"Too soon". If you'd prefer a slower-witted comedian, there are plenty of those.

Politics this, politics that. Worrying about what the president does is a mental illness. If you just support the president unconditionally, you can be happy.

History accidentally swapped the reactions to Trump 1 and Trump 2.

wow! 100 likes! thank you so much

I just need to make it to the end of the week, and then the end of the year, and then the end of my life.

A good way to kill Twitter off would be to start banning accounts for disrespect towards Charlie Kirk. Elon, get on this.

Someone's going to kill an immigrant, and then talking heads and the powers that be will say "Of course this murder was wrong, but it just goes to show why immigrants must leave, for their own safety".

Jokes give cover for political violence.

The modern social media machine has so rotted our brains, so inured them away from humanity and decency, that for the first time in history, savage murder is treated as fodder for jokes. Thirty years ago, during the OJ Simpson trial, this would have been unthinkable.

I've never had a popular (say, 2k+) post on Bluesky. My juice is terrifyingly site-specific. I lack true generalizable talent.

Right-wing commentators come and go. When's the last time you thought about Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, or Glenn Beck? It's all ephemeral. You don't need to murder them.

Thank god we got rid of the only right-wing commentator.

I've never had a popular (say, 2k+) post on Bluesky. My juice is terrifyingly site-specific. I lack true generalizable talent.

No shit. He was a conservative political commentator. Of course he was on the right.

I have no interest in Bluesky if it's going to have heavy-handed centralized moderation of this sort. My interest in Bluesky was in decentralization, which would necessarily mean opportunities for people to say things I find odious and for me to say things others find odious.

Thank god we got rid of the only right-wing commentator.

September 10. A date which will live in infamy.

"Sridhar, why do you crank out so many jokes making fun of people who've died, often horribly?" They're in Heaven. It's called punching up.

People keep saying the shooter's aim from 200 yards away was incredibly accurate. But he actually intended to commit suicide.

People keep saying the shooter's aim from 200 yards away was incredibly accurate. But he actually intended to commit suicide.

They keep adding new characters with more sophisticated move sets. You can't compare modern Smash champions to the original era. They were playing against plumbers back then.

As the most important of the web of checks and balances on the power of the various branches of the United States government, it should be legal to kill the sitting president. It would still be immoral, just legal.

"Sridhar, why do you crank out so many jokes making fun of people who've died, often horribly?" They're in Heaven. It's called punching up.

September 10. A date which will live in infamy.

Was this first or was the other one? It's neck and neck.

The inflation rate looks alarming in nominal dollars, but after adjusting for inflation, the real inflation rate remains a steady 0.00%/yr.

The whole point of computers was to not be unpredictable unreliable black boxes. I'm going crazy every day. Everything that originally interested me in computers is being starved. I'm stuck in an industry where no one wants what I care about. My life is a mistake.

Ever since my backfiring bus accident, I flashback into a panic any time I hear gunshots nearby. It's embarrassing.

The Brit's hatred of and paranoia about tea is such that as a society they have collectively segregated its consumption into a carefully cordoned tea "time"

British people hate tea. They make up any excuse not to drink it. "Are there microwaves in this water? It's undrinkable!". As an American, I am a bigger fan of tea than any Briton.

The inflation rate looks alarming in nominal dollars, but after adjusting for inflation, the real inflation rate remains a steady 0.00%/yr.

I thought 2025 would be the year when I got back into comedy for real, but things did not pan out that way. Perhaps 2026.

It is fun to remember, as a Bluesky elder, when I was enemy #1 of this site. It is fun to remember when everyone got mad at me on here and I was mass blocked by people saying I had no idea what the experience of racism on the Internet is like and no standing to have an opinion about it.

["Must be a day that ends in y" voice] Must be a season of the witch.

Trump Always Chipocalypses Out.

They're saying someone won the Powerball. I don't believe it. Do you know how fantastically improbable it is to win that thing?

Why is it that often, I can see someone's posts on here but can't reply to them? Is that a kind of blocking available on here?

Everything is horrifically evil and stupid. The best you can hope for, the highest ambition, is to make a popular post wittily pointing out how evil and stupid things are. People will cite it for years as things continue being horrifically evil and stupid.

Guy who gets upset at the breach of decorum if you don't wear a suit.

why would people who witnessed the horrors of the second world war want to avoid future wars? ahhh I get it now, because of woke

I used to love computers. Computers reify math/logic into reality. Silicon Valley exists to chase money but at least it offered a living working on math/logic. Now not even that. Hard logic is old-fashioned. Silicon Valley is for vibe coding with $$$s in your eyes and little else.

This short-sighted move leaves America defenseless. Our enemies will run roughshod over us.

Statistics is the vibe coding of math.

Lèse-majesté for the elected king.

People who think that learning statistics will help people understand statistics have a very poor understanding of statistics.

This is genuinely basically how I feel.

Perhaps the mistake is these statistics in the first place, given how many people have taken multiple courses on statistics in, say, medical PhDs or whatever, and still erroneously interpret p values. Every poll of the end users of p values as to their meaning reveals widespread misinterpretation.

Donald Trump is the complete opposite of a pedophile. Children have sex with him.

Donald Trump is the complete opposite of a pedophile. Children have sex with him.

Are the Penny Arcade guys rich enough to retire? How well does transient Internet celebrity pan out in the long run?