t meet assignment criteria.

Realizing I need a new job, while I'm still generally comfortable at this one, and need to work harder and moving forward on that. But still not being sure what that should be or even if there's an option available to me at this point, this economy, etc., especially at my age.

Of course the morning after a stressful day, the sun would run and hide, making it more difficult to pull myself together.

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

Because “vote for the lesser of two evils” has reversed nearly all of the policy gains of the 20th century over the first quarter of the 21st. That strategy clearly isn’t an effective one. It’s time to throw it out and try something different.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Bolsonaro may die in prison. Bangladesh's PM was just sentenced to death for ordering last year's brutal crackdown. Are any politicians running on a "We gotta start stacking these fascists like fucking cordwood" platform?

"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them

I need to up my motherfucking game.

@profanity.accountant Ok, I'll check this answer. I'm sure it's not enough.

I am not anti-fascist, I am pro liberation. To be pro liberation means you must defeat fascism, but it also means that you fight to create a world that is liberated for all, not just against the thing that is currently harming you.

Some fuck complained about the wonderful fucks in your book? Ignore them and go write some more fucks. You fucking got this.

I just realized that the only flaw in the “politics as team sports” metaphor is that every sports fan I know is more than willing to attack the ownership and management of their teams for bad decisions, but the average vote blue no matter who drone simply cannot fathom doing that.

This is the second anniversary of the death of Henry Kissinger, who lived 100 years and was a beloved confidant to Democrats and Republicans alike despite being pure fucking evil.

Every single unfunny Chuck Norris meme becomes an eternal truth if you switch it to being about Rothrock

What is this wild SHOWGIRLS meets the '80s CASABLANCA TV series thing and does it make anyone want to go to a strip club?

It's mostly Survivorship Bias as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.

Somewhere this is the same function as if you try to have the weirdest group of weirdos pick the 100 greatest movies, and it'll mostly look like every other list.

"We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few - but we can't have both." The fundamental divide in the Democratic Party is between those who think Louis Brandeis's thesis is correct, and those who think his thesis is wrong.

Writing advice is for the giver.

Please send good vibes and/or prayers to my buddy Nathan Rabin, who's in the hospital recovering after a car accident Thanksgiving evening. He needs to stop lounging around & get back to promoting his new book THE FRACTURED MIRROR. You should order it right now! www.nathanrabin.com/store/the-fr...

this week's post is about why all of us dream of throwing our phones into the abyss. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/you-loneli...

My entire adult life has been spent knowing anyone who pretends your shitty underpaying job is anything but a fucking vampire drinking your labor and time away for far less than you make them, and once you know that, you’re immune to the lies.

This is enraging. Here’s an (real) unpaywalled link this time! archive.ph/2025.11.27-1...

Fundamentally, in other words, reactionary centrism is right-wing authoritarian personality types (in the Altermeyer sense) who've been socialised to think of themselves as liberal, in the same way Stalinism is the RWAs of the left.

The thing I come back to, time and again, when I see people bring up the Dunning-Kruger Effect is that they think it's a thing that happens to those other people rather than the way human brains work. This is arguably them falling victim to the effect while invoking it against others.

HAPPY THINGSGIVING, Y’ALL!

Reminder for everyone that Neil Armstrong used to look like a professional Dale Gribble cosplayer.

Marge from the church breakfast committee is about to go John Brown on this fascist rent-a-cop and meanwhile Eric Swalwell and other Congressional and Senate Dems want "masks off and badges out", the nice middle ground.

When I was in middle school some boys in the locker room said if you laid on one arm until it was numb and then touched yourself with it, it was like being touched by someone else. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

"MORE BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD MOVIES! BRING BACK THE CAST!" "Um, Mr. President, I'm pretty sure they're all d--" "MORE BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD! AND TOPPER!"

The President intends to tell the US military to murder US civilians, and is using the FBI to threaten anyone who wants to stop him.

Is anyone else old enough to remember when Amazon had a shockingly good algorithm? Seriously. People used to laugh they bought three things they didn't know they wanted every time they logged on. But apparently this is a better business model?

Counterpoint: Thanksgiving is the single worst “holiday” and I hate it. It’s a huge amount of work for food that is honestly mediocre at best. And football. This week, as always, I’m extremely grateful to be OUT of the country and NOT be planning or hosting or cooking or attending a dinner anywhere.

Wrote a short thing about that 5-9 nonsense. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/your-9-5-i...

did anybody check the lib accounts on Twitter during that weekend location revelation or did we just look at the MAGA ones it would be interesting to see how far the rabbit hole goes maybe it's bots yelling at each other all the way down?

"All movies cost a maximum of $30 million" would fix literally everything

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Pretty sure not everyone knows this but I wish everyone did: Saying something critical of Republicans does not automatically equate to heaping equal and opposite praise on Democrats.

I started this a couple of years ago and never did anything with it. I don't remember why. Maybe I'll try it again and see if I remember or if I keep with it.

There are many brilliant Jimmy Cliff songs worth celebrating him with, but this one seems good to me.

If you’ve never seen THE HARDER THEY COME, it’s a low budget folk hero story starring Jimmy Cliff, and it’s authentic and charming and scrappy. Then in the middle of the movie, Cliff’s character walks into a recording studio and just lays down an all-timer on camera. youtu.be/FHAbj1pIT4g?...

The tragedy of your time, Charlie Brown, is that you may get exactly what you want.

You know how to whistle, don't you, Charlie Brown? You just put your lips together and blow.

Every conversation complaining about "method acting" begins with a complaint about something actually obnoxious, but then the complainer will still add on by bitching that someone asked to be called their character name or spoke in their characters voice/accent or other things that seem fine to me.

Irrelevant to anything but I went to look up the cast and misread the plot summary being about the production of a movie called "The Old Milf".

I considered this one, but anything that centers so much on the Olympic Peninsula feels like a whole other place, so I went very specifically for something Snohomish County, which feels like where I'm FROM.