#SIFF LFG!

RIP Afrika Bambaataa

Amen.

This is a really interesting reading list. secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...

Wow!

What a fucking embarrassment to be Marco Rubio. Can you imagine having so little self-respect? This is “human ash tray” territory.

An absolute legend. RIP.

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

BRAWNDO—it’s got the electrolytes plants crave!

Mood

When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.

Very enlightening article. Good work, @theatlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Americans must be eyes wide open that blocking the DHS funding bill will not shut down ICE. ICE is now sitting on a massive slush fund it can tap, whether or not we pass a funding bill.

Elmo sorry you have so much hate in your heart.

Trust me. If you’re both a cat owner and a news junkie, this is funny.

I wish this was a joke. It’s not.

The “seven star hotel” has ”this one goes to eleven” energy.

Amen. Walz should welcome this. Bring this clown show to court and see what happens.

I've increasingly come to view cynicism as the seedbed of totalitarianism, both because it can paralyze the opposition and because it implicitly validates the might-makes-right ethic of the authoritarian.

❤️

Washington Post with the hard-hitting journalism.

I really enjoyed this short interview with maestro @vurnt22.bsky.social. www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...

Well, this is some nightmare fuel.

I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites

Look if we just go around beating the absolute shit out of social media assholes there’s bound to be some sort of long-term theoretical negative externality or something Anyway be careful out there Nate Silver

WTF is it with these weirdos?

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

As a reminder: Trump is rewarded for saying the most insanely hateful things if you, like sheep, simply disseminate it for him even on platforms where is largely blocked. 10 years in and he still plays you all like a fiddle.

This is a very wise move on WotC’s part. @justiceraminarman.bsky.social is great designer and leader. Congrats, my friend!

To the woman or the gun?

Next thing you know, he’ll start posting random opinions to Bluesky multiple times a day.

I co-sign the sentiment, but “bitch” is never ”gender neutral.” Yes, the epithet is applied to males too, but the clear context is *always* “bitches“ are weak and inferior—like women. The insult only works because “bitch” means “female” (or worse, “female dog”). Let’s forget this terrible slur.

My years at Northwestern University were the happiest of my life. Sad to see a once great institution capitulate to two-bit authoritarians. Removing NU from my will this week.

1. STAR WARS 2. EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 3. THE LAST JEDI 4. RETURN OF THE JEDI 5. ROGUE ONE 6. THE FORCE AWAKENS 7. SOLO 8. ATTACK OF THE CLONES 9. PHANTOM MENACE 10. REVENGE OF THE SITH 5-10 are bad; 7-10 are unwatchable.

This is so fucking sad. The world’s richest man spent a fortune to create a robot to bathe him in the specious praise he so obviously needs. He’s such a sociopath that the much cheaper option of hiring a Wormtongue or a JD Vance or a Mike Johnson just wouldn’t cut it.

Killing Bond at the end of the Craig era was a *favor* to these new writers. Now they’re free to start over and not have to pretend they’re connected to the older movies. They have sixty years of Bond villains they can reimagine and reintroduce.

D&D fans, I’m told Cynda Callaway has passed away. Cynda was the production expert who worked with various printers and manufacturers to get D&D books and boxes on shelves, on time, through the 5E era and beyond. She was a genuine unsung hero and all of us fans owe her a lot. RIP. #dnd

Uh, didn’t Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock win statewide races just a few years ago?

/3 Notice also how thankfully Heritage accepts the gift that people like Ezra Klein give them: if you can frame bigotry as a “debate,” if it’s done in a friendly chat or a podcast or some other stylized forum, then it’s just uncouth and intolerant to call it out. Works out swell for bigots.

Whoa, that’s an interesting pairing.

there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.

Holy shit. Maybe AI *can* be a real artist. This is lit. ”Forgigato Blow” and special guest “Measles” are just . . . mwah.

whoever made the mouth in the neck Verizon commercial … you are my enemy for life