they say there was a time before the Game, once.

if you do The Jaunt without anesthesia you just watch this game in its entirety

I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

hell? yea, brother

wazzzaaaa dude happy birthday lol 😝 hope you’re having a good one wish i was there Also we all know the secret we share. Into the depths of darkness men like us tread. The hunger that drives us away from the light.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

You’re in her DMs. I’m somehow in Pete Hegseth’s war crimes group chat. We are not the same.

The hollowing out of political life to accommodate a movie star let that movie star govern in a way that hollowed out political life for a reality tv guy, and that reality tv guy is now governing in a way that will hollow out political life for a future twitch streamer or youtuber president.

What a blow to our community. Condolences to Ken's family-- We have lost a trailblazing warrior for hemophilia/AIDS justice, but they have lost a beloved partner, father, and grandfather. And thank you to @kathysmackay.bsky.social for this moving, well-written memorial.

It brings me no pleasure to announce this, but ALAB has locked horns with a foe even more whiny and off-putting than Edward "Coach" Weinhaus. Expect the next episode to come 2033 at earliest-- Killshot Cass has nothing on David Warrington and his lads down at the Office of White House Counsel.

Remember when the WH insisted that global HIV prevention & treatment was exempt from the freeze? When it seemed MAYBE they understood that cutting off medicine could put the entire planet at risk of drug resistant HIV strains? Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.

bean dad was right

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

JD Vance's intervention for AfD not looking all that brilliant right now

I think Democrats think bc them freaking out is not a sufficient condition to make the public at large freak out, it is not a necessary condition and I think they are probably wrong.

Incredible things are happening in the reason.com comments section

our nation has a Kennedy missing his brain and now a white man from Dallas is about to help LBJ win. welcome back, 1963

I dunno. One of the many bitter ironies of the moment is that it has never been more important to reclaim American patriotism from the right and never less desirable to claim.

anyway the real answer to the Odyssey crisis is that we must give every child this book

I am a huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings.

Customer: NAME OF MY LOVELY DOG DMV: EXPULSION OF AIR THROUGH THE VAGINA Verdict: DENIED

Man: Doctor, I'm depressed. Doctor: Go see Aaron Rodgers, Jets QB. Watching him limp and fumble on the field is tragic, yet hilarious. He knows he’s past his prime, and the struggle’s almost poetic. Man: But doctor— Doctor: I know who you are.