That's a lie

Mental hygiene you should not indulge yourself in this shit

John Waters might be our greatest poet.

Every thumbnail image of Tim Miller from his podcast looks like he's drunk and about to roll a 1 while making an important point.

The VA is the largest integrated health system in the US and in many ways a leading light in health provision and research, and also an object lesson on why single payer health care isn't necessarily a panacea.

Alright, that's a wrap on 2025, job-wise.

I don't use AI for anything because I haven't seen a way that it would be useful to me so far, but I will say the podcast suite I use for recording has gotten kind of insanely good at generating coherent, accurate summaries of moderately technical scientific discussions.

I guess we found the limit

Making some jerky for the long drive tomorrow, and man does my house smell good right now

Curious about the exact methodology that differentiates between the "toxic posting" and "negative posting" labels

How is the Epstein letter hitting over on X, the Everything App, I wonder idly with no actual interest in looking it up

I do not wish death or suffering on Ben Sasse, but I'm sorry, it's not ghoulish to point out that he will leave the world poorer for his actions in it.

I think the conversation about the potential Epstein suicide note is suffering from a perhaps understandable refusal to see Epstein as a human at the end of his tether reaching out inchoately and not a monster out of Grimm's fairy tales.

We'll never know if the letter/suicide note is real but it strikes me as extremely consistent with Epstein's lack of taste/overweening self-regard and his patent mouth breathing word play to the *other* media-famous pedophile re: his former best friend/the current sitting president/fellow pedophile.

It's time for Philips and Phillips to sort this shit out already and pick one.

Spare a thought for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor this holiday season, and how many Christmas cards he's had to throw out because he accidently started signing "Prin--" before he remembered.

Well, good luck to him, but if there's one thing Ben Sasse doesn't know anything about, it's putting up a fight.

Another win for the Debt Collective

Handwriting is a thing we all agree is a bullshit pseudoscience until we want to take it off the shelf for our own needs

One of the things I think about is that a lot of posters on here deeply identify with Trump's fundamental need to be seen but not percieved.

Merry Christmas to Kurt Schmidt, who just wanted to keep the party going

Logging on, getting started

Kinda puts paid to the "Epstein didn't kill himself" nonsense, which was always false, but didn't prevent a lot of people who very much should have known better from indulging it in themselves and others and preparing their brains to believe more consequential lies.

Jinji Chocolate in Baltimore in Waverly has some just wildly good stuffed dates filled with cacao nibs, honey, and salt, and dipped in dark chocolate and I could eat a dozen of them.

Man I wish Jollibee would get to Baltimore already

My move is to obtain a follow, and then carefully calibrate my takes so that they ride just below the acceptable line, but not so much as to generate an unfollow. I call this the Zone of Irritation.

Trump's second admin obsession with his name's tangible physical legacy is absolutely wild.

I do not regret to inform you I am back on my No Joy/Sonic Boom bullshit

The Impossible chicken nuggets are functionally identical to low cost chicken nuggets made from actual chicken, and they only cost three times as much.

Education is a market like anything else, and people really need to consider what it is they're being sold and what it is they want to buy. "The best education for my kids" is very often not what parents actually want all things considered.

For this reason, I am advocating the systematic destruction of every home in the United States except one. That final home will be the most expensive asset in the world, and we'll fund the government by taking out a mortgage on it from Deutschebank.

It turns out that phones are magic, but the evil kind of magic

Donald Trump's ability to warp reality because he is just an absurdly weird little guy is impressive

Bari Weiss seems like some sort of attempt to prove the Peter Principle is real

The light poles outside of Red Emma's never disappoint (derogatory)

[Someone trying to explain to me how to hold a book] First, you nee-- [Me, who has never seen or heard of a "book" before, dismissively] I got it, let's get this over with

Felt unaccountably anxious just now and finally realized I had just been listening to Philp Glass all morning

"Refuses"

Season 5 of "The Wire" is our most "but it's too late, I've already depicted you as a cuck" season of television.

Clocking in to the take mill for another day of doing what we do best, talking about Matt Yglesias

Hollidays all up in this bitch

Listening to Isaac Chotiner being interviewed on the New Yorker Political Scene podcast and he is lowkey as deranged about Joe Biden as AG or Jake Tapper.

Tis the season for a Painkiller

I think Bluesky should indicate when you're posting in the nude, so that we can compensate for the suddenly free and uninhibited nature of your takes.

Which side of the guillotine is the good side, the head side or the body side?

nice argument. unfortunately for you i have already portrayed you as the passed out and drooling sleeptime bear and me as the alert, confident and powerful throat cooler koala

Did the Bluesky icon get some airbrushing or have I had a stroke