I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

i love that vance is like if you flipped the polarity on the most obnoxiously woke millennial imaginable

*Verhoeven just kicking back and taking huge bong rips.*

Timeline cleanse

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

now that Sid Miller has been spurned by Texas Republicans, he seems to have gone Sicko Mode. blogged about it here: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

So one I would emphasize that these kinds of people talk the same behind closed doors as they do in public. What was, in fact, the striking thing was how much a rich or powerful person talk like they tweet.

I am actually interested in the fact that the big Geek Chic popular IPs that defined much of pop culture for the past decade or two - Star Trek, Star Wars, MCU, Doctor Who - are all running out of creative juices at the same time. The mandate of heaven is lying on the floor waiting to be picked up.

Rest in peace to David Hockney, a man whose commitment to being gay, making art, and wearing stupid outfits has inspired me for decades.

AKBAR AND JEFF'S STRAIT HUT "Where the Elite Meet to Keep the Fleet Neat" "Now with 3️⃣ berths to keep you on schedule" "Formerly Akbar and Jeff's Slant Gas Drilling"

i find every person in this story deeply unsympathetic

don't forget Toad

Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel

birdpost

I’m so tired I gotta go to bed so please post the best removal video for me in the morning kthx

The Texas GOP just brought an elephant into the convention hall and it apparently pissed all over the place

I've just finished indexing what is one of this year's most eagerly anticipated books among historians and sociologists of religion (as well as Vatican-watchers) - 'Trads' by Stephen Cranney and Stephen Bullivant global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Superior Foes of Spider-man is finally, FINALLY back in print. Signed and sketched copies available direct from the artist: helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4486...

Author Jane Yolen (b.1939) died on June 11. She wrote books and novels for all ages, including Briar Rose, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, and The Devil’s Arithmetic. Yolen won 2 Nebulas, a World Fantasy and was named Grand Master by SFPA, SFWA and World Fantasy. She served as SFWA President.

the agency is being functionally run by a guy who took a fifty grand bribe from a federal officer in a fucking paper bag, in the next dem administration, every single ICE employee should be assumed guilty of corruption, fraud and graft until they can prove otherwise

I *really* hope this works

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

OH COME ON I CAN ONLY CHANGE THE NAME ONCE A DAY

They’re calling it the dumbest two bitches to ever tell each other “exactlyyyy”

This one really runs the @liberalcurrents.com bingo line. You’ve got “cuckolds” of course www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac... But it also literally links to two X posts and is a response to one of them www.liberalcurrents.com/killing-for-...

Men's complaints today: we are horribly oppressed because a woman translated Homer. Women's complaints: see Heidi Blake's utterly horrific report on the Tate brothers' long campaign of rape, violent physical and psychological abuse, and trafficking of, apparently, hundreds of women.

Extremely funny to watch the right coalesce around “I’m in a bubble of morons, so this is impossible!” as an explanation for the LA mayoral results.

I have trouble explaining to people how pervasive this got in YA about 10 years ago. Some of the loudest voices in the field insisted that if a single character in a book was racist/sexist/etc, the author/book was. I think they knew it was bs, but it built clout and everyone would join the pile-on.

Is it the smell of burning oil after Ukrainian drone strikes?

Settling the “who is a New Yorker” debate with “whoever thinks this is funny”

ok shut it down i have found the best community note ever

Starting Thursday, there is — for the first time — an official YouTube channel dedicated to the work of Fred Rogers, the beloved children’s TV host. Eventually it will be a repository for full episodes, behind-the-scenes footage and compilations.

Trump’s greatest crime is that he made *all* of us nastier, meaner, and crueler

Canon is actually important and disregarding it makes stories more confusing, not less.

Everyone get their predictions in. Who is the least qualified, most ridiculous person you think will report out a story for 60 Minutes in 2026?

There's just a certain fin de siecle absurdity of someone whose only achievement in life is having opinions on the internet ending the career of someone who managed to get into Kyiv in 2022 in the middle of the initial Russian invasion to interview Zelensky.

Thats not how "hostile work environments" work, and Pelley is going to fuck them up in litigation.

I still find the detailed voting results from that year interesting. (Note that SKIN GAME and THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS were the Puppy finalists.)

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

the phrase “react with video” fills me with an overwhelming sense of repulsion

Nobody ever reads beyond the headline. This is essentially industry standard at this point.

Timeline cleanse

The most amazing thing you’ll see today I guarantee is this frame-by-frame animated remake of “Sabotage”. youtu.be/lgXSDPmOWCE?...

San Antonio and New York City are finally gonna put it all on the line and determine which city makes the best salsa