Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

Maybe it’ll happen tomorrow

it is a little disconcerting that none of the people in charge of anything right now seem to know how to do it. like, if you were on a bus and the driver started whipping around all crazy and yelling about how buses don’t need wheels you’d probably be like, hey. this guy shouldn’t be driving the bus

The old world is dying and the new world is waiting to be born. Now… is the time of morons

"Hi it's me the gun. I'm sorry I shot someone :("

If you’re looking for a fun artistic treat, try reading the book of Marathon Man and then watching the film. Both the novel and the screenplay are written by William Goldman (who also wrote the book and script to Princess Bride). A great way to learn about adaptation IMO!

I actually think it’s awesome that the guy who owns this site has access to 15 years of DMs of the most powerful people in the world. I bet those powerful people never said anything weird in there!

You know what this means lads: less than 50 years until American King Arthur [eagle screech]

the thing that strikes me about the Grok "apology" thing is that even those of us who are against "AI" as it is marketed to us have trouble not falling into the basic fallacy that they are trying to sell us, i.e. There's A Little Guy In There

Inside you are two cats. They are both asleep

Ok welp see you all in 2027

Started Paddington in Peru too late on my flight to finish it but based on his shenanigans up to this point RIP to that bear

RIP the nyc metro card, I will always keep one in my wallet because the GM at the first restaurant I worked at in New York taught me how to jimmy open locked doors with one lol

I love Hardy the poet the exact same amount as I hate Hardy the novelist

Strongly recommend reading this book without learning a thing about it beforehand. don’t even read the back

Because I’m evilllll… Enjoy Rik Mayall out-performing a Beatle and Jools Holland at a charity gig in Nether Wallop!

oh god we CANT let a dude like this leave

One thing I miss about England: having baked beans in my coffee

it was one of the worst parts of Twitter & there was an impulse to not do it back in Bluesky Before Times but now if you tell people "actually this sucks" they'll tell you it's praxis to quote-dunk trash takes & that shitting up the timeline is Good, Actually and "exposes bigots to sunlight" or w/e

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/

Imagine if these companies spent all this time and money making stuff that was cool and good, and paying human beings to do it!

We have entered the season of no meal rules. Dessert is breakfast. Dinner is lunch. A snack is an entire honey-mustard ham

great time of year to find out which of your friends are secretly Italian

Replacing my tires with cork ones as soon as I get home. sorry to the turtles who had to eat my dirt

Happy Christmas to all, even the haters and losers

And Schrödinger’s Tiny Tim, who both DID and did NOT die,

Q: What do you call a cyber truck at the top of a hill? A: a miracle Q: what do you call two cyber trucks at the top of a hill? A: a mirage

i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil

Just another day at my job, sending emails at the crime factory. I say job, but it’s really more of a vocation

‘It’s not a part time job.’ Oof. Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.

When they ask me what radicalized me

do you think Bari Weiss knows what the Streisand Effect is

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Have been back in England for a week and can confirm that the stupid undetachable plastic lids are as bad as everyone was saying. Worse even

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

Former NSA employee (16 years) with a pro tip for you. Released controlled document on the left, Epstein on the right. See the difference? In real redactions, some words, headers, and bits will almost always still be visible, but especially classification headers. These documents are UNCLASSIFIED

Went here and they all knew you

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Absolutely Not This Guy 2028!

Where are our parents getting these remote controls from. Trying to watch telly but I’ve gotta go get a PhD in remote control operation first smdh

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