"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

OK, so it’s official from the President of the United States when someone you don’t like dies it’s OK to say “I’m glad he’s dead” we got it in writing folks

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Fuck the people who did this. Fuck them forever. Any Democrat who talks about the need to moved on is dead to me.

No More McClellans open.substack.com/pub/trueamer...

I appreciate this and he hit the nail on the head. youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs?...

The Day It Happens I am heading to Costco like a hot streak and if you want to find bourbon on the shelves you're gonna want to get there first

like, isn't pedophilia statistically pretty rare? so that makes all the people implicated doing fucked up shit on epstein island an improbability unless the "at that level of power it's literally the only thing left that pushes you along on the hedonic treadmill" is the actual main factor

ngl evopsych lowkey has a lot of points, they're just surrounded by self-validating "and that's why i, the ''doctor'' writing this, am the specialest boy" shit about race and gender

"A down to Earth, realistic show involving robots and magic powers is impossible" "Buffy, you're describing Buffy" youtu.be/Oqk_fN0NRgg?...

Might be a good analogy, unfortunately

I grew up with these and I miss these and I am going to make the hell out of these

(taps earpiece) One moment please, I'm—we’ve just learned that that that is in fact the dictionary definition of lipsyncing

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

A few thoughts on writing. open.substack.com/pub/trueamer...

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

People have been giving thanks for harvests and hunts in what is now the United States for thousands of years; today's piece is about the Aquinnah Wampanoag's wonderful Cranberry Day celebrations. Cranberry Day at Aquinnah open.substack.com/pub/trueamer...

AR-PHARAZÔN THE GOLDEN: What you have to remember also is he appeared in fair form. CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened. AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it. CHOTINER: Right.

Mark Twain's Thanksgiving open.substack.com/pub/trueamer...

Perfectly put.

"This insight" kills me. That's not insightful, you narcissist fuck, that's "being a whiny tool."

The Balladeer's Kiss open.substack.com/pub/trueamer...

If You’re Stuck At An Airport Right Now, It’s Because Trump Fucked You - defector.com/if-youre-stu...

Take the Trump poop plane video seriously. (GOD I hate typing that). open.substack.com/pub/trueamer...

Every time I see a story premised on the presumably surprising idea of rotund, happy-looking whales holding their own against mean, scary-looking sharks, I feel compelled to remind people that orcas WEAR A DISGUISE. The orca is the ONE WHO KNOCKS.

If tariffs go down I really feel like the floodgates might open. Combination of election results and SCOTUS placing actual limits could make the orange fuck a lame duck by yesterday.

Anytime Trump says some bullshit I see a fair amount of despondent comments like "And like a third of the country will believe him" which is true but I think you just have to get past that. Like a third of the country believes in ghosts too, we don't need total consensus to win

The California Egg War open.substack.com/pub/exhaleon...

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

I want to challenge all of you to donate what you can to a food bank this week.

Instead of seeing the Trump dropping poop AI video by old standards—"how dare he, if any Dem..."—see it in fight-against-authoritarianism terms: They want everyone non-MAGA too scared to object, they fantasize about shooting protestors, and all they've got is a juvenile AI video to fake the feeling.

almost every single one of the gov accounts that got created today have kicked off with some message blaming dems for shutdown, they’re trying to turn back the tide of public opinion blaming them, just block them

I once again urge those arguing that there's been no change in Republicans, that they've always been exactly like this, to realize that to everyone else it sounds like you're saying "calm down, 2026 and 2028 will be perfectly normal, you don't need to do anything that you weren't doing years ago."

Countless hours staring at this at the Museum of Natural History with the blue whale overhead. They finally got it! www.reddit.com/r/HardcoreNa...

The Kimmel thing is big because it's visible and easy to understand: the regime got him canned for speech, then danced on his professional grave, then fucking lost due to popular pushback. Every night he's on the air will be a reminder of their core pettiness and weakness.

These guys are fucking loser cowards, which makes it all the more important to avoid dooming or resignation. When we push back we win.

I've lived in both a full blown autocracy (China) and one of the great resistance states (SK) a) if you were *actually* practicing security, none of this would be on this highly visible public platform. b) courage is an important part of resistance, organization is an even more important part

Latest comic: Easy to do the wrong thing, hard to do the right thing

Me: Can I have one of those blue milkshakes that symbolizes Grimace’s blood? McDonalds Cashier: (offended) We believe every beverage symbolizes Grimace’s blood

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

at this point if I was a congressional Dem I would start to think it’s pretty odd that every time something on the forefront of American minds happens some think tank tells us not to talk about it

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

...absolutely incredible. Here's what Medieval Bologna would have looked like when all its towers were intact. Florence didn't have so many but did have dozens, so the richest part of the city center would have looked much like this. Much to the despair of the city fire brigade! 11/?

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.