No!! No!!!

I remember reading the Miami Herald piece on Epstein back in 2018 on Longform, when it was being presented as just another entry in the endless Me Too litany, and I have to be really real that I still struggle to conceive of *his* being the jam that Ol’ Donny Trump finally fails to wriggle out of

Chappell Roan never misses! Inducting Cyndi Lauper.

To be fair to someone who absolutely does not deserve for me to be fair, I don't think Funko could have survived the current era under ANY conditions. Funko thrived during a period when people had a little bit of pocket money, "geek culture" and "fandom" was exploding, and the world felt like…

It brings me immeasurable pleasure and joy to announce that the UK Labour Party is entering Cuomofication

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

It's banned, and moreover it doesn't work at all like they want, but neither is going to stop them

Rental store discourse going around, obligatory

It’s worse than that. For the first couple months, VHS tapes would cost $100-200, at which point only the rental stores were buying them. They’d come down to $20-30 a couple months later, at which point they were meant for sale directly to the consumer.

The combination of shrunk CD-sized canvases and the introduction of Photoshop and stock novelty fonts means that the 90s are unequivocally the worst era for album covers

me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted should have known better

Okay, I haven't been able to get the intrusive thought out of my head of Victor and the Creature beginning to break into a dying wheezy voice/gravely monster voice duet version of "Cat's in the Cradle" at the end of the '25 Frankenstein.

sure it's frighteningly easy to manipulate trump. but somehow vance is even worse. he will be and do anything his handlers dictate. marry a south asian and write a book about being a hick yes mistress chua. convert to catholicism and be a nazi yes master thiel. terrifying cipher of a man

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Not a day goes by when I don't think of that @darthbluesky.bsky.social post that too many of these guys think this is a little anomaly and any day now they'll be back to having Seersucker Suit Day and Congressional softball games.

American Cultural Victory (derogatory)

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

I’m ready for change

Okay, but now that I know the origin of this (without Ms Met, presumably), boy these guys really really want the computer to fuck them huh

The way I see it, deep down he keeps caving and capitulating and refusing to acknowledge certain brown mayors because he supports parts of it — **not at all** because he wants to fight it. It’s not “strategy” or “4D Chess” — and it’s the only way any of his actions make a lick of sense. Primary him

A perfect dissection of Watson individually, but also Nobel Prize Syndrome generally: a pernicious disorder that the patient enjoys while everyone else suffers.

Mind you his makeup does look insane

for some reason i thought of this today. one of the funniest things i've ever seen on tv (1977 richard pryor show) youtu.be/_95Rv68qlvU?...

Teslas are incredibly dangerous, for example, and consumers just have to know that

Something lost in the prices/affordability convo is that dismantling regulators shifts a financial burden onto consumers. They’re at much greater risk from various forms of fraud and less likely to comparison shop because of the likelihood that an unfamiliar product will be dangerous or defective

Bari Weiss crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to falsely portray herself as a scrappy "Pittsburgh Girl". The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News. paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...

There’s still no evidence that Trump knows what a dog is or does

bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal

Thread: I don't buy the filter bubble stuff- if there are dedicated observers willing to report back like the OP, why should I feel compelled to interact directly? I don't NEED a Stormfront account - but otherwise a good overview of Trumpism after Trump coalescing right now

they gave us mandates like this back when I worked at Borders and it was in its death spiral. Management guys convinced that employees can just *work hard* to sell the books, like this is in some way a major part of why a person does or doesn't buy something at your store.

One thing that researching this really drove home is that NYC mayors have always been weird, weird guys.

Juicero is a god that will put us all in hell if we don't squeeze the perfect glass.

What if a juicero convinced kids to commit suicide

Contrary to certain weebs, there's nothing specifically 'Japanese' going on here

Anime is literally just a regional style of animation, just like manga is a regional style of comics, but US audiences and media people alike so detached from the broader medium (especially animation) that they treat examples of it like alien artifacts

You know what might be a better way to cash in on the Western anime craze than live-action remakes or genAI filters or whatever? CARTOONS. ORIGINAL 2D CARTOONS, DRAWN BY PEOPLE, NOT JUST AIMED AT CHILDREN.

i have thought for several years now that a key aim of the democratic party should be to polarize the public against the supreme court

You know what might be a better way to cash in on the Western anime craze than live-action remakes or genAI filters or whatever? CARTOONS. ORIGINAL 2D CARTOONS, DRAWN BY PEOPLE, NOT JUST AIMED AT CHILDREN.

How this works: - Rich guys losing money because of tariffs? Finally pushing back - Millions of poor people starving? Business as usual. You say that the effects of millions of poor people starving also might eventually cost rich guys money? I really don't see how that could be possible

I think we're genuinely flirting with a societal rupture and I'm not sure I want to experience that

criterion 50% off sale at barnes and noble btw

One thing I especially like was how it got the textures of mental illness right - both music and recurring sound effects like files and the dog mixed a little too loudly, the too-fast cuts back to the reverse shots of Lawrence when she's trying (and failing) to avoid or get through banal small talk

consumer spending sentiment is at the lowest since both 2008 and 2020. did something bad happen in both those periods

Expert on PBS Newshour says the functional unemployment number is about 25% not 4%.

“It's kind of a cosmic gumbo. It almost moves to the beat of jazz”