In a quarter century of working full-time in the music business I've avoided succumbing to drug or alcohol addiction, but goddamn will I ever stay up all night playing XCOM and achieve what I'm pretty sure is roughly the same toll on my aging body #SundayMorningCominDown #VH1BehindTheMusicSadPart

Dr Venture be like: Brock is this true

Putting aside the implausibility of a forgery in a 20yr old bound book, obviously identical signature, use of a sharpie, & everything known about their relationship, the big tell is Trump working in a compliment to himself. The narcissism is too spot-on to be fake.

I made a thing

Tired: following in the footsteps of Grover Cleveland Wired: following in the footsteps of William Henry Harrison

OK so I don't think he's dead but 1000% he is not well at the moment

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

So everyone has observed how the garlic clove scene in #Sinners is a huge nod to the blood test scene in Carpenter's #TheThing, but has anyone commented on how Remmick showing up at the cabin fleeing the Choctaw is just like the dog/Norwegians?

gonna be streaming around 9:30 if you want to join in. it's mostly a hang out and chat situation, where you can ask me anything. www.twitch.tv/jbouienyt

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

I think about this constantly

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

I just left a comment. If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.

My son (8 yo) just described the Trojan Horse as a "mech" and I am so proud of my cool little kid

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

This movie is truly special and I would absolutely see it in a theater given the chance

Mango Migraine, hell yeah

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

American exceptionalism is electing a pariah government so repugnant that it tanks the electoral prospects of aligned right wing governments across the entire anglosphere

If "illegals" are anyone he declares to be illegal and "criminals" are anyone he declares to be a criminal, then he can do this to anyone. Thank you for coming to my TED talk* (1/2)

How long can you keep them on the line with a vague description of the Hamburglar challenge 2025

Folks, marry yourself a lady who says "I have these THINGS, I bring them to YOUUUU" like Julianne Moore in Magnolia when she hands you stuff

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

Was going to say "Ukraine provoked Russia by seeking to join NATO" was the equivalent of "Ukraine shouldn't have worn such a short skirt," but it's arguably even more deranged; it's "Ukraine shouldn't have tried to buy a can of mace."

Spoiled, pampered little baby man talking to the second coming of William Wallace about "toughness"

I'm about to embark on a US-Asia flight and I must confess I'm feeling fucking terrified (and furious) about it

Living in America right now is like being in the movie Deep Impact, except half of the people think the asteroids are going to make eggs cheaper

On a totally unrelated note, the Democrats on House Ethics are: Ranking Member Susan Wild (PA) - (202) 225-6411 Mark DeSaulnier (CA) - (202) 225-2095 Veronica Escobar (TX) - (202) 225-4831 Glenn Ivey (MD) - (202) 225-8699 Deborah Ross (NC) - (202) 225-3032

Going through deleting all my posts on the former birdsite and just got to where I posted the Ewok celebration at the end of Return Of The Jedi when 2020 got called for Biden and I need to fucking cry now

genuinely, like Dems with asshole GOP senators who never take your calls, there’s never been a better time to dust off your high school acting class chops and pretend to be a concerned Republican who has totally legit Republican reasons why they should reject these nominees

Really hope that Dems afraid to kill the filibuster over "what the Republicans might do" enjoy watching the incoming Republican Senate majority casually kill the filibuster.

Trump's aorta has two months to do the funniest thing ever

Voting Hillary 2016 and Voting Kamala 2024

There it is. (From @swordsjew.bsky.social)

So apropos of nothing, here's a thread of Trump's FIRST MONTH in office. Just the first month. Jan 20 thru Feb 20, 2017, just as a reminder of how crazy it was, and how much has been forgotten

Made a thing

Seeing the whole "$750" thing seriously takeoff among enough actual humans I know IRL to be somewhat concerned about it

The thing about JD Vance is that you don't get that kind of manosphere-brain without harboring *crippling* insecurity, which in turn means the universal outpouring of loathing and derision he's experiencing right now is absolutely 100% getting to him and that is wonderful.

Call me crazy, but I feel 100% certain that if I physically shoved an employee of Arlington cemetery out of the way when they tried to stop me from violating their rules, I would be sitting in a jail cell within the hour.

FUCKING GOD DAMN IT (this is about Neil Gaiman)

I know the polls don't say it (yet?) and the last 8 years have taught me to smother hope, but... I seriously feel like she's going to kick his ass

Man… I've been a long time Sorkin apologist amongst my fellow lefties (like, I stand by Studio 60; yeah, I know), but the idea that Dem chances would be improved by shifting *right* is the most catastrophically brain dead thing I've heard in an era full of catastrophically brain dead things

Oh you just call anyone “Nazi” who disagrees with you about enacting mass deportation of ethic minorities demonized as “vermin poisoning the blood of the nation” as part of a nationalist myth of purifying violence promulgated to a far right cult by an authoritarian demagogue.

Students need to form unions and start demanding their education - which they pay obscene amounts for - is of a standard *they* consider adequate. That means boycotting classes, speakers, textbooks, and schools and putting pressure on donors, faculty and alumni

this from @radleybalko.bsky.social is very good